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Welcome back to the
Premier League Show. | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
After our winter break, we'll be
with you every Thursday night | 0:00:41 | 0:00:43 | |
from now until the end
of the season. | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
And we resume here at Old Trafford,
where on Saturday lunchtime | 0:00:45 | 0:00:48 | |
Manchester United take on Liverpool
as the two most successful clubs | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
in English football go head-to-head. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:53 | |
35 miles separate the two
cities and it's a rivalry | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
with a deep, deep history. | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
There's that and more
on tonight's show. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
Actor Christopher Eccleston takes
a look at why these north-west | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
near neighbours just
don't get along. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:04 | |
We hear from a Manchester
boy in the south - | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
Arsenal's Danny Welbeck. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:08 | |
Justin Moorhouse revisits his
pre-season predictions. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
Comedian Rhys James casts his eye
over the weekend's social media. | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
And we'll have all of the action
from the last seven days. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:20 | |
So why is there such
an emnity between these two | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
northern powerhouses? | 0:01:22 | 0:01:24 | |
We asked one of Our Friends
in the North to dig a bit deeper. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:30 | |
Some people don't like each other.
Nothing personal. They just don't. I | 0:01:36 | 0:01:43 | |
was brought up to hate them. It is
really nice that people can unite | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
with hatred. Hate is a strong word
but true! Take Manchester United and | 0:01:47 | 0:01:53 | |
Liverpool. The rivalry goes back so
long and so deep rooted with the | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
cities even before you mention
football. I was born a Liverpool fan | 0:01:57 | 0:02:04 | |
through and through. The other side
of my family were blue but it was | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
Man United, he did not even
acknowledge them. It is ingrained | 0:02:08 | 0:02:13 | |
and you are told as a kid, you're
not supposed to like this club! You | 0:02:13 | 0:02:17 | |
don't know why but this is part of
the history and it is one of the | 0:02:17 | 0:02:21 | |
biggest rivalries in world football.
Two clubs from two cities | 0:02:21 | 0:02:26 | |
practically next door. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:32 | |
practically next door. Not much
neighbourliness knocking about. With | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
domestic football there is no other
feeling as a United fan than to Tate | 0:02:36 | 0:02:41 | |
Liverpool and vice versa, they have
Everton and we have Man City but | 0:02:41 | 0:02:46 | |
those clashes create something that
is unique in terms of rivalry with | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
any other club. Everton Liverpool is
a big game but not in comparison. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:55 | |
Danny Murphy for Liverpool! I have
travelled all over the world with | 0:02:55 | 0:03:01 | |
football and I have been in Kenya,
on a boat in the Maldives. And I | 0:03:01 | 0:03:09 | |
have had the most unusual characters
talk to me about Manchester United | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
and remember the goals and where
they were. One of my best goals was | 0:03:12 | 0:03:18 | |
the winner at Goodison Park, into
the corner as no one has ever asked | 0:03:18 | 0:03:22 | |
me about that! Anywhere! It began
with a canal, Liverpool had the | 0:03:22 | 0:03:27 | |
board and Manchester had the
industry. | 0:03:27 | 0:03:34 | |
industry. They took the ball home
and built the Manchester Ship Canal. | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
Liverpool were mercantile, they had
the port and Manchester City was | 0:03:39 | 0:03:46 | |
cotton. Manchester believed they
were getting turned over by | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
Liverpool, they felt the Liverpool
merchants were charging too much for | 0:03:49 | 0:03:52 | |
transportation of the goods they
generated. You had the Liverpool | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
gentleman and the Manchester minor
and when they built the ship Canal | 0:03:56 | 0:04:02 | |
it got easier and there was a
stronger civic rivalry that | 0:04:02 | 0:04:05 | |
developed. Football few world the
fight, first Shankly building the | 0:04:05 | 0:04:10 | |
red machine to the soundtrack of
mercy bid. | 0:04:10 | 0:04:20 | |
mercy bid. We thought we were able
to cope with any test. Being a | 0:04:20 | 0:04:26 | |
Liverpool fan growing up I quickly
realised the enormity of it by going | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
to the games and feeling the
intensity and passion of the | 0:04:30 | 0:04:33 | |
supporters. As a player it means
more because of the history | 0:04:33 | 0:04:38 | |
involved. In your journey. As a
supporter to a player which not many | 0:04:38 | 0:04:44 | |
get to do. A lot of the match going
man United fans would have grown up | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
with those Liverpool teams in the
70s and 80s, annihilating everyone | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
in their wake and winning every
trophy, winning four European cups | 0:04:52 | 0:04:59 | |
in the space of seven years. Then
Fergie threatened to knock Liverpool | 0:04:59 | 0:05:04 | |
off that Perch. And he did. | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
That is a moment Old Trafford has
been waiting for. Liverpool in the | 0:05:12 | 0:05:18 | |
70s and 80s were the most dominant
in England and then in the 90s, Man | 0:05:18 | 0:05:24 | |
United started dominating English
football. For the fans growing up, | 0:05:24 | 0:05:29 | |
Liverpool with the most successful
team in England and I am in my 30s | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
and they cannot say that, we took it
from them. It was pretty calm during | 0:05:33 | 0:05:38 | |
the week with Sir Alex but when it
was a quarter to three before going | 0:05:38 | 0:05:42 | |
out, he was on the money, you could
tell that this was a game he wanted | 0:05:42 | 0:05:46 | |
to win. United were mad for it. We
always thought we were the dominant | 0:05:46 | 0:05:53 | |
team, Liverpool used to be. Man
United, that rivalry was settled. | 0:05:53 | 0:06:02 | |
Manchester United take back Old
Trafford. Be honest, they were | 0:06:02 | 0:06:07 | |
better than ours and we were trying
to achieve what they were achieving, | 0:06:07 | 0:06:11 | |
we wanted to beat them to get to
them. They were setting yardstick, | 0:06:11 | 0:06:17 | |
United, fantastic. Winning
everything and we wanted to compete | 0:06:17 | 0:06:20 | |
with them. Both teams have been
quite successful and that was always | 0:06:20 | 0:06:26 | |
the case of trying to get one over
on each other so in that respect it | 0:06:26 | 0:06:29 | |
is almost a way of showing respect.
That sort of hatred. Definitely a | 0:06:29 | 0:06:38 | |
rivalry that I enjoyed playing in.
Paul Ince's first match as captain | 0:06:38 | 0:06:43 | |
takes place on the ground with a
championship hopes finally | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
disappeared last season. I never
would have gone from Man United to | 0:06:46 | 0:06:51 | |
Liverpool. I went from Man United to
Inter Milan and then Liverpool. That | 0:06:51 | 0:06:58 | |
doesn't matter? It does. The last
player to do that was in the 60s and | 0:06:58 | 0:07:05 | |
the Liverpool fans were fantastic,
they accepted me. They took me in | 0:07:05 | 0:07:10 | |
and supported me. Paul Ince! Yes!
Scoring against his old club! When I | 0:07:10 | 0:07:17 | |
scored against Man United in front
of the crowd, all of those emotions | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
came out of me and with the Freddie
situation, big-time Charlie, having | 0:07:22 | 0:07:27 | |
to face him. I went mad! Kicking the
ball and all that stuff. Never mind | 0:07:27 | 0:07:35 | |
Bluenosers and noisy neighbours.
This is the game. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:40 | |
Depending on the result, the red
side of the City of course will get | 0:07:46 | 0:07:49 | |
the win and everyone is buzzing, if
we lose, as Liverpool fans we are | 0:07:49 | 0:07:55 | |
realistic. People take the Mickey
out of us, banging on about history | 0:07:55 | 0:07:58 | |
but we are proud of that. Despite
the cockiness and bravado each set | 0:07:58 | 0:08:04 | |
of fans gives out, when you speak to
individuals, they are wrecking it. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:11 | |
Individually, so pessimistic before
a game with the rivals because there | 0:08:11 | 0:08:16 | |
is that, we cannot bear to lose.
These are the real giants of English | 0:08:16 | 0:08:19 | |
football. These games are about the
players, the manager can talk about | 0:08:19 | 0:08:24 | |
tactics and everything, but it is
about the players and performing on | 0:08:24 | 0:08:28 | |
that day. Sometimes on Liverpool
United game, it lets you down as | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
anaesthetic because it means so much
and the result is more important | 0:08:33 | 0:08:38 | |
than the performance. You cannot
freeze. You have to look tough. My | 0:08:38 | 0:08:43 | |
first experience playing there, my
memory was being sick the whole time | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
and money moron, knocking on the
door, are you all right? Yes! I am | 0:08:48 | 0:08:53 | |
five! The whole occasion and nervous
energy, it just took its toll. There | 0:08:53 | 0:09:00 | |
is something about Liverpool United
that is fundamentally real. You can | 0:09:00 | 0:09:05 | |
take any game and call it Super
Sunday or tremendous Tuesday or. But | 0:09:05 | 0:09:14 | |
Liverpool versus United, it doesn't
need any hype or added promotion. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:19 | |
That is why it matters people around
the world. Here we go again. | 0:09:19 | 0:09:25 | |
Manchester United versus Liverpool.
The biggest game in club football. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:29 | |
Bar none. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:34 | |
We have now moved inside
Hotel Football, just next door | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
to Old Trafford and I'm delighted
to be joined by Manchester's | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
very own Liam Fray, lead
singer of the Courteeners, | 0:09:39 | 0:09:41 | |
and a native of
Merseyside, Leon Osman. | 0:09:41 | 0:09:43 | |
Former Everton legend. Still? I
don't think I was ever one of them! | 0:09:43 | 0:09:51 | |
These cities have got this enduring
rivalry and this incredible love | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
hate relationship, is it? Where do
you think it stems from? We have to | 0:09:56 | 0:10:02 | |
be careful because we do a lot of
tickets in Liverpool! It is love | 0:10:02 | 0:10:07 | |
hate. It probably stems from, with
us, we dominated the 90s, they | 0:10:07 | 0:10:17 | |
dominated the 90s and I always see
them as that cousin but never leaves | 0:10:17 | 0:10:22 | |
you alone on Christmas Day. It is
bragging rights in work, but it is | 0:10:22 | 0:10:28 | |
worse. Tinged with fondness? I would
say so. A lot of United fans will | 0:10:28 | 0:10:36 | |
lynch me for that. I don't know...
Fondness? I would say respect. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:46 | |
Liverpool and Man United respect
what each other have achieved. In | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
terms of the cities, both clubs, no
fondness but there are similarities | 0:10:49 | 0:10:54 | |
with the working class culture is.
Based on industrial revolution? And | 0:10:54 | 0:11:00 | |
music is important. Fashion. Many
similarities? There are and he | 0:11:00 | 0:11:06 | |
mentioned a few of them. But the
drive is both cities want to be the | 0:11:06 | 0:11:13 | |
best, they want to be the best team
in the City, the best team in the | 0:11:13 | 0:11:19 | |
north-west and the best in the North
of England and then England. There | 0:11:19 | 0:11:23 | |
is always that drive and there is
real competition between Liverpool | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
and Man United. Growing up and you
came here regularly, you were a ball | 0:11:26 | 0:11:31 | |
boy. When Liverpool started to get
more success and you had success | 0:11:31 | 0:11:37 | |
early in Europe, winning the
Champions League, did that and you | 0:11:37 | 0:11:41 | |
as a Man United fan? Did you enjoyed
their style? You don't have to be a | 0:11:41 | 0:11:46 | |
Man United fan to be annoyed by
that! It is weird. If you saw | 0:11:46 | 0:11:50 | |
another interesting doing well,
Spurs, if Spurs got to the final, | 0:11:50 | 0:11:55 | |
you might want them to do well.
Liverpool? No. The way it goes. And | 0:11:55 | 0:12:02 | |
your music has become synonymous
with the club lately. When you come | 0:12:02 | 0:12:08 | |
to the matches do you set, but the
cheap seats, there are no cheap | 0:12:08 | 0:12:13 | |
seats here, do you sit with the
Regular Season ticket holders? | 0:12:13 | 0:12:17 | |
Everywhere, don't get me wrong,
drinking champagne! If you get the | 0:12:17 | 0:12:22 | |
invite! It is still surreal when you
hear it, still goose bumps, still | 0:12:22 | 0:12:30 | |
like a ten-year-old, this is
amazing! It is weird. We will talk | 0:12:30 | 0:12:36 | |
more about that later on. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:37 | |
Here's what's been happening over
the last seven days. | 0:12:37 | 0:12:44 | |
Headed in! Sam Allardyce, I do not
think he can quite believe the way | 0:12:50 | 0:12:57 | |
his team has allowed this to happen.
It goes in! Four goals for the first | 0:12:57 | 0:13:05 | |
time in the Premier League this
season for the Welsh side. What an | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
afternoon! | 0:13:08 | 0:13:13 | |
afternoon! He lost out to Will
Hughes. Troy Deeney! Onside! 1-0, | 0:13:14 | 0:13:20 | |
Watford! Troy Deeney for Watford.
And desolation for West Bromwich | 0:13:20 | 0:13:26 | |
Albion. Oxlade-Chamberlain can open
things up. And there is the girl! -- | 0:13:26 | 0:13:37 | |
the goal. Murray is in the middle.
It is 2-0! That is an absolute gift | 0:13:37 | 0:13:47 | |
from Arsenal! And Arsene Wenger
cannot believe what he is watching. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:55 | |
David Silva. Bernardo Silva and that
is the goal, straightaway. Seconds | 0:13:55 | 0:14:03 | |
into the second half. Double Silva
celebration for the team that will | 0:14:03 | 0:14:10 | |
end up with goal at the end of the
season. | 0:14:10 | 0:14:17 | |
season. Christian Benteke. The
penalty area, his right boot, | 0:14:17 | 0:14:21 | |
Townsend! Andros Townsend! | 0:14:21 | 0:14:30 | |
Townsend! Andros Townsend! Into the
penalty area! 2-0 Crystal Palace! | 0:14:31 | 0:14:41 | |
Good ball in, Smalling's header, it
is one goal back. Sanchez, he | 0:14:41 | 0:14:47 | |
shoots, into the air, the crossbar!
Lukaku! He tries again... It goes | 0:14:47 | 0:14:54 | |
in! Back to Paul Pogba. He shoots!
My word! Winning goal in stoppage | 0:14:54 | 0:15:07 | |
time from the Man U Matic. An
absolute screamer! What a way to win | 0:15:07 | 0:15:13 | |
the game 3-2. | 0:15:13 | 0:15:19 | |
That was some comeback at Salas
Park. I felt a bit the palace, they | 0:15:22 | 0:15:26 | |
were 13th in the lead. But what a
comeback from United. This is the | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
first time I had seen that, there
was some real intent. Some attacking | 0:15:30 | 0:15:34 | |
endeavour. Yeah, and we have been
lacking a bit this season. I was | 0:15:34 | 0:15:41 | |
going to talk about style and what
has been happening at Everton this | 0:15:41 | 0:15:45 | |
season and there seems to be some
expectation of some style, some kind | 0:15:45 | 0:15:50 | |
of attack when Sam Allardyce was
brought in to keep the club in the | 0:15:50 | 0:15:53 | |
Premier League and now the plans are
looking for more, it would seem. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:59 | |
Yes, Everton football club expecting
results but also performances. Sam | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
Allardyce was brought in to keep the
club in the Premier League. He got | 0:16:03 | 0:16:06 | |
the team away from trouble, it
seemed, so quickly that I think | 0:16:06 | 0:16:11 | |
Moore was then expected to start
bringing that brand of football to | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
make sure there was a lot for the
fans to buy into, attacking prowess, | 0:16:14 | 0:16:20 | |
you know? The real determination to
go out and score goals at real tempo | 0:16:20 | 0:16:27 | |
and at the moment, the team haven't
shown that and have started to drift | 0:16:27 | 0:16:31 | |
back to what relegation. He is
clearly a manager who does a certain | 0:16:31 | 0:16:35 | |
job, he has done it a few times at
different clubs and every time when | 0:16:35 | 0:16:38 | |
he has done the job, the club seems
to want him to metamorphose eyes | 0:16:38 | 0:16:42 | |
into something else, which he isn't
going to do at this stage. When you | 0:16:42 | 0:16:48 | |
employ Sam Allardyce, you know what
you're going to get, a manager who | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
keeps your team in the Premier
League but will do it anyway he | 0:16:51 | 0:16:55 | |
knows how and that isn't necessarily
with a brand of free-flowing | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
football that fans want to see week
in, week out. At the other end of | 0:16:58 | 0:17:03 | |
the spectrum, you kind of know what
you will get with Jose Mourinho, | 0:17:03 | 0:17:06 | |
which may well be trophies but they
will be won in a certain way and | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
Manchester United fans almost seem
surprised that when he arrived. I | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
guess so and you have to remember
how bad it got at the Sir Alex left. | 0:17:14 | 0:17:20 | |
I think there are high expectations
at any football club, you always | 0:17:20 | 0:17:23 | |
want to win, you expect to win. But
with style? You always say yes but | 0:17:23 | 0:17:30 | |
if the style is in there, you still
want to win. Do you care how you | 0:17:30 | 0:17:34 | |
stay up as long as you stay up? It
is when those expectations change | 0:17:34 | 0:17:39 | |
and if they are not met... If you
are continuing to get results and | 0:17:39 | 0:17:47 | |
get wins, the style becomes less
important. It Sam Allardyce was | 0:17:47 | 0:17:51 | |
continuing to win games, they
certainly wouldn't be under the | 0:17:51 | 0:17:54 | |
microscope now and Jose Mourinho is
at the top of the league and has | 0:17:54 | 0:17:58 | |
continued to winning games. The flip
side is that style also buys you a | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
bit of time. You look at Jurgen
Klopp and the Quaresma that he | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
exudes around the club and the style
of football they play -- the | 0:18:07 | 0:18:12 | |
Quaresma. The blips, he seems to
have ridden them really well. Would | 0:18:12 | 0:18:16 | |
you like him here? I don't know, we
were talking earlier about I don't | 0:18:16 | 0:18:22 | |
know if you would want to finish
third in the league and the winning | 0:18:22 | 0:18:27 | |
4-3, or finish second in the league
with a string of 1-0s. You are | 0:18:27 | 0:18:33 | |
saying Jurgen Klopp is under less
pressure but he is not as high up in | 0:18:33 | 0:18:37 | |
the league as Manchester United and
yet Jose Mourinho is under more | 0:18:37 | 0:18:42 | |
pressure for performances. Speaker
it is a bigger club, though, isn't | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
it! | 0:18:45 | 0:18:46 | |
That's not all that happened
in the Premier League this week. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
Here's a few things that
Rhys James spotted. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:55 | |
Hello, I am Rhys James. The finger
out campaign picked up pace this | 0:18:55 | 0:18:58 | |
week as Arsenal lost to | 0:18:58 | 0:19:01 | |
out campaign picked up pace this
week as Arsenal lost to relegation | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
threatened Brighton. At a cheque
took to Twitter and said... -- Peter | 0:19:03 | 0:19:11 | |
that was parried | 0:19:14 | 0:19:19 | |
that was parried the problem and it
went in on the rebound. Arsene | 0:19:19 | 0:19:21 | |
Wenger had a strange idea about
trousers. If you take the trousers | 0:19:21 | 0:19:27 | |
of commutator while completely, if
you find assured, you have to put it | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
on again and have to get dressed
again. If you have the trousers | 0:19:30 | 0:19:35 | |
on... What is it talking about?
Substitutions? Is Iwobi trousers? | 0:19:35 | 0:19:43 | |
Also, Benjamin Mendy dispels some
propaganda on the Manchester City | 0:19:43 | 0:19:48 | |
Twitter in which he said the
Manchester derby was a realistic | 0:19:48 | 0:19:54 | |
return. He responded with...
Essentially saying, shut up, Mum, | 0:19:54 | 0:19:59 | |
you idiot, I didn't say I was well
enough to go back to school yet and | 0:19:59 | 0:20:02 | |
happy Mother's Day. Elsewhere, the
Wembley curse may be long dead plus | 0:20:02 | 0:20:07 | |
birds but there still seems to be
some witchcraft going on. Referee | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
Mike Jones was injured in the warm
up -- may be long dead for Spurs. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:16 | |
Mike Jones was injured in the warm
up -- may be long dead for Spurs. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
Any referees were asked to make
themselves known to a steward. It is | 0:20:18 | 0:20:22 | |
not Sunday league, you can't just
get one of the dads to run the line | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
when your bloke on 15 quid in our
doesn't turn up. If you pick a Spurs | 0:20:26 | 0:20:33 | |
fan, Dele Alli | 0:20:33 | 0:20:33 | |
doesn't turn up. If you pick a Spurs
fan, Dele Alli will win 100 | 0:20:33 | 0:20:34 | |
penalties. In other news, Maratha
proved that no matter the media, no | 0:20:34 | 0:20:39 | |
matter the context, he still can't
hit a target from sick Schaars -- | 0:20:39 | 0:20:45 | |
Alvaro Morata proved. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
The action gets underway
this coming weekend | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
with Liverpool's visit
to Old Trafford. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
There's a massive game
at the bottom as Swansea take | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
on Huddersfield at three o'clock, | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
on Huddersfield at three o'clock, | 0:20:54 | 0:20:55 | |
while Alan Pardew reportedly
has West Brom's game | 0:20:55 | 0:20:57 | |
against Leicester to save his job. | 0:20:57 | 0:21:00 | |
Sunday sees both north
London clubs in action, | 0:21:00 | 0:21:02 | |
including fourth-placed Spurs'
visit to Bournemouth | 0:21:02 | 0:21:04 | |
And on Monday night, can
Manchester City stretch their lead | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
any further as they travel
to troubled Stoke? | 0:21:06 | 0:21:08 | |
So it's Arsenal against Watford
on Sunday, | 0:21:08 | 0:21:10 | |
with the Gunners
in desperate need of a win | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
after three successive
Premier League defeats. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:13 | |
Striker Danny Welbeck,
formerly of this parish, | 0:21:13 | 0:21:16 | |
has been talking
to Juliette Ferrington. | 0:21:16 | 0:21:24 | |
Arsene Wenger cannot believe what he
is watching here. A very, very bad | 0:21:27 | 0:21:32 | |
week for Arsenal just got worse. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
is watching here. A very, very bad
week for Arsenal just got worse. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:36 | |
There is an area disappointment in
and around the camp and we know this | 0:21:36 | 0:21:39 | |
is such a massive club and we should
be doing much better than we are at | 0:21:39 | 0:21:43 | |
the moment, so there is a bitter
disappointment there and it kind of | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
gives us the chance where we can
stand and fight and make sure that | 0:21:46 | 0:21:49 | |
we can put it right in the future
games. What is that self belief like | 0:21:49 | 0:21:55 | |
right now? I believe that together
we are stronger as a unit and we | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
know that, we are good players, so
going into the games, if we stand | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
and fight and match players in every
single area of the pitch, we know | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
our quality will shine through. We
all have seen the manager is the | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
target of anger and abuse, how have
you dealt with that? You go through | 0:22:12 | 0:22:16 | |
difficult moments in life and it is
how you respond to it, how you come | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
out the other side and I think
obviously everybody goes through a | 0:22:19 | 0:22:22 | |
rough patch and at this time, we
know, us as players, the club, the | 0:22:22 | 0:22:29 | |
staff, everybody is hurting and it
is something we want to put right. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:32 | |
We want to turn these results around
and put Arsenal football club where | 0:22:32 | 0:22:36 | |
it should be. You have worked for
Sir Alex, you have worked under | 0:22:36 | 0:22:41 | |
Arsene Wenger. What comparison do
you have between the two, two | 0:22:41 | 0:22:44 | |
managers with such great longevity
in the game? They have both got a | 0:22:44 | 0:22:49 | |
lot of experience, obviously, and
they have both won plenty of | 0:22:49 | 0:22:52 | |
trophies between themselves in their
respective ways. Obviously, the two | 0:22:52 | 0:22:58 | |
managers are a bit different in
certain aspects of their ways, but | 0:22:58 | 0:23:05 | |
it has | 0:23:05 | 0:23:06 | |
produced a success. You can see more
of that interview on Football Focus | 0:23:06 | 0:23:09 | |
on Saturday. When Danny Welbeck went
down south, at that particular time, | 0:23:09 | 0:23:14 | |
I guess, was there a feeling that we
have lost a lot of connection here | 0:23:14 | 0:23:20 | |
with the locality? Especially since
The Class of 92? I think we felt we | 0:23:20 | 0:23:26 | |
had lost connection with football in
that period, so it was tough to see | 0:23:26 | 0:23:29 | |
one of our home-grown players
leaving. We don't know whether he | 0:23:29 | 0:23:34 | |
was pushed, but I have a real soft
spot for him and I think it is | 0:23:34 | 0:23:38 | |
really important, you have got to
play your best 11 players, you can't | 0:23:38 | 0:23:42 | |
just put someone in the youth team
in for the sake of it but it keeps a | 0:23:42 | 0:23:48 | |
connection, I guess. Football is so
far removed now from the kid on the | 0:23:48 | 0:23:53 | |
street kicking a ball around that if
somebody makes it into the team, it | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
kind of keeps the dream alive, I
guess and... That you could make it, | 0:23:56 | 0:24:04 | |
and that is important to kids
growing up in the area. It is the | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
romance of being Batkid and you were
that kid, Lyon. I suppose I was, | 0:24:08 | 0:24:16 | |
coming through the team that I
developed at the so many years and | 0:24:16 | 0:24:19 | |
getting into the team but you have a
connection through the fans and the | 0:24:19 | 0:24:22 | |
family. My father would be getting
phone calls every week or friends to | 0:24:22 | 0:24:27 | |
limit the opinions of fans all their
opinions, or somebody give me a kick | 0:24:27 | 0:24:31 | |
in the backside in the street
telling me to put pull my socks up | 0:24:31 | 0:24:37 | |
and you are very approachable when
you are a local lad coming through, | 0:24:37 | 0:24:40 | |
and it is important I think to have
at least one of those players in | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
your first team. In this modern
Premier League where players come | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
from all over the world and they
will go back to wherever they came | 0:24:47 | 0:24:50 | |
from eventually, but that player
stays and that is usually not macro | 0:24:50 | 0:24:55 | |
for the rest of your life! You do,
it means so much to you personally | 0:24:55 | 0:25:03 | |
but you can also be the focal point
for things when things go right but | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
more importantly when things go
wrong, the fans may direct | 0:25:06 | 0:25:11 | |
frustrations at you, their
grievances at you, because they know | 0:25:11 | 0:25:14 | |
that you feel like they do. It makes
you stronger in the long run. It | 0:25:14 | 0:25:20 | |
does make you stronger, you
certainly get more criticism but you | 0:25:20 | 0:25:24 | |
suddenly become a better player when
you retire because they appreciate | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
how much you put into that club. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
Way back in August -
it seems so long ago now - | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
we asked Justin Moorhouse
for his top flight predictions. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
So have any of his forecasts made
the right impression, | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
or is it one giant sore point? | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
Justin, over to you. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:46 | |
# You can't always get what you
want... | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
Without a shadow of a doubt, United
champions. Champions... | 0:25:51 | 0:25:58 | |
Beware the idle predictions are
people who know nothing about | 0:25:58 | 0:26:01 | |
football back in August. Champions,
what was I thinking? Scoff all you | 0:26:01 | 0:26:07 | |
like at my predictions but I got the
top six exactly right, just not | 0:26:07 | 0:26:12 | |
necessarily in the right order.
Manchester United, second, is it | 0:26:12 | 0:26:15 | |
good enough this season? Let's see.
And what about Liverpool? I did say | 0:26:15 | 0:26:19 | |
if they lost Coutinho, it could be a
flop under Jurgen Klopp but they | 0:26:19 | 0:26:25 | |
have done better. Tottenham, despite
all the praise, have underperformed | 0:26:25 | 0:26:30 | |
surely by coming forth. Last season
password champions, is fit good and | 0:26:30 | 0:26:37 | |
Roman Abramovich? And Arsene Wenger
is walking around waiting like a dog | 0:26:37 | 0:26:41 | |
to live on the farm. Burnley, could
it be you Roper the Turf Moor. | 0:26:41 | 0:26:45 | |
Leicester reminded of a child star,
you expect so much and they get | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
uglier and no one is bothered.
Brighton I had pegged the | 0:26:49 | 0:26:54 | |
relegation, I put myself on the
line. Comfortable mid-table. | 0:26:54 | 0:26:59 | |
Everton, Big Sam, has he been the
ballast that settles the ship? Not | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
so far, but what will happen so that
the delayed next season? | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
Bournemouth, I've predicted
relegation. How have they survived | 0:27:06 | 0:27:12 | |
without investment? Eddie Howe, that
is how. Huddersfield town, 15th, I | 0:27:12 | 0:27:18 | |
thought they might finish ten. I
hoped they would survive, everyone | 0:27:18 | 0:27:22 | |
does, everyone loves them, even when
they beat you. It is a famous day, | 0:27:22 | 0:27:26 | |
Huddersfield 2-1. Southampton, what
has happened, I predicted eight, | 0:27:26 | 0:27:33 | |
they are fighting relegation. Maybe
it is because they sold their best | 0:27:33 | 0:27:37 | |
players and played rubbish. 16th I
said the Newcastle and that is where | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
they are, 29 points. They can't be
happy with that but I am, I finally | 0:27:41 | 0:27:46 | |
got one right, exactly. In the heady
days of summer I predicted the | 0:27:46 | 0:27:50 | |
bottom three would be Brighton,
Bournemouth and Swansea. But who is | 0:27:50 | 0:27:53 | |
saved? Any three from ten can go
down. But West Brom are surely West | 0:27:53 | 0:27:59 | |
down. Pardew should get his FA Cup
little touchline dance and dance his | 0:27:59 | 0:28:03 | |
way to the Championship. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:05 | |
Well, there is some way to go yet.
What are you up to next Liam? We | 0:28:05 | 0:28:11 | |
have a few gigs celebrating ten
years since that first album, back | 0:28:11 | 0:28:15 | |
in London and then it is a few
festivals and then I think writing a | 0:28:15 | 0:28:19 | |
new album. Hopefully you will be
inspired by what you see on Saturday | 0:28:19 | 0:28:23 | |
and as you have taken so well to
life as a pundit, give us a | 0:28:23 | 0:28:26 | |
prediction scoreline. Back hoping
that we manage to deal with their | 0:28:26 | 0:28:32 | |
pace and I think we might sneak 1-0.
Do you disagree with that? I do, I | 0:28:32 | 0:28:39 | |
do think Liverpool's counterattack,
Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah... | 0:28:39 | 0:28:47 | |
Don't mention them! I think
Liverpool will win 3-1. I don't want | 0:28:47 | 0:28:51 | |
it to happen. You are getting on so
well until then. Enjoy the weekend | 0:28:51 | 0:28:57 | |
whatever happens and remember, we
have all your football covered on | 0:28:57 | 0:29:00 | |
the BBC. Until next time, goodbye. | 0:29:00 | 0:29:07 |