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Good afternoon, welcome to Match of the Day 2 Extra on BBC Two,

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Joining me today - Leicester full-back Danny Simpson,

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former West Ham and QPR winger Trevor Sinclair and

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Use the hashtag #bbcfootball on social media or text 85058

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Leicester are five points clear with nine games to go.

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Tottenham and Arsenal share the spoils in the North London

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Pressure grows on Steve McClaren's Newcastle

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And West Ham continue to fight for the Champions League places,

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coming from behind to win at Everton.

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The Sunday Times - Foxes pull away from pack.

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It also has the headline "Chelsea's shock move to tempt Pochettino".

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The Mail on Sunday - You'll have to sack me.

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The Sunday Telegraph - Newcastle prepare to move for Moyes.

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Leicester five points clear at the top after beating Watford, before we

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get the thoughts of everyone around the table, let's hear from Claudio

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Ranieri. Is the biggest danger to you the moment at which people start

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to think that the title is yours? We have to fight again a lot.

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Step-by-step, we have to maintain our boot on the ground and continue

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to fight. Just at the end we can say what happened. Five points clear

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with nine games to play. I am sorry but we know, every match is in this

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way, every team can win or lose because now a lot of teams are

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fighting to remain in the Premier League and then, slowly, slowly. Can

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I ask you finally, do you get a sense that mutual supporters are

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behind you? Yeah, I feel this because a lot of people stop me on

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the way and say if I don't win I want Leicester to win the title.

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Thank you. There is a good energy behind us and we must continue with

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this energy. Danny let me asked about him, you would have had

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perceptions of him managing at other clubs and interviews he has given

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across Europe, behind the scenes in training has he surprised you? Yes,

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he has. You see the interviews and he's like that around the training

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ground, he is funny. They can be serious at times but I did not

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expect him to be as he is, he is rarely camp. -- he is really calm.

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It is coming on to us as a team, we can have a laugh and a joke with

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him, him and Jamie Vardy have some banter in the team meetings.

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Everything is coming together. But there is a rod of iron as well? Yes,

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the respect is there from the players. When you play with a

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manager who is so calm, the media guys were saying you need passion

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but at times it's about keeping emotion out of it and being able to

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go out there as relaxed as you can and perform what you do every day in

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training. From the outside that is what looks like happening. It is. A

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few of the lads when he first came in were worried, he is foreign,

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Italian, he would bring in a lot of foreign players. But he came and

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watched everyone closely and stuck with the core and we have tried to

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repay that fade. And the players will get a boost from that. Yes. It

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takes the pressure off? Yeah, you get a new manager, will they bring

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in foreign players, but he came and straightaway gave us a chance. It is

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working out. Key embodies what you are all about, because he has a

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point to prove. These are all players who have been released by

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clubs, Jamie Vardy was in the non-league, Riyad Mahrez people did

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not know much about, Mark Albright and left Aston Villa. If you look at

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Claudio Ranieri and his career there has always been a bridesmaid element

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to him. You could be presented with the trophy at Chelsea in front of

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Roman Abramovich, given what Claudio Ranieri went through there, he is

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only private mission as well. You can see the defence, I am sure he

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drills you quite strongly? Yes, that is why it helped me get in the team,

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he is Italian and he expects his defenders to defend. If you don't

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you will be in on Monday morning in the TV room showing clips. Video

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nasties! He does not want to embarrass you, he just says whoever

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plays that position, this is what I expect. As a team, defensively,

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plays that position, this is what I expect us to work hard. Do you do a

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lot of shadow play where you will put a ball in a certain position and

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he will put you in the position you need to be as a defender? Yeah, but

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more so when we do analysis with the video he will say in this situation

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I expect you to be there. If you are not, he will flag it up. It is not

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too embarrassing, it is just what he expects. At the moment we are just

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peppering you with questions but we will get onto other stuff and it

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will be more of a discussion. Can I ask you from the perspective of a

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full-back what having Mahrez in front of you means? I asked Neil

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Taylor this when Montero was flying at Swansea and he said one of the

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things which changed was he did not go on the overlap as much because he

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could not catchment area to go around him! What does having Mahrez

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in front of you mean for your game? Similar to what Neil Taylor says, I

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leave them to it. He can go both ways. If I overlap him, I don't want

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to get in his space. Give him the ball and he is a magician. I just

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support him and if he needs me he can turn out. Always an option.

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Yeah. Journalist and fans watching it, you smile because it is

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beautiful to see, as a professional can you step back and go that was

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beautiful? Yeah, sometimes in a game I have wrapped it into him and his

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first touch around the full-back and you just sort of smile to yourself!

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He has made my password better! LAUGHTER

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I was lucky enough to play with pie would a cameo and at times you would

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give him the ball and what he would do to defenders you would be

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laughing -- play with Paolo Di Canio. Yesterday he had a calmness

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about him, playing with confidence, what is it, 16 goals? He wanted to

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get it onto the left-hand side but like Chris wobble you know what he

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wants to do. The manager plays right wing but he has the licence to drift

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inside, you can go to the left-hand side because he has the ability to

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play there as well. He is just a clever player. I think yesterday,

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his goal, his first touch, he slotted it. Does he give you

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protection or do you get more protection from Danny Drinkwater and

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Kante coming over to help you? He is working harder now, we have accepted

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he won't always get back because we need him up there. But as I said,

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you have Danny June quarter and Kante who will come over and help me

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out -- Danny Drinkwater. It is just the way the manager has set us up.

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You sit next to him in the dressing room, does that help to develop the

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understanding? Yeah, sometimes with foreign players you can be, it can

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be a bit like this, but we got to know each other more often pictured

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by sitting next to one another and we have built the relationship off

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the pitch. I speak to him in a certain way and he will listen and

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we help each other out in that way. Have you been in another dressing

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room that is as close as this one appears to be? No, the closest I had

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was at QPR, the hole play-off scenario. We really pulled together.

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But I would say this is by far the best team spirit I have had, on the

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pitch, off the pitch, we relate close and want to do well for each

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other. No coincidence, two positive situations, QPR going for promotion

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and with Leicester you have forged relationships all over the pitch. I

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know the manager doesn't want people talking about the title and has been

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playing it down all season but when you are at home in an afternoon are

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going to go to bid, those thoughts must go through your head? You would

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be an human for them not? The manager is right in what he is

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saying, we have to concentrate and focus on the next game which is

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Newcastle. We cannot affect what Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City

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do. But it is hard sometimes not to, not pay interest in what is going

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on. The manager wants us to focus on us but wherever we go somebody will

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tell us the score, somebody will mention it, but he's right in what

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he says, we just have to focus on our job. Watching Clyde are an early

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he said he can sense the rest of the country is behind him -- watching

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Claudio Ranieri there he said. Can you sense that around the country?

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Yeah, I did about and fans are saying that if 13 does not win and

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they want us to win it, it is nice to hear -- that if the team does

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not. It is still long way to go. Spurs and Arsenal plans do not want

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you to win it, we will talk about that game in a minute, in the

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Scottish Cup we have goal. A second of the afternoon for Celtic,

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possibly their best move of the game, Gary Mackay-Steven is putting

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it into the net. At the moment 2-0. 27 minutes gone. David says get

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Danny Drinkwater in the England team. Brian says that the league is

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Leicester's to throw away. I will not get you to comment on that! Lots

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of messages on Arsenal, one saying that a draw is not good enough for

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Arsenal, they needed six points this week and got one. Another seeing

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Arsenal are still without a win in five games, is it time for Arsene

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Wenger to call it a day. I was speaking to an Arsenal fan who was

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wondering why there was not a lot of talk in a newspaper about Spurs

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lacking bottle after letting a lead slip? That is fair criticism after

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all the stick we have given Arsenal for similar things. But he is

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building a team to challenge for the title, Mauricio Pochettino. They are

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still three points ahead of Arsenal without the same outlay on players.

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This is a long-running debate about Wenger, I personally think he should

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stand down in the summer, it has just gone on, you look out Mauricio

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Pochettino is developing teams, this was Arsenal 's window of opportunity

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to win the title for the first time since 2004. With great respect

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Leicester, will there be another Leicester next season? Chelsea will

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come back strong with the new manager, Manchester United will

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invest and probably have Mourinho. Manchester City have Pep Guardiola

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coming in. They are eight points behind with three times the wage

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bill of Leicester City and that is why the focus is on Arsenal. I think

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it is valid, losing against West Ham, the fact that Dele Alli played

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90 minutes, for me he was clearly not fit. He has a problem with his

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ankle. Brilliant for the player to want to play, normally a player has

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a broken eyelash and they are out for a couple of weeks, he wanted to

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play but he was not moving right. He has made his mark this season with

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the intensity and fitness and workrate but was not able to do

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that. I thought manager budgeting or should have at least brought him off

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at some stage. He made the golfer Kane. That is a valid point but I

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think he needs to rest his ankle to get back to where he needs to be and

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if you keep playing it would heal quickly. Psychologically it helped

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Arsenal yesterday. Down to ten men, 2-1 within five minutes, I would say

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not one person would think they were going to get back in it just because

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of the results in the last few weeks. I think it might have helped,

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ten men and they got back into it and got a point out of it. That

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might give them a boost. Then when you result came in, they had archly

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lost places. Luke says you have to worry for

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them. Please contact us. I know you got sent off against Arsenal but out

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of both, Arsenal have your new home and away the season and you have

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taken ten two points. -- four points. What was for the? The Spurs

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away game was very tough. We nicked it. Every area of the pitch, they

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were at it. Going forward, as a defender, they were attacking us and

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you could feel that threat. And they were defensively strong. Even though

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we took points from Spurs, as a team, I felt they were stronger. But

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Arsenal, the players, like Sanchez, as a team, I would say then... If

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you look at the stats, they have covered the second bus distance out

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of all of the Premier league teams, Bournemouth have got so much energy

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and Pochettino works those players very hard, he has a freshness,

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double sessions and the foundations of their to have a very good run in

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this season and once you start the season, it is difficult to improve

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fitness, that work was done in the summer and they are reaping the

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rewards. Are you suggesting the game has moved on past Arsene Wenger? The

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issue with Arsene Wenger, heavily debated last night, the fans were

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positive, they went into meltdown and the focus on Arsene Wenger is

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this is one of the most visionary managers we have ever seen in

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professional football over 140 years. And he is a legend. When he

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came in and he transformed the whole with that beautiful passing on the

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pitch, refuelling. Invincible is, he transformed English with all so I

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wonder if that legacy is being tarnished by the fact that Arsenal

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are drifting. They might do the double and retain the FA Cup and

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three in a row is impressive but this was their opportunity to win

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the title in a slightly fallow season, with respect to Leicester,

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and the criticism that he is getting his deserved but the broader picture

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of that has Arsene Wenger being an unbelievable influence in this

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country is true. Back to yesterday, I know that you were watching it and

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whenever Eric Dyer did not get that second yellow card... I mean, it was

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back to the age-old thing of consistency. I didn't speak much

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about that, I thought it was soft but seeing that yesterday, but was

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fair, for pulling back, so the second one was worse than the first

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so why was that not a yellow card? It is just consistency. Starting on

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the yellow, and then more yellows. What is about as a player when you

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can hear the noise outside the dressing room? -- what is it like. I

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felt like I let the boys down, in the dressing room, the worst thing

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was I felt helpless. Everybody was out there and I was not allowed to

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go out, I was alone in the dressing room. Time to reflect? It was a long

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time, 55 minutes. Did you go into the shower? For ten seconds! I got

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them to put it onto the television but I could hear the crowd and there

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was that really on the television, and it was 1-1, and the last 30

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seconds, I could you the fans celebrating. Thanks for that,

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Welbeck. And after that... When you are coming off and the manager has

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his job to do and you're out of the equation and you completely blanks

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you walking off, that must be harsh. He is slightly arm around the

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shoulder, dirty blanket? No, the lads are just unbeaten in the last

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30 seconds and they came over to me. That shows the team you have got. --

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they were just beaten. It is not your fault, it is just one game. We

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had just eaten City and Liverpool. Move on. We have two games, West

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Brom, Man United, Crystal Palace against Liverpool at 1:30pm. And the

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last thing that the Crystal Palace manager would have wanted after 11

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Premier league matches without victory is to lose key players and

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they are Wayne Hennessey and Connor Wickham. He's scored two braces in

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the last two games, Hennessey is the regular goalkeeper. McCarthy and

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Adebayor coming in, and Ledley is in. Liverpool, Mamadou Sakho coming

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in, Daniel Sturridge is on the bench. The band on behalf of the

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none, they are not a one-man team but the lack of Bolasie has been a

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problem. And they don't have any goal-scorer? That is a huge talent,

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Bolasie, coming out of the blue, and we talk about balance and agility

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and speed and power, he has been so useful for Crystal Palace and he has

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been sorely missed and you not believe they can get a result.

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Without Connor Wickham, someone on this run of form, you want them to

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still be in that team? Yes, I do not know if you have ever been standing

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next to him, he is massive. He is a serious heavyweight. That is a huge

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blow and given away the table they should be fine but a lot of this is

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the curse of England speculation. Tipping the manager to be the next

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England manager, and then the results tend to head south, which

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happens with Alan Pardew. They have fallen off the cliff. Going forward,

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so much ambition, speed, and all of a sudden they cannot win. Luckily

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they have 33 points but you would fear for them. Probably 35 should be

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fine. What is he like to play for? For me, he is one of the better

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managers I have worked with. He was great for me that you cancel, the

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years that we came in, we had a very good team, we had Cabaye, Ben Arfur,

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Joey Barton. We had a good team, it was a very good squad. And he made

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that impact and we ended up getting into the Europa League and finished

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in fifth place but as a manager of men he was top-class. He would get

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you in with his speech and even tactically, he made sure that the

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tactics were spot-on for the game. For me, he is a top manager.

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Newcastle at the moment are a very different club, second from the

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bottom. Eaten at home by Bournemouth. Here is Steve McClaren.

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You needed a very big performance, are you disappointed? Very

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disappointed. But was definitely a performance that if we carry on like

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that, that is going down material without any doubt. The only positive

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is we have got ten games left to go and we know that in those games, we

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have to find those fighters. I thought that Janmaat, Colback, the

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epitomised what we needed to win today but they did not epitomised

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that and that is being brutally honest. And we cannot dress that up,

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we cannot play like that and hope to stay up. It must change and we have

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to be more consistent and people have to step forward and at the

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present moment, not enough of them are doing that and we also need

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characters are injured back on the training field and back onto the

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pitch. Unfortunately -- fortunately, we have got ten left, and that is

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enough to show the fight, it is a four team league at the minute, they

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will play everyone around us but today, that was not good enough.

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Celtic have got their third against Morton. As a Newcastle fan, Henry

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Winter, without give you hope? You would have thought about getting

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that road map out for the championship and when you think,

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that is his opportunity to send the message, the best managers do that,

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Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, using the media to get his message across and

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he comes out their and you are depressed listening to him, his

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shoulders slumped and that is just the press conference. Everybody

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knows what he is like the players and the fans must be going crazy.

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The thing about Steve McClaren, you have been coached by him and we have

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seen that he is a good coach, he will move everyone around and you

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will get them set up properly but in terms of going through those gears,

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the motion, saying the right words at the right time, getting the

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tactics right, he is not top grade, we saw that with England,

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Middlesbrough, will spring, occasionally, but he is a coach

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whereas what Newcastle want is a younger Bobby Robson, somebody to

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inspire them, even Keegan, he had his faults but he lifted his

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players. The fans will be depressed. It is a huge task when they keep on

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performing so inconsistently. And when you look at Norwich and Alex

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Neil, but this honour, the manager's Egger 's job is to pick up those

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players and then lose and from that interview, I am not getting that and

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they have lost some games, the Liverpool game, he did look like...

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Told the players of any responsibility? When you watch them,

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you know, I have no idea whether they do or not but it is not look

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like any of them have any individual responsibility? But the job of the

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manager is to pick them up as a unit and individually and from what I

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have seen, Alex Neil might have struggled after his appointment and

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I think that Steve McClaren is struggling also. He came to QPR, he

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was the coach. And with those lads, he was top-class. Yes, relent.

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Fulham, he was very good. I do not know what is going on. That is not

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the Steve McClaren that we know. I was coached by him at England and he

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would get into the circle before training and would be pushing the

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ball is round, he is infectious. That is the issue, he is too chummy.

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Alex Neil is a fighter, I would not want to cross them but Steve

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McClaren, he wants to be the friend of the players. He was like that at

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QPR, he was close. You can be a friend as a coach? Yes, everyone of

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us could go to him. Whether he was playing or in the stand. I do not

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know as a manager. And I still know some of those lads at Newcastle but

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I have not spoken to them for a while. I am not sure what is going

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on. That is what happened with Harry Redknapp. And those QPR fans were

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very pleased with that, Harry was a manager, Steve McClaren was the

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coach, and then Harry would give that team talk and that was a

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fantastic combination but as a manager he does not have the right

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formula. Dan says, I love people criticising the Newcastle fans, zero

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effort from the players every week. I am surprised that some former

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players are criticising the fans, saying they are not creating an

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atmosphere for the players. They have every right? Every right to be

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as disgruntled and angry as they are, given the way the club has gone

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over the last ten years? You could argue it is even longer than that.

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In terms of trophies. They are amongst the most loyal in the

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country. It is a one club time and you go there, Ferguson had this, you

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would go there, go to the ground and it would be like a match day even if

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it was not a non match day, this cathedral on the hill and they would

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go there and it would worship. It is a remarkable place. I would agree,

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it is hard to criticise an area of the country but has not had the best

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times economically and with what they have to pay for tickets and

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they keep turning up and they keep getting lets down and the one thing

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that the fans want is just pride in the shirt. You have played there. If

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you just give everything, for the team and that shirt...

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But if you stand back and let Charlie Daniels go on a long run and

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put the ball in the back of the net you deserve what you get don't you?

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Yes, I was there four years and up until now it was probably the best

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time of my career. If every single player is fighting on the pitch the

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fans are happy. The whole city is basically Newcastle, Newcastle. The

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petrol station, go for food, the waiter or waitress, everything, all

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people, everyone is focused on Newcastle. If you give 100% they are

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happy, so you cannot criticise the fans I don't think. Do you think a

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lot of players realise this, that if you give 100% we will be all right

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with you? Look at Aston Villa as well as they just around yesterday.

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As soon as you cross the line that is the minimum you should give, bad

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game or a good game, as long as you give 100% the fans will back you and

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they are not seeing that Newcastle. Was Alan Shearer right last night

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when he said the whole club is a mess? Steve McClaren is on the

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board, how does that work? He should not be on the board, how does that

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work? Will he sat himself? He might come out later and give himself a

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vote of confidence! It is like Arsenal, Wenger has too much power

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there. What Alan Shearer said last night it was like having a fan

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there. It was outrageous, you could see how much it meant to him as a

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Newcastle lad and the players are not showing it. He is disappointed

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that so many good players, this proverbial hotbed of football, so

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many players go away at a young age. Newcastle United should build a

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blockade on the A-1 to stop these talented kids moving away. I am not

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sure they would be allowed to do that... But another message here

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saying I am lost for words, this is the lowest the club has been in the

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modern era. Another seeing I watched the five-a-side for sports Leith and

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those players putting more effort than the players do. -- sport

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relief. Have time at Celtic. 3-0, as expected pretty much on the basis of

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form. Leigh Griffiths putting Celtic ahead before Gary Mackay-Steven

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doubled that margin halfway through the first half, then Calum McGregor

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taking on half of the Greenock Morton team and making it all the

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way to the ten yard mark before scoring. But Johannson was brought

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down by Michael Miller just before half-time and it looked to me like a

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studs up challenge and he had just been booked, but the referee did not

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seem to see it was him who did it. Johannson has been taken off and

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looks unlikely to start the second half. Thank you. Danny Simpsons,

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Henry Winter and Trevor Sinclair here with me. As far as relegation

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is concerned, you have a table in front of you Trevor, Sunderland just

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above the drop zone, eight points between themselves and Swansea, so

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for you, three from four? I think Sunderland stay up. Aston Villa have

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gone. Newcastle, from what I have seen and the pressure the manager is

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under and the response the players are giving him, which is literally

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zilch, and Sunderland were so unlucky not to get the win

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yesterday. I think Sunderland have bought well in the transfer window

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in January, brought in a big defender. Sam Allardyce does what he

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says on the tin, he will keep them up, for me. And Jermain Defoe as

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well, when you have a goal-scorer like that. Sam Allardyce teams, you

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have played against them, they are always tough and robust,

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psychologically strong. One or two issues at Newcastle but I am sure he

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will keep them up. When you're down there, are you analysing other clubs

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fixtures? You do. Last year I think if you ask the fans are any of the

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other players, we were always in games. There was always one goal in

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it. We were not getting thumped. So we always knew we just needed to

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keep doing what we were doing and get a few breaks. Once you get one

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win it gives you the left and you have to kick on from that. Massive

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difference when you're getting beating by three or four, the morale

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and confidence pours out the place. But if it's just the odd goal and

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you have been unlucky I think it keeps the confidence high and the

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belief amongst the players. Everton against West Ham, West Ham fifth,

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just a point behind Manchester City. They were 2-0 down, Everton down to

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ten men, Lukaku missed a penalty and before you knew it West Ham won 3-2.

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This season has always been special but today felt like a special day

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with minute and the West Ham supporters greeted it like you had

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won a trophy, it has that kind of psychology? Definitely. We were a

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bit tired, although we played good, but the reactions and the

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transitions especially, defensive transition, we will of its -- we

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were not sharp enough baby because we had such a big game on Wednesday

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night against Spurs. But I am pleased not only with the win, I am

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pleased with how we played. 2-0 down of course I am not happy, but I was,

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again, proud of the way they were playing. Great day for us. That is

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an understatement Trevor Sinclair? A remarkable season for them this

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year. The way the players have gone out and played without fear, Dimitri

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Payet is a superstar and the impact he has had this year has been second

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to none. For me he is up there with Mahrez, the goals he has scored,

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scored eight and created seven or one way or the other, he missed a

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bit of the season but West Ham as a whole played with a great spirit.

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Coming from 2-0 down at Goodison Park is incredible and they deserved

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it. Once they got the first goal they could sense it and they have

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the players, getting crosses in and looked dangerous. I was listening to

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Antonio this morning saying Slaven Billic had told them get the ball in

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the box because they are not buoyant at the pending in the air from set

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pieces in particular. -- they are not brilliant at defending in the

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air. It is horses for courses, they can change it and mix it up. I am

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surprised that people are surprised that Slaven Billic has been a

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success. Just meeting him and going into press conferences with him he

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is a very uplifting and powerful personality. The main aim for West

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Ham this season was to stay in the Premier League so they go to the

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yellow Brick Stadium with that status intact so they can then sell

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season tickets all around the area. -- go to the Olympic Stadium. When

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you hear players talking so highly of Slaven Billic before he took the

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job that speaks so much to me. You knew he would have an impact on the

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players. He comes up with wonderful phrases, saying he would have to go

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and buy a dictionary to express more words to express the poetry he feels

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about Dimitri Payet. And that is gold for us as journalists. Antonio

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was saying when you have some daylight Dimitri Payet and the

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opposition focus on him it creates space for other players. Yesterday

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there were 12 players around Mahrez every time he got the ball which

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left space for Kante and Danny Drinkwater to get at it and switch

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it and dictate. That is credit to him, he has adapted to that. Not let

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it get to him, he just gets on with it. That is the keyword, adapting.

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West Ham getting crosses in because they thought Everton were

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susceptible, talking about Mahrez being able to adapt, you have to be

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able to adapt throughout the game. Drinkwater used the ball so well

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yesterday. A message saying West Ham will take fourth, quality teamwork

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and the right mentality. Another seeing West Ham have class and

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resilience. I pointed out you have 27 different teams but you support

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them all on Twitter, but a fourth place was between Manchester City

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and West Ham that would be a dilemma wouldn't it? I am just going to go

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and sit in that corner! It would be a dilemma. That is all I am saying,

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I am not going to ask you who... Good! Everton fans have every right

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to be angry as well don't they? Yeah and there is a sizeable movement, if

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that's the right word, against Martinez which I think is slightly

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harsh. He is trying to play the right way, developing them but as

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ever with his teams he just needs to work more defensively. Going forward

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they have fabulous players, Lukaku, Ross Barkley. But one or two

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mistakes made by individuals so can you blame Martinez for that? A lot

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of Everton fans have judging by social media, which are the

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substitutions. Aaron Lennon was taken off yesterday, if you are down

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to ten men you still had to keep some kind of threat. I have been to

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Goodison Park recently where his substitutions were hammered by the

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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

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on the right. You have to double up on both of them because Jamie Vardy

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has the speed and Mahrez is twinkle toes. So you have less to deal with

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defending and when you get the ball you cause problems because there is

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a mass of hole in the middle. I think the problem with Everton is

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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,

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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

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the hole and that is not happening at Everton in my opinion. Simon says

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enough is enough, Martinez is not a Premier League manager, we cannot

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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

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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

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results. Thank you for coming on, and to you gentlemen, West Ham are

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Manchester City? We are out of time, lucky you! Goodbye.

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