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