Big Ron an' 'is big mouf

You have probably heard, Ron Atkinson has been caught mouthing off about Chelsea's performance against Monaco in the Champion's League. He now claims he was talking to himself, to no-one, that he can't believe he said what was reported and that no-one around him heard him say the offending things.

Read the transcript.

I have a vague suspicion that this is the man who I heard during the World Cup, describing a game involving China as 'basically a home game' for them. They were playing in Japan.