Soundbites, trash talk and strops: The standout quotes of 2015

As the camera picked out Kim Johnson while husband Zach was putting, Peter Alliss wasn’t going to let his final St Andrews Open pass without drawing at least one apology from the BBC:
Soundbites, trash talk and strops: The standout quotes of 2015
Thu, 31 Dec, 2015 - 00:00
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“She is probably thinking: ‘If this goes in, I get a new kitchen.’”

Even when having a strop with journalists, ex-Leicester manager Nigel Pearson remained curiously competitive:

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