Sean Dyche MOTD: The Premier League Show

This week I'm joined by Chris Sutton and comedian

and long-suffering Swansea City fan, Elis James.

Coming up on the show - with a big weekend ahead at the foot

of the table we look at what it takes to escape the dreaded drop;

Steve Bower sits down with Burnley boss Sean Dyche

and football-mad John Robins tells us why he has no desire to...err..go

But first, the games are running out and the tension is rising

at both ends of the table - here's what's been happening

over the last seven days in the Premier League...

It was an outstanding performance. Up comes a Randolph. But is it the

way, not very far. Sunderland have hope. We will keep believing why we

have a chance. We keep going, we don't give in. It is a free header.

The only thing I want to remember is a positive experience. If I had to

work 15 years to experience one such moment, I will do it gladly. Drives

it in. What an outstanding goal. Rowdy outside... 2-0. Get it in.

That is the icing on the cake. Exciting moment. Marcus Rashford

with the chance. Taken brilliantly. Young, again. And as her rare red.

It is deflected and it is in. Listen to those cheers for Manchester

United win which will be cheered as loudly by Tottenham.

Keeper doesn't see it at all. Sanchez, right footed, quality kick

and Arsenal lead 1-0. Negredo steers the ball past Petr Cech. Sanchez,

into the penalty area. The ball is fired in. And it is Ozil. Arsenal

are back in front 2-1. There will be a new team in the Premier League

next season, Brighton Hove Albion have been promoted. John Terry has

announced he will leave the club at the end of the season. He has been

at the club for 22 years. He said he will decide on his future later. You

get the feeling Spurs smell a little bit of fear, they smell an

opportunity and they look imperious. Is it a little wobble from Chelsea

would you be worried if you were a Chelsea fan? I wouldn't be too

worried. Chelsea have four games at home, two away, Sunderland and

Middlesbrough and they are automatic for Chelsea. Spurs are on an

incredible run. Were you surprised by Antonio Conte's body language? A

couple of months ago, all of the pundits are saying they were going

to win it. So to lose two games in a month, must get in the back of your

mind, doubt. As a neutral, you want the team at the top in April to

throw it away, because it is so entertaining. Liverpool fliptop and

they have throw it away. They had a Newcastle like lead as well,

Chelsea. It is so much fun if you don't support the top two teams. I

am trying to find a link, do you want Spurs to win? I don't care. I

used to live with a Spurs fan, they haven't won it since 1961. People

used to rent radios in 1961. I love Ben Davies. A Welsh connection?

Clutching at straws. Who do you want to win it? I want Swansea to win it

in some horrendous mathematical... I don't know how it will happen. It

won't. No it won't. I prefer watching Tottenham to Chelsea. Spurs

are playing attractive football, they look tougher than they did this

time last year? The manager was saying a month ago, last year they

lost focus. They don't seem to have lost focus this year. The

interesting one is the semifinal at the weekend. If Spurs bump Chelsea,

there may be doubts from the Chelsea players. Is there anything to read

into cost of's form as well? He is reliant on service. He didn't have

his best game against United, he was shackled well. But overall he has

been exceptional the Chelsea. There is no way he is 27. He looks about

50. I thought it was a typo when I saw his age. It takes it out of you

being a sportsman, look at Chris. The top two aren't in action this

weekend so attention is firmly on the bottom of the table -

and there are some big Huge home games for both

Swansea and Hull dominate Saturday's fixtures,

whilst West Ham and Bournemouth are still desperate to reach that

magical 40 point mark. Likewise, on Sunday Burnley

entertain Manchester United and resurgent Crystal Palace face

a tough trip to Anfield. But what does it take to avoid

the trapdoor and keep your head Recent Premier League history

is punctuated by miraculous escapes but how do you psychologically equip

yourself to fight relegation. When the threat of relegation enters

into the thoughts, this whole idea of needing to escape occupies my

energy and what I think about, I'd bring about. You start distrusting

each other as players. You look at your coach and doubts whether they

are the person you hoped they would be, the blame game starts happening

and you get into this negative spiral. Whether you can ride the

emotional roller-coaster that is relegation is going to be the key as

to whether you come out successful or not successful. For me, it looks

like fear and the fear has gripped the players and it hasn't allowed

them to express the ability they have got. When players enter into

the competitive arena cup performance is in their mindset.

That is when they are stifled. Fans on their back, press on their back.

What a dreadful moments. If you can imagine my hands are like my

thoughts and my feelings. When I am experiencing fear, it is as if this

happens. The fear of failure perpetuates itself onto the pitch.

They freeze and take less risks on the ball. If body language reveals

anything, it reveals horror. It is often said, the health of the team

is reflected in the face of the coach. Being mindful of your body

language as a manager is important. They may be saying the right words,

but if their body language doesn't reflect what they are saying, their

players will recognise it. When you see players making a mistake, they

look straight to the bench for some kind of confirmation of how to feel.

We cannot not communicate. The serious stuff starts here for the

new Hull boss. When managers come into football clubs, there is this

sense of freshness, everything is new. You are coming in with the

level of optimum and you have to convince somebody that you can. You

share those thoughts with somebody. A change of manager disrupts that

cloud of negativity. Cloud you run your airy has been sacked as the

Leicester City manager. You create belief systems and then the fear

starts to dissipate. The Stadium of light is lifting. Sam Allardyce has

a tool box he brings with him, both mental and scientific, if you like.

He has done it before. Job done, mission accomplished. Sam Allardyce

has pulled it off. People look to him and say, we are in safe hands.

He said, I am the man to get Crystal Palace out of relegation. That

belief conveys itself to every single player in the dressing room.

That will do it for the boys in blue and four Nigel Pearson. You look

back to Leicester City a couple of years ago, Fulham a few years back,

it is about a change of mindset. It has all swung Fulham's way. Go back

to 2005 when Bryan Robson led West Brom. They were bottom Christmas and

everybody said it couldn't be done. Bryan Robson's baggies are staying

in the Premiership. In the end, a manager who is able to motivate,

inspire and energise, those managers become successful. Relegation is a

seemingly innocuous word but it is a powerful or pervasive place to be

sometimes. If you think you are doomed, you will be doomed.

Chris, you've played in successful sides and you've played

in struggling sides, what do you think you need

More to look around the dressing room to see what players we had in

the dressing room but Middlesbrough and Sunderland are struggling

because they don't have the quality of players. But psychologically at

this stage in the season you have two stay strong. A lot of it comes

from the training ground, organisation and repetition. That is

why Sam Allardyce has a big reputation. Because he knows what it

is about what you produce on the training ground to take into a match

day, so he has tried and tested this formula? Yes, giving the players

confidence through organisation. His biggest trick in January was the

signing of Sakho. He has galvanised the defence. Maybe there is a self

propelling prophecy, Sam Allardyce has done it before, we can relax and

play good football. He was linked with Swansea, Sam Allardyce. It was

amazing when the fans were talking and they were saying, he will keep

us up at all costs, but the football won't be very pretty. He was given.

Because he does have this amazing record. When you read player

autobiographies, it is amazing how confidence comes into it and how

important it is. You would just think players can their own

confidence, but they are like sensitive singer songwriters. If

they don't score for ten games, they doubt everything. Our players, when

we go a goal down, head strop. We need big characters in our team.

Ashley Williams was the one who used to lift and galvanise the players

when the chips were down. We don't keep clean sheets and we don't score

goals. In a nutshell. Clement said he should be sacked and then

re-employed to get the bounce back. The first eight games he has won

three out of four. I was at his first game at Crystal Palace. I was

at Anfield as well. When we beat Liverpool at Anfield I thought,

we're not safe, but he is going to do it. He has had an amazing impact.

Hull, they haven't got a great squad of players? They made some smart

business decisions in January. They lost Livermore and Snodgrass but he

does have some decent players in. I saw them at the weekend against

Stoke. I think they have a better chance than Swansea. Did you get

that? Their away form is horrible, they missed a lot of chances at the

weekend. Hull's home form will be enough to keep them up. Third spot,

Middlesbrough and Sunderland are gone, who will it be filled by?

Swansea. Swansea have their chance, one point. Winnable games. Thanks,

never thought that would happen. Burnley are in 14th place, but they

have only won once in their last ten games and the only Premier League

team without an away victory this season. We have been to the

Lancashire countryside to talk to Shaun Batt I should.

Do you feel safe now, sitting here? Finding Boyd! A turf war erupts!

Know, one thing I definitely know about the Premier League, all levels

of football, but this is especially unforgiving. Good runs come round,

awkward runs come round equally as quickly, sometimes more so when you

are not the superpower of the division. So far we have had a good

season, and I would agree with people. We are really keen and

working hard with the group to make sure we do what we have too. I know

you almost sick of talking about this but if you look at Turf Moor,

ten wins is almost unbelievable and achievement but you search for that

first win away from home? I'm not sick of talking about it, it is

there to be spoken about, an anomaly that is there to be mentioned.

We have been closing games, delivering good enough performances

to get a win, we haven't got that. Margins have been equally tight at

home, sometimes away you need that. Whether it is luck, or good play.

The main thing for me, it's points on the board. That has always been

the goal this season. See hominy points you get on the board and at

the end of the season, you will know. Is the way you get those

points important to you? It is a game of opinions and some Burnley

fans would say that Boyd and Armfield are Sean Dyche players,

what about others? Fans are open to their opinions, they have a bigger

say than ever. That's no problem to me. The fact I work is that the team

is the strength. Nothing against even, he is a fine player but has to

fit into the team on any given day to make it work. And he has had his

injuries as well. That is superb from Jeff Hendrick 's! That was like

Schmeichel! How difficult is it to manage Premier League players with

everything that goes on around Premier League football? I wouldn't

have said if you years ago that I would have imagined they are

superpower clubs. It's like having 25 mini companies. A lot of these

players now are not about just the players, they have agents, Private

physios, private sports scientists, that is different here. We are not a

giant club. My players don't have two or three

agents and specialists, etc. One of the things that is clear in

management is that every manager, whatever level, have their own

challenges. You have the ridges and the magnificent players, but they

take managing -- riches. To get them successful and winning

games, ultimately. Everybody has their own challenges, mine or the

realities of financing the club and balance that against the team's

production, the players being successful for them and the team. In

general, the Premier League for anyone involved is all consuming,

can you easily switch from the bubble that is the Premier League? I

don't think so easily, but you get more used to it. You have those

times away from the realities, with your family and things like that.

It comes with raising their profile, Burnley are not giants of the

division but because of the exposure you get recognised a lot more. I

blend well, as you can imagine! Most people say, in my experience, it has

been pleasant. Most fans know the hierarchy of the

league, not just on a piece of paper, they know where we are in the

grand scheme of things. They haven't been of empathy that it

is a tough challenge for us all of the time. You look to outperform the

market. The keyboard warriors sometimes hide behind acidic terms,

but mostly when you meet people they are decent. From the, Darryl Rice

say it, the worldwide perspective, there is no doubt that everybody is

delighted that Pep Guardiola is here, and Antonio Conte has come for

stock as a young English manager, are you ambitious in the Premier

League? Do you think one day that you would like a crack at that?

Absolutely, as a player you maximise your soft and it's the same as

manager. One thing people forget is that a lot of managers in the

Premier League have been successful in their own right -- maximise

yourself. Not many come from nowhere. But it

is the English Premier League, is it important that one day an English

manager wins the title in the English Premier League? It would be

helpful, it enhances that there are some very good English managers and

coaches out there. Eddie Howe for example has done an

amazing job. An absolutely fantastic job. If they don't build a statue of

him at Bournemouth, I don't know who would! All we can do as British

coaches is keep working hard and try to be successful. Over time maybe we

will be recognised from one of the biggest clubs? Who knows? And from

the supporters view at the weekend this is one of those games, with

Zlatan Ibrahimovic... Especially in these parts, the north-west hotbed

of football that it is, we have been on the rise for the last few years

and playing some of the superpowers of football, for Burnley fans they

will be quietly delighted. Even those who question why I don't

play Steven! They will be delighted. -- why I don't placed even before.

He scores for Burnley! In this wonderful Lancashire setting, can

you clear up the story about the Friday for bits and the players

going in this river? It's grown legs somewhere, it's a bit of banter with

the lads, it isn't weakly. We made one team out of three teams who lost

a round robin, and we made them sit in there for a minute.

Good fun for the lads on the bridge behind me. We don't do it every

week, it isn't a coaching plan! Not something you learn on the Pro

Licence? You would be surprised that this range stories going out. It is

cold, no matter what time of year, trust me! I will decline your

invitation but thank you for your time!

They are not mathematically safe yet...

Burnley have been in the Premier League before

Will they do it? The Swansea team are in real trouble, but Shaun Daesh

is a realist. He knows the players that he has, and their strengths and

weaknesses. And he plays to their strengths. They are organised, they

have more of a goal threat this season compared to last time they

were in the Premier League. He's done an unbelievable job and I

thought at the start of the season they would be in a relegation scrap.

They are not really down where Swansea and Hull are at the moment,

fighting for their lives. What do you admire about what he's done from

a distance? He looks like someone who can motivate the players, he

looks like a shout and personally I would not respond to that, but a lot

of footballers do -- shouter. And Turf Moor is a very old-fashioned

ground, they've got that going for them. They are an anomaly in their

home form? Yes, it's a different experience going there to Old

Trafford or the emirates or Anfield. Did that bother you? That the fans

were right on top of you? Not really, it's an old-fashioned ground

but they've got a tremendous home form, but I disagree about the

shouting thing, in terms of... It is the information. Players will see

through a manager if they are talking nonsense in a second. The

Burnley, they do not play fantasy couple. He keeps the players

grounded. That is why they have been successful this season -- but

Burnley do not play Fantasy Football Club appears a fan of Howe, he wants

a statue of him at Bournemouth. There are not many managers like

that in the Premier League, where can they take Burnley? Do they have

too aspired to be stoic, cementing a place in the middle of the Premier

League? I think that Burnley fans will take that, don't get too far

ahead of themselves -- should they aspire to be Stoke?

Elis' good friend, John Robins, lives and breathes football.

Cheers! Hi, I'm comedian and digital DJ John Robins. Ask any man on the

street what they associate with me and they will tell you... Who?

That's right, football! I've got all of the kit, get there, I play once a

week, you're welcome! And I know all of the lingo... Oh rest, you silly

goose can he touched it with his hand! The beautiful game, the

correct run, massive that snooker, call it what you will, I love

football! -- massive City soon .

But I have a secret, I've never been to a game. You aren't a real fan.

You aren't a real fan. As tedious and argument as it is possible to

have come as you don't get it in any other sport. I'm upset with the

Ryder Cup, utterly absurd. Nobody has had a go at me for not flying to

Madonna in 2012. Like a normal human being I watched it in a friend 's

flat and scared a girl I did not know by screaming at Martin Kaymer.

So, why don't you go? Why don't you go and watch the beautiful lake

tennis from those hallowed plinths? I will tell you why. I don't like

crowds, I don't like noise, I don't like traffic. Cheers! I don't like

chanting on public transport.

I don't like aggression of any kind. In the privacy of my own home,

screaming into my own mirror though...

You... I get it, you pity me. Because I'm not a real fan! All, sod

off! I like sofas and a 1-person, 1-person policy. -- toilet policy. I

like solitude! For the armchair and use yes, maybe that should not be a

derogatory term any more. They are amazing! Maybe you are supposed to

take the Mickey and utter those dreaded words, that you aren't a

real fan. How many times have you heard this? The atmosphere was

amazing, you were ten minutes late because of the traffic I missed the

first goal because I was at the bar, it was amazing but you wouldn't know

that, would you? No, I wouldn't. Cheers!

I can't imagine you've got a lot of empathy with John there, he's never

been to a football match but he is a fan, do you understand that? You are

right, no empathy! I can see why you are friends! I can't believe you

haven't managed to persuade him to come with you! On a sunny Saturday

afternoon to watch Swansea... I tried my best, you really doesn't

like crowds. I should start him off with a preseason game or testimonial

game. -- he really does not like crowds. I would want him to go to

Cardiff or the FA Cup. I do not think he would like it, and Old Firm

game, or into Milan versus AC Milan. He is a huge golf fan, I get that

point, but he's never been to the Ryder Cup. There are some pure and

chess boards fans. Maybe we made it too easy? You did not have the

amount of sport on TV that we do now when you were kids... -- pure

armchair sports fans. You don't have to defend your friendship! It's an

awkward position... I know a lot of tennis fans who have been to

Wimbledon... It is difficult to get tickets?! Those who do not support

those sports in the same way that football fan support football teams,

it is a different culture and he likes to sit at home watching. One

of the reasons I could not get him down to the football pitch, he likes

his own toilet and ours are the worst in the league! I was thinking,

nobody has two suffer this. This is the worst toilet experience... But

they have improved now? I don't like them, they are to clean! I don't

think John will be going to a football match any time soon...

There's live football on the BBC this weekend

with the tantalising FA Cup semifinal between the

Join Gary Lineker with Frank Lampard, Jermaine Jenas

and Alan Shearer on Saturday for Chelsea versus Tottenham

I think you've witnessed the start of something special between Chris

and Elis. He's my new best friend, or my dad!

We'll be back in two weeks' time with some special

guests in Leicester, so please join us then.

Don't forget, if you've missed anything you can always catch up

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And whether your team is at the bottom of the league

or at the top, I hope you have a great weekend.