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Extracts Mac extra! Extra! Cheers, mate.

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Hello, welcome to Match Of The Day 2 Extra across BBC One and BBC Radio

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Five Live and the BBC website. We want your thoughts in the next 45

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minutes. Lots to discuss. You can text us, you can also tweet us. In

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the next 45 minutes, we look back at the fixtures yesterday including the

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new boy wonder at Manchester United. There are four games today, we were

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really hearing from Arsene Wenger, we will also preview today's games

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and we will be listening to Jose Mourinho talking about diving. We

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want your thoughts on England's Mourinho talking about diving. We

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crucial week. Will they achieve automatic World Cup qualification?

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We would like you to vote on the BBC sport website or also tweet us will

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stop -- tweet us. There is a policy that involves as the King guests

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with the first name or a variation of the first name, we have John

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Hartson, John Murray and Thomas North Croft from the Sunday Times,

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which could make it confusing! Liverpool went back to the top of

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the table yesterday? Yes, this is Liverpool went back to the top of

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important for this season for them to be making progress. They are not

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title contenders but they want to be part of the conversation. They are

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not winning the easier games at home. It was three - zero at

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half-time, Sturridge and Suarez were fantastic together. They are trying

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to take themselves for word. John Murray, it feels like every game, we

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are analysing it like it is crucial, whether it is Fulham, Newcastle

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winning at Cardiff, we are seven games in, and everything is crucial.

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We are talking about the top four, I still have six finishing in my top

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four! We need to sort that out! We were at Manchester City yesterday,

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it was like a back in the saddle kind of performance, a back in the

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saddle kind of win after what happened at Bayern Munich. But

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looking at that table, looking that they have won four out of four in

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the league, at home, that could go a long way, that home form, it could

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go towards them being in contention for the title this season. Do you

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think it is ridiculous that everything is crucial after seven

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games? Yes, I think it is. People say now you are only two or three

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games away from talking about getting the sack, but at times it

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gets ridiculous. Personally I do not look at the table until Christmas

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time when we are at the business time.

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club, Arsenal playing today at West Brom, these are the thoughts of

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Arsene Wenger. We do not look too much at the fact if it is a or at

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home. We play with the same desire and the same attitude. West Brom

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will present us with a good test, because they are coming off the back

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of an outstanding result at Manchester United, so their

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confidence level is high. It would be an interesting test for us. It is

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important that we continue to do better. There is more to come from

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us, but it will depend now on how much we wanted and how hungry we are

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to continue to improve. What is the main difference this season to the

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last season, or is there a difference, because they ended last

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season well? Yes, there is a difference, they have a lift, you

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talk about players like Jack Wilshere, and all the talk about to

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play with him, now it is all about who will play with Ramsey. Jack

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Wilshere has been pushed out to the left. They are having a fantastic

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run of form. You wonder if anything will happen to Olivier Joe Root, do

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they have some to come in? They are playing with great confidence, and

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as they will tell you, winning games breeds a good spirit. You only get

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good, proper spirit when you are winning. At Arsenal have a great

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group of players and they look very spirited and as you can see, they

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are on a fantastic run. Their confidence has been coming for a

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while. They finished last season confidence has been coming for a

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very well. Their form has been great since the New Year. I thought they

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very well. Their form has been great would do well this season because

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they crucially did not lose anybody this summer, and they have got a

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winning formula. The injuries might get them over the longer term, but

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at the moment, eight wins out of aid away from home. I think Arsene

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Wenger agreed with the group that he had. I wanted a lot more signings. I

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know they tried for Suarez, but in the end, Arsene Wenger seemed

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content with only bringing into players. And look where they are?

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They have got a good group of players when they get it together.

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In one of his interviews, John Murray, he spoke about the win at

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Bayern Munich last season. He said that it was the game, they went out

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in the tie, but he said it was the game in which all of a sudden, the

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belief change, the morale changed. Yes, I was there for that match, and

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we had kind of written it off. I remember the pressure that Arsene

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Wenger was under because of what happened in the first leg against

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Bayern Munich, and funnily enough, we drew parallels when we went to

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Istanbul for the first leg of the play-off in the Champions League

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this season. We were at the red Stadium when they lost to Aston

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Villa in the first day of the season. And we spoke about however

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thing was wrong with Arsenal, and the build-up to that was very

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similar to what happened in Munich towards the end of last season, and

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I felt that that was something of a turning point, how they played so

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well in potentially hostile situations. And as we know, it has

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gone from strength to strength. I do not think there is a manager that

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comes under more scrutiny and stick than Arsene Wenger. Some of the

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period he has come through, and show the belief in his ability and the

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ability of his players, and I am the belief in his ability and the

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delighted that they have come good at the start of this season. They

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are doing really well in the Champions League, a great win

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against Napoli this week, but as a manager, if you look at the likes of

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Alan Pardew, Martin Jol, Arsene Wenger has come through this but at

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a different stage. Arsenal expected finish their every single year. The

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bizarre thing about the stick and pressure that Arsene Wenger gets, it

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felt like it came more from the Arsenal fans. Not all of them. But

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it felt more like the media defended Arsene Wenger come what may and some

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of the Arsenal fans were those giving him stick. I think that is

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fair, there has never been any pressure from the top. I do not

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think that no, Arsenal fans are like that, but when you go to the

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Emirates Stadium, around the press box, you have all of the funds in

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the main stand that have a very box, you have all of the funds in

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short patience, and it is funny with Arsene Wenger, his biggest failing

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is becoming his biggest strength, patients with the players to come

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good. You got Aaron Ramsey, you have got the goal keepers, you got these

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people that we fans would have gotten rid of, but Arsene Wenger

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stuck with. To get in touch with us. We will be discussing West Brom a

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bit later on. Harry treated as saying, should Jermain Defoe start

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for Spurs today? -- Harry treated us. Steve Wilson is that White Hart

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Lane, he will be working on the game for Match Of The Day later today, do

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you think that Jermain Defoe should start for Spurs? That is a hard

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question, I'd think that he will not start for Spurs today because he

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played in the Europa League on Thursday and so far Jermain Defoe

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has played 15 minutes of Premier League football this season. Jermain

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Defoe will think you should be starting today. He turns 31 on

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Tuesday, and he will be looking this year as being a last go at a World

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Cup for him. He has experienced that and wants to do it again. He told

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that to us only the other week. If he is not plain for Tottenham in the

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Premier League, then his place in the World Cup squad, if everybody

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else is fit, if Andy Carroll is fit, he is an option Theo Walcott can

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also be an option, Rickie Lambert is in possession, also storage, the

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position in Spurs are suddenly under threat. If he plays today, this

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would be his 350th game for the club over two spells. He scored 140

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goals. That record is beyond question. But Roberto Soldado is the

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man in possession of that one striking berth in the Premier League

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and I would expect the Spaniard to start today and for Jermain Defoe to

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sit and watch and wait his turn. West Ham's problem is scoring

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goals? Yes, it certainly is, they scored fewer goals than anyone else

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in the Premier League away from home last season and they scored fewer

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goals than anyone away from home in the top seven leagues in English

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football. It is very obvious where their problems are lying. Injuries

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have been a real problem for Sam Allardyce. He hoped in an ideal

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world that Stewart Danny would be assisting for Andy Carroll, but it

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has not happened. Carlton Cole is now in a contract for the club, but

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working back to match fitness. They released him last season. West Ham

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are pretty solid. Kevin Nolan is probably their best goal threat in

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that Number ten role. There pretty solid, but what they do not have as

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much sparkle, much real goal threat, and they also have a

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terrible record against Tottenham Hotspur, so Spurs coming to this as

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strong favourites, and this is Hotspur, so Spurs coming to this as

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London's day-to-day, it was the three northern challengers

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yesterday, today it is the Arsenal and Chelsea and he Tottenham. And

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Spurs could be top tonight. That game is on later this evening

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Spurs could be top tonight. on BBC One on match of the day two.

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On Jermain Defoe, I will start with you, Jonathan, is Jermain Defoe a

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On Jermain Defoe, I will start with victim of modern-day football and an

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absence of strike partnerships? If you look at Jermain Defoe, he was

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born to score goals. He scored at every club he has been absent he was

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a young boy. He was a young kid at West and coming through the system

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when I was there. Portsmouth, he had a spell at West Ham, and I think

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today is an ideal game for him going up against his old club. He scored

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goals in the cup is, fantastic during the week for Spurs. Every

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time he gets an opportunity to start in a game, even when he comes off

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the bench, you scores goals. He must be so frustrated. I know that Andre

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Villas-Boas has paid a lot for Roberto Soldado. For me, Jermain

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Defoe should be playing more regularly. I think he deserves to

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play with the girls that he is scoring. For me, the trouble is,

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Ericsson is playing so well, there is a trio that is playing so well,

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Jermain Defoe, when he gets the ball, he wants to put his head down,

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whereas Roberto Soldado well past to somebody running on, so it might be

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a style of play for Andre Villas-Boas, so if you're going to

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start Jermain Defoe, this is a good game for him. What Tottenham have

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got in the Premier League is working. It worked against Chelsea

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last week, and with Jermain Defoe, it is a test for the management of

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Andre Villas-Boas, his skills, to keep him happy to stop and watching

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the game on Thursday night, Jermain Defoe, he is scoring goals and he

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looks relatively happy. But he wants to start all of the games. Yes, and

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technically he is excellent, he makes great runs. You cannot blame

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the ball up in the error, but anything down the side, he is onto

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it. And he never let anybody down. And let's look at yesterday's games,

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we will start with a kid who appears to be dominating a lot of the back

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pages this morning, Adnan Januzaj?, he got both goals for Manchester

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United at Sunderland, here are the thoughts of David Moyes. I would

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have tried to get him into the team two weeks ago and it did not happen

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but the way he has made and trained, he deserves that. Are those finishes

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typical? He is a really good player and can do most things. Even has

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best positions, he can play in so many and gives us variation. He is

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just a real talent. I give Wayne Rooney his debut and Berkeley, and

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he is in that category, for sure. He is all over the papers and the

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broadcast media. Everybody has had a quick course on how to say that

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name! Is that a dig at me? ! We have to e-mail this one down. We will see

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more of him on the back pages. He just looks like a ready-made player

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and that is a big call to talk about Wayne Rooney and Berkeley, but in

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that same way, he looks like someone who does not need to serve any

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apprenticeship. This is not surprising because we were not the

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community Shield whenever Mike Phelan was working with us and he

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spoke very highly of what was expected of Adnan Januzaj this

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season because of the way that he has come through. But what is sadly

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concerning is that within 24 hours, he has gone from being a substitute

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at Manchester United with huge potential to being chased by

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Chelsea, Real Madrid and Man City! And the next big hope for England in

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international food all! Despite the fact that he could play for a

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different countries? I came here thinking he could play first four

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countries but Jonathan tells me, ten at the moment, and England want to

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be number 11? Amazing. He has Yugoslavia, his father was born, his

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mother was Turkish, growing up in Belgium, Albania is another one

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mother was Turkish, growing up in through his grandparents. And

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Kosovo, they do have a national team. And England want to be in

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there. In some ways, David Moyes in particular will just want to calm

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down? Without comparing him to Ferguson again on the show, but this

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is where Ferguson would maybe just pull

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will want to do is try to sign a new contract and you have to give David

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Moyes credit for this because sometimes whenever I have played for

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close, you know there are great youngsters coming through but the

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timing has to be right, when you put them in and sometimes they go in

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because of injury and other times them in and sometimes they go in

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because they do fantastically well in training and the manager thinks

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because they do fantastically well they could cope. He has given him

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that opportunity, like Wayne Rooney and Berkeley. He has done the same

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with Adnan Januzaj. He deserves a lot of credit. Knowing when to bring

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him in and when he shall perform. We had a tweet saying, do you still

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believe that Manchester United by had a tweet saying, do you still

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genuine title contenders? He could have just asked that man himself? !

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Don't play me on the left wing! There is a column by Ian Holloway

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and the Sunday Mirror that says football is a fickle game when it

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comes to the sack race. And all the pressure was on Martin Jol

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yesterday. And Fulham beat Stoke. It is here from him, that's you that

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relief. There is a lot of relief occurs we needed a point. That is

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exactly what we needed because we are struggling a bit. You saw today,

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we could not keep the ball or show quality and we had substitutions to

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make but in the end, we were a bit lucky as well. The week could have

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scored that second one. But they had more position than us. Although they

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were better, they had a lot of chances from set pieces so the old

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story with Stoke. There were two or three clear headers. The boiler

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pressure, they did not create much but I want my team to play better on

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the ball. And if you don't play well and get three points, you are happy.

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How difficult is his job at: ? He and get three points, you are happy.

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has those classic conditions, that new order coming in and he has

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expectations that have been raised by previous managers doing well.

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expectations that have been raised That might be above what this club

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is capable of, if you look at the squad. There is a lot of pressure

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but one thing about Martin is he is his own man and you can see that

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that those signings this year. It is very romantic, what he is trying to

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do. And with murder trial yesterday, he was playing his style of the old.

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He did not put under pressure at all. They will do that by playing

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football. You just worry with that new owner watching you. He will put

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him at the investment and I think he will be expected to get into the top

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him at the investment and I think he half of the table, which is

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difficult. He seems very calm. We heard how relieved he sounded their

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but one of the other things he said was, my life does not depend on this

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job. I will be able to get another manager 's job. I suppose in many

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ways, that is what Fulham players will want, for him to be relaxed?

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Yes, and that comes from the manager. In terms of leadership of

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the team and the club and to grind out victories like that yesterday,

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the only thing that will make his position more comfortable is to win

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games, as they did yesterday. Hence that relief. Aston Villa beat

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Manchester City last and had one point at all yesterday in that

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drawer. Do you think the last couple of Aston Villa results show they are

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changing 's --? Last season they were fantastic. If they can get

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their three big players fit, they will cause teams for bombs. , with

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that size and physique of Benteke. And Paul Lambert was the same.

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Thinking, I have come here and I don't have a lot of money to spend

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and had the issue with Darren Bent, only one of three players that has

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-- scored more goals and Frank Lampard, Wayne Rooney and van

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Persie. If you played more games, Lampard, Wayne Rooney and van

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they would have got out of trouble. I think Aston Villa will not be in

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the trouble they are in from last year. Top half? Bottom half but

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somewhere near the middle. And that defending has been much better, I

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thought that would be a real problem. He seems to have brought

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that along. And Paul Lambert is an old team-mate of yours and you know

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him very well. It strikes me, looking from the outside, is he is a

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very stubborn individual who will do things his way. You saw that last

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season and we have seen that again this season. Does that tally with

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the Man U no? Definitely. Paul Lambert was Ray close to Martin

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O'Neill and Martin gave him the best part of six months at the back end

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of his career to go over to Germany and he was very successful in

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Germany. I think he has tried to copy Martin in many ways. I don't

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think he will be talking with an Irish accent into long? ! But that

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tracksuit! He is very bright and intelligent. And he will make

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decisions his own way. His way. It struck me at Norwich at lunchtime

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and they won that game and he was straight onto the pitch in front of

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those Aston Villa supporters and effort, there seems to be some

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certain... He seemed to find somewhere to get the players to play

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certain... He seemed to find for him. And that is an art in

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itself, to get those players playing for you. And he came through last

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season with that little run at the end. They got as a church low point

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and he stuck with those young players and he has done that with

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the fans, bringing everybody together. Keep contacting us. Tony

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has dropped us a line to say, do you think Norwich and Chelsea will be

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one-sided? We will get the thoughts of the panel after Conor McNamara

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gives us the team news. One change for Norwich, Sebastien Bassong comes

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on for Bennett. And the Chelsea team is one change also from their match

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on Tuesday and it is upfront with Demba Ba starting for Chelsea.

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Fernando Torres is suspended and Demba Ba starting for Chelsea.

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injured at the moment so he would never feature that will not of those

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strikers scoring a log -- a goal in the Premier League, they have gone

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back to Demba Ba, leading the line at Carrow Road. One-sided? We did

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not see that coming. Demba Ba. Having been at White Hart Lane for

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the last weekend, one thing that really struck me when was a Marine

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your spoke to ask was the shackle Jose Mourinho, it was how satisfied

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he was. He was in great form. I got that impression from his language

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and what he said that he thought, right, OK, it is beginning to come

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together the way I wanted to. But two through Demba Ba in instead of

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Samuel Eto'o, today macro? --... ? He was delighted with how they

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started that game at Stoke, in particular. Stoke did not causing

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any problems. They had a lot of new signings and that was a reason

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without that knowledge would have a decent season but they would need

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time to gel together and for me, decent season but they would need

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they started to come back against Watford in the cup when they were

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2-0 down and they won that game after extra time. And it looks like

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he is starting to get some Alan Soady that team and they are very

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hard to beat at Carrow Road. This is not a foregone conclusion. He was

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under pressure after that Aston Villa defeat, and having been there,

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that really surprised me. Bearing in mind when they finished last season.

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And the reaction to win that subjugation happened from the

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Norwich city supporters, that took me back. -- substitution. Chelsea

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will be serious title defenders and I think they are and they need to go

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to places like Norwich and play like champions because there are not many

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Norwich players, no disrespect, who would get into that Chelsea team.

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They should win comfortably. It is only when they wait for somebody

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else to produce some magic, Oscar, Eden Hazard, but as you say, it is a

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else to produce some magic, Oscar, very difficult place to go and get

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results. We were angry this morning at the BBC, Jose Mourinho 's

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comments in the press this morning, the back page of the express,

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typical of the coverage. His war on cheap. He once enriched football to

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drive out divers and that has provoked huge reaction. Chris in

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Devon says he is hardly the right man to speak about idling. Eden

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Hazard, Oscar, Ramirez, they are among the most persistent offenders.

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I remember in 2003, Celtic against Porto in Seville and the Porto

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players, I have to say, they were a disgrace. They spent more time on

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their backsides and on their back during that game. John was at that

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game. One of the worst displays, I think. I am sure that Jose Mourinho

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is not condoning their actions but he certainly has changed his tone.

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He claims, in all of these quotes and interviews, but it depends on

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the culture of the country you play in. We in this country have a

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culture of being against idling but if you play in certain other

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countries where diving is accepted, if you do not do that, you will get

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left behind? He is right but in his first spell, he had a team that

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featured Drago and Robin, and they were not the most vertical players.

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All over the place. Maybe he has changed, he kept -- keeps telling us

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that he has and this would be a chance to show us that would be some

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transformation because remember that first team, inter-Milan, he has

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always seemed to be that classically continental coach who does not mind

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using gamesmanship. Diving creates more reaction than anything else? He

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said this after the Spurs game and he was very much playing the card

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of, this is England. And this does not happen here. He has very much

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come back here waving the sword of truth, hasn't he? And this issue is

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very difficult to call because players know that they are so fast

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and then move the ball around and to actually see some of them being

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blatant, Ashley Young last weekend, David Moyes having a go at his own

:29:25.:29:29.

player, he said he would not condone that and will do without in-house.

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-- deal with that in-house. He is very clever in what he says, Jose

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Mourinho, but there is more died today. We'll be seeing an incident

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with one of his players? Please contact us and lots of people have

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about Arsenal. I am Bedford van who stuck by Arsene Wenger and we can

:29:57.:30:00.

play the most beautiful but well under that brings a trophy, great.

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Nathan and Kieran from Tyrone make the point that although there was

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that master and bringing in Birdsall, there is this supple

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re-signing of the meanie that has added strength to the team midfield.

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That is what Kieran and Tyrone says, afresh in to see some money

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managing players on the pitch, organising and barking orders and

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that is what he does. We have talked Arsenal so let's talk about their

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opponents. Let's talk about West Brom, you can see the match on BBC

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One later today, Kevin Caliban is at the hawthorns for us. They will go

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into this rejuvenated after Old Trafford last week? Yes, and before

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the transfer deadline they were struggling, West Brom. They

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struggled against Swansea, and they have had to new signings now, and

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that is really making an improvement now. There are games against

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Sunderland and Manchester United has improved them and today they will be

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tough for Arsenal. From the past couple of weeks, Morgan Amalfitano

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has been their crucial man. A week before, he won the man of the match

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in the victory against Sunderland. Yes, the back four for West Brom and

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with Jacob there, they have been essentially the same for the last

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year or so, they have been outstanding. But this season, they

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have basically got a new front line, a lot of new introductions into that

:31:43.:31:48.

squad, and you would expect it to take some time, but Morgan

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Amalfitano, with his goal last week, the goal in Old Trafford, that was

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amazing, and he seems to have hit the ground running here at the

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hawthorns. Does this increase expectations were as one month ago,

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they might have gone into Arsenal with nothing to lose, but now fans

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travelling today might expect a repeat of last week? Yes, certainly

:32:12.:32:19.

the result against Sunderland raised expectations because they did not

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have a lot of shots at goal, they had not been creating chances, but

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this game against Sunderland improved everything, and Old

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Trafford has raised expectations, and certainly for today, it would be

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difficult for Arsenal coming here, and they will have no fear playing

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against world-class players. Jonathan, your point about Norwich

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bringing in players is the same for West Brom? Yes, a very slow start to

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the season, but some very clever signings. Some of their players have

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burst onto the scene, and there are injury doubts today, but Steve

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Clarke is very steady and believed in what he was doing all along. He

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did not see the need to panic. I think they will be OK now. Steve

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Clarke was furious this week, he was furious about a wage being revealed

:33:18.:33:24.

at the stadium, and he said he had a great start and were getting new

:33:25.:33:30.

contract that will reflect the playing, but revealing salary in

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public, he will not like that. It is absolutely extraordinary, the entire

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tale. But West Brom, it made me smile hearing Arsene Wenger saying

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they are a team full of confidence, because it was the Swansea game,

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when Swansea won, they were abreast of confidence and era member Steve

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Clarke was Billy Gerd. -- Steve Clark was read. -- bereaved. Swansea

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hit as a couple of times on the break, but West Brom were terrible

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on the day. But with some of the new additions, Nicolas Anelka, he was

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their best player on the day, and I think that today they could possibly

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cause Arsenal a few problems, but Arsenal also have great confidence

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themselves. Also this afternoon, Southampton and Swansea. Let's hear

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about that. We have a very good squad, some

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depth in our squad. Not many changes. I think from game to game,

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depth in our squad. Not many we have to see what we can do today.

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Of course, I have to look at the fixtures, this is our seventh game

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in 20 games in three different competitions. But it is very

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competitive, the team we have got out there, in a very important game

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for us. A very important test, because Southampton is a good squad.

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Already last season, the second part of the season, they played really

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well and they added some very good players this season, so I think they

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can do really well. As far as Swansea are concerned, they made

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five changes. Ashley Williams is on the bench this afternoon. This could

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be the game of the afternoon, given how these to play football. -- these

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two. It is a hipster 's game! These two games are a great story because

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they have come into the Premier League. -- these two teams. They

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have survived in the right way. Southampton could go into the top

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four. They have hardly scored a goal, but they are very hard to

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beat, they are very assured. I saw them at Anfield, brilliant against

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Liverpool. There making some good progress with some good signings. It

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is a real emerging team. They are both similar clubs because the

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expectations are that if they can push into the eighth, seventh

:36:32.:36:36.

position, they do not have aspirations to finish in the top

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four, they both feel that they are strong enough to not be in the

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bottom, in the mix down the bottom. They have both spent a decent amount

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of money in the summer, but spending money on some new players, but they

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have become similar clubs in similar ways. They have so many games, they

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have got to cope with that, but so far this season, I would put Michu

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down as one of my top players. He is so dominant in that club. I know

:37:15.:37:22.

they spend £12 million on one of their players, they have disrupted

:37:22.:37:25.

the style of this team slightly, because the manager wants to get

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Borner and Michu in. Michu is a tall man, he has great feat, but he can

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drop in. He holds it up, he can play quickly, and for £2 million, a

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wonderful business. We will give you the results of our vote shortly,

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that is shots now. Brendan has said, I wish that the media would keep

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young players in perspective. One of Manchester United's former new

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players is now trying to resurrect his career on loan at Doncaster.

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Let's hear from the manager now that was with Gary Lineker on Match Of

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The Day last night. Would this be the biggest week in

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your managerial career? It feels like it. I have had some big weeks

:38:35.:38:39.

with national team 's leading up to like it. I have had some big weeks

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final qualification games where you have a lot of responsibility for the

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country, and trying to get your team through, but when it is your own

:38:46.:38:52.

country, it weighs a little bit more heavily. I you happy with the

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position you are in? I was a bit of a critic in the last game, I felt

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they did not pass the ball well and gave away some possession. We have

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they did not pass the ball well and had better attacking days, but I

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thought that are defending was better. In the circumstances to come

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away from a difficult game with one pointed going to the last two games

:39:18.:39:22.

were I was hoping that we would get some of our attacking players fit

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again, all having the ball in our own hands would not be a bad

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situation. We want to get best team on the fields. We have some

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marvellous attacking players and we pass the ball well. The Ukraine game

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was a bit special because not least pass the ball well. The Ukraine game

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of all we missed some players. Considering all we had to content

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with, I do not think we had done that badly. We are still unbeaten in

:39:45.:39:53.

our group and we only lost one of the 20 games we played, but it is

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right to say that there have been a few too many draws and looking back,

:39:56.:39:59.

there may have been some games were I wished we hung on the leader bit

:39:59.:40:02.

better or done a bit more to get a victory from the draw. But I think

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we will qualify. I am confident. Roy Hodgson is confident, you are

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confident as well regarding the vote that we did earlier. 75% of people

:40:18.:40:24.

are saying that they think that England will qualify automatically.

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25%, or the Scott 's, as they are known! A joke before you are

:40:28.:40:33.

e-mailing in or complaining! Do you think England will qualify? I do, if

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you offered Roy Hodgson Montenegrin or Poland at home in the last two

:40:42.:40:48.

games, you would have taken that. I think it would be a strong England

:40:48.:40:53.

team on Friday night. I'm putting my neck on the block, but I think you

:40:53.:40:57.

will play Wilts, Lampard, Gerrard, who will play at Miller and Rooney.

:40:57.:41:05.

A fantastic article by Graeme Souness this morning where he says

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that Hodgson should try and persuade John Terry to come back to partner

:41:12.:41:18.

Gary Cahill. If fantastic pundits, but do you agree with that? It is

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difficult, also because he was a bit of a Scottish Legends, but I

:41:29.:41:33.

wouldn't bring John Terry back. That one is gone. It is just gone. The

:41:33.:41:39.

one call that he makes is games for coal, the might be a case for this

:41:39.:41:50.

in the home games against England. -- Baynes for Cole. Form wise, there

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is not an arrogant for it, but Roy Hodgson has not tried out other

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keepers, so he is in a corner. -- there is not an arrogant for it. We

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learn from the past, the most important thing for England, let's

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hope from an England point of view it continues today, we hope that

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there are no injuries, because as Roy Hodgson says, he needs his best

:42:19.:42:24.

available team and I think Daniel Sturridge, Wayne Rooney, that is a

:42:24.:42:28.

big thing, I am sure he had a sharp intake of breath when Wayne Rooney

:42:28.:42:32.

was hobbling around the Stadium of Light for a bit yesterday. But the

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experience, Lampard, I feel he will go with the experience of Ashley

:42:38.:42:44.

Cole at left back. The form of Daniel Sturridge is probably the

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best thing for him at the moment. Yes, he cannot stop playing goals,

:42:48.:42:55.

his energy, he can score from outside the box, and they will try

:42:55.:42:59.

to implicate the way that Daniel Sturridge links with Suarez as

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Liverpool. You will try to hope for similar with Rooney and Daniel

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Sturridge at England, that would be the ideal situation. I agree with

:43:08.:43:14.

John's team, but Roy Hodgson was saying last night that he does not

:43:14.:43:18.

see Daniel Sturridge is a wide player in any way, but he has got

:43:18.:43:23.

Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere, so some tinkering to do, and he has

:43:24.:43:28.

surely got to pick Daniel Sturridge and Wayne Rooney on formative that

:43:28.:43:45.

he has got too much. Could he pick Cole and Baynes? I think defensively

:43:45.:44:00.

Ashley Cole is that. But in other ways, Baynes is better. But I think

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he will go with Ashley Cole. We are ways, Baynes is better. But I think

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running out of time, thank you to our panel, two Premier game matches

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on BBC Radio Five Live today, then you can watch it all on BBC One

:44:15.:44:19.

tonight. Goodbye.

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