:00:19. > :00:36.It is absolutely brilliant. This is absolutely fantastic. History boys
:00:37. > :00:49.indeed. They have won the cup. He has done it! Leicester City football
:00:50. > :00:55.club has tonight parted ways with its manager. He masterminded one of
:00:56. > :01:01.sport's greatest miracles. The euphoria has evaporated. They are
:01:02. > :01:06.flirting with relegation. The man who achieved the dream has been
:01:07. > :01:10.dismissed. I shed a tear for cloudier, I shed a tear for football
:01:11. > :01:15.After the euphoria of last season and being crowned Premier League
:01:16. > :01:18.champions all I dreamt of was staying with Leicester City,
:01:19. > :01:24.Leicester this week sacked Claudio Ranieri.
:01:25. > :01:30.What does this tell us about modern football?
:01:31. > :01:33.This is what's coming up on Football Focus.
:01:34. > :01:41.Where did it all go wrong for the champions?
:01:42. > :01:48.I think they should be building statues to him, not sacking him.
:01:49. > :01:51.Big Sam on leaving England and keeping Palace
:01:52. > :01:58.There have been mooted rumours that I have come back to early. That is
:01:59. > :02:02.Fraser Forster is preparing for the League Cup final
:02:03. > :02:12.They are calling you the albatross arms and the football gods are with
:02:13. > :02:23.I didn't know anyone who could do it.
:02:24. > :02:25.Plenty to discuss with these two, Jermaine Jenas alongside
:02:26. > :02:35.It's the story which is still making the headlines.
:02:36. > :02:45.This morning he paused briefly on his way out. Our cameras were there.
:02:46. > :02:51.I don't speak with anybody, just to say thank you to the fans, they were
:02:52. > :02:59.fantastic. How are you feeling now? Do you feel good? Yes, because of
:03:00. > :03:04.what we achieved in Leicester. I hope it happens again, but it will
:03:05. > :03:10.be very difficult. Was it emotional with the players? No, it was normal.
:03:11. > :03:12.Hopefully we will hear from Kasper Schmeichel before the end of the
:03:13. > :03:16.For the fifth straight season the manager who has won the Premier
:03:17. > :03:19.League has left the champions before the end of the following season!
:03:20. > :03:24.This time the victim was Claudio Ranieri.
:03:25. > :03:40.Leicester can fight the biggest. Believe and the dream is a reality.
:03:41. > :03:53.The fans are dreaming. Keep dreaming. Why wake up?
:03:54. > :04:04.Leicester City, the first reigning champions to lose their first game
:04:05. > :04:11.of the next season since 1989. It has just not been Leicester's day.
:04:12. > :04:14.Claudio Ranieri's champions are dismissed. I think they are
:04:15. > :04:21.embarrassing. How far they have fallen is absolutely shocking. And
:04:22. > :04:27.Leicester City concede four golds on the road in the Premier League for
:04:28. > :04:34.the second match in a row. They are in serious trouble now. They cannot
:04:35. > :04:39.win a game to save their lives. They could be in a full-blown relegation
:04:40. > :04:43.battle. Leicester's miserable form continues. We are hearing rumours of
:04:44. > :04:49.internal fighting. When these stories come out, you realise there
:04:50. > :04:54.is a problem. It has been a fall for the champions. How far will they
:04:55. > :05:02.drop? It is a long way back for Leicester now. Leicester City have
:05:03. > :05:09.sacked their manager. They triumphed last season, but today they
:05:10. > :05:11.dismissed him. Gary Lineker has called the club's decision
:05:12. > :05:18.inexplicable, unforgivable and gut wrenchingly sad. You cannot just put
:05:19. > :05:23.aside and forget what was achieved last season. In many ways he has
:05:24. > :05:29.been the victim of his own success. Last season was the inexplicable
:05:30. > :05:34.one, not this season. The fact he gave Leicester so much, he made the
:05:35. > :05:35.whole country get behind him. They should be building statues to him,
:05:36. > :05:48.not sacking him. They went for the full godfather
:05:49. > :05:53.drama. He has gone back to Italy. A lot of people have had their say on
:05:54. > :05:59.this. What does it tell us about the man, the players, about football in
:06:00. > :06:06.general? What he has achieved was beyond football. It was a dream that
:06:07. > :06:11.him and the players went through and managed to achieve. That is why
:06:12. > :06:15.there has been this huge uproar in the game and for the managers as
:06:16. > :06:20.well who we have seen this week. I suppose we all kind of know that
:06:21. > :06:26.football is a brutal sport. But when you saw things that happened with
:06:27. > :06:28.Leicester last year, I don't think you expect people like Claudio
:06:29. > :06:36.Ranieri to be sacked in these moments. If you go back to the first
:06:37. > :06:40.season in the Premier League under Nigel Pearson, exactly this age of
:06:41. > :06:45.the season they were rock bottom with 17 points and they finished 14.
:06:46. > :06:50.Claudio Ranieri comes in and wins the league and it is the biggest
:06:51. > :06:55.story ever and it will be for ever in the Premier League. The problem
:06:56. > :06:59.is he has raised the expectation up there. Do you reckon if last year
:07:00. > :07:06.they had not won and they finished tenth or 11th they would be sacking
:07:07. > :07:12.him? I would say no. That is a fair point, but if they feel that they
:07:13. > :07:16.are in serious trouble, and four of the bottom six have changed
:07:17. > :07:23.managers, why are they not able to make that change if they fear there
:07:24. > :07:26.is a chance of going down? The point is people think he deserves the
:07:27. > :07:30.opportunity to fight for his team, to be the one who keeps them up. He
:07:31. > :07:36.is the one who led them to the title, so he should help them stay
:07:37. > :07:41.up. It isn't working at Crystal Palace. People think he deserved
:07:42. > :07:48.that opportunity to get them out of the situation they are in. It is a
:07:49. > :07:52.story of the tail wagging the dog. You cannot sack all the players.
:07:53. > :07:57.Eventually the managers go, but the players have to seriously look at
:07:58. > :08:00.themselves. Understandably and there has been plenty of support for
:08:01. > :08:08.Claudio Ranieri right across the game. All the Leicester fans are
:08:09. > :08:12.really upset about it, they were not expecting it. Terrible, shocking,
:08:13. > :08:18.unbelievable. Astonished. Disappointed. I am really sad for
:08:19. > :08:28.him, it is a disappointing day for managers all round. There have been
:08:29. > :08:34.a few strange decisions in 2016, 2017, Brexit, Donald Trump, Claudio
:08:35. > :08:40.Ranieri. When I was a champion it was a giant, negative thing. Now I
:08:41. > :08:49.realise the spirit of Claudio Ranieri. I blame the players, not
:08:50. > :08:54.him. The players should have given 100%. Instead of thinking about the
:08:55. > :09:01.money and the rewards, we would not have been in this position. People
:09:02. > :09:05.are thinking about new contracts, leaving, more money, people are
:09:06. > :09:12.forgetting who helped them to reach a certain level. You cannot take
:09:13. > :09:15.your foot off the pedal. If you start to get relaxed, it is the
:09:16. > :09:23.worst game in the world for getting a kick up the backside. It is not
:09:24. > :09:30.right for the players to decide if a manager must be sacked or not. It
:09:31. > :09:34.means that the club is poor. All these allegations of falling out
:09:35. > :09:37.with the players and the assistant manager is not fair. When you lose
:09:38. > :09:43.football matches people look for things, some things are possibly not
:09:44. > :09:46.there. My relationship with Claudio Ranieri has been perfectly fine. I
:09:47. > :09:53.have never had a problem with him and he has never made a problem with
:09:54. > :09:56.me. Leicester made history a year ago because they did the most
:09:57. > :10:00.beautiful thing in football history and now they are also in the
:10:01. > :10:06.highlights with a decision that I think has everyone in football
:10:07. > :10:11.United. A lot of the fans, fans all over the world, we have lost them
:10:12. > :10:15.Let's grab a word with the former Leicester captain
:10:16. > :10:17.Matt Elliott who joins us from the city this afternoon.
:10:18. > :10:20.We know that the chairman held a meeting with the players
:10:21. > :10:22.after the Champions League match against Sevilla on Wednesday
:10:23. > :10:34.Have they skewered the man who led them to the title?
:10:35. > :10:45.I think mentions of a mutiny as such are somewhat overcooked and over
:10:46. > :10:49.exaggerated. It seems to me, reading between the lines, that the chairman
:10:50. > :10:53.has spoken to the players and asked for their viewpoint, but I do not
:10:54. > :10:58.think they have gone behind the manager's back and put the knife in
:10:59. > :11:02.as people are reporting. I do not think it is as extreme as that. When
:11:03. > :11:06.you look at the situation as a whole, there probably was discontent
:11:07. > :11:15.or concern from some of the players in certain areas as to the approach
:11:16. > :11:19.and the way Leicester were going ahead and the season. But at the end
:11:20. > :11:23.of the day it is their responsibility as players to follow
:11:24. > :11:28.their leader, Claudio Ranieri, irrespective of whether you believe
:11:29. > :11:33.in his approach or not, you need to do what he instructs you to do and
:11:34. > :11:36.do it collectively. I think it has been somewhat exaggerated the extent
:11:37. > :11:42.to which the players are a guilty party. Loyalty is a question here.
:11:43. > :11:46.Even if Claudio Ranieri had maybe taken his foot off the Gas a little
:11:47. > :11:52.bit like the players, surely you would expect the players to back the
:11:53. > :11:56.manager who won the title last year? Is that fair? The performance I have
:11:57. > :12:01.seen from Leicester City players on the page is a lack of confidence, a
:12:02. > :12:07.lack of belief almost. I have not seen them downing tools or not doing
:12:08. > :12:11.what the manager asks them to do. They are not performing and that
:12:12. > :12:16.happens sometimes. When you talk about loyalty that also goes to your
:12:17. > :12:20.backroom staff. I think managers, when things start going badly in a
:12:21. > :12:26.club, managers need to be able to look behind them and have people to
:12:27. > :12:30.trust. Claudio Ranieri took on Nigel Pearson's people and I am sure at
:12:31. > :12:33.the back end of the season he has felt pretty lonely and not had the
:12:34. > :12:42.support he needed. Is it not the case that the likes of Simpson,
:12:43. > :12:47.Morgan, drink water, Riyadh Mahrez and Jamie Vardy have not been
:12:48. > :12:52.anything like last season as well? Without a doubt, that is fair
:12:53. > :12:56.comment. They have been way off the levels of last season, as has the
:12:57. > :13:00.team in general. There are a number of factors that contribute to this
:13:01. > :13:05.decision being made, Claudio Ranieri being relieved of his duties. The
:13:06. > :13:13.drop off in form has been quite stark to say the least. You expect a
:13:14. > :13:17.lowering of levels, but it is just the degree. All of us than they are
:13:18. > :13:23.looking for reasons why. In my mind the owners have asked questions
:13:24. > :13:27.behind the scenes and they have investigated and I am not so sure
:13:28. > :13:31.they like the answers they were given. They probably felt in their
:13:32. > :13:37.view, rightly or wrongly, that Claudio Ranieri could not get a June
:13:38. > :13:41.out of the players he had brought along and achieved such tremendous
:13:42. > :13:46.glory with last season. All of a sudden the well was running dry.
:13:47. > :13:50.From a calculated or a ruthless point of view they thought the
:13:51. > :13:58.decision needed to be made now rather than later. That is my view
:13:59. > :14:02.on it. Maybe it is just a business decision. The reason why football
:14:03. > :14:06.and football fans are up in arms is because we bought into the story, we
:14:07. > :14:12.loved the fairy tale last season and he was a bit different. When he got
:14:13. > :14:19.the job everybody when, what, Claudio Ranieri? Almost to a man. He
:14:20. > :14:23.has been great for football, but it was a business decision because they
:14:24. > :14:28.are desperate to stay in the Premier League like everyone else. When you
:14:29. > :14:33.talk about a business decision, wherever they are from, a far-flung
:14:34. > :14:38.place in the Globe, they have to have somebody here on a day-to-day
:14:39. > :14:42.basis. Otherwise you would not go and ask the players is there a
:14:43. > :14:47.problem? You need somebody looking after the shop. That conversation
:14:48. > :14:53.needs to be between the owners and the manager, it does not need to go
:14:54. > :14:56.to the players. The players will always go against if the manager is
:14:57. > :15:01.not doing what they want on the training ground. Managers change
:15:02. > :15:06.dietary requirements, training times, they are searching for ways
:15:07. > :15:10.to break the pattern. Players will be going, why are we not doing what
:15:11. > :15:16.we did last year? That is when we won the league. If you ask the
:15:17. > :15:22.players who are in and out of the team, that will not be
:15:23. > :15:30.If Leicester stay up this season, had they made the right decision?
:15:31. > :15:35.Ultimately, yes. We will never know. If Leicester were to stay up under
:15:36. > :15:42.Ranieri's guidance this season. In my mind, I think they will stay up.
:15:43. > :15:47.There was a statement two weeks ago, why have they done that? It has made
:15:48. > :15:53.a rod for their own back. It has helped fuel the fire. The timing of
:15:54. > :15:58.it has prized a lot of people. They will take it from a pragmatic,
:15:59. > :16:04.business sense. Despite everyone's discontent with the decision, and
:16:05. > :16:10.the passion that has been shown and the passion shown by Ranieri, it was
:16:11. > :16:15.looked at in a cold-hearted way and made their decision. Leicester just
:16:16. > :16:22.have to move on. Who do you think might now going now Ranieri has
:16:23. > :16:25.left? It has to be somebody who appreciates it up in a relegation
:16:26. > :16:35.fight and has managed in the Premier League. The bookies are never that
:16:36. > :16:39.far off. Roberto Mancini was mentioned. Martin O'Neill resonates
:16:40. > :16:44.probably pretty well with Leicester City fans. Goes with their history.
:16:45. > :16:47.We were saying we are hopefully going to speak to Kasper Schmeichel
:16:48. > :16:51.at some stage. If we do get it will bring it to you before the end of
:16:52. > :16:57.the programme. You can see highlights
:16:58. > :16:59.of Leicester's first match without Ranieri in Match of the Day
:17:00. > :17:02.2 which this week is on Monday night to take
:17:03. > :17:05.in their game with Liverpool. A little later in Wales
:17:06. > :17:07.and Nothern Ireland. You can listen to that
:17:08. > :17:19.game on 5 Live too. Chelsea could end the day 11
:17:20. > :17:22.points clear at the top They face Swansea
:17:23. > :17:27.at Stamford Bridge. Watford against West Ham
:17:28. > :17:29.is the 5:30pm kick off. Second place Spurs are at
:17:30. > :17:32.home to Stoke tomorrow. A reduced fixture list this weekend
:17:33. > :17:35.because of the EFL Cup final between We've talked about
:17:36. > :17:37.the Monday night game. And a match which could have a big
:17:38. > :17:41.impact on the bottom of the table today is Crystal Palace against
:17:42. > :17:42.Middlesbrough. Both are desperate
:17:43. > :17:44.to avoid the drop. Medium-sized Clem has
:17:45. > :17:49.been to see Big Sam. When you are out of it that you want
:17:50. > :17:54.to get back into the thrill of it. It is the love of the game, I
:17:55. > :17:58.suppose. The game has been your whole life or do you want to come
:17:59. > :18:05.back in and use experience to try to help the club who is in trouble to
:18:06. > :18:10.get out of trouble again. Is there a Sam Allardyce formula for survival?
:18:11. > :18:16.I do not think so. I suppose the formula is reacting to the internal
:18:17. > :18:24.side of the football club, finding out the depth of what we have to do,
:18:25. > :18:28.what the football club needs. You find out with the players, what
:18:29. > :18:32.their strengths and weaknesses are. You then build a system into those
:18:33. > :18:36.players and give them some confidence. Hopefully they will work
:18:37. > :18:43.better as a team to get them out of trouble. 2015 was very poor. I have
:18:44. > :18:49.to get rid of that negativity and move the club forward. I would
:18:50. > :18:53.definitely hope that by now I would have picked up more points. How hard
:18:54. > :18:57.is it to walk in when you have suffered some of the disappointments
:18:58. > :19:02.you have had said you have been here and keep that buoyancy? This gets
:19:03. > :19:06.you over those disappointments. That is why you keep working in football.
:19:07. > :19:12.You are working with a bunch of young people who are committed, even
:19:13. > :19:17.though on the outside world it does not look like that. They are
:19:18. > :19:21.committed and if they try their best they are misguided at the moment.
:19:22. > :19:28.Some of the things you have found shot you. The Sunderland result must
:19:29. > :19:33.have shot to you? Danger here. Jermaine Defoe. 4-0, Sunderland will
:19:34. > :19:40.suck the stuff of nightmares for Crystal Palace and Sam Allardyce.
:19:41. > :19:47.The problem is much deeper than I expected it to be it has gone on for
:19:48. > :19:52.a considerable amount of time. The fantastic team at the end of 2015
:19:53. > :19:57.became a fragile team in 2016 and then became a team that lost its
:19:58. > :20:01.confidence. The simple fact is the club players decided to change the
:20:02. > :20:07.style is somewhat. That became a more attacking style. On the back of
:20:08. > :20:10.that they kept conceding so many goals and could not win a game of
:20:11. > :20:17.football. That is still the case today. The England football manager,
:20:18. > :20:24.Sam Allardyce, has lost his job after just one match in Taj of the
:20:25. > :20:28.national team. He accepted he had made a significant error of
:20:29. > :20:33.judgment. -- in charge. As you emerge out of the dark days of late
:20:34. > :20:40.summer, was there any danger of not coming back in the game? I do not
:20:41. > :20:49.think so. I do not think I could have left it there and not come
:20:50. > :20:53.back, I don't think. Nothing to do with anybody else, just personally,
:20:54. > :20:58.I would not want to have entered what has been a great life for me to
:20:59. > :21:02.end in that dark moment. As difficult as it was, at the end of
:21:03. > :21:06.the day, I came out of it by looking at the reality of it and realising
:21:07. > :21:12.what that was without going too deeply into it and saying that is
:21:13. > :21:17.over. I am hugely disappointed, obviously. Massively, massively
:21:18. > :21:26.disappointed in how it happened. You have to get over disappointments in
:21:27. > :21:29.life. There have been one macro or two mooted rumours which are far
:21:30. > :21:34.from the truth. Absolute rubbish. I did not have to come back, apart
:21:35. > :21:39.from I wanted to come back. It has to have changed your mindset? It was
:21:40. > :21:43.firmly placed on the record you want the England job. That is no longer
:21:44. > :21:47.an ambition. Life has moved on from that. Are you are very different
:21:48. > :21:54.person from the person who took that job? Don't forget, I have been
:21:55. > :21:58.England manager. I have been. As short in stay as it was, I
:21:59. > :22:04.thoroughly enjoyed every single second of it. I think my time was
:22:05. > :22:09.right. I think I would have enjoyed the journey but that journey got
:22:10. > :22:14.halted through circumstances I cannot talk about now because of the
:22:15. > :22:17.confidentiality side of it. Disappointment should make you
:22:18. > :22:26.stronger and not weaker. You never forget it that you put it to the
:22:27. > :22:32.back of your mind. Is there a danger that people at the club, players,
:22:33. > :22:40.go, Sam is here now, who has never been relegated. It is all going to
:22:41. > :22:46.be all right. I can guide the players, hopefully. What we have to
:22:47. > :22:50.respect more is the point. Do not throw the point away, lads. The
:22:51. > :22:55.other one is do not lose to the teams around you. Now we are in a
:22:56. > :22:59.fight of seven, we have to finish at the top of that table. From
:23:00. > :23:05.Bournemouth downwards is the fight now. Do you fear failure? Of course.
:23:06. > :23:11.Failure would be very difficult to take. I have not failed in the
:23:12. > :23:16.Premier League since I got back in 2001 with Bolton. It is in reality
:23:17. > :23:19.you have to face. I cannot just click my fingers and wave a magic
:23:20. > :23:25.wand. I would truly believe the players are capable. They just have
:23:26. > :23:34.to overcome their fears and produce on the pitch but they know they can.
:23:35. > :23:38.Winning a game of football and the feeling it gives you, that is where
:23:39. > :23:42.the drug lies, the addiction. The adrenaline rush and the achievement
:23:43. > :23:49.and the satisfaction we get out of it is why we do it.
:23:50. > :23:58.Where is the Allardyce bounce? I think you should throw in your
:23:59. > :24:04.statistic. Allardyce at Sunderland? He lost seven of his first ten games
:24:05. > :24:08.at Sunderland and kept them up. Did he really? I had completely
:24:09. > :24:15.forgotten. That is the first time you have ever asked me for a
:24:16. > :24:20.statistic. It is the last. There just is not one at the moment. They
:24:21. > :24:24.have players in that team going forward who can win them games will
:24:25. > :24:30.stop defensively, they are all over the place. They are virtually
:24:31. > :24:35.conceding two goals a game, which is so unlike him. That suggests to me
:24:36. > :24:41.personnel rather than organisation, coaching, setup, anything. To touch
:24:42. > :24:47.on the England side of things, he cannot talk too much about it but he
:24:48. > :24:51.will never get over that, will he? I do not think he would. I do not know
:24:52. > :24:58.how long the exam has been in management. Throughout that process
:24:59. > :25:03.you are working towards the pinnacle. -- Big Sam. He only got to
:25:04. > :25:08.do that for one game. The circumstances were very
:25:09. > :25:14.disappointing for him. It will be something that he probably will
:25:15. > :25:19.never get over. Would it not make you more determined to succeed at
:25:20. > :25:25.Palace question at the last thing you want is to get relegated. He has
:25:26. > :25:30.come back out, is in front of the cameras, in the Premier League. He
:25:31. > :25:34.fronts it up and is trying to keep Premier League survival for Crystal
:25:35. > :25:40.Palace. They go level on points with Middlesbrough today. We have talked
:25:41. > :25:44.about the steely Middlesbrough defence. They have not won for two
:25:45. > :25:49.months. They are also in real bother. When push comes to shove,
:25:50. > :25:54.round about now, you can accept not playing well with what you have to
:25:55. > :25:59.do, you have to nick games. Forget about winning 2- 03- zero.
:26:00. > :26:04.Defensively it suggests they can do that but you worry where the goals
:26:05. > :26:09.will come from. Every year, if you look at the teams who go down. One
:26:10. > :26:13.team does not score enough goals and does not have a recognised
:26:14. > :26:19.goal-scorer. They need to really go on a run of form to keep them in
:26:20. > :26:24.this league. We still have all of this to fit in for you.
:26:25. > :26:26.Gareth Bale has the World Cup in his sights.
:26:27. > :26:35.While Neil Warnock is eyeing promotion.
:26:36. > :26:37.It's 38 years since Southampton's one and only appearance
:26:38. > :26:40.They lost to Nottingham Forest back in 1979.
:26:41. > :26:45.That was nine years before their keeper was born.
:26:46. > :26:47.Fraser Forster has grown quite a bit since then.
:26:48. > :26:53.He's been talking to Rachel Stringer.
:26:54. > :27:03.Fraser, you are a long way from home now, Southampton to the north-east
:27:04. > :27:09.where you grew up. It is fair to say you were not from a traditional
:27:10. > :27:18.north-east football family. Not really. My brothers and my mum and
:27:19. > :27:26.dad have jobs different to football. I think they support me. They
:27:27. > :27:31.shipped me around at weekends to play football on a Saturday and a
:27:32. > :27:35.Sunday. Always very supportive. Now you are in it, your family are more
:27:36. > :27:43.football fans now. They have always supported me. Season tickets at
:27:44. > :27:48.Newcastle. They knew I loved football so much. I would play with
:27:49. > :27:54.my brothers. Every chance we get we would go into the garden when we
:27:55. > :27:58.were home from school. I was glad I was not in an academy from eight
:27:59. > :28:04.years of. Quite glad it has gone that way. Do you think you have to
:28:05. > :28:11.be a different type of person to be a goalkeeper? Do you know what I
:28:12. > :28:16.mean? That is tough. Obviously such a unique position. You experience
:28:17. > :28:22.the highs and lows that a lot of outfield positions do not really
:28:23. > :28:26.feel. You make mistakes. It is all about just getting on with it. When
:28:27. > :28:32.you are younger you beat yourself up and carry it around with you. Now
:28:33. > :28:35.you are disappointed. You just get better at dealing with and find a
:28:36. > :28:42.way of dealing with that works for you. You just move on. The reason I
:28:43. > :28:49.am asking about mistakes is because of your the against Liverpool.
:28:50. > :28:55.Claude it out on the goal-line and Southampton survive. They called you
:28:56. > :29:02.albatross arms and you say the footballing gods were with you. Does
:29:03. > :29:08.an albatross have arms? You fumbled initially. What went through your
:29:09. > :29:14.head? Not a locked, to be fair. I kind of made up for my own mistake.
:29:15. > :29:20.Not often you get to do that in goal. It is just one of those
:29:21. > :29:25.things. Do not give up. Luckily for me it stayed out. Take that luck and
:29:26. > :29:36.you get it. The chance to win that first bit of silverware for over 40
:29:37. > :29:39.years. He is on. 1-0. It is obviously a fantastic achievement.
:29:40. > :29:45.When you look where the club was, six, seven years ago and where they
:29:46. > :29:50.are now, they have come a long way. At the start of the season we said
:29:51. > :29:54.we wanted to do well in every competition luckily we have managed
:29:55. > :30:00.to get to the final. We have had two tough semifinals to get there. We
:30:01. > :30:01.have not conceded a goal in the competition and we thoroughly
:30:02. > :30:13.deserved our place in the final. In front of him the Southampton
:30:14. > :30:16.defence is interesting. How do you think that will work out with them
:30:17. > :30:22.because they have got to stop Manchester United? They have had a
:30:23. > :30:26.brilliant season, Southampton. But they went to Anfield with a
:30:27. > :30:30.makeshift back four and they kept them out of that game and there was
:30:31. > :30:35.a game after that where they stood strong. Of late it has not been that
:30:36. > :30:42.tight, but when you are chopping and changing your back four, it is not
:30:43. > :30:46.great. They have to find a way to keep the Manchester United striker
:30:47. > :30:53.forced out. They have unearthed a real gem in Gabbiadini. He has
:30:54. > :31:00.really come in and caused issues for other defences. It is mad when you
:31:01. > :31:03.think about the signing of players, especially strikers. Some
:31:04. > :31:14.straightaway just take to it and some do not. He has been a real
:31:15. > :31:17.bonus for them. It has taken the focus off them defensively. They
:31:18. > :31:23.will sit tight at Wembley and they will be hoping they can get a goal
:31:24. > :31:26.through the likes of him. From the Manchester United perspective this
:31:27. > :31:31.was the trophy that Jose Mourinho first one at Chelsea and it set him
:31:32. > :31:35.on a nice run. You get one in the bag early and you take a bit of
:31:36. > :31:43.pressure off. He has always been like that. Most managers take it
:31:44. > :31:53.seriously. Because of that reason they know it is an early trophy. Why
:31:54. > :31:58.would you not want to win it if you were one of the big teams? The
:31:59. > :32:03.pressure is off. You win it in February and the pressure is off. He
:32:04. > :32:09.says Wayne Rooney will feature this weekend. But the future of Wayne
:32:10. > :32:13.Rooney, how do you see it? Not to China at the moment. Has he got many
:32:14. > :32:19.years left in the Premier League at Manchester United? Playing at
:32:20. > :32:24.Manchester United for so long it is difficult. He is 31 years old and I
:32:25. > :32:27.think he has still got a lot to offer in the Premier League and I do
:32:28. > :32:33.not see him going to China or anywhere like that. I think it
:32:34. > :32:37.depends what offers he gets in the summer. If there is one that floats
:32:38. > :32:44.his boat in Europe or the Premier League, I think he will stay,
:32:45. > :32:47.otherwise he is off. Off to work? China, me old China.
:32:48. > :32:56.Full commentary from Wembley is on 5 Live tomorrow from 4.30.
:32:57. > :32:59.And on Wednesday we're at the Etihad as Manchester City host Huddersfield
:33:00. > :33:05.We know there won't be a change at the top of the table today,
:33:06. > :33:07.but the bottom could look very different by Monday night.
:33:08. > :33:10.David Moyes is back at Goodison Park today as Sunderland take on Everton.
:33:11. > :33:12.It wasn't a particularly warm welcome when he took his
:33:13. > :33:14.Manchester United side there two years ago.
:33:15. > :33:17.Not only did his team lose, but the former Everton manager
:33:18. > :33:29.One man who remembers that was Leon Osman.
:33:30. > :33:35.The former Everton midfielder is there for us now.
:33:36. > :33:43.Thank you for talking to us. David Moyes is back where he spent quite a
:33:44. > :33:49.bit of time and knowing him well, how will he be feeling? Will the
:33:50. > :33:54.Everton years the preying on his mind at all? I expect so. I expect
:33:55. > :33:57.he will come here today a bit apprehensive. He knows how this
:33:58. > :34:02.crowd can react if they are not happy with what they are seeing. But
:34:03. > :34:07.he served this club really well over his time and he took a lot of stick
:34:08. > :34:11.when he came back as Manchester United manager and I am expecting he
:34:12. > :34:17.will get a better reception today. Everton have been on a great recent
:34:18. > :34:20.run, what is that down to? Only a few weeks ago we were talking about
:34:21. > :34:26.them being unhappy with the way of the manager. Yes, to have a stretch
:34:27. > :34:31.of ten games with only one win, things were not looking great at one
:34:32. > :34:34.point. But for whatever reason Ronald Koeman has found a way of
:34:35. > :34:40.getting the players to play. They have moved to a back three.
:34:41. > :34:47.They have been scoring goals quite easily since that time. They have
:34:48. > :34:53.had five wins and three draws in the last eight games and it shows the
:34:54. > :34:58.kind of run they are on. Do you not think the two local lads have made a
:34:59. > :35:02.massive difference, not just on the pitch but with the crowd? You know
:35:03. > :35:08.what it is like at Goodison when they have got local players on the
:35:09. > :35:12.go, it is fantastic. The fans love a local lad to come through,
:35:13. > :35:14.especially the ones who show commitment. They have shown
:35:15. > :35:20.commitment since they have come onto the scene. Recent weeks they have
:35:21. > :35:25.set up goals and have helped keep clean sheets and it looks like the
:35:26. > :35:31.start of a long career for them. We found a goal of yours in the
:35:32. > :35:39.archives. This is very tidy. This is against Sunderland a few years ago
:35:40. > :35:42.in 2007. I am not quite sure where the Sunderland defence are, but a
:35:43. > :35:50.lovely finish nonetheless. It is like a knife through butter. Not any
:35:51. > :35:56.more. What is a good finish for Everton this season? They have got
:35:57. > :36:02.to aim for the best that they can to still try and break into the top
:36:03. > :36:06.six. It would be too much to finish seventh. Maybe they could sneak into
:36:07. > :36:11.Europe and that would be a good finish. But they have got to keep on
:36:12. > :36:18.the coat-tails of the top six. Great to talk to you, enjoy the game. From
:36:19. > :36:22.a Sunderland perspective, they had that great result against Palace,
:36:23. > :36:26.but one result does not make a season. They will need a lot more to
:36:27. > :36:31.stay in the top six. They do not seem to be able to get any type of
:36:32. > :36:36.momentum. I am not expecting Sunderland to go on a run of winning
:36:37. > :36:40.games, but when they get beaten, they get beaten badly to the point
:36:41. > :36:47.where Sunderland fans are walking out of the stadium at half-time. 3-0
:36:48. > :36:53.at home, but then they go and beat Crystal Palace. It is all up and
:36:54. > :36:57.down at the moment. There are a lot of ex-Everton players who will
:36:58. > :37:03.probably start in the Sunderland team. That may be a factor. They
:37:04. > :37:09.went to New York on their mid-season break. Running around Central Park.
:37:10. > :37:11.David Moyes thinks it is better to train in cold weather. Because he
:37:12. > :37:21.Sunderland are joined in the bottom three by Hull.
:37:22. > :37:23.They face Burnley today at the KCom Stadium.
:37:24. > :37:26.Steve Bower is there for Match of the Day.
:37:27. > :37:28.Marco Silva has impressed since taking over at
:37:29. > :37:33.We had Curtis Davies on the show last week and he said the Hull
:37:34. > :37:37.players genuinely believe they are staying up.
:37:38. > :37:46.I have been talking to the whole supporters who have been shown
:37:47. > :37:50.around the stadium. They were saying that nobody around the club thought
:37:51. > :37:59.they would be preparing for the Championship. People were saying
:38:00. > :38:04.Margot Silver who? That is when he walked through the door. The whole
:38:05. > :38:09.feel about the football club, he was busy on transfer deadline day and
:38:10. > :38:14.got seven new faces in and it has injected some new energy. They have
:38:15. > :38:20.got a few players who had a point to prove. They were written off as
:38:21. > :38:25.Premier League players and they have got their own reputation to play
:38:26. > :38:31.for. They are trying to prove their own reputation and in the meantime
:38:32. > :38:34.try and get all up the table. They have got Burnley, Leicester, Swansea
:38:35. > :38:39.and Middlesbrough are all in their next six games. If they can get a
:38:40. > :38:44.good group of point there, who knows what Hull can do in the next bit of
:38:45. > :38:50.the season? Psychologically if they can get the win and get out of the
:38:51. > :38:55.drop zone, it is the time, the business end of the season where all
:38:56. > :38:58.those things can play a part. We are talking about Burnley and how good
:38:59. > :39:05.they are at home, let's forget Lincoln, but away from home just one
:39:06. > :39:11.point all season. It is staggering, how do you explain that. Better not
:39:12. > :39:15.they have been a little bit unlucky, they played with ten men against
:39:16. > :39:21.Watford. Their home form is the third best and that will be the
:39:22. > :39:30.foundation for Burnley to stay up. That would be a terrific for Sean
:39:31. > :39:37.Dyche. Ironically the one point they have got on the road this season was
:39:38. > :39:42.a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford. It was good on that day. Yes, the Lincoln
:39:43. > :39:46.think will play a part today, but sooner or later by the law of
:39:47. > :39:50.averages surely they have got to get points on the road otherwise it will
:39:51. > :39:56.start to play mind games with them and it will put more pressure on
:39:57. > :40:00.them at Turf Moor. You can listen to that one on Match Of The Day later.
:40:01. > :40:06.Again we need somebody to score the regular goals. All the teams at the
:40:07. > :40:11.bottom can look at Swansea who made the change and look at how Paul
:40:12. > :40:14.Clement has changed things around. Now you get to Chelsea and you think
:40:15. > :40:18.everyone is going to struggle at Stamford Bridge, but you can make
:40:19. > :40:25.the case for them getting a point out of that game. Maybe not. They
:40:26. > :40:30.went to Anfield and put in a good performance, so I suppose that is
:40:31. > :40:35.where you would make your case. But with Chelsea at the minute it is as
:40:36. > :40:39.tough as it gets. I do not see them having a chance. But one thing for
:40:40. > :40:45.us Wednesday, Paul Clement has given them some sort of structure. It is a
:40:46. > :40:50.go to plan. When you are going to tough places you need to fall back
:40:51. > :40:55.onto something. The plans go out of the window with early goals and
:40:56. > :40:58.things like that. It is brilliant from whole's perspective as well
:40:59. > :41:06.because they have got a manager who is doing the same thing. If Chelsea
:41:07. > :41:16.go 11 points clear, is that it for you? Is it done and dusted already?
:41:17. > :41:20.Yes to both. Simple. Can I not answered the two questions with one
:41:21. > :41:26.answer? It is an hour-long programme! The thing is with
:41:27. > :41:30.Chelsea, if you want to fight them, they will fight you and beat you. If
:41:31. > :41:35.you want to play at football, they will play at football and beat you.
:41:36. > :41:41.They are far and away the best in the league as everybody knows.
:41:42. > :41:43.You can stay across all today's football this
:41:44. > :41:53.Match of the Day has highlights of everything.
:41:54. > :41:59.While Chelsea top the Premier League, it's Real Madrid
:42:00. > :42:04.Gareth Bale returned from injury for them last weekend and scored.
:42:05. > :42:06.It's been quite a year for the Welshman.
:42:07. > :42:08.We sent along a fellow countryman who is just as excited
:42:09. > :42:16.about what happened last summer in France.
:42:17. > :42:24.Gareth Bale for Wales, he has done it again. To experience and major
:42:25. > :42:31.tournament was incredible, for the history of Wales. Absolute magic. We
:42:32. > :42:45.always believed we could go far, but to do it is another thing. It is
:42:46. > :42:49.Batman, Gareth Bale, what a goal! What came across exceptionally well
:42:50. > :43:00.was the togetherness amongst the group. This band of brothers. How
:43:01. > :43:05.close is the group? It had to be closed during the tournament. Very
:43:06. > :43:14.close. We have been together for nine or ten years. I have had
:43:15. > :43:18.previous times were meeting up was like... But now everybody wants to
:43:19. > :43:24.meet up and we all speak on what's at and we have a laugh and when we
:43:25. > :43:28.come together we do things together. Everybody speaks to everybody, there
:43:29. > :43:34.are no individual groups. It is a great atmosphere to have and we all
:43:35. > :43:45.enjoyed it. Have you taught your daughter the dance? I don't think
:43:46. > :43:52.anyone can do it. The Belgian game in the quarterfinals, not many
:43:53. > :43:59.people were giving Wales a chance. From the outside everybody was
:44:00. > :44:03.writing us off. When the game happened, we pulled out our best
:44:04. > :44:10.performance from somewhere. We worked hard closing down defensively
:44:11. > :44:19.and everybody clicked on that night. What a turn, what a goal! Have you
:44:20. > :44:27.stopped talking about your goal yet? It was an incredible goal. It was
:44:28. > :44:31.deserving of such a big game. It must have been unbelievable to see
:44:32. > :44:37.how many Welsh fans were there and that sea of red. When we were there,
:44:38. > :44:42.the first game against Czechoslovakia, we called it the red
:44:43. > :44:50.wall. When the national anthem came on we all had goose bumps. I think
:44:51. > :44:55.it gave us even more passion to go out there and do it for everybody.
:44:56. > :45:07.We realised back home what was going on.
:45:08. > :45:16.Cristiano Ronaldo has met it. It was an incredible experience. We would
:45:17. > :45:23.have liked to have won the final. An amazing tournament. We all enjoyed
:45:24. > :45:27.it. It will be Portugal in Paris on Sunday. Chris Coleman decided to
:45:28. > :45:31.stay on and find another contract. You're all in support of him doing
:45:32. > :45:43.that how important is that in terms of momentum? Massively important. We
:45:44. > :45:51.have kept improving and improving. Hopefully there are more big
:45:52. > :45:55.tournaments for us as well. Is it a target to get two more tournaments
:45:56. > :46:03.in future breast remarks hopefully we can keep continuing to qualify
:46:04. > :46:09.for more tournaments. -- in future? Hopefully we can produce the same
:46:10. > :46:19.win as we did in the qualifiers in the Euros. It was an amazing summer
:46:20. > :46:22.for Wales. We were not allowed to talk about Real Madrid.
:46:23. > :46:25.Wales' next World Cup qualifier is on 24th March
:46:26. > :46:37.They have to start picking up. Currently six points from four. They
:46:38. > :46:43.have to win. You know what the Republic are like at home. It can be
:46:44. > :46:49.a real dogfight. Not a surprise they have he cut after the summer. They
:46:50. > :46:53.were fantastic. He was one of the few world-class players who kept his
:46:54. > :46:59.profile up. A lot of them completely bombed but he was one of the few.
:47:00. > :47:04.Forget about his ability as a footballer. They although at him,
:47:05. > :47:10.don't they? He just comes across as a normal lad. So refreshing any
:47:11. > :47:16.dressing room. I remember it well. Lots of requests to speak to him
:47:17. > :47:20.after a game. He realised there was a responsibility and took that on
:47:21. > :47:27.board. The rest of the players we acted to that as well. He is a nice
:47:28. > :47:31.guy, Gareth, simple as that. A Family Guy he realised that the
:47:32. > :47:36.weight of expectation is on his shoulders. Not about just what is on
:47:37. > :47:41.the pitch but also what is happening off the pitch. The best thing that
:47:42. > :47:46.has happened for Wales is he is fit and back playing. Without him it is
:47:47. > :47:51.a different story, playing that game. We talked about the Leicester
:47:52. > :47:55.dressing room over the last few days. Gareth Bale was mentioning,
:47:56. > :47:58.when Wales were together there were no cliques in that dressing room for
:47:59. > :48:03.that they all did everything together. Why are you smoking? There
:48:04. > :48:11.were a lot of big rooms in those hotels. When people talk about
:48:12. > :48:16.cliques, they say it is a negative thing. You are all in having a laugh
:48:17. > :48:21.but you will also get on with other people within the squad more than
:48:22. > :48:28.some others. Some people in squads at woman is like to go and relax and
:48:29. > :48:32.chill out on their own. -- at tournaments. It is no different than
:48:33. > :48:36.what you would see in an England Hotel or any other international
:48:37. > :48:39.team. It is always easier when you are winning.
:48:40. > :48:42.Wales' performance last summer was so much the stuff of Hollywood
:48:43. > :48:51.Don't Take Me Home is at cinemas from Friday.
:48:52. > :49:05.But there is no Real Madrid in it, is that right?
:49:06. > :49:08.We've had another reminder in the last few days that the art
:49:09. > :49:12.Neil Warnock this week signed a new contract at Cardiff City,
:49:13. > :49:14.his 17th club over 37 years in the dugout.
:49:15. > :49:17.He - and club captain Sean Morrison - have been talking
:49:18. > :49:24.Rob the Rome gave me my zest back. Coming here is a similar education.
:49:25. > :49:29.A difficult run of fixtures. The players really respond. The
:49:30. > :49:35.Championship is relentless. You need humour. They have to know when I
:49:36. > :49:42.want them to work. They must work. Otherwise they will hear my tongue.
:49:43. > :49:50.You talk about the zest all life. You mentioned Yuma. How much humour
:49:51. > :49:55.do you have? -- humour. An awful lot. I'd take the Mickey about some
:49:56. > :49:59.of the players and I'm sure they do the same to me gusto I have looked
:50:00. > :50:04.at a few managers lately and I have been there. It is a lonely place as
:50:05. > :50:13.a manager. It is important to smile and try to have humour at the right
:50:14. > :50:19.times. We had a bad start to the season. We were thinking it could be
:50:20. > :50:23.a dogfight till the end of the season. The manager left and Neil
:50:24. > :50:31.came in and changed it around straightaway. He has an aura about
:50:32. > :50:37.him. The first season he was here, we got seven points out of nine. It
:50:38. > :50:40.has been 11 years since she talked about retiring. In a different
:50:41. > :50:46.generation you're dealing with different types of character. I do
:50:47. > :50:51.not think in the modern day, we have good lads. They all have if phones
:50:52. > :50:55.and computers and the music before games is atrocious. I do not think
:50:56. > :50:59.management has changed that much you cannot put a price on experience and
:51:00. > :51:03.knowing what you are doing really. It is a lovely feeling for a manager
:51:04. > :51:09.when you have a good dressing room. It does not happen overnight. Cannot
:51:10. > :51:16.put my finger on what I do -- what I do. I am just myself and I enjoy it.
:51:17. > :51:22.He has mellowed down a lot since his younger days. He still has an aura
:51:23. > :51:26.around him where he get instant respect. You can go into his office
:51:27. > :51:31.and have a general chit chat. He is a very good man. All the boys
:51:32. > :51:37.respect him and are fully behind him. The building blocks are there.
:51:38. > :51:43.Next season, you can put yourself into a strong position. I think so.
:51:44. > :51:47.We do enjoy these battles are getting teams away from relegation.
:51:48. > :51:52.It is another battle to try and get at the other end of the table. That
:51:53. > :51:59.is where I want to be next year, if I can. So, your 70th year could be
:52:00. > :52:08.quite a celebration. Sounds bad that, doesn't it? It could be one to
:52:09. > :52:12.celebrate and a promotion, maybe? You do not know what will happen. I
:52:13. > :52:17.have enjoyed getting the best out of lads and making a few people smile.
:52:18. > :52:19.Not many clubs have I left but they have not been in a better position
:52:20. > :52:33.than when I took over. You do not keep getting jobs if you
:52:34. > :52:38.do not get promotion, do you? He has got it. It is all about experience.
:52:39. > :52:47.We talk about the dressing room and getting it right. It can be a bit of
:52:48. > :52:53.a hugger at times on the touchline. He is a good operator at that level.
:52:54. > :52:58.Coming back to the dressing room, you can tell from the captain there
:52:59. > :53:02.is a real level of respect. When it works it must feel like a lovely
:53:03. > :53:06.place to go to work you have the respect of the manager. He likes you
:53:07. > :53:12.and everything is clicking for that there is a flow that goes with big
:53:13. > :53:17.aims each week. He was saying it can be a lonely place. I have watched
:53:18. > :53:21.managers on the training pitch questioning themselves and changing
:53:22. > :53:27.their minds. I is where they do not have trust or loyalty. He is lucky
:53:28. > :53:31.at Cardiff he has managed to go in and instantly have an impact.
:53:32. > :53:34.Another thing we keep saying is when you win games, that generates
:53:35. > :53:42.belief. The players will look at that, thinking, I will follow you.
:53:43. > :53:48.You are a person I can believe in. It makes the players think,
:53:49. > :53:52.actually, he knows what he is doing, which is always handy. We talked
:53:53. > :53:58.about the effect of a new manager will stop Steve Bruce did that at
:53:59. > :54:05.Aston Villa. Now they are on a terrible run in the Championship. It
:54:06. > :54:11.is a bad run for Bella. They have heavily invested in a lot of
:54:12. > :54:18.players. -- Aston Villa. Maybe one macro to many. They are finding it
:54:19. > :54:23.difficult to meet them all together. What were you saying about the wage
:54:24. > :54:28.bill? I think it would most definitely be one of the highest,
:54:29. > :54:32.maybe in the top three of the Championship. Newcastle will be up
:54:33. > :54:38.there as well. You need to get lots of players out. That is as much a
:54:39. > :54:42.problem for the players he has got in. He signed a player from
:54:43. > :54:47.Barnsley, Lansbury from Nottingham Forest will do they have been in the
:54:48. > :54:49.Championship. Sticking with it, they will be one of the favourites to
:54:50. > :54:52.come up next season. And Lawro has gone toe to toe
:54:53. > :54:56.with Spandau Ballet legend, lifelong gooner and Let It Shine
:54:57. > :55:14.judge Martin Kemp. My all-time favourite can I have got
:55:15. > :55:22.to say Charlie George. I come from that double winning in Iraq. That is
:55:23. > :55:26.my time. George has done it. Charlie, for me, was the boy who
:55:27. > :55:33.made it from the terraces on to the pitch. We had a great season last
:55:34. > :55:38.year and came second in the league. In reality, where we stand in
:55:39. > :55:43.European football, and that is what it is all about, winning the
:55:44. > :55:52.Champions League, we get smashed up 5-1 against Bayern Munich. That is
:55:53. > :55:55.not good enough. Our Spurs going to finish ahead of Arsenal this season
:55:56. > :56:01.question that is a difficult question. My brain is saying, yes,
:56:02. > :56:06.but my heart is saying, please, God, do not let it happen. I think
:56:07. > :56:14.Everton are far too strong for Sunderland. I think that is 4-0
:56:15. > :56:19.Everton. Tottenham, I would give them 3-0 on that one. Haven't
:56:20. > :56:24.Leicester been just awful this season. At the end of last season
:56:25. > :56:30.got my son put a bet on that they were going to go down this season
:56:31. > :56:33.and I looked at him and said, you are joking. I think that is 1-0 to
:56:34. > :56:44.Liverpool. I bet he is delighted that Kasper
:56:45. > :56:48.Schmeichel has not quite made the interview. In terms of predictions,
:56:49. > :56:52.that is the longest run we have ever had. We were hoping to speak to
:56:53. > :56:59.Kasper Schmeichel today but unfortunately we cannot bring you
:57:00. > :57:03.that on Football Focus. Maybe his timing is run to perfection. From
:57:04. > :57:09.the perspective of a player at Leicester, do they feel guilty, do
:57:10. > :57:14.you think? Is it a case of Ranieri is gone, we need to stay up? I do
:57:15. > :57:18.not think they have the luxury of feeling guilty. They must focus on
:57:19. > :57:22.getting themselves out of the situation they are in. Eventually
:57:23. > :57:26.they will know that Ranieri getting the sack is partly their fault.
:57:27. > :57:31.Monday night will tell you everything we need to know about
:57:32. > :57:34.that group of players. Why all of a sudden because the manager is
:57:35. > :57:41.sacked, all of a sudden you come out with an appearance? Ridiculous.
:57:42. > :57:47.Saville was a good performance, to be fair. They will need to win the
:57:48. > :57:52.fans back. The fans will be interesting on Monday night.
:57:53. > :57:59.If last season reminded us of what we love about football...
:58:00. > :58:01.This week has been a harsh reality check.
:58:02. > :58:03.Ranieri's time at Leicester may have been short
:58:04. > :58:05.but the memories will last a lifetime.
:58:06. > :58:19.The fans pay for a ticket and they want to see good football. Mr
:58:20. > :58:29.Ranieri thinks tactically different league. He will try to find a
:58:30. > :58:36.weakness. We are sleeping. Come on! When we make a clean sheet, I paid
:58:37. > :58:49.to everybody ate pizza. Take off my shirt, OK, thank you. I want to win.
:58:50. > :58:53.The wait is over. The story is complete. Leicester City are the
:58:54. > :58:58.champions of England. The achievement of the century and the
:58:59. > :59:11.greatest sporting story of them all. The
:59:12. > :59:16.Robert Burns. Bagpipes. Stovies. Billy Connolly, yeah.