THEY SAID IT

by Steven Baker

EVERTON owner Bill Kenwright: "We don't want to put too much pressure on Wayne Rooney - but he's the best young player I've ever seen."

EVERTON manager David Moyes, speaking after his side drew 2-2 with Tottenham Hotspur:

"Apart from making two mistakes that led to goals, Richard Wright had an excellent game."

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

by Lee Hall

www.uglyfootballers.com

The web really doesn't miss a thing does it? I was once told that "You can find anything on the web!" But even I wasn't going to swallow that one, not for a minute.

That was until I stumbled across uglyfootballers.com and concluded that you can actually find everything and anything on the web.

Content for such a site was never going to be difficult to find and - just as the latest issue of Arena is being fronted by David Beckham - uglyfootballers.com parades Peter Beardsley and Lee Bowyer on its main page.

Disturbingly, there's a whole host of features including a fans' forum, which allows fans to discuss...well...ugly footballers.

With the likes of Luke Chadwick and Paul Scholes in their ranks, Man Utd top the team league of ugly footballers, with Newcastle's Clarence Acuna leading the way in the individuals section.

For me, the highlight of this site has to be its appreciation of the mullet. A complete section devoted to the look first pioneered by Chris Waddle and, as it quite rightly states, carried on to this day by celebrities Pat Sharp and Billy Ray Cyrus and also in my opinion still a very popular haircut among many German folk.

WATCH MY FACE

by Adam Murray

Man. City goalkeeper Carlo Nash's spell in the first-team lasted just one game with the return of Peter Schmeichel - or Skeemichael as Sir Bobby Robson refers to him - for the game against Newcastle on Saturday.

Nash was blamed for one or two of Leeds' goals last weekend and one cruel watcher at Maine Road believe's a pastime of his could be to blame.

Perhaps unsurprisingly Nash's better half is a model and at Stockport Nash was known to do a bit himself.

"He's scared to put his head in danger in case he gets a boot and misses out on future work" quipped one Manchester-based hack.

FANTASY TIME

by Paul Fraser

It was interesting to hear on The Northern Echo's Sports Desk that a professional footballer has won a fantasy football league competition.

We take part in one regularly and it's pretty funny to hear that Liverpool full-back Vegard Heggem has gone one better than us lot.

The 27-year-old came up trumps after scooping the competition in a Norwegian newspaper.

As he already lives and plays on these shores the prize wasn't really worth winning - it was a trip to England!

But Heggem did the decent thing and gave the prize to fans suffering from cancer.

SPARE A THOUGHT

Poor Blackburn striker Matt Jansen has been warned that heading a football could end up killing him.

The former Carlisle forward, who is rated at £12m by his club, could have his work cut out playing the game then.

Jansen is only 24 and he has suffered a brain haemorrhage - but he insists he is fighting to be back in action in October.

Jansen said: "The doctors say I sustained a five millimetre brain haemorrhage. I've been ordered to stay away from competitive action.

"If I even attempt to head a ball properly, it could kill me."

The forward sustained the injury two months ago when he crashed his moped in Rome.

MASCOT'S JOY

Hartlepool United fans are in for a treat today as Town End favourite Lawrence will be walking out with his beloved team.

Pool play Hull City at Victoria Park this afternoon and Lawrence, well known in the town for his friendly pitch-side antics, will be the team's mascot before the match kicks-off.

A FEW LINES FROM THE SUNDAY PAPERS

EXPRESS: Manchester United are running scared over an injury to goalkeeper Fabian Barthez, a situation which will prompt manager Sir Alex Ferguson to move into the transfer market before Saturday night's deadline.

MIRROR: John Terry has saluted the friends in football who supported him during his trial.

NEWS OF THE WORLD: Robbie Keane last night delivered an ultimatum to Leeds: Give me first team football.

PEOPLE: Cricket legend Geoff Boycott fears he is suffering from throat cancer.

THE OBSERVER: Roy Keane could yet be prosecuted for his notorious foul on Alf-Inge Haaland after an MP demanded that Greater Manchester Police investigate the Manchester United player's 'serious assault'