if you want some top-level chat to spice up your blog or the back pages of your university paper, simply interview Benoit Assou-Ekotto. The Tottenham defender can bite his lip about as well as a toothless baby, bless him, and he’s launched into footballers - and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney in particular - in an interview with French magazine So Foot this week. “The whole problem with footballers is that they take themselves too seriously,” says the left-back, among other - less publishable - things. And you can’t say he doesn’t live by his word, ol’ Benny. Harry Redknapp once revealed Assou-Ekotto - a man quite open about the fact he plays football simply for the money - is the only player who turns up on a match-day and asks ‘So, who are we playing today?’. —  BBC Sport on Assou-Ekotto. Always love his comments