Quotes of the day

'The important thing from our point of view was just that we got through'

A delighted Denmark coach Morten Olsen

'The great pleasure of last week was seeing so many gloom-merchants and soothsayers staggering around with enough egg on their faces to feed the 5,000 a full English breakfast'

Playwright and commentator Keith Waterhouse on the Jubilee celebrations and Beckham's penalty

'Please could England play a World Cup match each time I need to go to Sainsbury's? With uncluttered aisles and the score announced over the PA system, I can return home unharassed and still in touch with affairs of state'

Barbara Hickman, of Sheffield, in a letter to The Daily Telegraph

'I can see a vacancy for him when the World Cup is over. There is one ancient British institution which is badly in need of such a coach. Five years ago it might have been the monarchy: now it is the Conservative Party'

Cross-bench peer Lord Rees-Mogg on Sven-Goran Eriksson

'My job is the most beautiful job in the world.

I have to accept the defeat as I would have accepted the victory'

France coach Roger Lemerre

'It's a great day for us and an historic day for Senegal to qualify for the last 16 in our first World Cup - it's extraordinary'

Senegal coach Bruno Metsu