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Welcome to Match Of The Day two Extra on the final day of what has

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been an extraordinary season. We are on BBC Radio jersey, five live, and

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the BBC sport website. -- BBC Radio Two. Will it be Manchester City or

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will Liverpool clinched their first title since 1990? We will be live at

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the Etihad Stadium and Anfield to capture the mood. We will speak

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about relegation. It looks like we will be saying goodbye to Norwich.

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We will look ahead to the England World Cup squad announcement

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tomorrow. In the studio... We have Martin Key own, Kevin Kilbane and

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Sam Wallace. -- Martin Keown. We want you to get in touch. You can

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get in touch by text, on the Facebook page, and we thought we

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would like you to sum up your Premier league season in four

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words. Send them to us and we will read them out over the course of the

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next 45 minutes. All sorts of stuff on the back pages. A mixture of the

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title race and the Roy Hodgson's England squad. Sam Wallace, there

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should be a lot of stuff on Manchester City. The back of the

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Daily Mail quotes Greg Dyke, he says, if Manchester City win the

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title it would be depressing because they've only got two regular England

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players. I can see his point. Manchester City fans will not want

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to hear it but you would like a team with a greater English

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representation. In their defence, they are building an enormous

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training ground across the road from their stadium, the owners have only

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been there six years and it takes a generation to bring players through.

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I think Greg Dyke has said some pretty provocative things that are

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on the law end of the scale. Not putting words into the mouths of

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Manchester City fans but they will not care less, will they? That is

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it. It is about getting the title won. They are building it up, they

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are getting the best talent from around the world, but it is about

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getting the talent in from this country as well, getting them

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developed in and around that campus. Martin, let me throw another thing

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at you from the papers, the front page of The Times. A quote from Jose

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Mourinho. Edin Dzeko should be Player of the Year. He says they

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should come from the champions. I do agree that it would be nice but I

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would have gone for Yaya Toure. I think it was a tongue-in-cheek

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comment. Luis Suarez has been magnificent. He has fluffed his

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lines recently. I think he is talking about a striker that does

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the job and gets on professionally. Luis Suarez has been brilliant at

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times. You have a theory, don't you? He might fancy signing him. He might

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be able to have a nibble at Edin Dzeko. If his first target does not

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work out, he fits the bill. We will go to the Etihad Stadium shortly.

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Let us get a view from the Manchester City camp. Gary Lineker

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has been speaking to Vincent Kompany.

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I imagine you don't expect something as dramatic this time. Anything is

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possible in football. Last time, it made me age, that is how stressful

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it was. It still remains my best memory in football so far. If that

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is what it has to be then we will be prepared for it. We will certainly

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not be giving anything up. From the point of view of the players, how

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important is that experience of having been there and done it? Even

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just on the final day of the season. Without doubt, when I was

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able to win it in 1998, more than ever was I reliant on the likes of

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Tony Adams around me to help me get over the line. In later years, there

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was a way to behave, you trusted people about you, you made sure you

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were professional, did not let things slip away. This is a second

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chance for Manchester City. There is no way they will let this be thrown

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away. When you talk about a way to behave, are you talking about being

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cam? Without doubt, it is a mindset. -- being serene. You trust people

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around you, you do your job, less is more, you trust everybody to do

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their jobs, and it almost takes care of itself. Some people will score of

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the important goals. It is when you go charging around, it becomes hard

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work, the crowd are involved, there is too much emotion, you need to be

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professional to finish it off and stop the experience of winning it

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against QPR will help them today. We spoke on Wednesday, watching

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Manchester City against Aston Villa, even though there were nervous

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around the stadium, the players kept doing what they were doing. Aston

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Villa helped because they kept dropping deeper, but they continued

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to probe, press, they moved the ball likely, it was not just side to

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side. -- quickly. David Silva was getting into the whole. They

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continued to get wide. Pablo Zabaleta kept doing the things he

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was doing. If you continue to do that, they will score. I'm convinced

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that Manchester City will score today, so ultimately I think it will

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be enough because I cannot see them conceding two goals. If they fail,

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it is the biggest joke in modern football history, incompatible even

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when you compare them to Liverpool in 1989. If they throw it away we

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will be talking about it for years. The biggest joke in football

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history. You will get some reaction to that. -- choke. Is there a sense

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of serenity? to that. -- choke. Is there a sense

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people here at the moment. It is mixed with anxiety. I don't think

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they have mixed with anxiety. I don't think

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the stories in the morning paper about the money issue, the fact that

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the stories in the morning paper the title. That is if they

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the stories in the morning paper It is a very different day to two

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the stories in the morning paper years ago. And standing in front of

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the goal where Sergio Aguero scored the dramatic title winning goal.

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Very different feeling, they don't need to win, they only need to draw.

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From weather, it is going to rain at any moment. -- different weather.

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Conditions will be different, it poured down on Wednesday, I was here

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for that match, and I wonder whether the crowd nerves will play a part.

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In the first half on Wednesday against Aston Villa, this place got

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very anxious. It transmitted itself to the players, and Manuel

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Pellegrini calmed them down. They heard that message and they

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demolished Aston Villa in the second half. There will be nervous,

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especially if news comes through that Aston Villa -- and Liverpool

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are leading. The players, however good they are, nerves can do strange

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things. We could have a twist yet. Do you get a sense when talking to

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people at the club that in many ways, although they are obviously

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concerning themselves with winning the title, they do have one eye on

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what might happen tomorrow and the whole financial fear plaything? I

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think so. -- financial fair play thing. This is big news, they win

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the title, in the Champions League, but can they compete going forward?

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I think there is a little bit of that. The focus today is on winning

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the title, they cannot let anything distract them. I think they are

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finding the headlines are little bit distracting.

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Do you think Manchester City have every reason to feel they are being

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got that? The basis of the story is they have been found in breach of

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financial fear play. They will make a judgement on the sanctions. --

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fair play. They knew the rules, and however you felt about them, it

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began being about debt and ended up being about overspending. But I'm

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afraid, these are the regulations, and therefore it is not the

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newspapers going after them, it is simply if they do win the title, the

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story that will follow will be what UEFA have decided is the punishment.

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I appreciate it is not the newspapers going after them but, if

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we put it another way, maybe they are not getting the credit you would

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normally expect the title winners to get. Is that they are? Yes. -- Is

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that fair? If they win this, Manuel Pellegrini has got two trophies in

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the first season. It is not doom and gloom. They have the nucleus of a

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great site. On today's game, it is not about an individual, it is about

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the collective team doing the job defensively. -- great side. The team

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will come together and it will all happen. It will not be one

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individual who will win the game, I'll be at, someone will be the hero

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at the end of it. -- except someone will be. For words to describe

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Manchester City, nobody mentions planned well -- Manuel Pellegrini.

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It is Gus Poyet, Brendan Rodgers, those are the ones people are

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talking about. I think he has been a breath of fresh air, he has come in

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and let the players be themselves, they have gone on to another level.

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Under Roberto Mancini you felt he was not in love with the players, it

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was confrontation. All the strikers have made huge contributions. The

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spine of that team. When you see Vincent Kompany, he speaks like a

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manager. It is fantastic to have a player like that. You have Yaya

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Toure, Sergio Aguero, so many good players. They have tripped up along

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the way, they should have been in front when you look at those squads,

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whether that is financial doping, the way they have been allowed to

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buy these players, and whether there will be any legal ramifications

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afterwards, it will not matter to the players. They want to go out and

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win the Premier league and that is the only thing they have got their

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eyes on. Given the financial penalties that could happen, as

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regards Champions League, the number of players, do you expect them to

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strengthen? Within the boundaries that they can. They might need to

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sell. You think of the limitations of a Premier league squad, only 25

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players. It is not his fault they have done this, he has only comment

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in the last year and he has done very well. Look at what he did with

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Edin Dzeko, he was totally disenchanted with Roberto Mancini,

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he has played so well in the absence of Sergio Aguero. He has obviously

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man managed him very well. He had one little dip, after the Barcelona

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game, where he ranted about the referee. He is not the Iceman,

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impervious to pressure, but the way he has handled Jose Mourinho has

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been dignified. The two big ones were Joe Hart, where he relieved

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him, Joe Hart did not moan, he has come back and been outstanding. The

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other was Martin Kaymer careless. His last ten or 15 games have been

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different. -- Martin Demichelis. Everyone says that was a turning

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point. It was. He marshalled the defence. He organised the back four.

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It was an incredible performance. He has gone on from there. He grew from

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that performance and he has been a leader. Two of them have been

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outstanding. There was the Champions League when he got sent off, and in

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that period it was not great, and you look at him and you say that

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they could buy someone better, but credit to him, since then he has

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done exceptionally well. His manager has stuck by him. Let me read some

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of your words. Arsenal, same old, same old. Chelsea, need a striker.

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Tottenham fan in Surrey, we'd like some stability. Fulham fan, he names

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the managers. Moving from Manchester City to

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Liverpool as we discussed the title race on the final day of the season.

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Before we go there let's hear from Brendan Rodgers.

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We can only concentrate on our job, to win the game. We want to finish

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strongly. We know this will be a tough game. The combination of us at

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home and our supporters has been fantastic for us as a team. 16

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victories out of 19. It is a great return for us. For them, West Ham

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have some really talented players. If you can go to Tottenham and win

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3-0 you can certainly go to Manchester City and do that.

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Interesting logic from Brendan Rodgers. Shall we go to Anfield?

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Steve Wilson is there. We spent a lot of time talking about the

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Anfield atmosphere, what is it like today? It is a little different. It

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was probably topped by the Chelsea game. Not quite the same buzz around

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here. Liverpool fans, and hope. I don't think there is an enormous

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here. Liverpool fans, and hope. I amount of expectation that

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here. Liverpool fans, and hope. I will slip up. Let me introduce a

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Liverpool legend. He won the title eight times with the club. Phil

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Neal. Any chance? You are clearly hoping Liverpool can do it, what

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does your heads tell you? We have just got to do the business year. We

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have done that rode a fantastic season. In October we would have

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taken probably force lot but the boys have performed so excellently

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that we have gotten into this position. The Istanbul night is

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today. If they don't position. The Istanbul night is

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Chelsea defeat the crucial one? If we take it into next year, I know we

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have Champions League football next year and so does Brendan, he will

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probably need a bigger, wider squad with broad experience. The young

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kids have done as proud. Dealers a strong seam

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kids have done as proud. Dealers a have performed well entertaining

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kids have done as proud. Dealers a -- there is a strong seam. We

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kids have done as proud. Dealers a 85 goals and only conceded 16 goals

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in 42 league games. Maybe we want something like

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in 42 league games. Maybe we want year and then we will have

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in 42 league games. Maybe we want perfect thing. They do have to

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increase the squad with the extra games next season. What do you think

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of that talented young intelligent boy? Like anybody who comes and once

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to where the Liverpool shirt he boy? Like anybody who comes and once

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a very talented boy, if that was boy? Like anybody who comes and once

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Brendan's choice then so be it. We boy? Like anybody who comes and once

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need 20 of those type of players for next year. Can I throw you a

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statistic, 1966 Austria won the European Song contest, Real Madrid

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won the European cup and England won the World Cup. He says if Liverpool

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win this title he is putting everything on England in the summer.

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Everton won the FA Cup that year so they are very keen to get that other

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bit of the statistic in. Sam Wallace from the independent what do you

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understand on that debate? He could have gone to Manchester United but

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Brendan Rodgers has shown this year he is prepared to give young players

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the chance. It is interesting that Rogers said in the week he wants to

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buy a place. He does not want to buy squad players but when you look at

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the money he spent in relative terms to the modern market it is not much.

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In 2009 when they finished second last time it did not go well for

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Benitez. We have got to build on this Liverpool. It was said to me on

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Monday night that sometimes you need the pain of one season to get the

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success for the following season. If you look at Manchester United losing

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at Anfield before Leeds went on. Yes, if you think about the

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situation standing on the pitch at the millennium Stadium we lost to

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Liverpool. Out of adversity is where you show what you are really made

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of. Gerard really wanted to win. The result of Palace would have heart

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Brendan more than anybody else. His philosophy almost got in the way of

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winning that match. -- hurt. He has been fantastic the way he has played

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his part. He just needs to tweak it a little bit. If is one excellent

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player, the wiki can move the ball is like a European player. He is

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ready now and has developed later. We probably have not enough time to

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expand on that point. The season where they scored 85 and conceded

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just 16, is that possible in the modern-day game when balls seem to

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be slightly more easy to come by because regulations have been

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tightened up on how much defenders can kick people? Yes, rules have

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changed, it is the quicker game, more fast-paced. It is developing

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season upon season. You would think Liverpool have to sign a defender to

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get themselves a bit better defensively. Do they need to get

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better defensively by signing players or is it a coaching thing.

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It might be the philosophy. More managers now want to go and attack

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and win games and you have got to applaud that. -- applaud that. It is

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getting the balance between the two. The same with Martinez at times. We

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are not seeing less and less managers playing long ball and

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managers who want to park the bus. A little bit of both. It is an

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attacking philosophy now, they are going to win games rather than

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containment. We have seen it this season. The likes of Southampton.

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There are going to Old Trafford. It is not a containment job any more.

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You feel that Man City are strong in both areas. On arriving at city

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Pellegrino wanted it to be more like La Liga. Real Madrid and Barcelona

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would put six and seven goals past teams on a regular basis. There are

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lots of things wrong with that division. I actually think that is a

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bit of the weakness in the league. I like to see teams beat big teams

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with shock results. I think watching Liverpool, just how Gerard drops

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back between the two centre have is, at times, it is an innovative

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thing. You cannot do that against everyone. When Chelsea came Jose

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Mourinho exposed that type of play. The problem with facing managers

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like that is you have to have a plan B. There was one moment in the

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matchwinner he'd tripped up and slept. There was that mistake. Time

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wasting. Yes, but Chelsea did not concede. I Cannes they rode their

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luck and Liverpool were unlucky on the day. Your for word reviews of

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your season coming in. Michael says as far as Liverpool is concerned it

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is not over yet. Ollie Davies, Spurs, thank God it's over. That's

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not very positive, is it? Let's talk to Tim Sherwood know who has been

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speaking about the uncertainty he is basing going into the summer ahead

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of their game against Aston Villa. I gave a list of players to the

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chairman a few months ago and to Franco Albini, the players I would

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recommend we keep and the ones I recommend we leave and the ones I

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recommend we bring in. I am not sure how we are getting on with that

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list. How do you think they are getting on with that list? I do not

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know, they have given me no indication. It doesn't look like he

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will be there, will he go in the bin? It is incredible as talking

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like this, here's defiant, he wants to do his job, to continue to do the

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job he started to do but it is highly unlikely he will be there. I

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would say he will not be there next season. Players are coming to him

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telling him they know they will not be here next year. He seems to be in

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the dark about it all instead of the club just coming out and telling him

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to put him out of his misery. I think it might have been the stand

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he took at the start, he was quite bullish, he said he wanted the job

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on his terms or not at all. He wanted to be a manager, he was firm

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in that. He is clearly a manager and will do well in that job at some

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point but the results have gone against him, against the bigger

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teams. But actually know not inform him of what is happening and for him

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to have to face the world's media without knowing is quite ridiculous.

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Four from his point of view, if he has an 18 month corn that --

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contract. I think he would have accepted that but all along he was

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told we will give you the summer transfer window and next season.

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They have changed their minds about that. Since he took over Warmley

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city, Chelsea and Liverpool have taken more points than Spurs in that

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period. -- only City. He is open and says what is on his mind. We moan

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about managers who tiptoe around this year. What are the Spurs

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hierarchy looking for? They are looking for someone to try to take

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the club on from last season and it has not worked for them since Harry

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Redknapp. You could argue he has taken them on from where they were.

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In football people tell lies to each other. Just forefront. They will not

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be upfront with the media. They are hanging him out to dry by doing what

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they are doing. Managers want to get the best out of players. You did not

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move from football to media hoping people would be truthful in the

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media, did you? It is even worse! Nice suit, by the way! What do you

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think of the Spurs hierarchy? What he needs to do is just retain his

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dignity and manage this as best as he can and see it as a long-term

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position that he ultimately goes into management elsewhere. He was

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what, technical director? Technical coordinator. He will find it

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difficult to go back to that position and should ultimately go

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elsewhere. From a Southampton point of view, if their main players leave

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the club, all three rumoured to be happening, what does that say about

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Southampton? It is negative to start with. Rickie Lambert is another one

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the wrong rumours about. Overall they have put a belief in that the

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philosophy of the club is they will develop from within. How long they

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can continue that for I do not know but overall is the first man leaves

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the club where will they go? Will they have another manager who comes

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in? He is very much hit and miss. It has been proven time and again if

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you get the right man in it will work. At the day at other clubs it

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does not work so consequentially does it go? Everything is about

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going forward. If you look at how their fullbacks push on. It is very

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clear and obvious. A lot of teams could copy it. He has put that in

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place and has a clear vision of what he wants. I do not think he will be

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there forever. In the meantime, from a Southampton point of view, the

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need to rescue this. There are a lot of young players coming through that

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football club so they need the right man in the quickly. It's depressing

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for those who believe in developing talent and building a football club,

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doing things the right way. I know there will be people who say they

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have spent a lot of money, and done things the right way, but if they

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lose this talent they have developed, it does not send out a

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great message. Actually, people could talk about Chelsea and

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Manchester City. If Roman Abramowitz had not taken over, they would have

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lost Frank Lampard and John Terry. Look at Manchester City, they lost

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Shaun Wright Phillips. Overnight, he went to Chelsea as a squad player.

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When you talk about developing a great team of English players,

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unless you have that money at the top, you cannot protect these

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players. Look at Swansea. One good season and you will get all your

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best players taken away. It is a very difficult situation Southampton

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find themselves in. I have great sympathy for them. It is

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justification for why you need a rich owner, it is keeping the ones

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you develop. We are kind of looking back through the years to see

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whether it was always like this, when Paul Ince went from West Ham to

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Manchester United. I suppose the big clubs have always cherry picked the

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talent. One or two can be allowed to leave, it might be a case of one per

:31:44.:31:48.

season, because you cannot rip the heart out of that football club. You

:31:49.:31:54.

have to support the next bunch coming through, it needs to be a

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team that can compete or the rest of the team is affected. It is probably

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Adam Lallana at this stage. Luke Shaw can wait for the future. I

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think that is important. If they all do go it is a problem. Bryan Robson

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made his debut in 1975 and he left after six years. You got six years

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out of a great player before he moved on full getting quite a lot of

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tweets. -- before he moved on. Mark Mitchell says Stoke City, really,

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really, really good. David McDonald about Crystal Palace, Manager of the

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Year. West Ham, long ball to Andy Carroll. That leads us on to Andy

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Carroll and the England squad. Various newspapers starting to

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predict. You have done years. Did you have Andy Carroll in it? -- you

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have done one. Originally, I would have taken three strikers, but since

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the injury to Andros Townsend I would bring Rickie Lambert end. --

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in. I am always astonished, people always stick eight defenders in.

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Would you lose one and boost up the midfield, on the basis that you

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could have James Milner covering a full-back? It would be highly

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unlikely that you're going to get three injuries to the back four.

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Interesting talking about Jon Flanagan. I put him in mind. I put

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him ahead of Kyle Walker. He has had a better season. He is more of a

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natural defender. I would go with him. It is a difficult call and I

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totally get it but I think he has had a more consistent season. Are

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you judging your full-backs on how they defend rather than... He could

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be the false full-back. That is kind of like and also glue -- auxiliary

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winger. The reason I go with that is Glen Johnson is an attacking

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full-back. I would pick Ashely Cole, you would be in my squad. I think

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you're looking for something that is comparing ball with Ashely Cole and

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I think Jon Flanagan as that. -- comparable. He has played in a top

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side this season. Take nothing away from him, nobody even wanted him on

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loan this year. There is absolutely no way that you take a player with

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that sort of experience. If you are the England manager, looking across

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at that bench, Leighton Baines is injured, you want someone with real

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experience. This is a big competition and Roy Hodgson... I

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would take Ashley Cole. If you look across Europe, it would be

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unthinkable if a player in their prime did not go to a World Cup and

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that is what we have here, one of the world's best left-backs. Still

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showing that he is at that level, I would like to be able to turn to him

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and bring him on. Luke Shaw is for the future, no doubt about that, but

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it is a bit too soon. Certainly, Jon Flanagan, asking somebody to do

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something like that, he has done well but we are putting him under

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enormous pressure. The reason I included him is Kyle Walker has not

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played since March, and you should be ruthless about injuries. That is

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why Jack Wilshere is not there. I think Roy Hodgson will choose Jack

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Wilshere and Kyle Walker. He said he has the squad in his head and has

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had it in his head for a few months. He is going to games to have his

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view confirmed. We have been here before with injured players and I

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don't think there is the time. People talk about them being fresh.

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You see them stumbling into a World Cup, half fit. I don't think Ashely

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Cole will be the number one. I imagine Leighton Baines will play

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all three games, possibly more. He did not go to the last one. If you

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take him as first choice, why take Ashley Cole? He may have to play a

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major part in it and it might be too much for Luke Shaw. I take your

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point. I think he proved, defensively, he was outstanding over

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in Madrid. He needs to go. The squad, by the way, will be announced

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tomorrow from 2pm. You might already know it before then, the back page

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of the Sun this morning, their headline is that Roy Hodgson will

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fall the unlucky seven, the seven players on stand-by, tonight. --

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telephone. If he phoned them tonight, by 10pm most people will

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probably have guessed who the 23 R. It is a nightmare, we would much

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rather nobody knew. -- 23 are. The pieces of the jigsaw will start

:37:33.:37:37.

falling into place. If Luke Shaw is told he is on stand-by, that means

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Ashley Cole is in. The big and will be resolved. -- the big answers. If

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there is no easy way. Did you always get a phone call? Nothing, usually.

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I think, I remember certainly around 2002, Nick McCarthy kept in regular

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contact with the players to check up, -- Mick McCarthy. I think there

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was an idea, you knew, and then the squad was announced. Add a member

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the first one, it was painful, you were waiting with bated breath, and

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Graham called the players. They were so paperthin, when the phone went,

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you could hear the clatter of things, Ian Wright was in the room

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next to me and he was not going. You had 30 together and then he whittled

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it down, whereas Roy Hodgson is taking 23 plus the seven. We will

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keep this discussion going on BBC Two and the BBC website but the five

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live listeners are leaving. You will be able to watch the F1 on BBC One,

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line up, goals, and results. -- enabling. Just one more thing on the

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World Cup squad, when we are looking at the players that have been

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selected, it does feel like for virtually every tournament since I

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can remember, we selected on a view to the future, constantly. I go back

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to 1982, but every squad, we have got one eye on what will happen in

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the future. I have heard that school of thought, picking relative

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unknowns to go to the World Cup, but you have somebody like Ashley Cole,

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Steven Gerrard, these are experienced players that have been

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there, seen that and done it. They will be desperate to go. How can you

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turn around to them and say, not this time, we are going to move on

:40:25.:40:31.

and look ahead. It is a balancing act. We will be qualifying for the

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European Championships in August, and some of these players, Ashley

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Cole, Steven Gerrard, they are not retiring, so I would imagine they

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will carry on in the early stages but it will be difficult for them to

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play in the next European Championships. Of course we know

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about Michael Owen, went to the World Cup in linking 98, Rio

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Ferdinand came because they could not name another. -- 1998. What we

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should be looking at is what formation he will play, what style,

:41:08.:41:11.

is he going to copy what Liverpool do? He could play them, even Adam

:41:12.:41:21.

Lallana before he gets to Liverpool. That is exciting. This time last

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year, we were very worried for England, now that Ross Barkley has

:41:25.:41:31.

been added to that group... Do not start the hype yet. Mark Dawson says

:41:32.:41:40.

Roberto Martinez adapted, adopted, improved. Liverpool fan says they

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are proud. A Sunderland fan says miracles do happen. Because of that

:41:48.:41:53.

miracle, some of the excitement about the relegation battle has

:41:54.:41:56.

gone. Not that Sunderland fans will care. It has gone. It was so tight

:41:57.:42:06.

for so long, but yes, Sunderland would probably have been amazed that

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Norwich did not lose to Chelsea and expected it a bit sooner but their

:42:11.:42:14.

results have been incredible and it will be interesting to see what

:42:15.:42:19.

happens. They have treated their games like a cup competition, and

:42:20.:42:23.

they have done brilliantly. They got out of the bottom three, so all

:42:24.:42:27.

credit to them to do what they have done and some of the results have

:42:28.:42:32.

been... The Chelsea won was the standout. Very quickly, we only have

:42:33.:42:39.

one minute left, the title... Manchester City. Manchester City.

:42:40.:42:46.

Manchester City. I did go for Chelsea and I think this will hurt

:42:47.:42:50.

Jose Mourinho. He is no longer the special one. Interesting to see how

:42:51.:42:55.

they recover, he is second best. I'm keen to see next year... Third-best.

:42:56.:43:05.

Manager of the Season? Tony Pulis. What he has done has been a miracle.

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I think Manuel Pellegrini. I would go with Tony Pulis. Would you?

:43:13.:43:23.

Probably. I know that he took them to the cup final, Gus Poyet, William

:43:24.:43:33.

achievement, and I am. Admiration. -- brilliant achievement that I

:43:34.:43:36.

admire, but Tony Pumas has done brilliantly. Stephen London, he says

:43:37.:43:44.

doom, gloom, hope and elation. -- Tony Pulis has done brilliantly.

:43:45.:43:49.

That sums up the mood of most football fans. That is it for us.

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Match Of The Day will be tonight on BBC One. See you next season.

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Sorry, what? I got to get off the show.

:44:11.:44:12.

You have a contract. So I'll give 'em back the money.

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