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Good afternoon, welcome to Match of the Day 2 Extra on BBC Two | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
Get in touch using the hashtag #bbcfootball on social media | :00:31. | :00:48. | |
Over the next 45 minutes we will update you on the big game at | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
Selhurst Park in the fight to stay in the Premier League and Crystal | :00:59. | :01:01. | |
Palace took an early lead against Hull. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Swansea won yesterday, beating Sunderland 2-0 at the Stadium Of | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Light and we will reflect on Chelsea's title triumph in talks | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
birds as they get ready to bid farewell to White Hart Lane. -- we | :01:15. | :01:22. | |
will talk about Spurs. Antonio Conte features on most | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
of the back pages, after reportedly Andy's paper, the Mirror - | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
"Conte Me In". Saying they are planning to get rid | :01:31. | :01:50. | |
of players starting with Zabaleta. We can get details of the early game | :01:51. | :01:58. | |
at Selhurst Park. It is on 5 Live. 1-0, the goal coming after three | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
minutes, a horrible moment for Andrea Ranocchia. Missed his kick | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
and in bit Wilfried Zaha, gleefully slotting under the goalkeeper. | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
Selhurst Park erupted. It could have been two. A James Tomkins header | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
drifting wide. As it stands, Hull City will be relegated and a draw | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
would keep them up but if they lose, they will go down and Swansea and | :02:29. | :02:31. | |
Crystal Palace will stay up. They have a lot to do. Leon Osman, you | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
can do all the planning as a manager but if a centre-half makes a mistake | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
like that there is little you can do. | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
You send your team out with all the things you have worked on in | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
training, and a player makes such a horrendous mistake. You are fighting | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
an uphill challenge with your backs against the wall already. 1-0 down | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
and you have their crowd up, you have them really firing. It is | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
difficult from that position. Hull, I assume they will be nervous, the | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
crowd will be nervous, the more we can prey on the nerves, the better. | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
It has not helped. Right now, the crowd firing. I know what it is like | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
playing in front of the Selhurst Park faithful. Once they are up, | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
they are up and it is definitely the man. Wilfried Zaha scoring an early | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
goal leaves Hull with a big task. It was a horrendous error but Zaha had | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
to be aware to capitalise on it. It is important for him, obviously | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
Palace staying in the Premier League, a big moment for him. A | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
shining light of the season, a Premier League style. His awareness | :03:57. | :04:04. | |
to capitalise shows why he is. That is why it is important for him to | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
stay in this league. He showed great composure. He has been criticised | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
for showing his skill, getting into set positions and not showing skill. | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
With that play, and the team sheets, with that type of player in the | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Palace squad, that is why they should not be in this situation, | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
having to beat Hull. You look at the Hull team. Looking at players I have | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
trained with nine out of 11. I think how have they done it? Nobody | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
understands. Do you understand? I cannot put my finger on it. It is | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
probably the home record that followed us all the way through from | :04:49. | :04:57. | |
2016. Not winning in ages. It affected the team definitely. A lot | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
of the players have been there for the duration. Only three players... | :05:03. | :05:14. | |
You wear blue now, you cannot say" us" any more! I am still a fan. You | :05:15. | :05:29. | |
talk about players you know. This is one of the players you do not know. | :05:30. | :05:41. | |
Millie a. Do you think he has provided a defensive protection. A | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
similar type of player who looks more mobile. Definitely got... He | :05:48. | :05:55. | |
looks like he has helped out Palace. They like him down there. Letting | :05:56. | :06:02. | |
him score a penalty against Arsenal. His first goal. Shows the | :06:03. | :06:10. | |
appreciation. -- Milivojevic. For Hull firms, who are unlikely to be | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
watching this, you could use a similar argument for Hull. They may | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
not get the amount of attention Zaha does in the media but Maguire, young | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
players on the radar of Premier League clubs if they drop out. It is | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
a natural scenario for any team dropping out, players who are | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
ambition, the full-back, Robertson, that type of player would find a | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
club in the Premier League if they want to. It depends on the ongoing | :06:43. | :06:50. | |
situation in the hierarchy, the board, whether they can find the | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
wherewithal, be it financial, to keep the players. You will be | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
manager next season. Silver probably -- Silva probably has a clause where | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
he can leave. For all the good publicity he has generated with the | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
home record, it still looks like a relegation on his CV. They have | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
looked better organise. In patches. At home, barring last week's | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
disaster, they have been impressive at home and have had great victories | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
against sides you would not expect. He has not been able to do anything | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
about the away form. Would Sam Allardyce have kept up Hull? Trying | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
to bedevil's Africa. Answer your question, you are the guest. -- I am | :07:43. | :07:52. | |
trying to play devil's advocate. If you had said to me Sam was available | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
at the time, who would I bring in, I would have brought in Sam Allardyce. | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
Sam Allardyce will be delighted Palace came available because he | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
might have jumped into the Hull job. He went to Palace. He would have | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
been delighted with the squad he got. In my opinion they are a top | :08:14. | :08:18. | |
ten team. They are languishing near the bottom. I put it down to desire | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
of the players when they are out on the field. I do not know them like | :08:23. | :08:30. | |
Yannick. They look like they wait to have someone else reacts first and | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
they can follow them and now they are off it and it has come to it | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
where Sam Allardyce has said it is time to step up. A squad that needs | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
leadership? Palace? Yes. Milivojevic is a big leader. Delaney. He is not | :08:49. | :08:59. | |
playing. It takes a toll on the player when you are not playing. The | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
leadership skills tend to be relaxed. They found a new captain. | :09:04. | :09:10. | |
Jason Puncheon is a great captain. When you go out on the pitch, the | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
captain playing at the back. To set the tempo takes a striker and you | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
bring in someone like Benteke, you get crosses and finishes and | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
hustling feller upfront but he does not start at tempo and chases centre | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
halves. If he does not, people behind think they do not necessarily | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
think they to do it. Would you say Palace have better players? Yes. | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
Then he should have done a better job with the players, is so Silva | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
has done a better job than Sam Allardyce? Is some cases he has a | :09:50. | :09:55. | |
better squad. It took him a while. Three games ago they were thought | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
they were safe. The Manchester City game looked like a game they were | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
not overly interested in. Maybe there was an element of that. I | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
guess you could say that. It looks like he will keep them up and it | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
looks like he will keep them up with a little to spare. He would have | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
gone to Hull and approached it differently possibly with those | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
players, making them harder to beat on the road. Palace, it is not just | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
a question of making them hard to beat but looking at the squad | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
thinking this is a team that should win games. Swansea, a huge win at | :10:34. | :10:39. | |
Sunderland. Their squad are meant to be watching this Crystal Palace and | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
Hull game together. Everton played them last weekend and were beaten by | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
them at the Liberty Stadium. What did the squad say about the Swansea | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
team? They are definitely more up for it, that is for sure. To be | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
honest, the boys will have felt they let themselves down. Especially, | :11:04. | :11:11. | |
myself being a Crystal Palace supporter, I would want Everton to | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
go out and beat them. It happens. We are seventh. Not much to play for. | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
You tend to relax a little bit. It is hard to keep up the tempo. It is | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
not like we can catch the top six, all go down, so technically, it just | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
happens. Paul Clement, what has he done for you? He has got the team | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
together. They were a bit... Certainly flimsy under the previous | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
managers. They had a turnaround. The third manager. Fourth, I don't know. | :11:49. | :11:56. | |
He brought stability. He gave them a shape and place to play from and | :11:57. | :12:01. | |
from that when you have the likes of Llorente to score goals, you have a | :12:02. | :12:07. | |
chance. It is a vague concept but they look well coached as you would | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
imagine from someone of his experience. He will be finding his | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
way into the man management situation and the way he reacts to | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
situations, to winning and defeat. I think he was over exuberant in | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
celebrating some wins, going around the crowd. They lose and suddenly | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
you are under pressure again. Looking at him, he looks like a | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
coach in charge, a guy who has been number two two big clubs. Arguably | :12:37. | :12:44. | |
they needed that. Some might think it over the top going around. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Because there were accusations of the club losing its identity because | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
of American investors and one of the things he appears to have done is | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
bring everybody together. The players buying tickets for the fans. | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
That is a conscious decision. That is clearly people behind the scenes. | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
That was Leon Britton, as I understand it. In terms of his | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
interaction with the club, Paul Clement, that is people behind the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
scenes making the decision to connect. He has made the effort. It | :13:22. | :13:31. | |
has lifted the place. A better atmosphere. Crucially they look a | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
more cohesive unit. Part of what you were saying when they were up for it | :13:36. | :13:39. | |
last week, the atmosphere and crowd players coming together. Paul | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
Clement going around and clapping the standards. It works. There is | :13:45. | :13:54. | |
definitely a togetherness there. If football there is so much | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
exaggeration with that kind of thing but the fans really like that. It is | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
the modern way of the manager to basically go out on the pitch. I | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
used to think the manager should not be near the pitch. Look at the | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
manager who won the title, Antonio Conte, he probably does it the most. | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
The fans respond to it. Did you see Alex Ferguson on the pitch, other | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
than when they scored in the extra 20 minutes of injury time? Maybe not | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
until the end of the season, but I suppose there was never a doubt in | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Alex Ferguson's loyalty, because he was there so long and in the age | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
when managers come and go more and players, whether it is real or not, | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
you want to see some passion and appreciation for you from them. You | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
are a fan, I am a fan. Maybe I am an old-fashioned band. You will not see | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
Arsene Wenger going to all four corners of the stadium. | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
You don't see him anywhere! I know what she was saying, the passion, | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
but it is a bit of the cult of the manager, that is because now they | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
are as big a star... They were never as big... It was always the star | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
players. You would not get managers, basically, milking the acclaim like | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
they do now. If you have just won the Premier League title and you can | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
dance in front of your fans. But keeping them up is just as big. Not | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
everybody can win. Ten games from the end of the season, I can't and | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
who they beat, then going onto the pitch. It is very curmudgeonly, I | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
know... With ten games to go if you are in a relegation battle, you need | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
to galvanise? I'm pretty sure that was part of what he was to do, | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
showing the fans his team is fighting and how much it means to | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
him, he was probally trying to show the players this is how we can | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
celebrate after games if we are all in this together. He went on a great | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
run when he first came in, they fell away a bit but now they are back on | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
a good run. In no small part, in my opinion, to Leon Britton. Clement | :16:24. | :16:26. | |
did not seem to fancy him at first and played him -- fancy at first, | :16:27. | :16:34. | |
but now he is playing him and realising what an acid years. One | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
reviewer says that for Hull to stay up as an achievement. Jackson says | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
it is a big game for Swansea fans, we need Palace to win. They are 1-0 | :16:45. | :16:51. | |
up at the moment. Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday 0- in the | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
Championship play up -- play-off. Somebody is saying about the rent | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
say is one of the key players, would you say he was? Who is that? Low | :17:04. | :17:11. | |
rent a? Definitely, his goals have been fantastic. If you have a | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
striker but can score goals, you put it in on his head. If you have | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
somebody with the ammunition and firepower, let's play to the | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
strengths of Llorente. Swansea are a passing progressive team. When they | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
get into the final third, they know they want to get the ball to | :17:30. | :17:31. | |
Llorente. Most of the papers have the quote | :17:32. | :17:44. | |
that he is staying, Antonio Conte, despite the reported interest from | :17:45. | :17:47. | |
inter-Milan, and a new contract could be on the table. It is serious | :17:48. | :17:59. | |
interest from Inter Milan. What I would say is that in the immediate | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
aftermath he will not say I am not sure. He will not say I am undecided | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
whether I will stay or not. There is an element of he would say that, | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
wouldn't he?! But I think over the last couple of months it is by no | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
means 100% certain that he would stay. From two elements. Have you | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
settled in London? His family have not moved to London yet, I think he | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
hopes for his wife and daughter to come in the summer, they were at the | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
game the other day at Stamford Bridge. You can't underestimate if a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
guy has not settled and maybe wants to go home. That does not seem to | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
have been resolved. Professionally, it would be a big challenge going to | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
Inter. Newly owned, relatively newly in the last two years. Big money to | :18:52. | :19:03. | |
spend, big money to offer him. He looks around the Premier League now, | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
he will look at Jose Mourinho, Pep and their salaries and think I am on | :19:07. | :19:09. | |
half of that, I might want to upgrade. The consensus now is that | :19:10. | :19:12. | |
it is designed that they will come to him with a new deal and most of | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
the papers say it would be record-breaking, but I would not say | :19:16. | :19:23. | |
100%. 99, maybe, not 100%. You can see from his perspective in that if | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
he looks at Mourinho or Guardiola or Klopp or whatever and goes, I am not | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
getting what they are and I have won the title, you can understand | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
wanting parity with your peers if you are the title winner. When you | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
do the job, you always have a right to demand. He has come in in his | :19:41. | :19:47. | |
first season and won the Premier League with a team, technically, | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
that was struggling last season. They still have the Champions League | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
to play for this season. Winning the Premier League is still a big | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
especially with all the managers. Is Yannick was talking, Leon, who has | :20:03. | :20:09. | |
paid no attention at all... I heard everything he said! Made a little | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
move because there has been another goal at Selhurst Park. We will go | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
there very shortly. Christian Benteke has scored. Crystal Palace | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
are no two goals to the goods is home to Hull. It came from a corner, | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
John Southall can describe. Crystal Palace two, Hull City nil. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Hull City are looking doomed. They corner from the right-hand side, | :20:37. | :20:38. | |
Christian Benteke rose five yards out to power the ball into the back | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
of the net for his 15th league goal of the season. Hull City really need | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
to win this game, they trailing 2-0 and look like they are heading to | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
the Championship. In this game, Palace have cause to Hull lots of | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
problems really. Tompkins almost scored as well. Knowing what the | :21:00. | :21:07. | |
teamwork on, and the boys, Big Sam always works on set plays. That is | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
the training ground peace. Six foot plus, lots of the Palace players. | :21:14. | :21:21. | |
Three centre halves in Maguire, Dawson and Rodon here. Maybe they | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
should be able to compete, but when you have the likes of Benteke and | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Tompkins, get set pieces, get the ball in the box, we will ). 2-0 to | :21:33. | :21:41. | |
Crystal Palace against Hull. Still goalless in the Championship | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
play-off between Huddersfield and Sheffield Wednesday. The Telegraph | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
says that Antonio Conte will have ?2 million to spend this summer -- ?200 | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
million to spend. How much do you think they need to strengthen? I | :21:53. | :21:57. | |
think Sir Alex Ferguson said it a number of years ago, the best time | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
to strengthen its when you have just won something. I agree. I think he | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
will splash the cash. I think there are some players are Chelsea Lewis | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
believe, John Terry is certainly on his way out, Willian possibly going, | :22:16. | :22:17. | |
will Fabregas be happy being a bit part player again? They could be | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
losing quality players, they will have to strengthen, meaning more | :22:22. | :22:24. | |
competition. I looked at Jose Mourinho in the summer when he won | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
the Premier League, moving into the next season when he got the sack, | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
the only player of note he brought in was Pedro, he tried to bring in | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
others but they were not successful, I believe that was a big | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
contribution to him getting the sack, the lack of competition for | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
places. Players can get a bit relaxed and what they have done and | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
what position they have held. The competition comes with signing new | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
players. That would have been another element in Conte's mind, | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
finding out what he has to spend and how he can strengthen. He will know | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
that his schedule will be busy next year, clearly, a European schedule | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
to content with, he knows all about that. He will be thinking, hang on, | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
you will also know he is a little bit... I would not say fortunate | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
that he has been privileged to have to make so few changes. It has been | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
highlighted, probably the least number of changes in the Premier | :23:22. | :23:29. | |
League, at the top end. The same as Leicester last season, winning | :23:30. | :23:35. | |
formula. Don't play any rug, win the title! That was never the case until | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
Lester did it. Previously to Leicester doing it... Liverpool got | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
really close, barring the Steven Gerrard slip. That is the best they | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
have done, they were not in Europe. For these teams are the top 12 or 13 | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
players, Chelsea probably have a bigger squad than most but if you | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
have 12 of 30 players that don't have the extra games in Europe... It | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
has become like this in the last couple of seasons, the last team to | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
win, it was not the Premier League, it was the last season of the old | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
division, Leeds, they were not in Europe. From then on until Lester, | :24:11. | :24:15. | |
every team has been in Europe. Now it is getting more physically | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
demanding, there has been appointed. Grujic is reference to the Steven | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
Gerrard stuff extra measure my -- a gratuitous reference. I can't | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
believe the camera caught me smiling! Is the fellow Premier | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
League winner, when you watch him, what do you see in his game that you | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
would like to add to yours? Hazard is a great player, obviously. The | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
thing I would like to take off him, if I was going to take something, | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
was the way he stands in pockets and it's really patient. Sometimes I can | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
go in a pocket and I'm standing but I'm thinking the ball needs to come | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
now, now, now. If it don't come I end up going out wide. But stays, | :25:04. | :25:09. | |
makes the team shuffle across and is still in the same position where he | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
knows if he gets on the half turn... That is patience? Patience and | :25:17. | :25:25. | |
knowledge. The fact that Hazard... Lots of academy players I see coming | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
through are doing the same thing, hanging around in pockets. A player | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
like myself who has come through the non-league system, it is one of the | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
things we tend to miss from our game and have to minute at a later stage. | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
When you learn it at a younger stage, becomes as simple as opening | :25:43. | :25:48. | |
a book. The fact that Hazard has it, it gives him an advantage, | :25:49. | :25:52. | |
especially the way he plays, he is so quick and runs at players and | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
goes that you from the centre, literally running the centre-back, | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
it makes it harder to mark. Or you are trying to teach yourself that | :26:03. | :26:10. | |
ability? I have had Alan Pardew playing me in number ten, that | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
helped a lot. When you tend to come out wide and do it, it is different. | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
It is easier through the middle. When you are out wide and coming | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
into my pocket, it is a lot harder. The way Everton are playing at the | :26:24. | :26:32. | |
moment has a lot to do with that. It caused me some problems at the start | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
of the season but I started getting better. I am sure I will pick at it | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
differently. Lots has been made of the Chelsea formation, the formation | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
really benefits them in that situation because you will have | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
players going alongside. In the same way as you learn at Everton, when he | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
is back fits, you would have Seamus Coleman doing the same thing? I will | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
go back to when we played against Chelsea and lost 5-0 at Stamford | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
Bridge. It made it so hard... My full-back, shameless probably did | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
not want to go in there. Alonso would be making much run. If I'm | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
following Alonso every time, how will I... I tried to cover Hazard, | :27:17. | :27:24. | |
which makes it even harder. Am I listening to my instructions from | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
behind? How will I follow him? Especially if he is that quick. It | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
is a clever formation. Definitely. It has gone well in certain | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
occasions but it looks like the Chelsea boys... They tried to go | :27:44. | :27:49. | |
4-3-3, eventually said no, we will stick it out at the usual formation. | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
The Championship play-off first leg between Huddersfield | :27:54. | :27:54. | |
and Sheffield Wednesday is under way. | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
It is still 0-0, fifth against fourth in the jumping Chapecoense. | :27:58. | :28:10. | |
Great atmosphere at the stadium. Yet to have an attempt on target. | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
Huddersfield have dominated, Brown grades the crossbar and Erin Moyes | :28:17. | :28:24. | |
sought an effort to be a wide. -- saw an effort. Andy on Twitter says | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
that at this rate Newcastle will have lots of troubling to do, their | :28:29. | :28:31. | |
nearest away match could be in Manchester. A few others in the | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
North will have to do a lot of travelling next season! -- a few of | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
us in the north. Leon just wants to watch the football, so I will talk | :28:43. | :28:48. | |
to you! How is your recovery? I could not be in a better stage right | :28:49. | :28:53. | |
now, not trying to force anything but now I am in a good state of mind | :28:54. | :29:01. | |
physically and mentally. Of, we were saying you are the kind of person | :29:02. | :29:05. | |
that wants to set yourself a target but you have done that yet? I have | :29:06. | :29:13. | |
not done that just yet. I like to see the end goal. For example, | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
Everton, their end goal would be finishing in the top six. It is like | :29:20. | :29:23. | |
myself as a player, you need to know the end goal and as you are going on | :29:24. | :29:28. | |
the way, if there are setbacks then you adjust, but you know the end | :29:29. | :29:33. | |
goal. Do you feel this is a positive time for your former club? I do. You | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
look at the way Ronald Koeman strengthened when he came in. The | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
club move forward. People working behind the scenes to make the club | :29:43. | :29:46. | |
move in the right direction. For a large part of the season we have had | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
players like Yannick missing. I expect they will strengthen again | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
over the summer if we can keep our better players, be a keeping club | :29:57. | :30:02. | |
rather than a club who has to cell. Strengthen and then get players like | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
Yannick and Seamus who have missed a big chunk, that is a great addition. | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
Talking about Conte strengthening, if Everton continued they can | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
compete at the next stage, the top six, and potentially go up. How | :30:16. | :30:16. | |
would you describe the season? At the start of the season if you | :30:17. | :30:25. | |
thought how many points they would get you would come up with something | :30:26. | :30:29. | |
around a smart. They have been great at home. The current state, these | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
next two, three months are important, what happens with Lukaku? | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
What I'm getting, I think, even though his situation is more urgent, | :30:43. | :30:47. | |
I think Lukaku, if I had to save one of them will go it will be him and | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
that will be a big blow. Ross Barkley. I don't know. He is playing | :30:52. | :30:57. | |
a strange game not to sign by now but I would not be surprised if he | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
stays but I would not be surprised if he said to the board, what is | :31:01. | :31:06. | |
happening with Lukaku? It is OK Everton saying to Ross Barkley sign | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
this contract or you are being sold, when they might say Lukaku has two | :31:11. | :31:20. | |
years of his contract left. If they could hold onto those and | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
strengthening, they could challenge the top six and make the big six, | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
big seven. How have you found your manager to work for? When you ask a | :31:29. | :31:36. | |
player, they go, he is brilliant. The awards dinner the other night, | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
Lukaku was honest, saying he has improved me. But we have had times | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
when we have fallen out. He was honest, how have you found a | :31:48. | :31:54. | |
manager? He is like that, he is chilled out, but he ain't. I am more | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
relaxed. I am a little bit older. The manager has been fantastic to | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
me, ever since I have been injured, the staff, as well, the support has | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
been incredible and for me, I am looking forward to being back. | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
Playing and doing well and showing the fans what I am about because I | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
don't think I have shown them what I can do. You talk about Ross Barkley | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
and Romelu Lukaku, but Everton under 23s won .pl two, their division. | :32:25. | :32:32. | |
Several have played in the first team. There are others going | :32:33. | :32:38. | |
through. A lot of players coming through, but like Leon Osman says, | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
we have probably got to bring in players to freshen up the | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
competition. Bringing in players helps players like myself, anyone | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
else in the team, to raise their game. If we can do that, hopefully | :32:53. | :33:00. | |
we can be challenging. Agreed. It is a great sign the young lads are | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
doing so well. They have potential. Now we are talking about Everton | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
making the next step and becoming a top six guaranteed club and moving | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
on. You have to have top young players to help the first team | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
improve and the next step would be to strengthen by bringing in | :33:20. | :33:22. | |
players. Ronald Koeman has done a great job. He seems to have been | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
more strict than the previous regime which the players have needed. | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
Ronald Koeman seems to have not exactly a my way or the highway, but | :33:36. | :33:40. | |
do what I tell you, maybe not far off. I think the club may be needed | :33:41. | :33:46. | |
that. You have seen that in the home form. The fact Everton have | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
progressed. Let's go back to Selhurst Park. Crystal Palace | :33:50. | :33:58. | |
leading Hull City 2-0. The referee's whistle should go any moment. A | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
horrendous first half for Hull City, who are being relegated at the | :34:04. | :34:09. | |
moment. The first was a shocker. Ranocchia missing his clearance just | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
outside the penalty area and Wilfried Zaha slotting it under the | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
keeper. There goes the whistle. The second from the corner on the right, | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
Jason Puncheon with the corner and wrist in Benteke with the header. | :34:22. | :34:25. | |
There was a controversial moments before half-time. A Grosicki free | :34:26. | :34:29. | |
kick on the left-hand side and it looked like Puncheon handball and | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
the referee did not give the penalty and Hull City need those decisions | :34:35. | :34:40. | |
to go their way. As they go off at half-time, they have 45 minutes to | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
save their Premier League status. At the moment it is hanging by a very | :34:45. | :34:53. | |
thin thread. Half-time has gone in the Championship play-off semifinal | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
first leg and that is goalless between Huddersfield and Sheffield | :34:57. | :34:57. | |
Wednesday. At 4:30 on 5Live, you can hear | :34:58. | :35:00. | |
commentary of Tottenham's final game at White Hart Lane against Mancheser | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
United. Did you enjoy playing at Spurs? I | :35:04. | :35:14. | |
loved it, my favourite away ground. I made my debut there. Back in what | :35:15. | :35:22. | |
was a 4-3 defeat. I came on in the 97th minute and played 90 seconds | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
and definitely touched the ball! Although that did not go well, and | :35:28. | :35:33. | |
another couple of defeats, we won three on the run down there and I | :35:34. | :35:39. | |
think we had not won as a club since 1987, and we won three on the run | :35:40. | :35:46. | |
and I scored a goal or two. I am surprised you have not been asked | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
back! I thought I would have been. I have my suit, just in case. Did you | :35:50. | :35:54. | |
enjoy playing their? Yes. A lot of the times. Won in the quarterfinal | :35:55. | :36:07. | |
of the FA Cup, last season. It has been an enjoyable place. Do you like | :36:08. | :36:13. | |
the crowd on top of you? I do. The atmosphere. When they don't like | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
you, it gives you more edge to hurt the team you are playing against and | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
I like that. You said you will miss it because the press box is great, | :36:22. | :36:26. | |
over the tunnel. You can see the bus stop new Mac. When the new press box | :36:27. | :36:38. | |
was designed -- bust ups. We are low-down but we are next to the | :36:39. | :36:43. | |
dugout and the tunnel. You sort of hangover and see the players walking | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
in. You will notice an inordinate amount of Spurs tunnel bust ups | :36:51. | :36:57. | |
stories because that is because we conceive. In the Derby, you see what | :36:58. | :37:05. | |
it is about, it was about a drugs test. Having said that, I did notice | :37:06. | :37:12. | |
it will... Will Spurs have a glass tunnel when you pay extra money and | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
watch what goes on as they come through? What went on in the tunnel | :37:16. | :37:24. | |
always stayed at the tunnel. Remember that? Unless at Spurs, when | :37:25. | :37:30. | |
the press can crane their necks and looked over. It is a great | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
atmosphere and I am glad it is staying where it is. These stadiums. | :37:35. | :37:40. | |
The bricks and mortar change, dramatically. White Hart Lane from | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
ten, 20 years ago is nothing like it is now, they change all the time. It | :37:46. | :37:54. | |
is like Trigger's broom. The Anfield of today is not like the Anfield my | :37:55. | :38:00. | |
dad went to. But it is the area, the routine. Upton Park we miss, it is | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
the area, the atmosphere. The same people you see and routine you have. | :38:08. | :38:17. | |
The same pubs and cafes. In a way, it is good, I think it remains in | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
the area and it will not be out of town. Not remote from wherever it | :38:22. | :38:28. | |
has been. I have not seen the plans for the new stadium but White Hart | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
Lane is what you would class as a good, traditional British ground | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
from years ago. You have the modern stadiums. It was steeped in history, | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
tight, a good ground. The noise they made was fantastic and a great | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
ground to play at regardless of the result. I am fascinated when you | :38:48. | :38:56. | |
speak to players, how it works to your advantage. How Goodison Park | :38:57. | :39:01. | |
works for Everton, White Hart Lane for Spurs, and when you go somewhere | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
like the London Stadium, more anaesthetised, is there a | :39:07. | :39:13. | |
difference? Palace is an intimidating place. They are on top | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
of you and the noise they make, they are jumping up and down. Manchester | :39:18. | :39:23. | |
City, asked, new stadiums. They are not so much. The crowd is set back, | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
not as much as the London stadium but setback and the seats are more | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
comfortable. They are not on top of each other like a Palace and | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
Goodison and White Hart Lane at the moment. These new grams have to come | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
into modern eyes football and create more money, but the old grounds were | :39:43. | :39:49. | |
great to play in. You say at Spurs you used it to your advantage. Do | :39:50. | :39:55. | |
you get intimidated? There is not a game where a player goes to take the | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
corner near the away fans, home fans, and there are gestures going | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
on at that player. Do you look and see that, can you blanket out? I | :40:03. | :40:11. | |
have looked and when I have looked I have hands pointing. I laugh it off. | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
I have just won a corner for my team. With those grounds you will | :40:18. | :40:26. | |
get it, especially when they are on top of you. I probably got abused at | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
Goodison more than anywhere else. It is great you know that is there. The | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
opposition getting twice as much as you are. Do you expect Spurs to win? | :40:35. | :40:42. | |
I do and talking about the emotion, that will lift them. Manchester | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
United have their mind on other things. It will complete an unbeaten | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
season at home, the home they are leaving, and going to Wembley, and | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
we know what happens there. As far as the top four is concerned. In | :40:58. | :41:10. | |
this top four chat, we ought to keep saying, you really want to finish | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
third, not forth, in this because you avoid the qualifier and go into | :41:17. | :41:23. | |
the group stage. You would rather finish fourth and fifth! Liverpool | :41:24. | :41:30. | |
have a tough game at West Ham, especially after the performance | :41:31. | :41:34. | |
against Spurs. They know how to get a result and what it requires, those | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
players. Probably their last home game of the season, which brings | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
more. It will be tough for Liverpool, but they tend to win | :41:44. | :41:48. | |
games when they are up against it. It is Middlesbrough next week where | :41:49. | :41:51. | |
Liverpool will struggle. I expect to win today. This is no comment on any | :41:52. | :41:59. | |
team going for the top four, but it is just the way football work | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
sometimes, there is no analysis, the feeling that after everything this | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
season, Arsenal finish fourth. Do you know what I mean? And win the FA | :42:10. | :42:17. | |
Cup. Probably. Everybody saying... What a manager! I was at Stoke | :42:18. | :42:24. | |
yesterday and the Arsenal fans were singing Arsene Wenger's name. Mesut | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
Ozil scores and they are singing about him. Arsenal win 4-1 and you | :42:31. | :42:38. | |
think, it is a typical Arsenal world. That could happen. In the | :42:39. | :42:47. | |
past they have got to this stage and it has been in their hands, but it | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
is not and if Liverpool win this afternoon, that should be it. As | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
Leon says, Liverpool, when they have their backs against the wall are | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
more likely to come good. Liverpool, no, I think West Ham will give them | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
a good challenge. My gut feeling is telling me Arsenal will finish in | :43:07. | :43:12. | |
the top four. They play Everton on the last day of the season. We are | :43:13. | :43:24. | |
in good form. It has always been the way for me. West Ham no Liverpool | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
have to come to get the result which will help West Ham. With Arsenal, | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
they always seem to come good when the pressure is off, basically came | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
from nowhere. When they are expected to win it is more difficult. I think | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
Arsenal could potentially finish fourth. It is on this game today. | :43:45. | :43:54. | |
Hull's game against Crystal Palace is on 5 Live. We will have | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
highlights on Match Of The Day to later. Goodbye. | :43:59. | :44:01. |