Behind the scenes at Watford MOTD: The Premier League Show

Hello and welcome to The Premier League Show.

Domestic football returns this weekend after a thrilling

international break and joining me, with hopefully no middle finger

exchanges, are Arsenal legend, Ian Wright...

He has done it and scored. That is Ian Wright at his very best.

, I am not sure about legend, but no problem.

Coming up, from provincial club the Premier League fixture -

Dion Dublin goes behind the scenes at Watford.

We look at the latest events in the Arsenal saga,

and journalist, Paul MacInnes, explores the phenomenon

But first, Romelu Lukaku's move from Everton to Old Trafford

was the blockbuster Premier League move of the summer and the Belgian

striker, and Manchester United, have hit the ground running.

Romelu Lukaku! It is too easy. Romelu Lukaku! Moving to a club like

Manchester United, that comes with expectation? You know the

expectations are high, but I was mentally prepared. I was waiting for

the opportunity to come. How keen was the manager, in working for him

once again, for your decision to move to Manchester United? I have

wanted to play for him since I was 11 and when you get a chance like

that, you don't say no. I am grateful for a second opportunity.

Has he changed since the last time you worked for him? No, he is still

the same. He demands a burst from the players every day. He doesn't

give people time to rest on the pitch, you want everybody to fight.

That is what I like about him. He is like a family man, somebody you can

talk to, say what you want to say and he will listen to you. I like

that a lot. That is the image of a man brimming with confidence. Last

season you said you wanted to win trophies, so why is Manchester

United the club to do that? It is the best club in the world. I knew

what the players were like, I wanted this challenge. Everybody is hungry,

everybody wanted. When you lose games, you get six sometimes, I am

delighted to be here. How excited are you about the prospect of slot

on Abramovich returning to the site? He is good for the team. It is good

to have another player hungry in the team. He can bring us a lot. Is the

competition going to help you when he comes back into the site? Of

course, you relish it. You don't fear it, you relish it. As long as

you make it better, you relish the challenge all of the time.

He seems to have settled in, how do you rate him as a member of the

striker's club? I am very impressed with him, I have always liked him.

People have constantly talked about his touch. When he went to

Manchester United, there was a lot on social media about his first

touch, which I got was unfair. Yes, yells a lot to work on in his game

and he has got himself to Manchester United, where that helps. If you can

keep the ball in certain areas and link the play, but he is scoring

goals. I think the Manchester United fans won't be too bothered if the

ball comes off him a couple of times if he starts to score winning goals.

He is 24 years old and has 88 in 109 games. He will be pushing a certain

Geordie's record? Nobody wants to see that happen. Alan Shearer must

be a bit worried. You can never tell because people do have a dip in form

and things, but you forget how Young he is. The amount of criticism he

has had come he's 24 and probably he could peak in five years, and that

is the ominous thing. He has learned so much through those moves, seasons

and experience he has had. He has linked up with Paul Pogba, which is

what was missing last year? They are very good mates. I was with them out

in LA and I was talking to them. I was telling Paul Pogba how great he

was in the England game. And I was telling Lukaku how he has got to be,

where ever he goes he has got to look to be winning things. I said to

Paul Pogba, you have got to be Player of the Year, this year. They

have taken it on board. Hopefully. They are both at the club and they

have the potential to do anything. Matic has been fantastic and Pogba

has been released. Stoke, is that a potential hiccup? With their

confidence and the way they are playing, I don't think it will

become I think they will win the game because of the confidence they

are going into it with. Stoke against Arsenal, Arsenal should have

done better, but I feel Manchester United have a different mentality

about them at the moment. It is the sort of game they might have slipped

but over the past three of four seasons, but not this time. It will

be long before the Manchester United fans will be saying they'd will go

the whole season unbeaten. Watford are now on their eighth

manager in six seasons since the Italian Pozzo family

took over in 2012. However, in that time they've

achieved promotion to the Premier After an encouraging

start to the season under new boss Mark Silva, we sent

Dion Dublin into the hornet's nest. Now, from the outside looking in,

what fall football club is a bit of a merry-go-round. Players in, plays

out. Managers in, managers out. But I am at the training ground to find

out what is going on. -- players. Big man... Nice to meet you.

Watford are in front. How is the Young man enjoying the English

weather? He said this is nothing compared to December or January up

north. Newcastle on Tuesday now it! The Brazilian under 20 International

is up and running for the Hornets. He didn't have any expectation two

years ago and now is in the best league in the world. He's very happy

to be here. Watford needs someone like him. An extraordinary goal and

an extraordinary end to this crazy game. That surely seals it for

Watford. Come and say hello. The talismanic, Troy Deeney. As Kim

about the players come at that age, coming in it has got to be great for

the team? Trying to get conversation out of him is the hardest part, but

he is learning. He has grasped it really well. Gomez is like his dad

so he is looking after him at the minute. I feel that the club and me

don't have the same point of view. Walter Mazzarri has been sacked and

the next man in will be the ninth manager in five years at Vicarage

Road. The traditional UK model is to have a manager who is responsible

for the whole football operation. Scouting, medical, picking the first

team. We think it is too big a job for one person. Head coaches will

move on. And with the UK model, when the head coach goes, there is

turmoil. When we replace a head coach, the infrastructure remains

the same so it allows long-term growth for the club and gives

stability. Poor finishes to the season have accounted for the last

two head coaches. Now Marco Silva is leading the first team into battle.

How have you found the change, because there has been a lot of

change, has backhanded Watford moving forward? Know, everybody is

hung up on the fact we were promoted on for managers. But the way the

game is going now, the manager is less important. There is always a

player you don't want to lose. Whether you like the manager or not.

That is different... That is fine. ?100. Fine. What I was saying,

changing manager commies said the manager isn't as important nowadays.

If you have got players like you guys around, but if he hasn't? I

will contradict myself, if you have a manager like now, who is saying,

this is the direction we are going, get online or get out, it is even

better. It is a case of making sure everybody is to his level. If

anybody drops below it, we can nip it in the bud. He has gone all the

way. It is two for Watford. Watford have survived the last two Premier

League season is relatively comfortably, so where do they go

from here? First of all, our target is to keep the Premier League

status. It is very important because the Premier League is becoming a

very competitive league. Medium to long term, we would like to fight

for European a place. But the competition is really hard, so let's

see how long it will take. You have been here now for years, has the

feeling changed, has expectation changed? Of course, I felt it could

be good when I signed for the club. But didn't expect the way we are

doing it at the moment, the way things are changing. At the training

ground, it is better. The expectations for the fans. They once

more and more and that is a good sign. It is a sign we are all in a

very good way and we expect more as well, as players. We have more

competition to be in the starting XI because it is difficult because of

the quality players. When you feel that, things are going in the right

way. There is a realisation we are onto something good. We put Everton

in the top seven, then it is who is the best of the rest, so not too

much of a difference between West Ham and Watford or Stoke and

Watford. I don't think we will go and win the Premier League, but if

we get into Europe, it is a massive achievement for a club the size of

Watford. We are here to achieve things, not just to play. That is

why he is the main man. Happy? Yes, more than happy to be going home at

one o'clock. Thank you very much. Wish you all the best, Young man.

Good luck. Thank you, my friend. Did you hear that, a little bit of

English. Two Goodlad 's. Good lads. Everything has changed in the

Premier League over the last 20 years but when you see a piece about

a club that has come from Elton John, Luther Blissett days, it is

amazing what the club looks like now. I would like to know how the

fans feel it is going and the changes in managers, players coming

and going, who are the heroes now? Troy Deeney is still there but

everybody is coming and going. It is a strange one. It is interesting

what he said, Troy Deeney. He said the managerial programme doesn't

seem to matter to the players. It is a New Age thing, what is happening

right now and probably see it in the future. I would like to note there

is some stability in my manager. Although we do know a manager can be

moved on easily. It is what it is like for the Watford fans. We have a

manager now who will probably move on because he will be too good to be

at Watford. What he did at Hull, how he changed them, the organisation,

was fantastic. He's very ambitious. As a Bristol City fan, not in the

Premier League obviously, do you have any worries that the culture of

the club could change dramatically, would it matter to you if success

came as a by-product? You ask yourself if you would pay

that price for success. It depends on if you feel it is still your

club. Watford, I like to recognise the manager's face and his name. We

have the same manager for two or three years on the board have backed

him through a difficult period and it is almost the opposite approach,

I'll most instantly prefer that but it would be nice to be in the

Premier League. Most than the principles up to a point but when

you are successful, you are happy no matter how you got there. Some clubs

have been transformed by foreign investment. I get that you mean

Manchester City. Not mentioning any names. If you have been one of those

clubs long enough it must be really weird to see how the club is

transformed. DCO like young Brazilian player come in, who has

been scouted very well. But probably has ambitions to play for a

champions the club, how can you get attached as a fan when you know it

is a stepping stone? For players like him, who looks athletic and

strong and very good is that yet, we know he wants to go. So how do you

get an attachment to a player like that? If he carries on doing what he

can do, he can probably do that. It is sad when we do not have one club

players, it is sad when you don't have those players who represent the

image of the club. It feels like that is a dying breed. Arsenal's

deadline day dance with Alexis Sanchez was just another episode in

the ongoing saga in north London. Sanchez stays for now but the

criticism and controversy rumble on. Arsene Wenger agreeing a two-year

contract to stay at Arsenal. If he loves the club like he says he does,

he would have walked at the end of last ease. Leicester City lead

again. It is in. Leicester will wonder how they lost it. They have a

soft underbelly and will always concede goals. He goes again,

another awayday at Stoke to forget for Arsene Wenger and Arsenal. It is

frustrating, it is the same talking points. We are talking about a team

that is underperforming and people in the boardroom and the manager. We

need decisions. They have not brought in enough quality or

players. And with Sanchez not playing, we are not going to

improve. Big problems for Arsenal and big questions. I haven't seen an

Arsenal performance as bad as this in a long time. From an Arsenal

corner, Liverpool score. The players are not tuned in tactically or

mentally. It was an horrendous performance from Arsenal. Won Arsene

Wenger has called on supporters to stick by his team. I am literally

exasperated. He is earning ?9 million a year for failing. Arsenal

just look really winded at the minute. Two Arsenal have agreed to

sell Alex at the link to Liverpool. When Lamarr opted not to go to

Arsenal, the Sanchez deal collapse. Was it a mistake to give him a

two-year contract? Is not time to panic but it looks like we are

looking at the end. I almost feel wrong asking you anything about

Arsenal, you must be so fed up with it lurching from one disaster to

another and then trying to come up with some way to fathoming what is

going on and wear it will end? It is difficult. You can't sit on the

fence. Especially the way Arsenal are playing. The way they ended last

ease in the way they have started this. You cannot sit on the fence as

fans. If you come out and say you love Arsene Wenger because he

country lived me and love the club and it is just a phase, you are not

telling the truth. Especially when you see the performances. You try to

put it out as best as you can but you will not please everyone. The

way the transfers have gone, big players wanting to leave. Sanchez

does want to live, oxo Chamberlain has gone. Kieran Gibbs has gone.

Saying that he has gone because Tony Pulis can make him a better

defender. That has to hurt Arsene Wenger. He should, but he got a lot

of stick will make him map and said the boss doesn't coach. They are

getting to that age that they feel they have to go somewhere else then

it is an indictment of what is going on there. And upstairs as well as

the manager and the performances on the pitch. Most old school fans have

a fondness for Arsene Wenger because he built this culture but it seems

the more or refuses to hear any criticism at all so it is hard to

see how they can improve. There was an obvious need to strengthen in the

summer but the last two or three transfer windows they have barely

been active. And with Sanchez, it seems bonkers, if he definitely

doesn't want to play with you any more and he is worth 50 or ?60

million and he will go for free in the summer can surely you have to

let him go. At and he wears this cap a professor of economic scum he

must've been delighted with the profit on Oxlade-Chamberlain but

what about cashing on Sanchez? They were offered 60, doubling their

money. If he had three is left on his contract, he would go with what

we have seen in the market nearer 100. It is something that will be

awkward because you have a dressing room and a squad of players that

know that the main guy wants to leave. That must be a bad atmosphere

as well. It seems crazy what is going on at the moment. The only

people who can put it right are the players. It doesn't happen

frequently enough for them to come together and really get behind the

manager. If you like drama it is the gift that keeps on giving.

Footballers are a superstitious bunch and the Spurs Wembley curse

just the latest in a long line of football who do, we asked a reporter

to investigate. Enter a world of mystery, of dark forces and

inextricable events. A world where curses are real and can only be

cured by messing with the corner flag, enter the world of football

who do. Everyone is talking about Spurs right now and how they can't

win at the new Wembley. Is it to do with the size of the pitch? Has

Christian Ericsson built a new house on an Indian burial ground war has

Harry Kane thing is other who do not being able to score goals in August?

Automatically, an Arsenal fan might have -- alter Nativity, an Arsenal

fan may have caused it, Manchester and the fans did that at the Etihad

and they might not have got away with it apart from some dude being

able to dig it up after posting a picture online. It is nothing new

for Spurs. It was once a think that Gareth Bale had cursed the club

because he didn't win in his first 24 matches. Similarly, Jack Rodwell

lost 37 consecutive games with Sunderland, Noakes, sorry, that

makes complete sense. There are curses but there are also

superstitions. White Hart Lane legend Glenn Hoddle when he was

England manager not only employed a faith healer but also according to

Gary Neville, once told his staff to walk anticlockwise around the pitch.

The aim was to create positive energy. The outcome, England lost on

penalties. In modern times, things have got weird. The Internet thinks

that every time Aaron Ramsey scores a goal, he kills a celebrity. In

2015 during his record-breaking goal-scoring streak, Jamie Vardy

also had a ritual. He would drink some port and then the next day he

would drink a certain brand of caffeinated beverage and on the

surface this makes sense. The port might help him sleep on the caffeine

in this would get him up for the game but he insisted on only

drinking the port from a half empty water bottle. So footballers are a

superstitious breed. Are they right to be? In a way, yes. Football is

again largely governed by chance. But while superstition won't affect

the bounds of a ball, it may affect what goes on a player said. So it

may need the intervention of a sports psychologist but sometimes

more imaginative efforts are required. Barry Fry have Birmingham

City decided to break a run of bad results by relieving himself in any

corner of St Andrews. And then there is Dave Bassett who when he was in

charge of Sheffield United moved the festive party up to August because

he said his team only started playing well after Christmas. Here

at the National Stadium, superstition will linger in the air

until Spurs finally win a match. But there is one other solution, get

Kyle Walker Peters to wee his way round Wembley. Who do, busted. Where

are you on the voodoo thing? Did you have anything you had to do? I

always wore the same little white underside is. Socks under your

socks. The Onuoha yes. And I would always put the left one on first. I

didn't we on them, that would have been uncomfortable. You just got

into the habit. Do you look back and think it was ridiculous? A little

bit. The one where a player who like to put his shirt on in the tunnel. I

didn't like it. It was not like Les Ferdinand's chest. It was a plain

white square. The fact is that when he was captain of England, it was

really with because he had to come at last. So it was really weird

because it messes it up because actually doing your thing. Going on

stage, do you do anything, write some checks prison every question

try to think of funny and say it. I did meet quicker J played for

Argentina, he said the weed on the post before the shoot out in the

semifinal and he still believes that is why they wanted. I think he was

serious as well. Although if you watch the highlights, he also did

have the save the penalties. That is a high opinion of your own you're

in. -- your Rhine. To produce it in that moment is tough. Anderson in

2000 people is possibly harder than playing the game I would have

thought. The let us look at the fixtures.

Crystal Palace are looking for their first win against Burnley. And it is

crunch time for West Ham on Monday night when they entertain

high-flying Huddersfield. You can see all the football across the BBC

this weekend. One man who has been an instrument or part of the BBC

football team for 50 is has announced he is hanging up his

commentator microphone at the end of the season, John Moxon. We can

plough the archives for years, some wonderful moments, do you have any

particular moments? Me personally, I was quite fortunate to spend a lot

of time with him in Japan and coming back on a flight with him. Going

through all these meticulous workings, the sheets and sheets of

papers and players that he knows. It is quite fascinating the amount of

work that goes into what he does. The transform the sheepskin coat

industry as well. Yes. I think just occasionally you get something

really unexpected from him. Hiram when Zola was playing for Chelsea

and there was a close-up and he said you have the sort of face that one

scene is not easy to forget. Just occasionally he would go away from

the football. Just how much he loves football and loves his job and we

will definitely miss him. Two imagine he commentator matches in

the park as he goes past. I hope he does. Thank you so much, always

lovely to spend time in your company, same time, same place makes

weak but we will leave you with a little bit of John Moxon.

A moment that also brings tears to his eyes. Here is the tape measure

and here is the pot of paint, this is extraordinary. Radford again,

what the goal. Platini, goal. I haven't seen scenes like this in

years. We were couple of puppets. You were rather uglier than the

puppet. What a fantastic run, he has scored. Oh yes.