Glasgow Celtic chairman Brian Quinn told the press that only five English Premiership teams had a bigger payroll than his club. Celtic manager Martin O'Neill then gave an interview disputing Quinn's figures.
In response, Quinn tried to call his club's public relations officer but dialed the wrong number and left this message on the cell-phone voicemail of a teenage girl:
''I'm trying to head off yet another storm created by our esteemed manager who has now, I believe, contradicted the numbers I used in the radio interview given this morning. …
''I'm not going to be made a liar by Martin O'Neill so you are going to have to use your skills to try and defuse this thing. Bye.''