15/10/2016 Football Focus

Welcome to this week's Football Focus.

The top divisions are back after the international break,

and we're back with a huge hour, featuring a bit of this.

Liverpool against Manchester United is the big one this weekend.

We'll find out why Palace v West Ham will be tough for Tomkins.

I think it's going to be a weird scenario as well. Emotional,

probably, a little bit. You are not expected to play your boyhood team.

One of the stars of Italia '90, now Walter's at Wolves.

Why MLS star Jack Harrison left Manchester United's academy to go it

And On The Balls, City - Norwich chairman and Strictly star

I've had text messages after the dancing from Alex Neil, from Russell

Martin, the club captain, saying go for it, Ed. What a suit.

We'll also hear from the Leicester striker Jamie Vardy,

and we have an equally pacy former Fox here in the studio, Dion Dublin,

The champions of the last two seasons, Chelsea and Leicester, face

In the 3 o'clocks, third-placed Arsenal face a Swansea team

being managed by Bob Bradley for the first time.

Leaders Manchester City take on Everton, and second-placed

Whilst at the other end of the table, the bottom two,

Stoke and Sunderland, have a huge match at

We start with Monday's rather tasty clash at Anfield, as Liverpool take

Sadio Mane nearly signed for United last season, but now he's doing

He's been speaking to Juliette Ferrington.

For me, it was Liverpool, so when I signed here, I forgot all the clubs.

I'm happy to be here. COMMENTATOR: Mane brushes chambers aside and

scores Liverpool's! Weigh-in how would you sum up Liverpool's season

so far? We have done great, we are doing well and everyone is happy so

I think we will keep going. Kleen without putting it bluntly, some

players do struggle if you move from quite an amount of money, but for

you, you seem to just have settled in. LAUGHTER

It is not about the price tag, it is more important to believe in

yourself and to work hard every day. When I came and found all the great

players in the team, I think they make it easier, because if players

play like Coutinho, Firmino, it makes it even better. Before you

join Liverpool, what were your own thoughts about Jurgen Klopp? Before

I came here, I had a chance to meet him. I remember I was playing for

Red Bull Salzburg, so he tried to sign me but it could not happen. He

is a good manager, someone who likes his players. Server didn't really

come as a surprise that he would come calling again? -- so it didn't

really come as a surprise. At the end of last season he called me and

said he wanted me to come to Liverpool, and I said straightaway I

want to come because was a good moment, the right time and the right

coach for me. I am very happy to be here today. Everybody likes him, he

is a nice person, and everybody likes him as a man first, and as a

coach as well. He is one of the best coaches in the world. I think we are

going to challenge for many things with him. So Jurgen Klopp over Jose

Mourinho? Big game. Straight bat. There is nothing in this fixture

like Manchester United against Liverpool, the one everyone talks

about. It is going to be exciting. We are ready, we are just waiting

today to do our best and to make the fans happy.

He has been a good signing for Liverpool, Klopp tried to get him

when he was at Borussia Dortmund as well and he sits their style

brilliantly, doesn't he? Yes, he suits their style for me going

forward, he is incredibly lively when they have got the ball. He will

score a goal out of nothing. I just like his positional sense as well,

which is great. We have just chatted about that while watching that, the

way they squeeze. It is hard to play against. They create such a drama

for the opposition, and I don't think there is a real structure but

they are doing, I think it is the nearest man to the ball, go and

press. We see that with Milner, the left-back often end in up in a

centre forward position. He says don't worry about getting back

because we can win the ball high up the pitch, we can do damage. You are

so close to the opposition when you get it back. And they are pretty

terrifying going forward, they have scored so many goals, this is an

amazing stat. Five of that side have scored three or more Premier League

goals already so they are coming from everywhere. That says to me

they are all sharing the load, all chipping in, doing their part.

Whether they are defending or attacking, they are all playing

their individual parts. The apartments are doing very well. This

goal here, it is just that touch before he strikes the ball which

sets him apart. No one can get set and he can do that. It is his pace,

though. What do you like or dislike the most. Look at that flick over

the keeper. I didn't want to play against pace when I was playing, and

he has so much. That is why Martin loved playing against me! LAUGHTER

No pace at all. If we are being super harsh, for 30 million quid

could he do a bit more going yes, maybe, you can get 34 Dion Dublins

for that. I have a vision of that now. What a slow squad that would

be. I think he does need to do a bit more defending, because if you work

harder, you get lucky, and I think it will score even more goals of the

does that. Let's get a United perspective

about playing at Anfield Liverpool is the main game of the

season. You know, a tough side, especially with the new manager

coming in now and we have a different way of playing. But

Anfield is a great place to play. The fans are always behind us, on

the awaydays, so it will be a great experience for us. COMMENTATOR:

Pogba, it's four! He is still the same as it was when he was 18. He

hasn't changed one bit. Obviously it is different going out in public

now, especially for him, a well-known superstar around the

world. That in the changing room we still have a laugh and a joke. With

you and Marcus in the team, have you benefited from Jose Mourinho showing

his trust in both of you, I suppose? Yes, I think it's great. Obviously

when he first came, you have to work hard to get in the team, a lot of

big names of the team, but to have that trust and faith in the youth,

it gives you a lot of confidence. On the pitch, the lets you play free,

which I like to do, get on the ball and make things happen, so he has

given us that trust and we are more confident, Whee

Kim, we can. This is the United side that played their last game against

Stoke. Using the legs of Lingard and Rashford, but do you think on Monday

they will have to park the bus a bit against that Liverpool front line?

If United try and park the bus against Liverpool, I think they will

come a bit of a cropper because you can't just sit against Liverpool and

expect them to Zongo that pressure. They are too good going forward,

Liverpool. United aren't watertight at the back either, so you have to

be clap for -- expect them to absorb that pressure. They play slightly

different to this, Herrera sitting in the middle, that was a bit of a

breakthrough the last time against Stoke. This is a huge game. Two

giant in our game, dominating football in the 90s. Manchester

United now losing that dominance, if they don't win this game, they could

be eight or 11 points behind this weekend, Manchester United, so it's

a huge game. When you go into games like this, I have played in a few in

Scotland, Rangers, Celtic, and I have played United against City, a

lot of it goes out the window, it is all about bragging rights and pride.

That is all about working as hard as you possibly can to beat your

rivals, one-to-one battles, that's what it's like. It is interesting,

both managers have tried to take the heat out of this game by talking

about the conduct of fans. There's no chance of that! But it is

important it doesn't spill over though. Of course, we want to see a

game of football. We want to see healthy respect for each other.

These two managers are outstanding. Jurgen Klopp has a great record

against Mourinho and will want to continue that. Have you seen how

Jurgen Klopp has been preparing during international break? Slightly

strangely, playing bowls in Formby. He is in bracing the culture. That

is a fine straightaway, genes on the Bowling Green. Definitely, and

kissing someone else's wife! Bang out of order. One other thing to

mention, you will see Liverpool playing in a slightly different kit

on Monday night, not their normal sponsor, they are raising money for

a global community scheme called Seeing is Believing, and a pair of

clot's glasses after the game as well. Raising money for a great

cause -- a pair of Jurgen Klopp's glasses.

You can listen to that game on 5Live on Monday night.

More of that Lingard interview on Match of the Day 2

Extra tomorrow lunchtime, and then Match of the Day 2 has

moved to Monday night on BBC 1 from 10:45pm, later in Wales.

The Premier League show is on Wednesday night on BBC 2.

And don't forget you can download Focus from midnight tonight

Let's head to Stamford Bridge now, where the Champions of two years ago

take on the current conquerors, Leicester.

The man whose goals helped fire them to glory, Jamie Vardy,

is now the subject of Hollywood movies and book deals.

COMMENTATOR: He has done it! Describe what it was like growing up

where you lived and what you love to play for the Savic. Just like any

normal working class background, local school but all I ever wanted

to do was play football, obviously back then with my mates, and at the

way really enjoy doing, so I straightway made it as that is what

I wanted to do. Back then, where did you play? I played for a local team

called York County to start with, and then I got picked up by

Sheffield Wednesday, stay there for a number of years, and then

unfortunately that is when I got released. Was your time with them

like? It was good, getting in with professional coaches, helping me

progress. The unfortunate thing is my size, that is why I got rejected.

You just think that is what is going to happen to you, you are going to

be a professional footballer, but it didn't happen, and heartbreaking to

go different ways. What moment do you think your life changed, what

made the difference? I think Coventry, being in full-time

training every day, and that is all you were doing, and then going to

work in a factory for eight hours that day, it made you realise it is

what I wanted and that is all I ever wanted to do, so I knew that I had

to knuckle down to make it happen. I want to talk a bit about your health

regime, because you are famous for drinking two Red Bulls, an omelette,

what do the coaches say about that to you? They are fine. Obviously,

every single player is different. So if it works for me than I will carry

on doing it. Eden Hazard! Leicester City have won the Premier League!

CHEERING What was that night is like, in this

house, with everybody here celebrating? It wasn't good while

Tottenham were 2-0 up, it was very quiet. And then Chelsea got a goal

back, and everyone started getting a bit livelier again, and then the

second went in and it just fell on erupted! I'm surprised the kids

stayed asleep. Leicester back at the ground where

they finished last season, Jamie Vardy starting today, just two goals

from this season, when the four last time round, do you want to see a bit

more from him? A little bit more. An incredible story, lost a bit of his

momentum, as have Leicester. 12th in the table now, ten points behind the

leaders, so a huge game for them today. Just as much pressure of

course on Chelsea though. We will start with the Chelsea side, John

Terry back available but only on the bench. This is the side Conte has

gone through. It is at the back they have had their issues. Three at the

back today. When he turned up at Chelsea, these are the big guys I

wanted, and none have been able to come to the club. They haven't, and

they are the ones who would have been perfect to play in a three and

I don't think he has got it right as yet. Going forward, again, they are

one of the teams looking incredibly smooth, very Rolls-Royce like. I

think they will have a problem if they play in a three against

Leicester. I really do. If you look at those players and look back to

the summer how hard they work, is the three summer Azpilicueta is

there, we'll Cahill struggle, will Vardy relish those balls into the

channel? We have played in a three and it is quite difficult, a tricky

thing to do and they have a lot to learn on that system. They have

signed a new kit deal this week, Chelsea, ?60 million a season for

the next 15 years. Which is bananas. You know Real Madrid get over ?100

million each season for a kit deal. Why didn't they hold out for a

proper deal? Looking at Leicester, with the Champions League to come,

they have made changes as Slimani and Riyad Mahrez are dropped or

rested, as you like to look at it. Yes, but as we said, Azpilicueta,

Gary Cahill and David Luiz and look at the pressure Anita-macro pays

less to have up front. Ahmed Musa is lining and so is Jamie Vardy, the

three at the back has got to work for just the otherwise they will

concede. Jamie Vardy said his pre-match meal is two Red Bulls and

an omelette. Either of you go for something psychotic like that?

Psychotic, Martin? We had a slow sugar diet going into games. You go

in at a level states what he's doing is really unusual. I wouldn't

suggest young players follow it but it has worked for him and it has

become a ritual. It is an individual thing, there was chicken and beans

and that stuff. The classic Alan Shearer. Yes and a lot of players

have tried to find what fits them. What was your slow sugar meal?

Porridge in the morning and then rise, things which are easy to die

just on the day of the game is all with a good idea. You have a

chocolate bar outside so you've obviously changed your preparation!

Don't tell the boss. But he had it with broccoli.

West London for the early game and it's South London for the late one.

Crystal Palace take on West Ham at 5.30pm and Eagles defender

James Tomkins takes on his former Hammers team-mates for the first

time since his summer move across the capital.

It was like my second time, West Ham, when I was a kid growing up.

Seven or eight years old, 19 years I had it West Ham and it made me the

player I am today. It made me the person I am today because I spend a

lot of time there. You know, obviously, I did not get as much

game time as I wanted last year so I took the decision, I could easily

have sat at West Ham and maybe had a bit part to play this year or

whatever but I wanted to change it and get some first-team football in

me and I wanted to come to Palace and have a new start, really.

I'm really excited about it. I feel I have settled in pretty quickly and

the lads have been brilliant to me and all the staff so I hope it

continues and with results going this way, it seems to be going well

for us. 19 years is a long spell of your life. Was that the toughest

decision you have had to make? Yeah, for sure. It did not come lightly,

the decision. Everyone said it was an easy decision to come and play

football, it was but West Ham, like you said, was the team I've grown up

with and all I knew as a kid. It was my local team as well. I wanted to

come to Palace. I felt that the club was going somewhere and I wanted...

And with Alan Pardew, I knew from West Ham, growing up as a kid when I

was 15 or 16, he got me training with the first-team and gave me my

first of first-team football, I travelled to the FA Cup final with

them which was a massive experience for me. Unfortunately, West Ham lost

to Liverpool with Steven Gerrard producing that magic. Gerrard! Those

things were brilliant, for Alan Pardew to give me that experience in

the first team, and to come and play with him again was exciting. You

know, I have always loved playing at Palace as a West Ham player, the

great atmosphere it gives. It has continued this year. The fans have

been brilliant. As a home player now as well, it seems that much more

special, you know? Benteke will attack it and score! Christian

Benteke is an intimidating figure as a striker and you have close contact

in training. What is he like to play against? I try not to get too close

to him in case I injure myself or him! I don't want him to be an fit

for Saturday. But he's coming to the team and hit the ground running,

scored goals out of nothing, that is the kind of player we need, always a

handful, I've played against him a few times and in the air he's

brilliant. There's not a much better leap in the league than him. You are

a London boy and a London derby, is it anything different or is it just

another game, as they say? I think it does for me, playing for West

Ham, it is going to be exciting. It is going to be a weird scenario as

well. And emotional, a little bit. I know you are not expected to play

your boyhood team as a kid growing up but I'm excited about the

challenge and you know, I'm sure they will turn it around. It is one

of those things, getting used to the new stadium, I think but we don't

want them to turn it around on Saturday! But I hope they do in the

future. If I look up on Saturday and I see the name, Tomkins, 90 plus

one, winning goal, I just wonder how you would react? LAUGHTER

I don't know, I'd have to wait and see if it comes to it but I'm not

thinking about that, I'm thinking about trying to stop goals worse.

There will always be a bit of that as well. What it's all about the

team. We have moved to the touch-screen to

have a look at James Tomkins and quite an prediction if it comes off.

Good luck! Before we talk about that, did you avoid a player in

training? That would be a sign of weakness, Dan, no. We had to take

on, imagine playing against Thierry Henry everyday. You had to get stuck

in otherwise he would embarrass you. I wanted to ask you about that

because I spoke to us and bring a few seasons ago and he said he used

to have to tell you off quite regularly for tackling Henry.

Martin, what are you doing? We need him at the weekend! But I took what

I did in training into the games but it was the same everyday. I can see

that from your face and a very good Arsene Wenger impression! Looking at

the season, Palestinian start the season very well but they are aids

and on a decent run, could equal their league record of six games

unbeaten if they get the better or at least don't lose to West Ham

today. -- -- Palliser started the season. In terms of Tomkins, what is

he doing well? You both rate him highly. He's made a difference,

shored up the defence. We have some clips and I'm sure Martin will chip

in as well. Three or four clips on the way he played the game. I'm

going to pause it right there. That is the first defender. That is not

Tomkins, the first Palace defender, challenging for the ball, where

should you be? Alongside or certainly giving cover in behind.

Just there? Just in case. Yes. Tomkins just comes into shop, in

behind, covering the defender, perfect position to be. His

positional play is good. If I pause that, this is Tomkins, right there,

on the move, because the danger is right there, the Centre forward.

Once that has gone, he has to get into position alongside his four

defenders. His movement is perfect. If I play it on, you will see, he

goes in, no danger so he goes back into the four, looks over his

shoulder, stays within the width of the posts and clears. That is

decision-making? Yes, which is more important, the space of a player?

You have to decide the top players can comfortably make the correct

decision in a calm way, to give yourself the best chance, so you are

nice and organised and not panicking. You see that from front

players in possession but defenders have to show as well. Just pausing

it, Tomkins there, going back into position without the ball,

defending. Look at how many times he looks over his shoulder to check

where the forwarded. Three times, just so he knows where the danger is

and where his partner is when he comes to defending. When you get

this right, it is like putting on an old pair of slippers as a defender,

it is so easy. Looking at this one, running it on, it is just about

staying goal side. Stay on your feet. And being calm. Don't dive in.

Pick it out and think of this as a routine as a player, you win the

ball but make a pass as well, be composed and he finds it as well. I

can't believe West Ham allowed him to leave. This is the last one where

he is patient, takes it from Wilfried Bony. But for me, he has

shored up the defence and it works very well and the big thing is, he

defends first. When he has time to play, he will. Great signing, for

me. And the team he has left, West Ham, we have been talking about

their defensive issues so far and we have picked an two of the three

goals that Martin is serious about, that they conceived in the last game

against Southampton. -- furious about. You think the defending is

particularly bad? It is, your mindset has to be that you are

secure. Defenders can't have bad games. You have to be organised and

got to want to defend. That is OK at the moment. I'm not sure why

Antonio... He should be pushed up further. The full-back should get

him out of there, for a start. He's never really been a full-back. Keep

an eye on Ryan Bertrand. He's right there. They have got players behind

the ball. But that all changes. It is the ball played in behind, they

are not in a line and the full-back... Bears Ryan Bertrand.

And Havard Nordtveit, the right-sided defender. He is a

midfielder being asked to play full-back. He's not going after the

ball with any real intention, no one picking up in the box and it is so

simple for Charlie Austin to put it away. It is criminal, really. And

the other one, for me, is even worse. I don't know... You know, I'm

going to play it and then pause it because it is that bad from the

beginning. Their's the two defenders side-by-side, I will put one circle

on them because they are so close together. Winston Reid has come out

and Arbeloa is sitting in. Sat back to defend and they are having a chat

about what they are doing that night. Maggie Lieu Arbeloa should be

thinking about getting it a full-back and Ogbonna organising. No

one is doing anything when they are in possession of the ball. Get into

position quickly. If I played like that with you in defence and we were

behind each other, that is just the law of defending, don't go in front

of each other, stay by the side, stay like this and you can see each

other but watch what happens. It is so simple, schoolboy defending.

Slaven Bilic is the manager and he knows a thing or two about this

position. Just organise it on the pitch. But it is a mindset. People

underestimate defenders. Listen, the front players can lose their front

door key but not the defenders. You have to be reliable, people who can

be good -- relied upon by those defenders can't be. Don't lose your

front door key! If we go back to the table,

Manchester City are still top despite their first defeat

of the season at Manchester City and their 100%

Premier League record will be put to the test, here, against the

division's only other unbeaten outfit. In towards the near post!

Almost turned in by David Silva. Now Rose. Son makes the running to the

centre of the penalty area and it has gone in! An own goal by

Aleksandar Kolarov. And Tottenham Hotspur have the lead, here. You

have to say they are putting down the mark. It might fall kindly for

Son and into Dele Alli! Tottenham 2-0 Manchester City as Dele Alli

sweeps the ball home. Now it is with Aguero. Against the post and away.

City as well, a bit of panic in the way they played and Tottenham were

just really intense. Dele Alli could be in on goal, down under the

Challenger Fernandinho and to Spurs. Bravo doing his best to put off the

Tottenham striker and he's done a good job of it and make the state.

Congratulate Tottenham for the performance. If you play like today,

with passion and intensity, I think we have quality enough to fight in

everything. We will talk Spurs in a moment at

West Brom and I wanted to mention the managers at the Etihad today

because Ronald Koeman and Guardiola were team-mates and roommates at

Barcelona and I were both part of the site where Ronald Koeman scored

a 92 goal in and between the European Cup but Coman says that

Guardiola does not ask for advice any things have changed! He's the

top of the tree and everything is looking at him and asking what he

does. I don't think Ronald Koeman is too far away. Don't underestimate

income in the higher echelons of managers, he feels he is just below

it. And he is at the moment. But Everton are doing very well. Let's

talk about today. There is a man who is currently top of the system is

vital Manchester City. I know Barcelona will come in a Champions

League but if he is fit, do you have to play him? You have got to. For

me, going forward, he is possibly the most positive... Not an out and

out striker, but in behind he can make anything happen. Passes are

good, the weight of pass is good, you will get your goals and works in

Granby hard. You have to play him. A grubby but good managers find the

right position for pleasant Kevin De Bruyne is showing what he is capable

of just off the front in the -- position for players and Kevin De

Bruyne is showing what he is capable of. One man not only is this list

but in the top scorer chart is Romelu Lukaku with five in five. Do

you think we have seen him develop this season under Ronald Koeman? I

always felt he was a pussycat and now he's turning into the tiger he

needs to be. He's able of a man, everything in his game, rejected by

Chelsea, really but I'm sure they are that now. This is a team,

Everton, that are going from strength to strength. He is the

icing on the cake. For me, Lukaku is the kind of player that needs

boundaries. You have to tell him what to do because if you don't give

him any challenges and restrictions, he will float through the season,

just being OK but that is not good enough. Ronald Koeman have to tell

him to do his job and score goals otherwise he's not playing. Give him

challenges and targets. One final look at the table because the team

currently Segunda Tottenham, the only unbeaten side left in the

Premier League. And this week, the manager

Mauricio Pochettino sat down for a chat with our very own former

Spur, Jermaine Jenas. How are you? I'm very well, how are

you? Nice to see you. Shall we go into this lovely place and have a

chat? COMMENTATOR: There remains only one unbeaten team in the

Premier League tonight, and that is Tottenham Hotspur. The fans saw that

as a real breakthrough moment that said, you know what, Spurs now

officially ready to challenge the title. Is that the way you see it as

well? It is difficult for me, I think it is too early. I think we

are building a very nice project, a very nice team, and I think we are

in a moment that we need to believe, and show that we are capable of

managing big things, big games. We are young, we have a young squad,

but I think that if you play with the passion that we play, and you

show the quality that we show with Manchester City, all this possible.

COMMENTATOR: Diego Costa, there is Hazard! What a goal by Eden Hazard!

The title has gone for Tottenham. Just a touch on last year, would you

put that down to? I think it was an experience that must learn from. It

was not a physical problem, it was mental. When you lose the focus, it

is impossible to move your body. It is strange to translate the message

that we need to always enjoy, enjoy the training sessions, enjoy playing

football. When you don't have passion, energy, emotion, then you

can lose how we lost the last few games last season. At what point

during your playing career did you think I'm going to be a coach? I

think it was 27. 27? Wow. Yes, 27, in Paris. At that moment I started

to think in another way. Before I was only focused on myself, and to

be ready to compete, but in that moment I started to think oh, I like

that, oh, why did the manager take that decision? And in that moment I

started to realise that I was very interested. Something is was taking

over. Yes, I started to grow up inside myself. You said when you are

27 you started thinking about coaching, where you still playing

for Argentina? Yes, I remember a game when you played against

England... LAUGHTER It's a penalty! Michael Owen brought

down by Pochettino! It was a good tackle, very good tackle! And after

many years, that was good for me, because all the people in England

remembered me! So it worked! LAUGHTER

This club is known for its strong Argentinian links. Number seven,

Ardiles! What a fantastic run! Who scores, amazing goal! Were you aware

of the identity that Spurs have other player and especially in

management now? Yes, I hear from Tottenham when I was in Argentina,

from Ossie. Tottenham were known very well in Argentina. It is

fantastic. Thank you for your time, mate. A pleasure. Can you just tell

Dele Alli that I was better than him! I'm only joking. With me, we

were better than Dele Alli, of course.

I wish! Welborn, Jermaine, fascinating insight. There were

talks about him potentially going elsewhere but he stayed at Spurs and

seems to be loving the job there and he is involved in every thing. There

is talk at their training ground there is a feeling of excellence

they are trying to achieve at Tottenham, new stadium, it is a new

beginning them. Outstanding manager. Just missed out last year, talked

about the mental toughness. Let's not forget that Harry Kane is

injured at the moment and still getting great results. Very calm

under pressure, very calm in his interviews, never gets flustered,

and I think that filters down to the players, the way they play. A big

few months, I know they beat Manchester City, they have the EFL

Cup coming, and Premier League fixtures, it is too weak every week,

and the Champions League. That is the pressure now, to be the best

team in the league convincingly and deserved it, can they now click on?

They are now on the same level, people want to beat Spurs even now,

can they handled the pressure? Is the squad strong enough? On West

Brom, Nacer Chadli has taken on his old team-mate, in an interview in a

newspaper this week, he said that Alderweireld, the Tongan, stay at

Spurs, you are enjoying it, and he said no, I want to go and play

football every week. He said it is the first time I have played in the

team where I have to do so much running without the ball and he is

leading that challenge. He comes from a team, Spurs, with pricing,

may be the philosophy is what he is talking about, Tottenham it is about

what they do with the ball and that balance but he has certainly done

brilliantly, three from four games he has scored. Chadli. There is

nothing that beats playing every week. If you work as hard as you

have to work when you are playing for West Brom and you get

performances, it is a much more satisfying because you know you are

actually putting the work in and at the moment he is reaping the rewards

of working really hard. West Brom have Spurs, Liverpool, Man City and

Leicester in the next games. Good luck, lads! LAUGHTER

Thank you for that, Dion. We are just about halfway through. Still

plenty to come. We'll hear the extraordinary

journey of the English And we have Predictions from a man

who loves to dance in yellow. Chelsea are a girl already, Diego

Costa has good for them against Leicester.

Despite my suggestion, they didn't play Jenga with Zenga.

He's been in the Wolves dugout for a few months.

The extremes of Premier League managerial experience face each

other at the Emirates shortly, as Arsene Wenger takes on Swansea's

We had last year a very negative experience with Swansea that killed,

basically, our opportunity to win the championship. We have a good

opportunity as well to show that we have learned from that. Bob Bradley

has a big experience, he is not a beginner. He is equipped to deal

with what is requested from him. Arsene is right there with the top

managers, and to be in a club for 20 years, where the football that's

been played is such a reflection of the man. This is a fantastic thing.

The response of the players has been fantastic. There have been some

moments this week in training where I get a little bit louder and harder

and the whole bit, but I couldn't ask more from a group of guys so

far, so little by little, that's how we grow as a team.

Straight to the Emirates and our Match of the Day commentator. Not

the easiest place to go for your first game in the Premier League,

but he doesn't lack confidence, does he, Mr Bradley? Now, he doesn't, and

nor should he, because he has a coaching CV that spans more than 25

years. Obviously he is best known here as an international manager,

but I think that Premier League football, which is something he has

always had on his agenda of things that he wanted to do, and now

finally he has the chance to do it. It's not the first time he's been

linked with clubs. Hull City in the summer spoke to him as well, I

understand, but here he is at Swansea, starting here against

Arsene Wenger's Arsenal. It is a big ask of course, particularly Swansea

in this terrible run of form and Arsenal flying. On Arsenal, there is

a ridiculous that around, Bob Bradley will be the 147th manager

that Wenger has faced in the Premier League. That is amazing, Bradley is

the 211th manager to take charge of a Premier League game. Wenger is one

of the very few people who can have that sort of longevity over Bob

Bradley. His career goes back even further than the American's, but

even though Bradley has managed in many countries over many years, this

is new. This will be a big day for him and we look forward to seeing

how his team adapts to his style, and so far, from what I hear, they

are pleased with what they have done on the training ground with him.

Enjoy the game this afternoon, I'm sure somebody is trying to work out

those 64 right now. A look at the bottom of the table for you.

Swansea just above the relegation places, and the bottom

two face each other at the Bet365 Stadium

It is stuck against Sunderland. Neither of these two sides with a

win so far this season. Dion, of those to whom would you be the most

concerned about? Sunderland. Why? I just don't know where they will get

their points from, Dan. I look at their fixtures and think I just

can't even getting through. They can score goals but they just leaked to

many, week in, week out, for me. Talking about West Brom and their

worrying fixture list. Stoke have talked about a bit of light relief

from their next two fixtures, certainly opportunities in this neck

seven games to get up and running in the Premier League this season. Yes,

looking at Hull away, Swansea, interesting to see how they go.

There's a chance now, this is a moment for them to it and start to

get out of trouble, Stoke. And they are in trouble, they can't have a

series of results they have had an say anything is fine. The balance of

the problem for them. Without being steely, they have brought in some

really good players but it is not Gelling at the moment. The nice

thing for Stoke and Mark Hughes, he can look back at losses in Angola,

we ain't bad. And they started poorly. We ain't bad and I can turn

it around, we can give good performances beat teams we need to.

Whereas if you look at Sunderland, I find it hard to find the same

comparison. You say they started poorly, but all in the last three

seasons Stoke are finished in ninth spot. Another stat for you!

Keep across all today's games with Final Score.

It's on the website and Red Button from 2.30pm.

Sue Smith alongside Kevin Kilbane for that today.

And then Match of the Day is at 10.25pm, with Gary joined

Five minutes earlier than it sometimes is.

Let's head to America now, where a young Englishman is taking

the MLS by storm after taking the brave decision to leave

Manchester United's Academy at the age of 14 to take up

Jack Harrison's move is now paying off, as he's starring alongside

Lampard, Pirlo and Villa for New York City.

New York I think deep down inside is where I wanted to be. Just a dream

come true to be able to play here. It all came from my mum one I was

around 14 years old. She introduced the idea of coming to America.

COMMENTATOR: Harrison, clever from Jack Harrison and he scores! At

first I was really apprehensive, but she said just go and visit, if you

like it you can stay out there, if not, we'll come back and figure

something out. I ended up loving it. I got a really good feel for the

campus. I attended a few classes, played football with the guys and it

was all great. The whole community was just an amazing place to be. I

enjoy being by myself, I have always been an independent person, so to be

in a dorm full of my friends. They are scared, boys can they are

scared. The school side was a lot tougher than being in England. I

used to get away with a few homework assignments here and there in

England, because of training latecomer used to use that excuse

all the time. I tried it a couple of times when I came to America and it

just didn't work out well at all! Signing for United at such a young

age, that is every child's dream, I guess. I had interest from Man Utd

and Liverpool, and my mum decided that although I was a Liverpool fan,

it was better after the United. As a young kid in the academy, everything

tunnel vision, and you want to make it the first team and then think

about anything else. Now I'm happy to be where I am. Did you ever think

your chance of being a professional footballer had gone? I never

believed it was fully gone. I always wanted to pursue it as long as I

could, I was still young, being in high school and everything, and I

had heard about different ways people had made it in America. But I

just never knew when the chance would come. I was fortunate enough

to get drafted this year, and be in a place where I love. Can you

remember that draft night? On the day it was crazy, a whirlwind. I

thought I was going to Chicago, and I was happy they had picked me

first, I was over the moon about that, and Mengisteab waiting around

for 30 minutes. I was supposed to go off and do interviews but they held

me off to the side and I was like, what is going on? And then someone

from New York said Europe coming to New York, take your scarf. That was

crazy, just happened so quickly. -- you are coming to New York. But I

was thrilled. To take him out of the academy, it

was quite unusual and an unorthodox route that we took. But we can't

think that just because they are at Manchester United's academy that

they are necessarily going to end up playing football. I wanted a back-up

for him. I remember when he first arrived and he rang me up in the

early hours of the morning and said," I love it", and that was it,

there was no turning back. He's a very good person, first of all, he's

a really good player. He wants to learn everyday, every time, every

training. What is it like training with Andrea Pirlo, David Villa and

Frank Lampard? To be able to be in the locker room with them every day,

an absolute pleasure to be playing alongside three legends at the club

and being coached by another great legend as well. It is so humbling to

be alongside these guys and to say that I've played with them. Do you

feel you have reached your personal goals, done as well as you can in

your first season? I think I still have some way to go. I've been

fairly happy with how it started, my first professional career. But I

know I still have a lot of work to do and I'm willing to work on it

with Patrick and the rest of the coaching staff to improve my game as

much as possible. What an opportunity for the young

man. I know you were impressed with the little team talk in the circle.

Great initiative from him and his mum to take him out of Manchester

United's Academy. Mothers are always right! I think this is an

interesting one because you get a lot of families coming up to me and

asking if they should put their sons in academies or go different route

and they have been really successful, living the dream and you

hope it can push on and maybe one day come back to play in the Premier

League. -- he can push on. A lot of players in his position would have

said it is not working and that was it and then you will hear the story

that he could have been something. But he wanted to add his mum backed

him up and he wanted to go for it and be a professional footballer and

stuck to his guns. How many games would he have played for Manchester

United? This is the problem in the game, the lack of English players

for Gareth Southgate to pick but we have to develop them better and this

might be another way, sending them to America. I went to New York and I

have been to the training ground, seen Patrick and Frank Lampard and

seen them training hard and the setup is incredible. For him to get

into a side with players like Andrea Pirlo and David Villa, that is a

dream for him and you heard what he had to say, it's a dream for him and

he's loving it. I bet you were the one who gave the team talks at

school? We had a teacher, actually, first year, it was the PE teacher

and the second year, it was the maths teacher and he said, just get

on with it which was great for my development! I've witnessed one of

your team talks, Martin, and it is a scary thing but impressive! We

talked about Frank Lampard, there. Talking internationals, he is part

of a previous England generation. What do you think of the current

crop? England this week, a bit of criticism for the way they played an

the draw against Slovenia. This man has come under the cosh but are you

positive about going forward under Gareth Southgate? Me personally, I

am 100% positive with him. In previous years, we have had managers

there and the football team here, a massive gulf in knowing what is

going on. Now Gareth is right in the middle, he's worked with the

majority of the players in the England squad. I think Gareth is the

perfect fit because they know the manager and the manager knows them.

He had some big decisions to make this week and he handled them

extremely well. You could look at it and say it was premeditated because

Rooney was taken out which was a popular decision. I'm not sure it

made the team better, I have to say and it is about getting results and

the next one is the Scotland game which is huge. But also big for

Gordon Strachan who says he will stay in the job despite a really

disappointing draw with Lithuania, and defeat against Slovakia. I know

you have spoken to him recently and he is enjoying the challenge but he

finds himself in a difficult position. Yes, and he is under huge

pressure. Gordon lives in Warwickshire, and so do I so we have

crossed paths on several occasions. He says he is managing his country

and loving it, the biggest job but it is difficult, hard to progress

with what he's got. It looks like he's holding it all together. They

don't have the footballing greats any more from Scotland, the calibre

of player is definitely a problem and I think they need to hang onto

him. I agree. Talking football greats, a man who knows all about

international football is Walter Zenga.

The Azzurri keeper from Italia '90, he has gone on to manage

clubs around the globe, and is now at

Today, they face Aston Villa, under Steve Bruce.

Mark Clemmitt has been for a pow-wow with Walter.

When Walter Zenga finally hung up his gloves at the end of his playing

career, he briefly worked as an actor on an Italian soap opera. I

think it is fair to say his management career has been every bit

as dramatic. 16 clubs in eight countries over 18 years. But it is

for his heroics with Inter Milan and the national side at Italia 90 that

the man nicknamed the Handglider is best known and he still holds the

record for World Cup minutes without conceding a goal. As anyone

explained to you how much affection we English hold for the Italia 90

tournament? Italia 90 is a great memory. Quinn coming in for the

header and a brilliant save by Walter Zenga, proving himself to be

possibly the best goalkeeper in the tournament. We played in one small

final against England in Italy. David Platt became Mighty Mike at

Sampdoria. Nice guy. If I don't make a mistake, this was the last

performance in the World Cup, in the first four. We don't do it very

often, not like your country. Thank you for that. I can't get over the

contrast between your playing career and erect Inter Milan for 15 years,

and your management career which has taken you everywhere. No, because I

signed all the times the contract for one year, first. My career as a

player was different because a player, if you sign a contract

long-term, you stay at the club. Coaches, it is something that you

win the next game, lucky, you have one more week in your hands to work!

How do you form a bond when you go to a new country? I live here in

Wolverhampton. I don't want to look for a house elsewhere because in my

opinion, I have to feel the city, the fans, the club and everything.

This is normal, in my opinion. The funny thing is, I arrived here with

one dress suit, one pair of jeans and one T-shirt because I came

directly from holidays. You got the call to come and take over at Wolves

while you were on holiday? In July, where are you normally? I'm not

going to tell you, but... Simple as that? I'm sure you realise you've

got rather a game this weekend, the Derby, just the kind of situation

you love, you thrive on? The problem is, every game is a story apart, not

the same as before. This game, we play against a team that is a big

team, come from the Premier League, new manager, but we have do play as

a wolf, think about ourselves and make our game and this is our way.

How ambitious is this football club? I'm ambitious and I don't know how

many times I need, if I need a month or a year or two years. But I'm sure

this club will be back in the Premier League. This club has got

the facilities, the passion, the story of the club. We have to bring

this club back into the perennially. It has been an absolute pleasure.

Thank you so much. Cheers! The Handglider's team on the table

at the moment. It has been four season since Wolves were in the

Premier League but he is saying or the right things, the man who played

for his country 58 times. You know what? He has possibly taken a job in

the hardest league to be successful in in the world, the Championship,

the fan base is huge, though, the club in stature is huge and they

have let themselves down recently and they need to get back to the

Premier League. It is a hell of a challenge for him. They say he

turned up with one suitcase and it is going to be doing some wild! I'm

sure he has got more clothes now! View be waking up in hotels all over

the place, the games, so thick and fast in the Championship, I've

played there are a couple of times, it is so far removed. We played

together in the Championship for Leicester and old lads like us were

moaning every five minutes because there was a game on Tuesday and

Saturday, Tuesday, Saturday, I dread to think what he will be like! New

Chinese owners from today their games are available on pay TV in

China as well, so it is Aston Villa today.

We saw a bit of Steve Bruce during that interview.

After resigning as Hull manager in July, he's back,

Let's's hear from him. I've been out for three or four months. It is the

first time in 40 years I have not been involved with a football club

on the first overseas. I found that remarkably strange. I do believe I

have got one of the biggest clubs in in this country. This is a huge, big

football club. It is a privilege to manage it. It is arguably the

biggest club I've ever managed. You know, this club is steeped in

history of winning things. The expectation is always still going to

be there. I hope I can live up to the billing. He has got a

magnificent record and Bae why you are so happy now. Is he the right

man for you? He is coming yet, you don't get time any more, Roberto Di

Matteo did not get time, it did not work, fair enough, get someone else

in and to choose Steve Bruce, for me, he's the right man for the job

with who is on offer. I think he's the top of the tree. He knows the

job backwards and he will get lots of respect from the players and he

is going into a football club which we both played for with lots of

history. The pressure is on him. He is sitting there saying a lot of

things about the club that a lot of managers in the past have said but

he's got to try to turn it around. It is a tricky team to play for. The

fans are difficult. We were promoted, we relegated -- were

relegated and we cannot. 13 away games to go up when we played for

them but playing at home was always a disaster. Thereafter on factors

that go against you. You have to understand that and turn the

juggernaut around. Villa can be very successful but you have to

understand how the club works which is what he has to do. I think he

will do well, know when to go forward and defend. He is so

knowledgeable, Steve Bruce. I'm hoping he can turn them around for

the fans more than anyone. He's lost a bit of weight and got a tan. Lost

a bit of timber! I'm sure it won't last! On final score this afternoon

as well, talk about Mike Phelan who has got the Hull job permanently and

Derby have got Steve McClaren back at the club as well, bottom six in

the Championship. A quick shot of Martin in his prime, we can't leave

Aston Villa without talking about that. That, my friends, is a haircut

under terror shorts! Sorry about the shorts! Shouting at his team-mates

like normal. Thank you, gentlemen.

We're back at midday next week. We leave you with the predictions

of a man who's struggling to find The Norwich chairman

has other things to do It's been wild.

It's exhausting. The idea of doing the Charleston

or the samba, being the Mask in the character of Jim Carrey,

these are not things I've ever done So I'm totally out

of my comfort zone. People might think the chairman

of a football club shouldn't be wearing quite such a bright suit

but I think the fans appreciated I was wearing yellow and green

and still supporting the football All my family for generations

have supported the club. In fact, one of my uncles

who just died this week, aged in his early 90s,

took me to my first game against Leeds in the FA

Cup in January 1973, So I have been watching

Norwich for decades. The idea I could be part

of the board and part of the club I've had text messages

after the dancing from Alex Neil and from Russell Martin,

the club captain, Manchester City three,

Everton one. I think it was a hiccup last week

for Manchester City. They are storming it and I think

Everton won't be strong enough. I'm hoping for another goal

from Nathan Redmond, Katya and her husband Neil are big

Liverpool fans and despite that, I'm going for Liverpool three,

Manchester United one.