Phil Anderton Quotations

We offered all supporters, via our website, the opportunity to submit their views against four options and overwhelmingly they wanted smoking to be banned in the outdoor sections of the stadium.

We can expect to benefit from some of the best stadium design expertise in the world.

We have changed the objective now to sell out every league game of the season. The response from the fans has been great. We are not going to be complacent, though. There are a number of things we still haven't got right yet but Rome wasn't built in a day.

The new stand, which will be built in the mid-term, could be named, like the BT Stand at Hampden, as part of an integrated sponsorship deal.

George and his chief scout Simon Hunt have contacts throughout the world and Vladmir Romanov also has a lot of contacts through his involvement with clubs. We are still looking for players and the search goes on.

Ali Russell is a highly talented marketeer, and given the growth potential here at Hearts he has decided to join my team at Tynecastle,

Any suggestion Mr Romanov personally intervened and phoned Dundee United to call off the deal is complete nonsense. If we sell or buy a player it's a financial matter as well as a football issue and the board has a say. The package for Neil MacFarlane wasn't appropriate and so we said 'no'.

At no point have Rangers been given confirmation that they would receive 3,600 tickets for the game on 18 March,

It would fantastic if someone like Sir Bobby could come and join us at this club,

He decided he could not join at that time and we understood that,