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Good afternoon, welcome to Match of the Day 2 Extra on BBC Two, | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Joining me today - Leicester full-back Danny Simpson, | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
former West Ham and QPR winger Trevor Sinclair and | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Use the hashtag #bbcfootball on social media or text 85058 | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
Leicester are five points clear with nine games to go. | :00:52. | :01:03. | |
Tottenham and Arsenal share the spoils in the North London | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
Pressure grows on Steve McClaren's Newcastle | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
And West Ham continue to fight for the Champions League places, | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
coming from behind to win at Everton. | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
The Sunday Times - Foxes pull away from pack. | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
It also has the headline "Chelsea's shock move to tempt Pochettino". | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
The Mail on Sunday - You'll have to sack me. | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
The Sunday Telegraph - Newcastle prepare to move for Moyes. | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
Leicester five points clear at the top after beating Watford, before we | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
get the thoughts of everyone around the table, let's hear from Claudio | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
Ranieri. Is the biggest danger to you the moment at which people start | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
to think that the title is yours? We have to fight again a lot. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Step-by-step, we have to maintain our boot on the ground and continue | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
to fight. Just at the end we can say what happened. Five points clear | :02:19. | :02:26. | |
with nine games to play. I am sorry but we know, every match is in this | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
way, every team can win or lose because now a lot of teams are | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
fighting to remain in the Premier League and then, slowly, slowly. Can | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
I ask you finally, do you get a sense that mutual supporters are | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
behind you? Yeah, I feel this because a lot of people stop me on | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
the way and say if I don't win I want Leicester to win the title. | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
Thank you. There is a good energy behind us and we must continue with | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
this energy. Danny let me asked about him, you would have had | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
perceptions of him managing at other clubs and interviews he has given | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
across Europe, behind the scenes in training has he surprised you? Yes, | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
he has. You see the interviews and he's like that around the training | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
ground, he is funny. They can be serious at times but I did not | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
expect him to be as he is, he is rarely camp. -- he is really calm. | :03:33. | :03:42. | |
It is coming on to us as a team, we can have a laugh and a joke with | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
him, him and Jamie Vardy have some banter in the team meetings. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
Everything is coming together. But there is a rod of iron as well? Yes, | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
the respect is there from the players. When you play with a | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
manager who is so calm, the media guys were saying you need passion | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
but at times it's about keeping emotion out of it and being able to | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
go out there as relaxed as you can and perform what you do every day in | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
training. From the outside that is what looks like happening. It is. A | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
few of the lads when he first came in were worried, he is foreign, | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
Italian, he would bring in a lot of foreign players. But he came and | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
watched everyone closely and stuck with the core and we have tried to | :04:34. | :04:49. | |
repay that fade. And the players will get a boost from that. Yes. It | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
takes the pressure off? Yeah, you get a new manager, will they bring | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
in foreign players, but he came and straightaway gave us a chance. It is | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
working out. Key embodies what you are all about, because he has a | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
point to prove. These are all players who have been released by | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
clubs, Jamie Vardy was in the non-league, Riyad Mahrez people did | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
not know much about, Mark Albright and left Aston Villa. If you look at | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Claudio Ranieri and his career there has always been a bridesmaid element | :05:27. | :05:36. | |
to him. You could be presented with the trophy at Chelsea in front of | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
Roman Abramovich, given what Claudio Ranieri went through there, he is | :05:40. | :05:47. | |
only private mission as well. You can see the defence, I am sure he | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
drills you quite strongly? Yes, that is why it helped me get in the team, | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
he is Italian and he expects his defenders to defend. If you don't | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
you will be in on Monday morning in the TV room showing clips. Video | :06:04. | :06:14. | |
nasties! He does not want to embarrass you, he just says whoever | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
plays that position, this is what I expect. As a team, defensively, | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
plays that position, this is what I expect us to work hard. Do you do a | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
lot of shadow play where you will put a ball in a certain position and | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
he will put you in the position you need to be as a defender? Yeah, but | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
more so when we do analysis with the video he will say in this situation | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
I expect you to be there. If you are not, he will flag it up. It is not | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
too embarrassing, it is just what he expects. At the moment we are just | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
peppering you with questions but we will get onto other stuff and it | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
will be more of a discussion. Can I ask you from the perspective of a | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
full-back what having Mahrez in front of you means? I asked Neil | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
Taylor this when Montero was flying at Swansea and he said one of the | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
things which changed was he did not go on the overlap as much because he | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
could not catchment area to go around him! What does having Mahrez | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
in front of you mean for your game? Similar to what Neil Taylor says, I | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
leave them to it. He can go both ways. If I overlap him, I don't want | :07:33. | :07:39. | |
to get in his space. Give him the ball and he is a magician. I just | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
support him and if he needs me he can turn out. Always an option. | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
Yeah. Journalist and fans watching it, you smile because it is | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
beautiful to see, as a professional can you step back and go that was | :08:00. | :08:06. | |
beautiful? Yeah, sometimes in a game I have wrapped it into him and his | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
first touch around the full-back and you just sort of smile to yourself! | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
He has made my password better! LAUGHTER | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
I was lucky enough to play with pie would a cameo and at times you would | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
give him the ball and what he would do to defenders you would be | :08:25. | :08:36. | |
laughing -- play with Paolo Di Canio. Yesterday he had a calmness | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
about him, playing with confidence, what is it, 16 goals? He wanted to | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
get it onto the left-hand side but like Chris wobble you know what he | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
wants to do. The manager plays right wing but he has the licence to drift | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
inside, you can go to the left-hand side because he has the ability to | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
play there as well. He is just a clever player. I think yesterday, | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
his goal, his first touch, he slotted it. Does he give you | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
protection or do you get more protection from Danny Drinkwater and | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Kante coming over to help you? He is working harder now, we have accepted | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
he won't always get back because we need him up there. But as I said, | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
you have Danny June quarter and Kante who will come over and help me | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
out -- Danny Drinkwater. It is just the way the manager has set us up. | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
You sit next to him in the dressing room, does that help to develop the | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
understanding? Yeah, sometimes with foreign players you can be, it can | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
be a bit like this, but we got to know each other more often pictured | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
by sitting next to one another and we have built the relationship off | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
the pitch. I speak to him in a certain way and he will listen and | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
we help each other out in that way. Have you been in another dressing | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
room that is as close as this one appears to be? No, the closest I had | :10:24. | :10:33. | |
was at QPR, the hole play-off scenario. We really pulled together. | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
But I would say this is by far the best team spirit I have had, on the | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
pitch, off the pitch, we relate close and want to do well for each | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
other. No coincidence, two positive situations, QPR going for promotion | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
and with Leicester you have forged relationships all over the pitch. I | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
know the manager doesn't want people talking about the title and has been | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
playing it down all season but when you are at home in an afternoon are | :11:04. | :11:10. | |
going to go to bid, those thoughts must go through your head? You would | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
be an human for them not? The manager is right in what he is | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
saying, we have to concentrate and focus on the next game which is | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Newcastle. We cannot affect what Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
do. But it is hard sometimes not to, not pay interest in what is going | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
on. The manager wants us to focus on us but wherever we go somebody will | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
tell us the score, somebody will mention it, but he's right in what | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
he says, we just have to focus on our job. Watching Clyde are an early | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
he said he can sense the rest of the country is behind him -- watching | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
Claudio Ranieri there he said. Can you sense that around the country? | :12:00. | :12:07. | |
Yeah, I did about and fans are saying that if 13 does not win and | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
they want us to win it, it is nice to hear -- that if the team does | :12:13. | :12:25. | |
not. It is still long way to go. Spurs and Arsenal plans do not want | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
you to win it, we will talk about that game in a minute, in the | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
Scottish Cup we have goal. A second of the afternoon for Celtic, | :12:37. | :12:45. | |
possibly their best move of the game, Gary Mackay-Steven is putting | :12:46. | :12:57. | |
it into the net. At the moment 2-0. 27 minutes gone. David says get | :12:58. | :13:04. | |
Danny Drinkwater in the England team. Brian says that the league is | :13:05. | :13:13. | |
Leicester's to throw away. I will not get you to comment on that! Lots | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
of messages on Arsenal, one saying that a draw is not good enough for | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
Arsenal, they needed six points this week and got one. Another seeing | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
Arsenal are still without a win in five games, is it time for Arsene | :13:28. | :13:36. | |
Wenger to call it a day. I was speaking to an Arsenal fan who was | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
wondering why there was not a lot of talk in a newspaper about Spurs | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
lacking bottle after letting a lead slip? That is fair criticism after | :13:44. | :13:54. | |
all the stick we have given Arsenal for similar things. But he is | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
building a team to challenge for the title, Mauricio Pochettino. They are | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
still three points ahead of Arsenal without the same outlay on players. | :14:05. | :14:10. | |
This is a long-running debate about Wenger, I personally think he should | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
stand down in the summer, it has just gone on, you look out Mauricio | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Pochettino is developing teams, this was Arsenal 's window of opportunity | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
to win the title for the first time since 2004. With great respect | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
Leicester, will there be another Leicester next season? Chelsea will | :14:29. | :14:37. | |
come back strong with the new manager, Manchester United will | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
invest and probably have Mourinho. Manchester City have Pep Guardiola | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
coming in. They are eight points behind with three times the wage | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
bill of Leicester City and that is why the focus is on Arsenal. I think | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
it is valid, losing against West Ham, the fact that Dele Alli played | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
90 minutes, for me he was clearly not fit. He has a problem with his | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
ankle. Brilliant for the player to want to play, normally a player has | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
a broken eyelash and they are out for a couple of weeks, he wanted to | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
play but he was not moving right. He has made his mark this season with | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
the intensity and fitness and workrate but was not able to do | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
that. I thought manager budgeting or should have at least brought him off | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
at some stage. He made the golfer Kane. That is a valid point but I | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
think he needs to rest his ankle to get back to where he needs to be and | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
if you keep playing it would heal quickly. Psychologically it helped | :15:34. | :15:41. | |
Arsenal yesterday. Down to ten men, 2-1 within five minutes, I would say | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
not one person would think they were going to get back in it just because | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
of the results in the last few weeks. I think it might have helped, | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
ten men and they got back into it and got a point out of it. That | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
might give them a boost. Then when you result came in, they had archly | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
lost places. Luke says you have to worry for | :16:08. | :16:29. | |
them. Please contact us. I know you got sent off against Arsenal but out | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
of both, Arsenal have your new home and away the season and you have | :16:36. | :16:43. | |
taken ten two points. -- four points. What was for the? The Spurs | :16:44. | :16:56. | |
away game was very tough. We nicked it. Every area of the pitch, they | :16:57. | :17:04. | |
were at it. Going forward, as a defender, they were attacking us and | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
you could feel that threat. And they were defensively strong. Even though | :17:11. | :17:19. | |
we took points from Spurs, as a team, I felt they were stronger. But | :17:20. | :17:28. | |
Arsenal, the players, like Sanchez, as a team, I would say then... If | :17:29. | :17:37. | |
you look at the stats, they have covered the second bus distance out | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
of all of the Premier league teams, Bournemouth have got so much energy | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
and Pochettino works those players very hard, he has a freshness, | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
double sessions and the foundations of their to have a very good run in | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
this season and once you start the season, it is difficult to improve | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
fitness, that work was done in the summer and they are reaping the | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
rewards. Are you suggesting the game has moved on past Arsene Wenger? The | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
issue with Arsene Wenger, heavily debated last night, the fans were | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
positive, they went into meltdown and the focus on Arsene Wenger is | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
this is one of the most visionary managers we have ever seen in | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
professional football over 140 years. And he is a legend. When he | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
came in and he transformed the whole with that beautiful passing on the | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
pitch, refuelling. Invincible is, he transformed English with all so I | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
wonder if that legacy is being tarnished by the fact that Arsenal | :18:45. | :18:50. | |
are drifting. They might do the double and retain the FA Cup and | :18:51. | :18:53. | |
three in a row is impressive but this was their opportunity to win | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
the title in a slightly fallow season, with respect to Leicester, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
and the criticism that he is getting his deserved but the broader picture | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
of that has Arsene Wenger being an unbelievable influence in this | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
country is true. Back to yesterday, I know that you were watching it and | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
whenever Eric Dyer did not get that second yellow card... I mean, it was | :19:22. | :19:29. | |
back to the age-old thing of consistency. I didn't speak much | :19:30. | :19:37. | |
about that, I thought it was soft but seeing that yesterday, but was | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
fair, for pulling back, so the second one was worse than the first | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
so why was that not a yellow card? It is just consistency. Starting on | :19:48. | :19:55. | |
the yellow, and then more yellows. What is about as a player when you | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
can hear the noise outside the dressing room? -- what is it like. I | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
felt like I let the boys down, in the dressing room, the worst thing | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
was I felt helpless. Everybody was out there and I was not allowed to | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
go out, I was alone in the dressing room. Time to reflect? It was a long | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
time, 55 minutes. Did you go into the shower? For ten seconds! I got | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
them to put it onto the television but I could hear the crowd and there | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
was that really on the television, and it was 1-1, and the last 30 | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
seconds, I could you the fans celebrating. Thanks for that, | :20:43. | :20:52. | |
Welbeck. And after that... When you are coming off and the manager has | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
his job to do and you're out of the equation and you completely blanks | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
you walking off, that must be harsh. He is slightly arm around the | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
shoulder, dirty blanket? No, the lads are just unbeaten in the last | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
30 seconds and they came over to me. That shows the team you have got. -- | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
they were just beaten. It is not your fault, it is just one game. We | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
had just eaten City and Liverpool. Move on. We have two games, West | :21:29. | :21:39. | |
Brom, Man United, Crystal Palace against Liverpool at 1:30pm. And the | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
last thing that the Crystal Palace manager would have wanted after 11 | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
Premier league matches without victory is to lose key players and | :21:49. | :21:54. | |
they are Wayne Hennessey and Connor Wickham. He's scored two braces in | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
the last two games, Hennessey is the regular goalkeeper. McCarthy and | :22:01. | :22:09. | |
Adebayor coming in, and Ledley is in. Liverpool, Mamadou Sakho coming | :22:10. | :22:18. | |
in, Daniel Sturridge is on the bench. The band on behalf of the | :22:19. | :22:25. | |
none, they are not a one-man team but the lack of Bolasie has been a | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
problem. And they don't have any goal-scorer? That is a huge talent, | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
Bolasie, coming out of the blue, and we talk about balance and agility | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
and speed and power, he has been so useful for Crystal Palace and he has | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
been sorely missed and you not believe they can get a result. | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
Without Connor Wickham, someone on this run of form, you want them to | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
still be in that team? Yes, I do not know if you have ever been standing | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
next to him, he is massive. He is a serious heavyweight. That is a huge | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
blow and given away the table they should be fine but a lot of this is | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
the curse of England speculation. Tipping the manager to be the next | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
England manager, and then the results tend to head south, which | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
happens with Alan Pardew. They have fallen off the cliff. Going forward, | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
so much ambition, speed, and all of a sudden they cannot win. Luckily | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
they have 33 points but you would fear for them. Probably 35 should be | :23:46. | :23:53. | |
fine. What is he like to play for? For me, he is one of the better | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
managers I have worked with. He was great for me that you cancel, the | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
years that we came in, we had a very good team, we had Cabaye, Ben Arfur, | :24:06. | :24:19. | |
Joey Barton. We had a good team, it was a very good squad. And he made | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
that impact and we ended up getting into the Europa League and finished | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
in fifth place but as a manager of men he was top-class. He would get | :24:29. | :24:36. | |
you in with his speech and even tactically, he made sure that the | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
tactics were spot-on for the game. For me, he is a top manager. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
Newcastle at the moment are a very different club, second from the | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
bottom. Eaten at home by Bournemouth. Here is Steve McClaren. | :24:52. | :24:59. | |
You needed a very big performance, are you disappointed? Very | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
disappointed. But was definitely a performance that if we carry on like | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
that, that is going down material without any doubt. The only positive | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
is we have got ten games left to go and we know that in those games, we | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
have to find those fighters. I thought that Janmaat, Colback, the | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
epitomised what we needed to win today but they did not epitomised | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
that and that is being brutally honest. And we cannot dress that up, | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
we cannot play like that and hope to stay up. It must change and we have | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
to be more consistent and people have to step forward and at the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
present moment, not enough of them are doing that and we also need | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
characters are injured back on the training field and back onto the | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
pitch. Unfortunately -- fortunately, we have got ten left, and that is | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
enough to show the fight, it is a four team league at the minute, they | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
will play everyone around us but today, that was not good enough. | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
Celtic have got their third against Morton. As a Newcastle fan, Henry | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
Winter, without give you hope? You would have thought about getting | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
that road map out for the championship and when you think, | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
that is his opportunity to send the message, the best managers do that, | :26:33. | :26:37. | |
Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, using the media to get his message across and | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
he comes out their and you are depressed listening to him, his | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
shoulders slumped and that is just the press conference. Everybody | :26:46. | :26:48. | |
knows what he is like the players and the fans must be going crazy. | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
The thing about Steve McClaren, you have been coached by him and we have | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
seen that he is a good coach, he will move everyone around and you | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
will get them set up properly but in terms of going through those gears, | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
the motion, saying the right words at the right time, getting the | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
tactics right, he is not top grade, we saw that with England, | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Middlesbrough, will spring, occasionally, but he is a coach | :27:17. | :27:20. | |
whereas what Newcastle want is a younger Bobby Robson, somebody to | :27:21. | :27:28. | |
inspire them, even Keegan, he had his faults but he lifted his | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
players. The fans will be depressed. It is a huge task when they keep on | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
performing so inconsistently. And when you look at Norwich and Alex | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
Neil, but this honour, the manager's Egger 's job is to pick up those | :27:45. | :27:49. | |
players and then lose and from that interview, I am not getting that and | :27:50. | :27:52. | |
they have lost some games, the Liverpool game, he did look like... | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
Told the players of any responsibility? When you watch them, | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
you know, I have no idea whether they do or not but it is not look | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
like any of them have any individual responsibility? But the job of the | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
manager is to pick them up as a unit and individually and from what I | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
have seen, Alex Neil might have struggled after his appointment and | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
I think that Steve McClaren is struggling also. He came to QPR, he | :28:20. | :28:26. | |
was the coach. And with those lads, he was top-class. Yes, relent. | :28:27. | :28:35. | |
Fulham, he was very good. I do not know what is going on. That is not | :28:36. | :28:40. | |
the Steve McClaren that we know. I was coached by him at England and he | :28:41. | :28:43. | |
would get into the circle before training and would be pushing the | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
ball is round, he is infectious. That is the issue, he is too chummy. | :28:48. | :28:56. | |
Alex Neil is a fighter, I would not want to cross them but Steve | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
McClaren, he wants to be the friend of the players. He was like that at | :29:01. | :29:08. | |
QPR, he was close. You can be a friend as a coach? Yes, everyone of | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
us could go to him. Whether he was playing or in the stand. I do not | :29:15. | :29:21. | |
know as a manager. And I still know some of those lads at Newcastle but | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
I have not spoken to them for a while. I am not sure what is going | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
on. That is what happened with Harry Redknapp. And those QPR fans were | :29:30. | :29:36. | |
very pleased with that, Harry was a manager, Steve McClaren was the | :29:37. | :29:39. | |
coach, and then Harry would give that team talk and that was a | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
fantastic combination but as a manager he does not have the right | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
formula. Dan says, I love people criticising the Newcastle fans, zero | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
effort from the players every week. I am surprised that some former | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
players are criticising the fans, saying they are not creating an | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
atmosphere for the players. They have every right? Every right to be | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
as disgruntled and angry as they are, given the way the club has gone | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
over the last ten years? You could argue it is even longer than that. | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
In terms of trophies. They are amongst the most loyal in the | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
country. It is a one club time and you go there, Ferguson had this, you | :30:21. | :30:27. | |
would go there, go to the ground and it would be like a match day even if | :30:28. | :30:32. | |
it was not a non match day, this cathedral on the hill and they would | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
go there and it would worship. It is a remarkable place. I would agree, | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
it is hard to criticise an area of the country but has not had the best | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
times economically and with what they have to pay for tickets and | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
they keep turning up and they keep getting lets down and the one thing | :30:50. | :30:54. | |
that the fans want is just pride in the shirt. You have played there. If | :30:55. | :30:59. | |
you just give everything, for the team and that shirt... | :31:00. | :31:04. | |
But if you stand back and let Charlie Daniels go on a long run and | :31:05. | :31:10. | |
put the ball in the back of the net you deserve what you get don't you? | :31:11. | :31:17. | |
Yes, I was there four years and up until now it was probably the best | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
time of my career. If every single player is fighting on the pitch the | :31:23. | :31:30. | |
fans are happy. The whole city is basically Newcastle, Newcastle. The | :31:31. | :31:34. | |
petrol station, go for food, the waiter or waitress, everything, all | :31:35. | :31:40. | |
people, everyone is focused on Newcastle. If you give 100% they are | :31:41. | :31:44. | |
happy, so you cannot criticise the fans I don't think. Do you think a | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
lot of players realise this, that if you give 100% we will be all right | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
with you? Look at Aston Villa as well as they just around yesterday. | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
As soon as you cross the line that is the minimum you should give, bad | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
game or a good game, as long as you give 100% the fans will back you and | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
they are not seeing that Newcastle. Was Alan Shearer right last night | :32:11. | :32:13. | |
when he said the whole club is a mess? Steve McClaren is on the | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
board, how does that work? He should not be on the board, how does that | :32:20. | :32:25. | |
work? Will he sat himself? He might come out later and give himself a | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
vote of confidence! It is like Arsenal, Wenger has too much power | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
there. What Alan Shearer said last night it was like having a fan | :32:34. | :32:39. | |
there. It was outrageous, you could see how much it meant to him as a | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
Newcastle lad and the players are not showing it. He is disappointed | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
that so many good players, this proverbial hotbed of football, so | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
many players go away at a young age. Newcastle United should build a | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
blockade on the A-1 to stop these talented kids moving away. I am not | :32:58. | :33:05. | |
sure they would be allowed to do that... But another message here | :33:06. | :33:12. | |
saying I am lost for words, this is the lowest the club has been in the | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
modern era. Another seeing I watched the five-a-side for sports Leith and | :33:17. | :33:23. | |
those players putting more effort than the players do. -- sport | :33:24. | :33:33. | |
relief. Have time at Celtic. 3-0, as expected pretty much on the basis of | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
form. Leigh Griffiths putting Celtic ahead before Gary Mackay-Steven | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
doubled that margin halfway through the first half, then Calum McGregor | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
taking on half of the Greenock Morton team and making it all the | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
way to the ten yard mark before scoring. But Johannson was brought | :33:50. | :33:54. | |
down by Michael Miller just before half-time and it looked to me like a | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
studs up challenge and he had just been booked, but the referee did not | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
seem to see it was him who did it. Johannson has been taken off and | :34:05. | :34:07. | |
looks unlikely to start the second half. Thank you. Danny Simpsons, | :34:08. | :34:14. | |
Henry Winter and Trevor Sinclair here with me. As far as relegation | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
is concerned, you have a table in front of you Trevor, Sunderland just | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
above the drop zone, eight points between themselves and Swansea, so | :34:25. | :34:30. | |
for you, three from four? I think Sunderland stay up. Aston Villa have | :34:31. | :34:37. | |
gone. Newcastle, from what I have seen and the pressure the manager is | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
under and the response the players are giving him, which is literally | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
zilch, and Sunderland were so unlucky not to get the win | :34:45. | :34:51. | |
yesterday. I think Sunderland have bought well in the transfer window | :34:52. | :34:58. | |
in January, brought in a big defender. Sam Allardyce does what he | :34:59. | :35:02. | |
says on the tin, he will keep them up, for me. And Jermain Defoe as | :35:03. | :35:08. | |
well, when you have a goal-scorer like that. Sam Allardyce teams, you | :35:09. | :35:13. | |
have played against them, they are always tough and robust, | :35:14. | :35:16. | |
psychologically strong. One or two issues at Newcastle but I am sure he | :35:17. | :35:24. | |
will keep them up. When you're down there, are you analysing other clubs | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
fixtures? You do. Last year I think if you ask the fans are any of the | :35:31. | :35:37. | |
other players, we were always in games. There was always one goal in | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
it. We were not getting thumped. So we always knew we just needed to | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
keep doing what we were doing and get a few breaks. Once you get one | :35:48. | :35:52. | |
win it gives you the left and you have to kick on from that. Massive | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
difference when you're getting beating by three or four, the morale | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
and confidence pours out the place. But if it's just the odd goal and | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
you have been unlucky I think it keeps the confidence high and the | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
belief amongst the players. Everton against West Ham, West Ham fifth, | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
just a point behind Manchester City. They were 2-0 down, Everton down to | :36:15. | :36:21. | |
ten men, Lukaku missed a penalty and before you knew it West Ham won 3-2. | :36:22. | :36:28. | |
This season has always been special but today felt like a special day | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
with minute and the West Ham supporters greeted it like you had | :36:32. | :36:36. | |
won a trophy, it has that kind of psychology? Definitely. We were a | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
bit tired, although we played good, but the reactions and the | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
transitions especially, defensive transition, we will of its -- we | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
were not sharp enough baby because we had such a big game on Wednesday | :36:55. | :37:02. | |
night against Spurs. But I am pleased not only with the win, I am | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
pleased with how we played. 2-0 down of course I am not happy, but I was, | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
again, proud of the way they were playing. Great day for us. That is | :37:12. | :37:22. | |
an understatement Trevor Sinclair? A remarkable season for them this | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
year. The way the players have gone out and played without fear, Dimitri | :37:27. | :37:31. | |
Payet is a superstar and the impact he has had this year has been second | :37:32. | :37:36. | |
to none. For me he is up there with Mahrez, the goals he has scored, | :37:37. | :37:40. | |
scored eight and created seven or one way or the other, he missed a | :37:41. | :37:46. | |
bit of the season but West Ham as a whole played with a great spirit. | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
Coming from 2-0 down at Goodison Park is incredible and they deserved | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
it. Once they got the first goal they could sense it and they have | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
the players, getting crosses in and looked dangerous. I was listening to | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
Antonio this morning saying Slaven Billic had told them get the ball in | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
the box because they are not buoyant at the pending in the air from set | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
pieces in particular. -- they are not brilliant at defending in the | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
air. It is horses for courses, they can change it and mix it up. I am | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
surprised that people are surprised that Slaven Billic has been a | :38:24. | :38:31. | |
success. Just meeting him and going into press conferences with him he | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
is a very uplifting and powerful personality. The main aim for West | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
Ham this season was to stay in the Premier League so they go to the | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
yellow Brick Stadium with that status intact so they can then sell | :38:43. | :38:48. | |
season tickets all around the area. -- go to the Olympic Stadium. When | :38:49. | :38:56. | |
you hear players talking so highly of Slaven Billic before he took the | :38:57. | :39:04. | |
job that speaks so much to me. You knew he would have an impact on the | :39:05. | :39:10. | |
players. He comes up with wonderful phrases, saying he would have to go | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
and buy a dictionary to express more words to express the poetry he feels | :39:15. | :39:20. | |
about Dimitri Payet. And that is gold for us as journalists. Antonio | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
was saying when you have some daylight Dimitri Payet and the | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
opposition focus on him it creates space for other players. Yesterday | :39:30. | :39:36. | |
there were 12 players around Mahrez every time he got the ball which | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
left space for Kante and Danny Drinkwater to get at it and switch | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
it and dictate. That is credit to him, he has adapted to that. Not let | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
it get to him, he just gets on with it. That is the keyword, adapting. | :39:52. | :39:58. | |
West Ham getting crosses in because they thought Everton were | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
susceptible, talking about Mahrez being able to adapt, you have to be | :40:02. | :40:12. | |
able to adapt throughout the game. Drinkwater used the ball so well | :40:13. | :40:19. | |
yesterday. A message saying West Ham will take fourth, quality teamwork | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
and the right mentality. Another seeing West Ham have class and | :40:24. | :40:30. | |
resilience. I pointed out you have 27 different teams but you support | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
them all on Twitter, but a fourth place was between Manchester City | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
and West Ham that would be a dilemma wouldn't it? I am just going to go | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
and sit in that corner! It would be a dilemma. That is all I am saying, | :40:48. | :40:54. | |
I am not going to ask you who... Good! Everton fans have every right | :40:55. | :41:03. | |
to be angry as well don't they? Yeah and there is a sizeable movement, if | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
that's the right word, against Martinez which I think is slightly | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
harsh. He is trying to play the right way, developing them but as | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
ever with his teams he just needs to work more defensively. Going forward | :41:17. | :41:22. | |
they have fabulous players, Lukaku, Ross Barkley. But one or two | :41:23. | :41:27. | |
mistakes made by individuals so can you blame Martinez for that? A lot | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
of Everton fans have judging by social media, which are the | :41:34. | :41:39. | |
substitutions. Aaron Lennon was taken off yesterday, if you are down | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
to ten men you still had to keep some kind of threat. I have been to | :41:43. | :41:48. | |
Goodison Park recently where his substitutions were hammered by the | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
supporters. This is one of Leicester 's biggest things, I am giving away | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
some secrets, but Jamie Vardy goes and stands on the left wing, Mahrez | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
on the right. You have to double up on both of them because Jamie Vardy | :42:03. | :42:06. | |
has the speed and Mahrez is twinkle toes. So you have less to deal with | :42:07. | :42:12. | |
defending and when you get the ball you cause problems because there is | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
a mass of hole in the middle. I think the problem with Everton is | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
that going forward is fine but they are not getting the balance right | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
and they are conceding too many goals. If it was an individual | :42:26. | :42:29. | |
error, that will happen but some of the goals they conceded yesterday, | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
that is not about individual error is it about being in the right | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
position for certain scenarios. As Danny said earlier, Claudio Ranieri | :42:38. | :42:45. | |
analyses where players should be. The player has to come across until | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
the hole and that is not happening at Everton in my opinion. Simon says | :42:49. | :42:55. | |
enough is enough, Martinez is not a Premier League manager, we cannot | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
defend. Another seeing that if the man who has invested all the money | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
into Everton is checking if there is a 14 day cooling off period! Another | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
seeing Martinez is a joke, can blame the red card and missed penalty but | :43:12. | :43:19. | |
enough is enough. Do you still keep an eye on your old team? Yeah. But | :43:20. | :43:28. | |
for the first time ever in my life I am looking at it hoping we don't | :43:29. | :43:38. | |
win! -- they don't. If they are on TV I was watch them however. I am | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
hoping to go to the Europa League game against Liverpool at Old | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
Trafford, I'm hoping I can go to that. What I do always watch for the | :43:48. | :43:57. | |
results. Thank you for coming on, and to you gentlemen, West Ham are | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
Manchester City? We are out of time, lucky you! Goodbye. | :44:02. | :44:04. |