Last week it was Maradona’s fingers causing debate, this week it’s the gesturing of Steven Gerrard’s digits in Liverpool’s 1-0 loss to Wigan on Monday that’s causing a stir. Not for Rafa Benitez though.

“Sometimes you move your fingers. It was nothing. We are not considering it, it was nothing.”

He’s right you know, sometimes you do move your fingers. Can't argue with that. Case closed.

Wilson Palacios has made his plans for the future clear, and in doing so has signalled that Tottenham have moved up the food chain and are ready to become a big four club; their best players no longer want to leave and play for Manchester United, they want to go and play for Real Madrid.

“I am really happy at Tottenham but I will continue working for a future move to a bigger club. I would like to play for Real Madrid.”

Bittersweet.

“The squad is capable of producing better and we probably need two or three players who will go into the team and make an impact every week, and three or four more to beef up the squad. We probably need six or seven signings.”

Talking to the Sunday Times, Jamie Carragher shows just how much faith he has in his current team mates. After last night’s poor result at Wigan, JC might be thinking that seven new signings might not be enough. 

Carlos Tevez, a key player on 'Team Bridge', has again condemned John Terry for his actions.

“It's wrong. In my opinion, Terry has no moral code for what he did to Bridge. In my neighbourhood if you do that, you lose your legs, or more - you don't survive.”

His neighbourhood? Doesn’t he live in Cheshire? Oh, he means Argentina. How silly of me.

“I asked for Cristiano Ronaldo's jersey and he told me he already gave it to someone else, I replied, 'I will become stronger than you.”

Mario Balotelli, talking to TV show Le Iene, reveals how he totally kept his cool and didn’t over react at all to not getting Ronaldo’s shirt.

Ex-Blackburn striker Matt Derbyshire is in line to start Olympiakos’s last sixteen Champions League match against Bordeaux tonight. After making a dream start to his career at Greece’s biggest club, scoring two goals in the cup final as his new team beat bitter rivals AEK Athens to complete a domestic double, Derbyshire has had to endure seven months out injured. The road to recovery wasn’t a smooth one for the striker either, as he told the Daily Mail:

“I went through four courses of 27 injections into my pubic area, which was every bit as painful as it sounds.”

Next up to to take a shot at Portsmouth is their very own Kevin-Prince Boateng, who had a lot to say in a frank and very quotable interview in a German magazine.

“I don't care who my captain or troops go to bed with, but what ideas they wake up with in the morning”

Carlo Ancelotti

Ancelotti's strangely worded response when questioned about Ashley Cole’s naked text message shenanigans just gets us wondering what ideas JT and the Chelsea ‘troops’ do wake up with in their heads in the morning.

Probably something along the lines of ‘that was probably worth a super injunction’ or ‘did I delete those text messages?’

“I remember when there were rumours of his departure last summer, he said half-jokingly, half seriously: ‘I'll stay at least a year or two, I want to play with you.’ We joke about this topic again now. But Cesc is a grown man and only he can decide.”

Andrey Arshavin

Arshavin reminisces about Fabregas’s ‘half jokes’, that Arsenal fans will find 100% unfunny.

“In my favorite Italian restaurants 'Tute e Peppino' in Madrid, I got a dessert pizza with Nutella. That was really delicious. The preparation is very simple. Hot pizza bread, cold butter as a base and the chocolate spread on it. And that is the Pizza Ruud van Nistelrooy.”

Ruud van Nistelrooy

Ruud describes his signature dish, a chocolate pizza that sounds like something Tom Hanks would have ordered in ‘Big’. I’ll take two.