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This week we were all shocked by the news that one of the nicest men in | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
football died at the age of 72. What Graham Taylor did at Watford | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
will never be forgotten. His time with England left him | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
disappointed but never bitter. The sound of hitting a football | :00:54. | :01:07. | |
thrills me. My playing career is over, I'm very fortunate to be a | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
manager and I would like to remain one, simply so I can hear a football | :01:11. | :01:17. | |
being struck. I think that I've got qualities as regards coaching, I | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
think that's what I ought to be doing. I don't want to see the ball | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
still, if it is one touch we play it off one. What the managers run | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
before they can walk. I think the whole business is based on fear | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
anyhow so if you are having a good run and a job comes, out now while | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
you can, and probably that job is the worst job you can go into. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
Lovely day, isn't it? I would like to feel I could be responsible for | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
helping to create a club to be successful and at the same time | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
setting standards that are worthwhile, good ones. | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
You've got one of these books. It was a Watford family, whether you | :01:59. | :02:06. | |
were a player or one of the ticket staff or whatever. Oh yes! We all | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
matted together and it was the most amazing place to be and Graham | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
created all of that. Football is a simple game, not as investigated | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
game, again for the man on the terraces to people. What a | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
magnificent goal! I have worked with a lot of professional people and he | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
ranks up there, that is the kind of person he is. He never ceases to | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
amaze me. He has mentioned to me about the passion you has four | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Watford football club and football and I like to feel I have the same | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
passion and on that basis you will get a good relationship. What you | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
should have been saying is saying something early, talk to him. Let's | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
go again. Here we are in the FA Cup for the first time, it will never be | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
the same again. Aston Villa's latest manager, Graham Taylor, who has come | :03:03. | :03:06. | |
from First Division Watford... I'm putting my reputation on the line | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
and people might say what a full list thing to do but it is what | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
makes me tick. Big clubs can slide all the way and if you can alter | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
that and stop the decline, the chances are they will come back | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
because they are a big club. I want international footballers to enjoy | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
playing international football. If there are youngsters watching, you | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
can get a position like Gary Lineker is captain of his country but you | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
have to keep working hard. I have an 83-year-old mother-in-law that once | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
his autograph! He had a passion for England, gave most of his life to | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
English football. He was straight down the middle and told how it was | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
and some people didn't like it but I loved it. Bitterness doesn't come | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
into it but what comes into it, I wanted so much to be successful. I | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
wanted us to win the World Cup. Perhaps I was foolish to think like | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
that. Immediately leaving the England job I needed a period of | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
recuperation. There would only be a handful of clubs that I would have | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
come back into football for. It is my job to try to make sure the | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
morale of the whole club stays high also if you give it a real go and | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
you lose it lets not worry because you may just surprise yourself. At | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
the end of the day, when a ball is kicked come when a game is played, | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
on a football pitch, I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach | :04:35. | :04:36. | |
that this is where I belong. In a moment we'll hear | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
from Martin Keown, who used to play for Graham at Aston Villa, | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
and Mark Lawrenson, but first let's go to Vicarage Road, | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
where Watford play Middlesbrough this afternoon and all morning | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
people have been leaving their tributes to the greatest | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
manager in the club's history. Watford have opened a book of | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
condolence and people have been signing all morning. | :05:06. | :05:06. | |
John Motson is at Vicarage Road where, John, you watched a game | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
Yes, it was on New Year's Day and my wife and I were guests here and on | :05:09. | :05:21. | |
the same table as Graham Taylor and one of his daughters, having lunch | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
in the Graham Taylor Stand behind me. He was his normal self, talking | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
about old times, very convivial with that familiar smile which we all got | :05:33. | :05:39. | |
so used to. And my word, didn't he put a smile on the face of this club | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
when he arrived in 1977? I was here then quite a lot, I live just down | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
the road and I remember the impact he made, not just building a team | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
but a club. He did things that even in those days, in the late 70s, were | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
quite innovative and which other clubs followed as the years went by. | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
He started a family stand on what is now the new Elton John side the | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
ground with Stuart where mums and dads could bring sons and daughters | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
and that was very popular -- with stewards. He brought in experienced | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
men around him, Bertie Mee from Arsenal, one of the most far | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
thinking chief executives in the country, Eddie Plumley from Coventry | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
and they were a community club, starting a restaurant for the people | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
who were here when they went to the First Division in 1982. I think the | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
major thing he did was to get the players out into the community | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
because you hear now about a player turning up and signing a few | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
autographs at a function. Graham had a rotor and two players were sent | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
out two or three times a week to mix with the people of Watford and the | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
surrounding area and that is why there is such a bond between Graham | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
Taylor and this club. I want to go back to the mid-70s because when | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Graham started as a manager at Lincoln City, the BBC Sports night | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
programme, which went out on a Wednesday night, decided to feature | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
two young managers who were trying to become the next generation. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Graham Taylor was at Lincoln and Alan Durban was at Shrewsbury. The | :07:25. | :07:31. | |
second part of the documentary produced by John Phillips bound | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
Graham Taylor here and Alan Durban was at Stoke. They played each other | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
in the League Cup, extra time was called for after 90 minutes here. | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
Fortunately for the documentary, Graham and Alan worthy opposing | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
managers and that is why you heard that shot, in extra time, the camera | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
went on the pitch and filmed Graham's instructions and that is | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
when to one of his players, and Luther Blissett, I think it might | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
have been you, he said, you don't get cramp at this club! That was the | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
passion and motivation of Graham Taylor. And a personal story, I hope | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
somebody gets that archive out those films because it would make a | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
terrific documentary in memory of Graham Taylor, but one of my other | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
memories was when I went to watch Watford train one afternoon before | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
covering a match on the Saturday. When I was about to leave, he said, | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
I want you to come into the team talk and I thought, what do you | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
mean. All the players were looking at me and I felt so embarrassed. He | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
said to the players, I have been talking to you about doing your | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
best, he said this guy, pointing at me, he should be sacked by now! I | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
thought, that's nice! All he was doing was trying to explain, however | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
comp that you think you are, you always have to go one step further | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
-- competent you are. I am pleased to say that his wife and their two | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
daughters are coming to the match here today and they will get a great | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
reception. I am sure they will and thank you for those fantastic | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
memories. There will be a minutes applause at Watford and across | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
England today in memory of Graham Taylor. Babin is a beautiful stories | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
this week. -- there have been beautiful stories this week. What | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
was he like to play under? He came to the club and pretty much rescued | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Aston Villa and probably my career at the time. But first they came a | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
difficult chairman, he expressed, I have chosen to come to this club, he | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
had a clear vision and he gave us all a bike with our kicked in and | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
said, you wash it yourselves. -- a bag. He had a vision and he wanted | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
his players to behave in a certain way and I learned a great deal from | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
him looking back. It was a case, if you want to be with me, follow me | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
and we will be successful. We got Aston Villa back into the big-time, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the club was on a slippery slide and it was all about this man. 11 | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
players came in and 11 went out. They great memories. Those | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
celebrations, the day we got promoted at Swindon, Graham had | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
given as the champagne the day before because he did not think we | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
would make it! I have just spent an hour with Martin, telling me | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
stories, some you can't tell and some after the watershed! But my | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
time with him was mainly at tournaments. He would meet old | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
players that played for him and you could always tell, what are they | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
like with former managers because every single player that played for | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
him absolutely love Tim, they really did. -- loved him. He was normal, | :11:05. | :11:13. | |
and in the mad world of football, normal is very good. He was vilified | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
by some sections of the pressed why what happened at England and may be | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
unfairly labelled as a long ball manager but how will we remember him | :11:23. | :11:30. | |
as a manager? He got the ball up early, no doubt, but his Watford | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
team played with wingers, including John Barnes. When you got in the | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
opposition half then you could play your football | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
they finished second in the old division one. For a club like | :11:39. | :11:47. | |
Watford, it was almost unheard of. And he gave you your England debut, | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
Martin? That was his one mistake! He made me wait for it. But they were | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
great days. He was under pressure, a different type of manager for | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
England but he always used to say, leave your mark, wherever you are in | :12:05. | :12:10. | |
life, and he said left his mark on me and on football. He has left his | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
mark on many and there will be a Menace bubbles across England this | :12:19. | :12:20. | |
weekend as football chance get a chance to remember Graham Taylor -- | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
a minute's applause. As Motty was telling us, | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
it's sure to be an emotional afternoon at Vicarage Road | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
and at Sincil Bank next week where the first team he managed, | :12:30. | :12:32. | |
Lincoln, play their FA Cup replay. More on Graham Taylor later | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
in the show and we also have Arsenal's Olivier Giroud | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
on contracts and that goal. He's scoring and providing - | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
West Brom's Matt Phillips I don't want to rest on what is | :12:45. | :12:56. | |
happening at the moment, I want to keep pushing and working on my game. | :12:57. | :12:57. | |
Manchester United are flying, as is the world's most | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
The Seagulls aren't following anyone. | :13:01. | :13:09. | |
We're at Brighton, leading the way in the Championship. | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
Old team-mates at Barcelona, Stoke boss Mark Hughes | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
and Gary Lineker talk about the good old days. | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
The usual, three yards out, typical Gary Lineker! | :13:24. | :13:32. | |
Eight games in the Premier League this afternoon, | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
It's Tottenham at home to West Brom in the early kick-off, | :13:35. | :13:40. | |
Hull City play their first league game under Marco Silva | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
We'll be live at their fellow relegation strugglers Sunderland | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
West Ham play Palace at 3pm - without Dmitri Payet, | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
We'll talk about Diego Costa's omission from the Chelsea squad | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
as the leaders travel to Leicester, and there's a double dose | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
of Manchester against Merseyside on Sunday. | :13:57. | :13:58. | |
Although no-one in Merseyside or Manchester cares | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
We start, though, with one a man who this week signed | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
a new contract at Arsenal, Olivier Giroud. | :14:06. | :14:25. | |
Olivier Giroud! What a goal! Brilliant improvisation. It was very | :14:26. | :14:35. | |
special, I never score a goal like that, even if I try. Sometimes as a | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
striker, you don't have the ball as you want to have so you have to deal | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
with that. Sometimes you have to do the right gesture. He has got no | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
right to get anything on that, that was an unbelievable finish. If you | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
don't try, it's not going to happen. He tried the impossible and it came | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
off. I was so happy and a bit surprised because it went so fast | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
and yeah, I think God helped me a little bit! Olivier Giroud with the | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
header and it is in, they were 3-0 down and they have turned it around! | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
He is skipping away in delight. A couple of people told me about Mike | :15:27. | :15:29. | |
celebration, I just wanted to celebrate the goal with the fans as | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
quick as I can -- my celebration. I was almost sprinting to get back to | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
the kick-off so the opponent was even not ready and I told my boys, I | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
am going to simulate the Scorpion kick if I score so that's it. Giroud | :15:47. | :15:56. | |
we were talking about a new contract since the beginning of the year so | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
I'm very happy to carry on with the Arsenal family. I want to win more | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
trophies. Hopefully it's going to be this year. I hope that he's going to | :16:09. | :16:17. | |
stay, he built this club and I don't think he was the, anyway, we hope | :16:18. | :16:27. | |
that he will sign a new contract. -- I don't think he will leave. It's | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
always hard when you see the team doing well and you're not on the | :16:33. | :16:37. | |
pitch, you're not sure what you can do, so I was lucky to a difference, | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
I was very pleased to score important goals, especially in the | :16:44. | :16:44. | |
last minute. What do you to make of Giroud? | :16:45. | :16:57. | |
Eco-cabin on the fringes this time around but he has made himself | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
essential. He has battled back really well, because you wouldn't | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
say he would be in Arsenal's best 11, he's a different tool in the | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
box, comes off the bench, scores late goals, you wonder how many | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
strikers are out there in Europe that are better than him. He does | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
seem to be going up a level with his goals now, there is a determination | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
in his play, maybe around the negotiations, it's good news for | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
Arsenal, collection of players are signing new contracts. Does he get | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
in their best 11 this season, no, that he sit on the bench and change | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
the game, yes. You talk about him signing a contract, Koscielny has | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
done that, Francis Coquelin, the players they really want to sign our | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
method Ozil and Sanchez, there are rumours that also wants reassurances | :17:52. | :18:01. | |
about the future of Arsene Wenger. I can understand that, it's another | :18:02. | :18:02. | |
negotiation tool, it hasn't signed the other players I think Sanchez is | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
a player that gets the kind of support from Arsene Wenger that is | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
surely didn't get at Barcelona. I am not sure how it's going to pan out | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
with Ozil. First home game in charge for Paul Clement at Swansea. John | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Hartson will be watching this match. What do the locals make | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
of the appointment because, like Bob Bradley, he hasn't managed | :18:30. | :18:31. | |
in the Premier League? I don't think he was the broad's | :18:32. | :18:41. | |
first choice, they spoke to the likes of Chris Coleman and Ryan | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
Giggs, they didn't get either of them. I think they had previous | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
discussions with Paul Clement before they appointed Bob Bradley and they | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
didn't get that one over the line. They have got their man now, and | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
like everything else, he has to start winning games full stop | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
defensively Swansea have considered the most goals in the Premier | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
League, he has to strengthen in certain areas, mainly defence and | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
once he starts picking up points, the crowd here, like every other | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
manager, will back him. I wonder if that is a shrewd appointment, to | :19:18. | :19:26. | |
bring in Claude Maca lately -- Makelele. He will also have to hold | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
onto Llorente. The issues that they have with King Acosta, looking for | :19:32. | :19:39. | |
something to replace him if he was to go -- Chelsea have with league | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
Acosta. That put pressure on Swansea wanting to keep Llorente, they only | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
just signed him in the summer. Going onto Makelele, Paul Clement worked | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
with him a bit at Chelsea, both him and Makelele worked with Ancelotti | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
for 18 months, both as assistants, it's somebody he knows and trusts | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
must ultimately, he the now. It is his relative he wants to bring in | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
now. He is a big fan of the Swans. From one former Arsenal star | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
to another, with the news that Kelly Smith has retired this week | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
at the age of 38. She became England's first female | :20:27. | :20:27. | |
professional footballer when she signed for New Jersey | :20:28. | :20:29. | |
in 1999 and during two separate spells with Arsenal she won five | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
FA Cup winners medals. At international level | :20:33. | :20:35. | |
she represented England at six major tournaments and Great Britain | :20:36. | :20:37. | |
at the 2012 Olympics and scored 46 goals. | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
A true pioneer. Time now to hear from one | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
of the form players Since November last year, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
only Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been involved in more goals | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
in the division than He's been talking to | :20:52. | :20:53. | |
Juliette Ferrington. How would you sum up the season you | :20:54. | :21:15. | |
have had so far? It to me a few games to get going, coming to a new | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
club, you need to get used to everything, new players, manager, I | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
feel like I put a lot of pressure on myself to hit the ground running, | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
great performances from the beginning, maybe putting too much | :21:30. | :21:32. | |
pressure on yourself will end up negative. I've always liked, I think | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
he has got everything a top player today needs, he has power, strength | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
and quality on the ball. His big weakness is his belief and he | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
shouldn't have any doubts at all. The manager took me out of the side | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
for the game against Man City, it was a bit of homework for me to take | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
a step back. Sometimes you need someone to put an arm around you and | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
tell you you're doing all right, keep working on your game and things | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
will happen. Since then things have really clicked for me. You have | :22:09. | :22:17. | |
taken the pressure off yourself? Maybe. The boys have been great as | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
well I can't speak highly enough of the boys, it's a great changing | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
room, no real cliques or groups or anything like that, everyone is all | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
in amongst each other, you have tough days, then you have days when | :22:35. | :22:42. | |
it's time to get serious. Those are the things that count. Those | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
characters and personalities, that experience, what can you take from | :22:48. | :22:50. | |
what is around you on a day-to-day basis? Aaron Fletcher has played for | :22:51. | :22:58. | |
Scotland, in the Champions League, the Manchester United he brings that | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
experience -- Darren Fletcher. He really sets the standard, for any | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
other player, you can only learn from that and match that to be able | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
to contribute in training and on match days. He sets the bar high. | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
Who comes a close second to him? Myself! Something just clicked with | :23:19. | :23:28. | |
you. The game against Leicester, I thought I was playing reasonably | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
well, scoring a goal, the assists, it brings you work with the team and | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
from there, you just go on. How much further can you go, how much more | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
have you got to give? I hope I'm not quite in order to rest on what's | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
happening, I want to keep wishing on, still plenty more I can do, I | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
can get more goals and more assists. Just to let you know the team news | :23:54. | :24:08. | |
at Spurs. Spurs are unchanged from their last Premier League game | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
against Chelsea. West Brom have made one change, Jonny Evans is out with | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
a calf injury. Jonas Olsson comes in at centre half. Phillips has been | :24:18. | :24:27. | |
spectacular. What is that stat you have got? We know you love us that. | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
You can't set me up when I haven't got one! He is second only... You | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
rock me to repeat the same stat from earlier? In terms of what he's | :24:39. | :24:47. | |
delivering, do you think that Tony Pulis so that when he got him? I | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
think a lot of seen that on one or two have tried to take in the fall | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
but in that position, it's all about end product. Graham Taylor would | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
have said to someone like that, what did you do today? How many crosses | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
did you get in, did you get any shots in? You would see the penny | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
has struck with him, he has always had the ability. Tony Pulis gets | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
great credit for him becoming more of a team player, he was a bit | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
selfish as a player at QPR. He missed out on the last few Scotland | :25:22. | :25:31. | |
squads. I will bet he will! You were interested in how Spurs were going | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
to line up today, they have gone with a line-up that really works. | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
They played this against Chelsea and maybe you thought it was just the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
counteract what Chelsea do but if there is a team that is most suited | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
to this than the premiership, I haven't seen it. I feel they can get | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Eric Dier into the team, the three at the back, probably the best three | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
out and out defenders in the Premier League, the full-backs, and then | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Moussa Dembele and the Wanyama are underrated, there restored the | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
balance about that team, the mythic. The wingbacks are better than the | :26:08. | :26:15. | |
Chelsea ones. In terms of Dele Alli, don't know Pochettino said, about | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
the killer instinct and being so crucial, last season, the game | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
against West Brom was when Dele Alli was given retrospective three match | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
ban for the punch on Claudio Yacob. Pochettino said he wanting to show | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
that naughtiness, he likes that side of him. Listen, he played with a | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
fellow at Arsenal everybody loves, Dennis Bergkamp, did he have a nasty | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
side or what! Unbelievable! Will those great players have got it. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Just keep a lid on it but that age makes him what he is. Sharp elbows, | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
Dennis Bergkamp! Tottenham's win over Chelsea 10 days | :26:51. | :26:54. | |
ago tightened things up at the top Liverpool are five points off | :26:55. | :26:56. | |
the leaders, five points behind them are Manchester United, | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
their opponents tomorrow. Steve Bower has been | :27:01. | :27:01. | |
speaking to the world's most Life is good. We enjoy it every | :27:02. | :27:25. | |
minute, every moment. Is it everything you thought it would be, | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
coming back? I have been here before. The weather didn't change! | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
All good. You enjoying your life off the pitch? Always enjoying life. I | :27:35. | :27:42. | |
do football more what I love, I love to dance, I enjoy music, I just | :27:43. | :27:44. | |
enjoy myself. On the pitch, do you feel more | :27:45. | :27:56. | |
comfortable integrating into this new team? The adaptation maybe took | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
a bit. Because when you change players as well, you need some time, | :28:04. | :28:10. | |
now the team is going better and better, I think we all feel much | :28:11. | :28:13. | |
better than the start of the season. What about Jose Mourinho? What is he | :28:14. | :28:20. | |
like to play for? The first few months, it is adaptation for him as | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
well, now we know him better, how he plays and everything, we understand | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
him more, we feel very good foot he has given you an awful lot of | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
support personally? He says, don't listen to anybody, if you need | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
anybody, I am here, be focused on the pitch. That's all I need to hear | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
from my manager. You have had to three different | :28:43. | :28:54. | |
roles in the team, is the one you prefer, the one you feel most | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
suited? Two midfielders or one midfielder next to me, for me it's | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
the same, I would just give my best. Maybe I'm more comfortable if you | :29:05. | :29:11. | |
play in her three because you can go more attacking, both ways, I'm very | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
happy with that, there is no problem. When you first came here, | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
you didn't look as though you felt any pressure, have you changed? I'm | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
a happy man, I'm playing for Man United, great opportunity for me. We | :29:27. | :29:30. | |
want to win titles, we want to win things, I am just a happy man. What | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
is it about this club, the trial of Manchester United around the clock? | :29:36. | :29:43. | |
The club, every game, Bobby Charlton is coming to see us, it is a big | :29:44. | :29:48. | |
family. We stay altogether, when you wear the shirt, you have to be proud | :29:49. | :29:54. | |
of it and give everything. /10! Tell me something! What is your | :29:55. | :30:04. | |
relationship like with Ibrahimovic? When I speak about him, I always | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
life, he's one of the friendliest guys can he joker, outside the | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
pitch, but inside the pitch, he has a big experience and character and | :30:15. | :30:22. | |
they push you to your best, always. Almost a father figure to the | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
younger players? He wrote like it but he's the oldest! He might see | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
this! So he's the Big brother of everyone, maybe most experienced, | :30:33. | :30:40. | |
that's why he can give us advice. So he's almost as important off the | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
pitch as he is on it in the group? That's why we need Michael Carrick, | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
even Wayne Rooney, they are played to listen to because they have the | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
experience, they have been here at the club for a long time and they | :30:54. | :30:58. | |
know the Premier League. On the pitch he seemed to have a tour of | :30:59. | :31:00. | |
the relationship with Ibrahimovic. He should have scored more! But yes, | :31:01. | :31:14. | |
I find him a lot and I feel comfortable because he is a complete | :31:15. | :31:20. | |
striker. Nine wins in a row, can you feel that momentum at the moment? We | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
want to win the league, that is all, it is good to win but to win the | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
league you have to win so we have to keep doing this. We can have 20 but | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
if you don't win the league, there is no point. Manchester United | :31:36. | :31:40. | |
against Liverpool at Old Trafford, does it send a shiver down your | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
spine? The history, a big derby, more than Man City I think. The way | :31:46. | :31:51. | |
you feel the atmosphere is more. It is good to win football against | :31:52. | :31:57. | |
Stoke city, any team in the league, but it is even better, you have more | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
taste when you win against Liverpool because it is a derby. Like this. | :32:02. | :32:14. | |
I'll get there! Where are you on the list in the dressing room for the | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
music? The first DJ always big respect for Ashley Young. You are | :32:20. | :32:26. | |
not far behind? He knows! He hasn't got the dance moves? The best | :32:27. | :32:31. | |
dancer, I don't want to say it but you have to ask the others. They | :32:32. | :32:40. | |
will say Paul Pogba? Probably! One, two... That's it. Top man. Good | :32:41. | :32:51. | |
luck. Thank you. Not sure if he was impressed with Steve's handshakes! | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
He is impressive off the pitch but on the pitch he has really improved | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
and he says Mourinho has given him freedom and both he and the team are | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
playing well. If you remember the game at Anfield which was classic | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
Mourinho, glass half empty. Since then it has been glass half full. | :33:11. | :33:16. | |
Michael Carrick is a massive influence. He has allowed Pogba to | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
raid from midfield and he looks completely different. Mkhitaryan as | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
well. Manchester United now are 50% better than they were in October, | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
completely different and they look really good side. The whole mood has | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
changed and Pogba it's a free spirit and you can see that in his | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
personality. He is bouncing off Ibrahimovic as well. Ryan Giggs has | :33:42. | :33:45. | |
said he reminds him of Cantona and the effect he had at Old Trafford | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
and Pogba says he feels like a father figure but he is in | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
everything the club does. He is that senior player and Pogba is learning | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
from him. He is a serial winner of trophies. And the thing about him, | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
we might have talked about this before but with the younger players, | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
when they try to find him on the pitch and the ball is not good | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
enough, he is like that all the time, he's brilliant with them. Keep | :34:11. | :34:16. | |
trying, keep trying. We have not talked about one of the games of the | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
weekend, this lot taking on Liverpool who have been quite quiet | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
in the build-up. They have Joel Matip and Henderson back in | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
training, Coutinho might start as well so how do they stop Manchester | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
United who have found their rhythm? It needs to be the Liverpool of the | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
first few months when Coutinho was available and they were hounding the | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
opposition and making it difficult for them. Of course they missed | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
Coutinho, Firmino has not been quite the same but Liverpool Miss Mane. He | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
is the only one they cannot replace. He gives them a perfect balance. | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
Liverpool will try to press and I think they will have the energy but | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
Manchester United will have too much. | :34:58. | :34:58. | |
That game will feature on Match of the Day 2 which is on BBC 2 | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
Alan Shearer and Phil Neville in the studio for that one. | :35:02. | :35:07. | |
The late game today sees leaders Chelsea travel | :35:08. | :35:08. | |
You might remember this from last season. | :35:09. | :35:20. | |
First time out to the right to Mahrez, three in the box and he | :35:21. | :35:28. | |
killed it in for Jamie Vardy! He has scored again. -- he curls it in. | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
Albrighton, that was blocked and the cross comes in and it is Mahrez, the | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
edge of the box, lovely control, turning and tries to beat | :35:43. | :35:49. | |
Azpilicueta and the beats Courtois as well! Double trouble for Chelsea! | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
Pedro, a good ball in. Loic Remy got one back but it was not enough. I | :35:56. | :36:06. | |
think in this moment I feel ashamed to be in such a bad position. Three | :36:07. | :36:12. | |
days afterwards Mourinho was sacked and the club revealed this week it | :36:13. | :36:16. | |
cost them ?8 million but now the new man in charge is manager of the | :36:17. | :36:20. | |
month for the third month in a row but he has a big job because the | :36:21. | :36:25. | |
major story today in the papers it's all about this man, Diego Costa. | :36:26. | :36:29. | |
Apparently his head has been turned by a potential move to China. | :36:30. | :36:37. | |
?30 million a season apparently to go to China and Conte said you are | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
not playing this weekend. Correct from the boss? Absolutely. He is | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
reasserting himself as to who is the manager. Costa as football utopia, | :36:52. | :36:55. | |
top of the league, scoring every week, he has found his form, what is | :36:56. | :37:01. | |
wrong in his life? Suddenly he falls out with his manager. He has brought | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
him to heal, he will come back quietly with an apology. If you get | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
60 million quid for him, let him go. Have you seen the Chinese football? | :37:12. | :37:17. | |
It's a lot of money. It's rubbish. He is at his peak. ?30 million a | :37:18. | :37:24. | |
season... You become a mercenary. He is at his peak. The team is built | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
around him, absolutely terribly, he is a top player. If he wants to go | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
to join and be bored for 18 hours a day, good luck. Could it derail | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
Chelsea? I don't think so coming is a quality player you don't want to | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
be without and I think the manager is managing it in the correct way. | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
They tell me he's like this committee can go off on one and | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
comes back the next day and it is all forgotten. Chelsea are hoping | :37:53. | :37:56. | |
that is what will happen. If he went, they don't win the league. | :37:57. | :38:02. | |
Simple as that? Yes. Because of everything he is. You could see it | :38:03. | :38:09. | |
then, he was trying to take him off, but the manager was saying, I'm in | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
charge, not you. It is a difficult dressing room at Chelsea and the | :38:14. | :38:17. | |
manager has done well this season and he is asserting himself. | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
Leicester were at Goodison Park in the cup last week with one of Kim | :38:22. | :38:26. | |
and complaining about a lack of transfer activity. -- Ronald Koeman | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
complaining. They have signed Morgan Schneiderlin. A few Everton fans | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
miffed he has taken the squad number two because they don't feel a | :38:38. | :38:43. | |
midfielder should be doing that. There is a long history of people | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
playing with weird numbers but is it a shrewd signing to get him back | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
with Ronald Koeman after his career stalled at Manchester United? He is | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
a good player and he gives them a bit of stability in there. He knows | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
how the manager wants to play, Ronald Koeman is taking his time to | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
get it right, Ross Barkley is improving and I think Everton will | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
finish the season well. And the manager knows which buttons to press | :39:09. | :39:09. | |
for Schneiderlin. The big news in world football this | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
week was the confirmation from Fifa that the World Cup will be expanded | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
to 48 teams from 2026, but it's not about the money | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
according to the Fifa President, We knew already that 60 more | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
countries in the world will participate in the biggest sports | :39:30. | :39:38. | |
event -- 16 countries. And I think this goes a long way into the | :39:39. | :39:47. | |
direction of making people participate in football in a more | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
concrete way. At the moment, 32 teams | :39:51. | :39:52. | |
start the tournament in eight groups of four, | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
with the top two going through to the knockout stages | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
and a grand total of 64 matches From 2026, there will be | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
48 teams - a quarter They'll start off in 16 groups | :40:02. | :40:05. | |
of three, with the top two going There will be a grand total of 80 | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
matches in the tournament, but the winning team | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
will still play seven games. It will bring Fifa in about an extra | :40:15. | :40:30. | |
?500 million. They are saying it opens up the chance for other | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
nations to experience the World Cup. Africa will get a lot more than the | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
four countries that have previously qualified. I feel it is to spread | :40:41. | :40:43. | |
the name of the game and it has to be a good thing to get more people | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
playing and growing the game but what does it do to the tournament? | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
They are saying it will be the same number of games. Give more people an | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
opportunity. Same number of games to win it. There are 80 matches. And | :40:56. | :41:01. | |
the final group games will no longer kick off at the same time so you | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
could have a scenario where a lot of teams know that a goalless draw or a | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
certain result would send them through. And it will probably be in | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
two or three countries at the same time, it would have to be. It would | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
have to be huge otherwise. The Stoke manager, Mark Hughes, | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
never played at a major finals with Wales but he did | :41:20. | :41:22. | |
enjoy life overseas. He's been talking to a former | :41:23. | :41:24. | |
team-mate at Barcelona. Mark, it is over 30 years now. I | :41:25. | :41:40. | |
hadn't realised. July 1986 was when we signed for Barcelona. I have got | :41:41. | :41:41. | |
a few clips to have a look at. I will leave you to translate. You | :41:42. | :42:00. | |
always better at Spanish! Barcelona manager Terry Venables has signed | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
2-mac of his compatriots to help the campaign. You look browner than the! | :42:06. | :42:12. | |
I was a young 23 in years and attitude to life. It was hard work | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
for me whereas I think your attitude to it help you succeed better than I | :42:18. | :42:27. | |
did. Our debut. Lineker and Hughes helped make it a winning start for | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
Terry Venables. Do you remember? I remember because I scored after two | :42:34. | :42:40. | |
minutes. The usual, three yards out. Typical Lineker goal, based career | :42:41. | :42:50. | |
on it! We had Terry Venables as coach of course. He was great, I | :42:51. | :42:57. | |
liked him as a guy. He clearly knew the game very well. He knows this is | :42:58. | :43:06. | |
his responsibility. You used to give the translate a terrible time. It | :43:07. | :43:14. | |
happened every time he joined in. Put the brakes on and went you shot | :43:15. | :43:21. | |
him, go again. You can see how interested I am because Kerry is | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
talking about forward pressing. -- Terry. You had switched off and I am | :43:27. | :43:33. | |
not far behind you! Gary has the angle to cut it off. He knew his | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
stuff. He was ahead of his game, people talk about the high press | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
now. It is interesting seeing the coaches it always is, and it is the | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
old adage that old coaches are thieves. You see is a body like | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
Terry Venables working and you forget what happened when you were | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
under his tutelage -- somebody like. Do you think it helped you, nowadays | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
you get so many foreign players, when you are managing them,? Without | :44:05. | :44:12. | |
a shadow of doubt. To be able to go back to those experiences helps me | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
when I am speaking to the guys and I use it obviously when we are trying | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
to acquire good players. It is useful to say, I used to play for | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
Barcelona and Bayern Munich. It helps get them alert and think, hang | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
on, I can't remember him playing, but I will look on Google and see it | :44:30. | :44:31. | |
if it's true. Exactly. That is my attitude to it, clearly! | :44:32. | :45:01. | |
Completely the wrong way to embrace the culture of another country! I | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
regret to this day that I didn't embrace it as I should have. When | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
you go abroad you have to go with the mindset to stay as long as you | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
can and if you do that, you can be successful and you give yourself | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
time to understand different cultures and languages and you can | :45:19. | :45:24. | |
get a better experience. Whereas my attitude was, I will do it for a | :45:25. | :45:26. | |
couple of years and get back home. Harry Kane has put Spurs ahead | :45:27. | :45:37. | |
against West Brom. More of that interview available on the website | :45:38. | :45:38. | |
and the iPlayer. Sunderland have been in the bottom | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
three since September. David Moyes has spent a lot of the | :45:44. | :45:59. | |
week trying to bend people off. Yes, Patrick Van on hold was linked with | :46:00. | :46:05. | |
a move to Crystal Palace, and a week ago there was a reported approach | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
from West Ham to sign Jermain Defoe, that was knocked back. It is vital | :46:10. | :46:13. | |
that Sunderland hang onto their assets, with the Chief Executive | :46:14. | :46:19. | |
stating they would be very limited transfer funds available. The key to | :46:20. | :46:24. | |
it all is Jermain Defoe, if he did go, that would be seen as Sunderland | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
effectively waving the white flag. He has scored 11 goals, those of you | :46:30. | :46:37. | |
who look at our website regularly and the productions might be | :46:38. | :46:40. | |
familiar with the University of Salford supercomputer Sam which is | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
valued Jermain Defoe at something over ?41 million. I do know how they | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
have worked it out but for a 34 year wow! | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
Dropping towards them are Crystal Palace, who are away | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
at West Ham this afternoon, a club coping with this news | :47:01. | :47:02. | |
We had a situation with a player, it is Dmitri Payet. He wants to leave. | :47:03. | :47:21. | |
We don't want to sell our best players, we want to keep them. He is | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
definitely one of them, or our best player, that's why we gave him such | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
a long contract. And he refused to play for us. That really hurt Slaven | :47:34. | :47:41. | |
Bilic, to say that. They gave him a ?1 million bonus after the Euros, | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
signed him on a contract in February, a big deal, can you see | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
anything from his side of things that the club have matched his | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
ambition? Not really, think there is a responsibility as a young man to | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
behave in the right way, no one forced into sign the contract, yes, | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
he is outstanding and is not happy with the situation but you are there | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
to play, to refuse to play is scandalous, from the player's point | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
of view. It is almost club versus the player, is the strongest, are | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
there any winners? He needs to get out there and play. It is | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
disappointing it should become so public. What does it do to the | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
dressing room, to the dynamic? If you have a player like that, you | :48:25. | :48:30. | |
don't want to know him. Have either of you experienced that, someone who | :48:31. | :48:32. | |
has not wanted to be there and had that influence of dragging them | :48:33. | :48:37. | |
rolled down? A little bit, not naming names, but in the end the | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
player has to get on with job. Do players communicate that does it | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
have to come from the club? I don't imagine you would stand for that in | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
a dressing room you were in? To know it is a matter of time before he's | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
going, the club was there an awful long time before Dmitri Payet was | :48:58. | :49:02. | |
there and will be there afterwards. The club have to win otherwise what | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
is the point? Grifter palace of signed Geoffrey Schlupp, it is | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
crucial for them, they are slipping down the runway. -- Crystal Palace. | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
I think this player is a really good sign, he has a lot of pace, whether | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
he plays left back or more advanced, Sam will make things happen. He | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
knows there is a nervousness playing in that new stadium for West Ham and | :49:29. | :49:30. | |
they need the points today, Palace. A reminder that Final Score | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
is on the Red Button from 4pm this afternoon, | :49:35. | :49:36. | |
with Martin back to lock And Match of the Day | :49:37. | :49:38. | |
is from 10.30pm tonight, with Gabby Logan joined | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
by Danny Murphy and Ian Wright. To the Championship, | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
where five league wins in a row have seen Brighton take top | :49:48. | :49:50. | |
spot from Newcastle. It's been a season of success | :49:51. | :49:51. | |
so far, but also great struggle, as Mark Clemmitt has | :49:52. | :49:54. | |
been finding out. They are going top of the table with | :49:55. | :50:14. | |
half a season go! Five consecutive wins, unbeaten in 18, how aware are | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
you the players of all those statistics? We are aware because see | :50:19. | :50:25. | |
them on social media but I don't think the group buy into it too | :50:26. | :50:31. | |
much, what has been is gone and we are focusing on the future and | :50:32. | :50:34. | |
hopefully we can do some thing special by the end of the season. | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
What are the key characteristics of this group? Hard work, keeping | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
upbeat on the ground and not getting sucked in by the league table. It | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
sounds like you are the image of the manager, that is exactly what he is | :50:48. | :50:53. | |
like! You could say that coming definitely keeps our feet on the | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
ground. Don't take this the wrong way, I don't think I realised your | :50:58. | :51:01. | |
goal ratio was as good, a goal every two starts. Almost, I think. For a | :51:02. | :51:07. | |
man who didn't pay attention to stats! I like that one. I have done | :51:08. | :51:15. | |
it in most divisions now. Long may it continue. There is a team spirit, | :51:16. | :51:23. | |
it is manifested in the death of the Father for Anthony knockout, the | :51:24. | :51:26. | |
unity of the squad in going to the funeral... He's a big character | :51:27. | :51:33. | |
interesting room, when we might be down, that role has been reversed, | :51:34. | :51:35. | |
just before Christmas, we need to keep him up. He told me just before | :51:36. | :51:42. | |
the funeral that he would come with his girlfriend but I didn't know | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
about the other players. When I saw the bus arrived at the funeral, I | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
started to cry, it was so emotional, I will never forget that moment. | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
What a contrast over the last few months, the highs on the field and | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
that terrible low of it. Yes, some good memories in Brighton before | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
this happened, and obviously I cannot compare football with that | :52:09. | :52:16. | |
kind of thing in life. Obviously if I speak just about football, I think | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
I have had the best time since I started my career. It has been in | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
Brighton. It seems to have helped you to share your grief publicly. Of | :52:26. | :52:32. | |
course, because it's always important to have people behind you | :52:33. | :52:36. | |
in these moments, I needed that support, and the biggest support I | :52:37. | :52:42. | |
had was from the club. When I came back after the funeral, I was still | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
so emotional, I was crying every day in training it was obviously the | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
toughest moment in my life. But since I think I saw the first goal, | :52:53. | :52:57. | |
gave me so much more motivation to push forward and get better. An | :52:58. | :53:05. | |
emotional moment for him, he kisses the picture of his death, it means | :53:06. | :53:14. | |
so much to him. It it is always good to think about promotion, I was | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
talking about this with my dad in hospital at 40 passed away. He said, | :53:18. | :53:25. | |
if you can go up this season, I will be so happy, because I would be | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
doing what he asked me to do before he passed away. Really good to hear | :53:31. | :53:39. | |
Anthony being so honest. We talked about the relationship between | :53:40. | :53:40. | |
players and clubs can he will never forget the way his club have traded | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
him to stop he has talked about unity, Brighton certainly have it. | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
We have both played there. It is a fantastic club and now under the | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
leadership of the chairman, and Chris Hughton, I seriously hope they | :53:55. | :54:01. | |
get promotion poster by get smashed at Preston today but I hope they get | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
promotion! They are in great shape. Definitely, has always been a great | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
place to play, we didn't have the training ground, but it's great to | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
see that club on the way up. They take on Preston this weekend. | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
One FA Cup third round game to bring you up to date | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
with from Monday night, when League 2 Cambridge United took | :54:25. | :54:27. | |
the lead against Championship high flyers Leeds United through Uche | :54:28. | :54:29. | |
A different Leeds came out after the break. | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
Stuart Dallas got the equaliser from Alex Mowatt's cross. | :54:35. | :54:36. | |
Mowatt then grabbed the winner to set up a fourth round tie at AFC | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
And Leeds won again last night in the league. | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
They are up to third in the Championship | :54:45. | :54:46. | |
Predictions this week from UFC middleweight champion | :54:47. | :55:02. | |
Michael Bisping are on the website but we are going to finish | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
We've heard a lot of wonderful stories about | :55:06. | :55:08. | |
He was a man who had time for so many. | :55:09. | :55:13. | |
He was a man who will be fondly remembered today, | :55:14. | :55:15. | |
particularly at Vicarage Road, where in the late 70's he turned up | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
alongside a pop star, and changed the club forever. | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
Defence didn't move out to catch him, and there is Jenkins! | :55:21. | :56:52. | |
That's a good try and a lovely golden! | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
Played in early, he slides in! I say! An historic night indeed in | :56:59. | :57:58. | |
this corner of Hertfordshire. Callaghan! | :57:59. | :58:05. | |
What a magnificent goal from John Barnes! | :58:06. | :58:47. | |
He has saved, Luther Blissett again! Go! | :58:48. | :58:49. |