Five quotes from Arsenal's popular keeper
Injured Arsenal shot-stopper Wojciech Szczesny hit the headlines once again for joking that he would rather play alongside Steve Bould than the club's current defenders. As these comments show, it's not the first time he's spoken from beyond the bounds of the book titled "generic football quotes"...
"My dad got sent off for punching Roberto Mancini in the face. It was in the European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final in 1991. It's a very clear punch. He just went straight through him. I can't wait to play against Mancini now. Maybe he will remember." - Szczesny offers an indication of where he gets his eccentricity from.
"It's embarrassing. I mean, you just wouldn't see David Seaman or Jens Lehmann wearing a pink shirt, would you? I think Lehmann would have burned it." - The Polish goalkeeper isn't too keen on one of Arsenal's goalkeeping kits this season.
"I want to apologise to anyone that bought me to their fantasy football team recently. Four goals and a booking isn't the best result!" - The 20-year-old's sense of humour was unaffected by Arsenal's recent collapse from 4-0 up at Newcastle.
"I say that one is from the war and the other is from a shark bite." - Szczesny still has the scars to show for a weight training accident that he suffered in November 2008, but prefers to tell a more heroic story about their origins.
"Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? No, it's just Ashley (Cole) throwing Chelsea out of the FA Cup." - Szczesny's bid to curry favour with Gunners fans by mocking their former left back's penalty miss against Everton backfired a week later when he made a mistake that cost his side the Carling Cup.
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Published: 22 Mar 2011
venky (March 22, 2011 7:20 PM) said:
Good to see a footballer actually having some brains.By the way it was not the fault of Szceszney that we lost Carling cup it was due to kosser's failed clearance,the ball hit szceszney and fell kindly to martins thats it, add to that he was blinded by kosser. It was pure unluck IMHO, it was not his fault at all.