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This week we're here in lovely Leicester with some

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very special guests - Serge Pizzorno and Tom Meigham

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from local heroes Kasabian and our very own chart-topper,

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Coming up on tonight's show, as we're in town we've sent

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Steve Bower to talk to Leicester's number one - Kasper Schmeichel -

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about the champions' difficult second season.

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Liverpool lad Louis Berry meets the voice of Anfield, George Sephton.

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And author James Brown waxes lyrical about his love of five-a-side.

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Here is what has been happening in the Premier League over the past

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seven days. It is a red card for marrow and Fellini. What went on in

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his head? What a good goal for Vardy. Three points for Leicester

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City virtually ensures them of Premier League football next season.

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After ten successive seasons in the Premier League Sunderland's fate is

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sealed. I feel for the supporters. Who come to watch regularly.

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Swansea, whose superb goal! Maybe I can bring Nicky but with the other

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23. You're punished because you are doing well. Fantastic goal. Who can

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stop Antonio Conte and Chelsea? It is in. Dele Alli has turned it in.

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Tottenham two, Arsenal zero. Adam Lallana give that back. Lucas.

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Fabulous goal! Spectacular acrobatics. Lucas floated across and

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towards him. He saw it coming a mile off. Liverpool take a massive bed

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towards the Champions League next season Pochettino said it was almost

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the perfect performance. Chelsea are not letting up. That is going to the

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manager, his enthusiasm. The quality of player as reared its head.

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Defence is good. They have added to it and nicked one of their players

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and added to that quality which has been a huge part of the difference.

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Do you have a preference as to which two of these would win the title. Do

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you feel a soft spot for Chelsea? If I see Eden Hazard I would give him a

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big test. When Chelsea finished eighth last year without Kante, and

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this year we are probably going to finish eight or nine without Kante.

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He is that important because he does what food you -- football people

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know as the ugly job. He will do all the work that flair players do not

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want to do. The other big talking point was the overhead kick, some

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people saying it should be goal of the season. It is goal of the

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season. Yes, the angle he has taken it at, top corner. It is all right.

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Overhead kicks are ten a penny. You have scored a few. Two. That is it.

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It is from behind him. It is not from a cross. Great connection,

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great timing. Against Grimsby. So the cake. I am not sure we can dig

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down that far in the archives. Jamie Vardy's goal against West Brom

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at the weekend took Leicester City over the magical 40 point mark,

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capping a remarkable turnaround for the Foxes

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under Craig Shakespeare. It's been a tumultuous season

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for the Foxes following last season's title win and Steve Bower

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has been to see Kasper Schmeichel. Eden Hazard! Leicester City are

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champions. For the champions Leicester the opening day is full of

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optimism. The first reigning champions to lose their first game

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since 1989. Liverpool four, Leicester one. Jermain Defoe, 2-1.

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The support of the club, the fans, everybody. Claudio Ranieri has been

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sacked. Many thought he would be given a full season. The board feels

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that a change of leadership business is silly in the club's greater

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interest. The assistant has spent up to take charge of the team,

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Shakespeare. Lovely goal. Brilliant from Leicester City. You have to say

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Leicester City looked like a completely different team. Vardy!

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Three points for Leicester City virtually ensures them of Premier

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League football next season. Strangely enough, as we City, a year

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to the day since you won the Premier League title, can you believe is a

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year? No. It has gone so quick, so much has happened. Disappointed not

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to be feeling that come you want that feeling back. It will be tough

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to watch someone else do that then. Is it something that you took in at

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the time of visit when you look back at the seams and you appreciate the

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magnitude of what happened? It went so quick. It is an addictive

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feeling. Nothing can replicate the sense of euphoria, the overwhelming

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feelings that flood in when the moment comes, and it is something

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you want to experience again. I had probably three weeks of celebrating

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and enjoying it and after that it is, OK, I had a talk with my dad

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about what it was like and he said there will be a period of

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celebration and there will be a void when you are past celebrating and

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you are thinking about the new season and then your head switches

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to the new season and all that is gone. I think it is one of those

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when you look back and maybe ten years and the lads get together and

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you think, that was quite incredible what we achieved. When you look back

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at the season how do you feel about it? It has been tough, a tough

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season, we have struggled. We are not quite safe mathematically. We

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took a big step on Saturday. Next Saturday we are going to need to

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take another big step towards that. You have to look at the Champions

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League campaign. We have done ourselves proud the two Seville

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games were amazing experiences, those Champions League nights are

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special. The Premier League is amazing, there is something about

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the night games and going away from home, different cities, different

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types of football, hearing the music, something that makes it

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unique. Realistically where did you expect the team to be in the league?

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It was all was going to be tough. At the start of the season the top

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eight, you would have taken that without question. Eight is still a

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realistic possibility for us with the games remaining. That has to be

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our target. How tough for the first four or five months when things were

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not going your way? It is very important not to get too high or too

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low in football. You have to roll with the punches and look at

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yourself and see if you are doing everything you can to help the team

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to get the results we need, and that was the period of reflection when I

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was looking at my performances to make sure I was doing everything I

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could to help the team. Good chip over by Schmeichel. During that

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period, the man who takes the brunt of the criticism is the manager. How

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did you feel that the man who had led you to the Premier League was

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getting all the criticism? It is always tough to see. We felt it all

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the way through the club. We had set the standard and we were not living

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up to it. We were not playing well as players. The manager takes the

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brunt and that is unfortunate because you cannot get rid of a full

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squad of players, and sometimes that is the life of a manager which is

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very harsh sometimes. What was the overriding emotion for you

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personally when Claudio Ranieri lost his job? You do not want to see

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anybody lose his job. I was upset. I was not quite embarrassed but we

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were champions of England and we were not getting to the level we

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knew we could be because they had set the standard. It was a horrible

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situation. The players were accused of all sorts of things. Was the

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feeling you had to set the record straight? We know the truth and the

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club. We do not have to read papers. You read story sometimes during the

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season and you think, where has that come from and you know it is the

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complete opposite. There was anger and frustration in the sense that we

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had not performed on the pitch and that had led to their son that was

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tough to take and we had to write it. We have gone a long way to doing

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that. We have not quite done yet. Can players get the manager out of

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the football club? Is that possible in the modern day? I have never

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heard of it. I would not be able to see. These guys that run football

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clubs are very successful businessman away from football, used

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in making very tough decisions. Our owner is no different, he is used to

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success in his life. He knew the decision would make him unpopular

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but that is what he did. We as players have to respect that and get

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on with it. We bear our share of the blame for performances on the pitch

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but we would not be able to influence a guy like that. How much

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credit for Shakespeare to suddenly go and settle what was choppy

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waters? Craig has been here for a long time. He knows his ideas of

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what he thought needed to be done. He has not really changed, it has

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been about trying to get the spirits up and trying to get everyone firing

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again. Leicester City have their first goal in 2017 and the Premier

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League. It has mostly been about spirit, it has not been about

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tactics. We know where we are on it and pressing and fluid and dynamic

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we are going to be tough to play against regardless of who we play

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in. It was the question of him saying, do it, if we feel we feel

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but let us feel trying. If we are going to go down and we are going to

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go down all guns blazing. It has turned for us, expected a acts in a

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row. Leicester within seven minutes are two clear already. You have been

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here a long time. Value going back to the days of Falkirk, are you

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where you want to be? Yes. Walking out at Atletico Madrid in the

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Champions League quarterfinal remembering back in the days of

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playing in League Two and the Scottish Premier League back then

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you realise that is the pinnacle of world football and you are there and

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you have earned the right to be there by beating some very good

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teams. Schmeichel managed to scoop it up. What a save by Schmeichel.

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What has the journey been like? Or that any other goalkeepers other

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than Europe other you have tried to learn from? I am obsessed with

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goalkeeping. Watching my dad back in the day, I have studied him down to

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the minutest detail. I have done the same with other keepers. I regularly

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spend two hours a day watching different goalkeepers, different

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things, watching training, to try to see if there is anything I can

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improve. Who have played in the Champions

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League, is there any burning desire to do that again? More than ever.

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And of course we can, not this season but that is something I hoped

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would come earlier in my career but the journey I have taken has made me

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appreciate it much more but has made me want it even more. Dion predicted

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Lester would be fine a few months ago, when a lot of people were not

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sure, so is a great belief in the Kasabian has sold? It has been a

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strange season, what a strange season. Fighting relegation whilst

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in the quarterfinals of the Champions League? That was bizarre,

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surreal. And losing the manager, the fairy tale came to an end and it was

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getting your head around that and then thinking, it could be playing

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Yeovil next season! Was a bit iffy, where the romance and pragmatism

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were fighting each other? You would have great love for Claudio Ranieri?

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You were part of that celebration last year? I hope they are wrecked a

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statue. A golden statue outside the stadium! After the season we have

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had, and we did win the Premier League... It won't happen again, it

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just won't, and he did that but looking at that from the stands, the

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belief in the man was not there and when they changed, five games on the

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spin. As fans and musicians, you are so linked to the club, you were

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there as part of the concert, the celebrations, what was that like?

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Amazing, when in the Premier League and doing that stadium, you had to

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do it there and then. We were booked to play it this year but then it

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was, like, we cannot. It would have felt weird after the Lord Mayor 's

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show! If you were not Kasabian, if things did not happen for you as a

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band, you would have still been there? Without doubt. That is

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incredible to know! Watching Dion Dublin's band! Speaking of the

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hives, you have an album out this week which you have said has a

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positivity in it, does that come from that season? Were you writing

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it then? Yes, for a few months, everyone was alive. I went down

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after the Chelsea Spurs game and I went down to the ground, I felt like

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I needed to... 1238, I thought there would be some people there and there

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were about 15,000 people. This is amazing. Even when I came back on

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the odd occasion to see my family, every street, the flags, everybody

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was together, it was like one. With be be a Song that we can pinpoint,

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that was written the day that Leicester won the title? There is no

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football Song, really, but when you do a nice little montage, as I am

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sure you do on this show... You will use it! Comeback kid! Bringing it

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back to football, Craig Shakespeare, do you see him being in this for the

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long haul? He has to be the man to get a contract, he has to be the one

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that has taken them back. What he has done on the football side is he

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has stripped things back, get back to running a lot, working hard, for

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the fans, and a sprinkling of quality. Nothing special, just back

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to working hard. And that is what they did and they won the league. He

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has been amazing. Why mess things up? Shakespeare, for me. I would

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agree, there are shouts for a baby names, but that could be a big

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mistake because the results have been incredible and hopefully we can

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keep Schmeichel and Mahrez. We will see. OK.

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George Sephton has been house DJ at Liverpool for nearly half

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a century and has been instrumental in debuting a number

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We sent up-and-coming Scouser Louis Berry to Anfield

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to try and play his way on to the list.

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Most musicians dream of playing at Glastonbury but there is only one

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better Place as a football fan, I am a Liverpool fan and that place is

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Anfield. I have heard a rumour that they

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might start playing might lead to strike on matchday so I have come

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here to meet the voice of Anfield to find out what is going on. The

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longest serving stadium announcer in the country, George Sephton has

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provided commentary at Liverpool for 45 years. That is some view.

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Fantastic. I started with Bill Shankly and I lasted about 15

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managers. Digging tracks from 46 years? Some of those musicians, busy

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times, the coral, big, local bands. How important is the music on

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matchday? The derby matches, I like to pick big tub thumping rock. You

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will never walk alone? To this day the hairs stand up on my neck.

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Everybody is on their feet, singing. Amazing. # You'll never walk

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alone... What are the chances of getting my latest track on the

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playlist? Deaths have a listen. -- let us have. # To get overly... #

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It's all right... # I'm only trying to figure out... # To get over you.

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# She says he needs me... On the counterattack with six minutes gone!

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That will be on the playlist. My track will be on the playlist, I

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will be listening out at the next match. # La-la-la-la! Music and

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football, there isn't a band in the world that is so synonymous with

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football as Kasabian? They love it, they participate and watch it,

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proper advance. I have heard that Serge is a bit of a player as well.

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Tom is working on it. You cannot write a Song thinking this will

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sound good in a football stadium? You probably can't! We have done

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that a few times! When you started out, did you think that? Definitely.

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If you can see yourself standing in front of the speakers, with your

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arms like that... You get the sense of that, you can feel it. When at

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ground and you hear hear one of her songs being sung in the stands, what

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does that feel like? I join in, a singalong. It makes all of my hair

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stand up, goose pimples. I love that feeling, and the fans are next to

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you. Especially when we keep scoring, like last year. It is a

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great feeling. It is weird, Dillon said, songs dress up in their own

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clothes and start to walk around on their own and it is true, you cannot

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stop them. What did you like to listen to in the dressing room? My

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taste has always been at odds with my team-mates, I have always been a

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jazzman. Avant-garde jazz! All over the place! All the land liked R I

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kept my music away from the players. Did they play it? They didn't

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understand it! The result was music in there. And the music the boys

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play is very much to get you ready for a game. OK...

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The FA estimate that over 1.5 million adults a week play

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Author and journalist James Brown loves it so much

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But what lies at the heart of astroturf dreams?

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As a Premier League reaches its climax, there is another footballing

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world scoring goal after goal regardless of whether the

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professionals are on holiday. Every week in Britain, over a million

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people run onto AstroTurf pitches and hard wooden gym floors. Keen to

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score goals that in our minds are easily as good as those of our

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heroes. It is a world of fake grass pitches, bad gets... And funny team

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names. Benteke fried chicken! 24-hour Vardy people! Our shirts are

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tied around our bellies, our fitness is nonexistent. The warm up is

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something we saw on television 15 years ago. We had out of work early

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to get to the games, stealing the odd hour he ran there, wet winter

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nights, any time we play. That rare time and place when we get to see

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our friends, even if that is what we know what the other players' names

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are. We will beat them. I have been playing for 17 years and I only know

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what two of them do for a living. Non-players don't understand, they

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only see the time spent and the physical toll. I have a groin

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strain. Maybe they can't tolerate the dirty kit left in the bag all

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week in the hall but it is greater than kicking the ball around. I

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didn't even save it! Moments of genius are analysed in the pub

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afterwards, not in the studio. For me it's the most consistent thing in

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my life, unlike some of the teams body mac sucks. It has outlasted

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marriages, relationships, jobs. Five-a-side players by the true

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footballers. They are about the same physical standard! Many of us dream

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is being professionals but unlike professionals, we don't stop when

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the payment or the fitness stops, we play for love, life and we play

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everywhere. Five-a-side is football karaoke, we either true footballers,

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we get to play football forever. That fellow got it in the Notts!

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Rumour has it that Kasabian have quite a tasty five-a-side team? I

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don't play! We have seen some of your goals online! There was a

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sucker sex teen that we played twice in and we won both times. The first

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time, you played... It was an international thing. -- six a side

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thing. We had Tony Cocker. That was a bad envelope! Bands do hear about

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these competitions and when Kasabian are in there, a lot of them avoid

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Kasabian! That is not just Lester Bias? Ever played any of these

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bands? Not yet but there is plenty of time. We can get it sorted!

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Before we go, let's take a look at this weekend's fixtures

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and we begin with what could prove to be a pivotal game in the title

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race on Friday night as Spurs travel across London to take on West Ham.

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There are six games on Saturday where issues at the bottom

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of the table could be resolved with Crystal Palace, Burnley,

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Sunday is all about European qualification as Liverpool entertain

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Southampton and Manchester United travel to Arsenal.

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And Chelsea leave us waiting until Monday to see if they can move

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a step closer to the title by beating Middlesbrough.

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Thanks very much to Serge and Tom, and good luck with the new album.

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Please come back next season. And take Dion onto!

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Don't forget, if you ever miss a show, you can catch

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Please join us next week when we'll cast our eyes over the Premier

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