“Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas?”

The Queen gives her opinion to Premier League chairman Sir David Richards, as quoted in BBC News (2 January 2007) http://www.bbc.co.uk/china/learningenglish/story/2007/01/070102_quotes_of_the_year_2_jan_07.shtml

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