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got involved with Blackburn Rovers? No? Well, you're about to learn

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Off. Differing seasons at Deepdale. What is in store this summer for

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North End and Tranmere? Just why did Jack Walker buy into Blackburn?

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Walker wasn't aware that it hadn't been paid. And they are rocking at

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the Reebok. Bolton are backing the play-offs but is it for good?

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Well, it's great to have two Northwest managers in the studio

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with me tonight. Lee Johnson has taken 14 points out 24 to guide

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Oldham to League One safety, while Graham Alexander is 25 games into a

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managerial career with Fleetwood after more than a thousand as a

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player with Burnley and Preston among others. Thanks for coming,

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lads. More from the boys in just a second. First tonight...

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Preston and Tranmere. Two teams, two very unexpected seasons. North End

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promised much with Graham Westley, but failed to deliver a return to

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the Championship. Rovers surprised even themselves in the first

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two-thirds of the season. After battling relegation last year, they

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spent much of this one pushing for promotion. Sarah Mulkerrins was at

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Deepdale for yesterday's coming Deepdale was awash with a great

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feeling. These Tranmere fans for they were a shoo-in for promotion.

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But with injuries affecting dead squad, this was at risk. We might

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get it, we might not. We have lost too many games, so that might affect

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our chances. This season, we're battling for play-offs. I'm happy

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with regard at the moment. I'm very happy. You are still happy, despite

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the fact you're outside the play-offs? Yes.For Preston fans,

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the way for a chairmanship place is still underway. With only two

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defeats since he has taken charge, as the club and it's right fit? The

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ladies think so. It started right and then went wobbly. Things just

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didn't happen for Westley and we all have our own theories why. Changing

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manager did a lot. Hopefully we can be taken forward. Does he fit well

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with the club? He does at the moment. He is saying the right

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things. Preston should never, ever be in this division. We should be up

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there in the premiership. Amongst the best. Tranmere needed a win to

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keep their slim play-off hopes alive and Rovers went close a early on.

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Liam Palmer's cross curled into reaching his colleagues, but not

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quite going the distance. A strike before Preston just before the break

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put paid to any remaining hope. The only goal of the game keeps North

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End unbeaten at home. Something might happen next year and they can

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get through the gates with the numbers. Can the club go back to

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Championship football? I do. I wouldn't be here if I didn't think

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they could. But we are looking forward to it. We have said all

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along that if people leave Deepdale at the end of the season in a happy

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place at the end of the season, that is good. How many opportunities will

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we ever gets to be in the play-offs? This season is probably the best we

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have. You look back in anger and think, what a great opportunity we

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had. It is been disappointing. Graham, you're probably the best as

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person to talk to about this. URA legend at Northern. Is Simon having

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to go back to square one again? wouldn't say square one because

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there are still good players there. There is a decent squad. He will

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have his own ideas on what he needs to strengthen it over the summer. I

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think there is a basis of a team that can do things in league one,

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without a doubt. It is a fantastic club. Tranmere did that at the start

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of the season but the fans are happy with what happened and the manager

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is gutted there. The fans realise that, obviously the budget they had

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and he financial restraints and what a good job Ronnie has done. I think

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the problem with clubs like that, similar to Yeovil, where my dad is,

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you cannot bring anyone in who is anywhere near as good. The simplest

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thing can upset the rhythm. Well, let's take a look at the rest

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of yesterday's League One action. Ian Haslam starts his round-up with

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Lee's Latics. A third successive win sealed

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Oldham's League One status and killed off Crawley's lingering play

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off hopes. Matt Smith might have done better with this first-half

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header, while at the other end Dean Bouzanis had to be alert to prevent

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a Jonathan Grounds own goal. Smith gave Latics the lead on 56 minutes -

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this his third hugely important goal in a week. Robbie Simpson nearly

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doubled the lead, before Crawley equalised through Mark Connolly. A

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point would've been enough for Oldham, but in the end they took

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three thanks to Jean-Yves M'voto's injury-time winner.

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Not just a good day for Lee Johnson - the Oldham Manager's dad, Gary,

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was also a winner as his Yeovil side condemned Crewe to a fourth

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successive defeat. The winner came after just 51 seconds from Joe

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Edwards. After that terrible start, though, Crewe created chances to get

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back into the game, but Yeovil's keeper was equal to them.

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Bury might be relegated, but after beating Scunthorpe in midweek they

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got a credible draw at Wallsall. The home side went ahead through Febian

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Brandy before Jonson Clarke-Harris's 90th-minute free kick hit the bar -

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three Shakers players went for the follow-up, and substitute Efe Sodje

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was credited with getting the final touch. So, Lee, a frenetic end to

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your game. Without a managerial strike, anyone forward? I don't

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think so, I was screaming at them for not go up. The necks minute,

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he's God. I said well done. A good decision from him and the best way

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to waste time. You beat your dad's team-mate week and then now USA. How

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relieved you? I believed in everyone. That gave me hope. The

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staff been fantastic and the fans are being supportive. But in all

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that together, I was confident, but not complacent. It is brilliant UI

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here together because while you are both experienced in playing, you are

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both Newton managerial role. How you finding it? I have loved it so far.

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It is tough. Everyone wants a piece of you. That is the biggest thing.

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There is no switch off period at all. If you love the game, you love

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football, it is fantastic. But there is a balancing act. Is it what you

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say that you have to become a social worker, a nanny, a mum, everything.

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Is that what you are finding? have to manage them but it can

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affect their playing on the pitch was the youth find out if there is

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something wrong and with it. We're talking about grown men that have

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other support systems that you have to tap into as well. But the old

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cliches with and an arm around one player and a hairdryer in the other.

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You have to be a psychologist as a manager and I found that out

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quickly. It is enjoyable and I do enjoy it. I love chatting to people

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and players and finding out what makes them tick and such like that.

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What about everyone demanding a piece of your time? I love the

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players demanding a piece of my time. That is a process of building

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a group and 18. It is all the other stuff that you have to... I am still

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learning, so the agents, the board, the fans, the commitments that you

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have to do as well as the young families we have as well at a joy

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and above that. So far it is enjoyable. That is the problem, the

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distractions will stop the fans would hope that you would be

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practising corners and free kicks, but if you are talking to families

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and agents, that can detract from it, surely? You have to manage your

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time well and make sure you have your priorities right and your

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priorities are the team say have to make sure that that time is focused

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really well. Yet make sure you don't get distracted from back. All of the

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other stuff, you have to squeeze it in we can so it does not impact on

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the time you spent with your team. Lee, you have the close season to

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deal with Oldham. What are your plans over the next few weeks?

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never get a proper holiday because you are always wheeling and dealing

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and even now we are trying to find out who is available and who is not,

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speaking to players who are out of contract and that. I have this be to

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my own players. A lot of decisions will stop we don't have much time.

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Briefly, is there a big turnaround this year over the summer with the

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players. The fact is, we have 18 out of contract, so we have to decide

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who we want to keep. There are big decisions to be made. That enables

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you to shape this god how you want? That is the beauty of the job.

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you. Well, let's take a look at the table

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with one game to go. In the top half, there's the

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confirmation that Tranmere's play-off push is over.

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And into the bottom half, where Bury's fate was sealed last week,

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Oldham's safety sorted yesterday. Let's take a look at League Two now

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where Graham's Fleetwood ended their first home campaign in the Football

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League. But Michelle Adamson starts her round-up with a big afternoon

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for Accrington. Stanley can sigh with relief after

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securing their Football League status for next season. Lee

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Molyneux's superb 30-yard free kick after just two minutes - his eighth

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goal of the season - was enough to seal the precious victory at Bristol

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Rovers. Leam Richardson's side will look to finish the season on a

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six-game unbeaten run at home to Oxford next week.

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Ten-man Morecambe lost 2-0 at home to Torquay. It was a nightmare-full

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debut for teenage defender Chris Doyle who was sent off for hauling

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down Elliot Benyon midway through the fisrt half. The visitors went

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ahead just minutes later through an own goal. Shrimps goalkeeper Barry

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Roche allowed Stewart Drummond's back pass to crawl under his feet

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and into the net. Torquay sealed the win when Ashley Yeoman broke down

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the left and fired past Roche. The ink was barely dry on manager

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Keith Hill's new three-year contract before this 3-0 defeat at Oxford.

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All the goals came in the second half, with Alfie Potter rounding off

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the scoring. Despite starting the season fancied

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for promotion, Fleetwood's first campaign in the Football League has

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stuttered of late - their final home game ending with a 3-1 defeat to

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Chesterfield. Town paid for missed chances including these from Jamille

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Matt and Gareth Evans, before Armand Gnanduillet put the visitors ahead

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with a close-range header just before the break. Marc Richards

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doubled the lead in first-half stoppage time, before making it 3-0

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after the break. Andy Mangan pulled one back late on, but it'll be a

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mid-table finish for Graham's team. Well, before we have a chat with

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Graham, let's see where that leaves Fleetwood in the table. They're

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12th, ahead of their last game of the season away at Wimbledon. Into

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the bottom half and well done, Stanley. That five-match unbeaten

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run securing their Football League status. Graham, you are itching,

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watching those goals. It must be frustrating. Where do you stand with

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Fleetwood? Andy Gray was on this programme few weeks ago, they like

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to have one season where they are working on it and next season they

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go up. I have only been in since December but it is one for me,

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learning what league two is about. It has been awhile since I played

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that Andy have to get to know your own player as well. As Lee said, we

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have 30 odd players. It is hard to get to know them all in match

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situations, so it has been a difficult process. That must lead to

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a lot of tension, because half of them cannot be involved at all on a

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weekly basis of what would you trim that down to, ideally? Since day

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one, I have said we need a tighter competitive squad. Wine I am looking

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at 23, 24 players. Everyone has a realistic chance of being involved

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and it doesn't take long to get back involved in the first team. At the

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moment, we have ten or 11 that we have weekend, week out. Fans will be

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hoping that is not a cost-cutting exercise, it is a trimming down

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Sagan put the resources we need them. Yet, it is not to do with

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cost-cutting, it is to do with resources. It is impossible to

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manage 30 odd players. Quite contrasting fortunes between the two

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teams. You are big fish in league two. Does that bring its own

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problems, that people expect things? Definitely. With the contract talks

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and agents asking for this and that. I've been oppressed for a while,

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I've had the same sort of stories. The realism of it is not like that

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at all. But we are competitive in league two so we have to make sure

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we ring the right players in over the summer that can help us go on

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and progress from where we are. On occasion, wages were not paid at

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Oldham. It is quite a contrast. It is a great club the time at a

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time very proud and happy that I am there. I knew what the situation was

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when I took it and I am happy with that. There will be a lot of players

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out of contract in the summer and we have to manage it. I am at a club

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where we have to look after that side of it and make sure that we do.

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You both made the transition from player to manager. Graham, if you

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were on record on this programme saying it was really difficult. Is

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it getting any easier? Not really, I just love the job. It is what I

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want to do. I just throw myself into it. Nothing what I have done is

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easy. I can't wait for everyday, because it is something new. Like

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you say, you can reshape your squad. There is always something to

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do. It is exciting. Do you miss being out there for 90 minutes?

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It has been six or seven weeks now so I have managed to train a few

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times. I am better than I was when I was a player, but nobody wants to

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kick me any more. Thank you very much indeed. Now,

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Blackburn might be struggling this season but as a club their

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predicament is contrasting to what it was in the late 1980s before the

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legendary Jack Walker's money put them back. The manager at the time

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was Don Mackay, who has been reliving his time there for Late

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Kick Off. We just sort of missed out about

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three times in the play-offs, still went to Wembley, still won a trophy

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which was tremendous. It was always a sad reflection that we did not

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quite get there, into the Premier League. A lot of people use to talk

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about the hospitality and they always used to have two very

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expensive tees at either end of the boardroom table. At Scunthorpe, they

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talked about how much it was going to cost and there was a figure put

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in but the figure then had to be reduced because they wanted to

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replace the two very expensive stainless the still TR is at either

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end of the table. Either they got them at a certain price, are they

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did not get the teacups. We managed to do a proper job. Football...

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Football was a good bit of fun. You had the ability to do things, score

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goals. I used to remember, he was just, the funny thing about it was

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that Aussie light cigarette. He used to have one in the coach on the way

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back from the game. Walker had a board advertising at the old park.

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It had never been paid for. So Keith, who is now the president of

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the club, went to see him, and Jack Walker was not aware that it had not

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been paid. So he paid for it and then asked he said there were other

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ways he could help the club. He became very interested. Up until

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that time, I can hardly remember him being there before. Suddenly, we

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were saying, we can get this player that they are. I was lucky that I

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got people like Stephen Archibald, we got him for next to nothing.

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Frank Stapleton, all international. It started to come off. We actually

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tried to buy Gary Lineker, but the chairman at the time, we phoned him

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up and the chairman spoke to him because we did it that way, we spoke

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German to chairman, and he said what you want for Gary Lineker? And he

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said �1 million. We said Blackburn Rovers did not have �1 million. So

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we spoke about it. So we went back to Tottenham and said we would buy

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him. They could not believe it. And they said no. And the strange thing

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was that Tottenham sold him three months later for �500,000. People

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did not believe that people did what they did. The whole thing, the whole

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game changed. Perhaps I was not big enough for the club in many ways. I

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did not admit it at the time, but I admitted it now, that they probably

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needed Dalglish to move the club forward. They have been in the top

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leagues. I was really pleased for a while, and for the supporters, they

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got to come back. It was the promised land. They got into Europe,

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a little bit. That is history now. And incredible slice of football

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history. The present-day Rover still have work to do to avoid a second

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successive relegation. Our Championship round-up stars at the

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other end of the table, with Bolton Wanderers. The Reebok really is a

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fortress for Bolton after their eighth consecutive home win moved

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them back into the play-off places. Chris Eagles put them ahead against

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Middlesbrough shortly after the break, scoring his temper of the

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season from 12 yards. Keiron Dyer brought them level just six minutes

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later, but in a crazy nine minute spell, Bolton regained the lead.

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They make no mistake from the spot. I had high expectations for them. I

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believed in them. Right now, they are showing their qualities, they

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are showing their determination. I think right now, this is great.

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Blackpool are still not safe after a day to forget.

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This is a nervous finish to the season for them. They were doomed

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before half-time. A lapse in concentration allowed David Lopez to

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put Albion ahead. The misery of Blackpool was complete. Blackburn

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survival hopes took a similar knock, with a 4-0 defeat at the hands of

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promotion chasing Watford. All goals came in the second half. Blackburn

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failed to clear a corner 15 minutes of time. To add to their woes, Leon

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Best was sent off for an off the ball incident, meaning he will now

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miss their three remaining games. Burnley failed to spoil Cardiff's

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promotion party. Craig Conway strike gave them the

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lead, but then David Edgar equalised in the 90s minute. They are now four

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points away from the relegation zone. If we look at the Championship

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table, we can see that Bolton's play-off chances are now firmly in

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their own hands. I glance at the bottom shows

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lingering concerns for Blackburn and, to a lesser extent, Burnley.

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In the two years that our quiz has been on air, nobody has done what

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Blackpool has does. When the Late Kick Off camera pulled into

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Bloomfield Road, nobody would have expected the first assistant manager

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versus manager battle. Paul Ince versus, and I mean versus, Andy Rae

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is the sublime. In which year did Blackpool Tower

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open? 1934. 1995. 1895? That's as close as I can

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get it. Correct answer is only. It was 1894.

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Who wrote Hamlet? What is his name? Shakespeare?

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What is the capital City of Italy? Rome. It who said this?

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" I love tackling. It is better than sex."

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Henman! The patella is more commonly known

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as what? Gal and pink ladies are varieties of which food? Yellow mac

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Apples! Thailand?

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What is for multiplied by eight eight! Name the Coronation Street

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character that has been in the show since 1960. How sad is that!

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H is a member of which pop band? steps. Steps, clearly. How many

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England managers that Paul with? two. He got about half a dozen

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sacks, didn't he? For. Surely, it was the first answer. You can get as

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many times as you like. The answer is six. What is a baby deer called?

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Baby deer? What's it called? What was it? Fall. Move on the next one.

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Spell the word excellent. Excellent. How old is television personality

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Tony Livesay? Who knows, by the way. 51. 52. 53. 49. 48. Yes! 49, or so

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he says. The final score is Paul six, Alex five. Thank you very much.

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That's harsh. I am gutted that they didn't know who I was, but 51? Maybe

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I do 51. I bet the hours flyby when they are on the coach. Would you

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fancy a good? They were over at our place a few weeks ago. He picked a

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victim in Jimmy McGuire, who has got better banter than us. Great stuff.

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Thank you very much for that. Don't make net -- don't miss next week's

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quiz. Before we go, let's have a in. Thank you Julie Ann grain. Hope

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