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Hello and welcome to Match of the Day 2 Extra. We're live on BBC One,

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on BBC Radio 5Live and on the BBC Sport website. Coming up: We'll ask

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what's going on with Malky Mackay at Cardiff. Is he going to stay or go?

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Managers of Spurs face Southampton after a week of turmoil on and off

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the field. We'll talk about Everton visit to Swansea. Look ahead to

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tomorrow night's big game between Arsenal and Chelsea.

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With me for the next 35 minutes is Robbie Savage, 5Live's commentator

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John Murray, and Ian Ladyman of the Daily Mail. We want your views as

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well. You've got 35 minutes to get your

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thoughts and opinions to us and I will put your questions to the

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studio. You were at Anfield yesterday. It was a very odd

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atmosphere wasn't it? It was unlike anything I've experienced really. I

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wasn't at the game when Martin Jol knew he was on the way at Spurs or

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when Martin Hughes knew he was on the way to Manchester City.

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Everything pointed to the fact that at some point yesterday we were

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going to find out that Malky Mackay was no longer the manager of Cardiff

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City. But for whatever reason that hasn't yet come to pass. Just odd.

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It must have been a very, very strange afternoon for Malky Mackay

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himself, with the whole thing that surrounded it. A strange afternoon

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for him and despite everything that's gone on he did all his media

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and press duties after the match. Before we get the thoughts of Robbie

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and Ian, let's hear from Malky. 100% I can tell you I won't be resigning

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from the Football Club. . I am the manager here. Had I couldn't look at

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myself in the mirror resigning and walking away from that group of

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players, may staff, the training room staff and office staff. What

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we've built here in the last two-and-a-half years, and the fans.

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They've been like that home and away for two-and-a-half years. They

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should be enjoying the Premier League season this year. Obviously

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you are not going to resign. I don't think anybody would expect you to.

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Do you know what Vincent Tan is going to do? No, I don't. Do you

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think even Vincent Tan knows what he is going to do? I'm not sure after

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yesterday, the reaction of the Cardiff fans, the Liverpool fans,

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and people in general. People who were respecting the game say it is a

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ridiculous decision to sack him if that's the case. I think there might

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be a change of heart. From what I've seen over the weekend, from people's

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comments, I'm not sure he will be sacked now. What is bizarre is why

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everybody asks Malky Mackay if he is going to resign. Nobody in their

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right mind would resign. He is doing a good job. The question, will you

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resign, for me isn't right. Due really think that a atmosphere at

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Anfield yesterday, the coverage in the papers and the media could sway

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a club's chairman to change his mind? Not this one. He decided a

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long time ago he wanted Malky out of his club. . He's been doing

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everything he can to persuade Mali in various underhand ways to

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resign.ia would he walk? Tan knows that now. All his methods have fail,

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so now he will sack him, maybe not today or tomorrow, but at some

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point. Malky will be OK. He's a very good manager and a level bloke.

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Whether Cardiff will be OK under the ownership of this crazy guy is more

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doubtful. What I thought was telling was that when Brendan Rodgers spoke

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to the media after the match yesterday, he said that he had

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spoken with Malky Mackay on the Friday night before the game and

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either wittingly or unwitting Brendan Rodgers was referring to

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Malky Mackay as manager in the past tense. He offered strong support and

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said if Cardiff stick with Malky Mackay, they will stay up this

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season. He said this guy will go on to be a top manager at a top club,

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referring to him in the past tense. So Mali expects to be sacked? Yes.

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After this match, they went on to the pitch together, he was talking

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to Richard Bevan from the League Managers' Association. The chairman

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is a big fan of Malky. I think if he could have persuaded Vincent Tan to

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maybe stick can Malky Mackay there could have been a change of heart.

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The chairman has proved to be an ally in the last difficult months. I

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believe there was a conversation between the owner around the

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chairman on Friday night where he was trying to drum sense into him,

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but who knows whether that's worked. The word we had on it a, David

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reported that the relationship between Vincent Tan and Malky Mackay

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had down beyond repair. Weeks ago. They don't talk. So if the

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relationship has broken down beyond repair... Yes, but maybe there's

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some magician who can repair it. Maybe there's someone in the

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background who can do that. How long can this continue like this? You

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said on 5Live yesterday Robbie, it won't affect the players. All they

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are bothered about is getting their money and making sure they are

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playing in the first team. Do you really believe that When I was a

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player, from a selfish point of view, if you are a player and you

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are seeing what's happening to the chairman, the manager, as long as

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you are in that team and you are big picked and paid each month, does it

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really have that much effect on you? The second half performance was

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terrific. Liverpool were the better team. That's why they got beat. .

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Some players might think if the manager goes, they might get back on

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the team, but the majority of players now getting their wages each

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months, there'll be a new manager, I will still be getting paid, does it

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affect me? But people like Craig Bellamy will care. Yes, but the

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majority won't. They will have an influence on the players, the more

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relaxed players, the more selfish players, people like Bellamy will

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have an influence. There are a lot of selfish players. We are seeing

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the odds that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is 6-4 on favourite for this job

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with Sven second favourite at 2-1. Fans who always go, who would want

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to manage Cardiff in these situations? There'll always be

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somebody who would want to be manager. One or two people will want

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that job and we all know who it is. Would you say it is the Swede? I

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would be amazed if Solskjaer took it. I heard Lawro say on Friday

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night, who would come in to this scenario? And the answer to that

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question was Sven-Goran Eriksson would be a manager who would happily

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walk in. He's worked with some eccentric chairman in the past. He

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was sacked by an eccentric Far East chairman but it won't put him off. I

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have a strange feeling that all the Cardiff fans were so in favour of

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Malky Mackay staying, the fans, Ian might dis that fans have an

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influence it, but Malky Mackay could still be the manager at the end of

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the season for Cardiff. An extraordinary atmosphere yesterday

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with the may that Cardiff City fans all the way through the game, like

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an old-fashioned atmosphere. I agree. Tan in the director's box

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with his black gloves looked like an executioner. He's been getting grief

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from Cardiff fans for months. I don't think anything that happened

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yesterday will worry him much. Liverpool, the Mail on Sunday's

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front page, like so many newspapers, has Luis Suarez on the front cover.

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There is a picture of him on virtually every sports section.

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Before we talk about whether Liverpool are title contenders,

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let's hear from Brendan Rodgers on his newly signed striker. To have a

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player of that calibre and quality in your ranks is first class. We've

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always said when you've got someone of that esteem in your team, of

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course it makes you better. He's really happy at the moment. . His

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performance today yet again was outstanding, and he show that the

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ball, he squares it and gets his finish. A remarkable man, a

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remarkable player. We are delighted he's here and I think it will give

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the supporters a boost. On the subject of his new deal, Adam Dunn

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asks is it beneficial or is it a means to get a fair fee for him when

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Real Madrid come in? With Messi being injured, Suarez is probably

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the second best player in the world. If they go it will be Suarez or

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Gareth Bale last year for Spurs. If they don't get in the Champions

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League, is the second or third best player in the world going to be

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happy playing Europa League football or no European football at all?

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Contracts this day and age, do they really mean that much? If a player

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wants to leave, Brendan Rodgers deserves huge credit for the way he

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handled him. . He is an unbelievable player. But no Champions League

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football, what is he going to do? If they don't get Champions League

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football, on current form you would say they would. There's more than

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half the season left to. It is not a certainty that Liverpool will be in

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the top four. Robbie makes a good point and the question is a good

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question. I think the answer is both. . Liverpool have handled this

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situation a brilliantly since Suarez asked to leave in the summer.

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Liverpool have done well to keep him. It doesn't mean he will still

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be at Liverpool at the end of that contract but it means that if they

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face a situation where he wants to go and they feel it is right, they

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can now get a very good fee for him. That's a pragmatic thing to do. It

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is an intelligent thing to do. It works for them and for him. He is

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just so hungry at the moment isn't he. I said this during the

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commentary yesterday. He is ravenously hungry to score goals.

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Pat who was with me on 5Live yesterday, we felt at half time

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Liverpool have got the game one. Chelsea next weekend, two huge

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games. Brendan Rodgers will take Suarez. He plays full 90 minutes.

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Brendan Rodgers knows he wants-to-be out there. He wants to be on the

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field. He doesn't want a rest, so Brendan Rodgers is dealing with him

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in that way. The swim way we talk about Arsenal going to Manchester

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City, two defining fixtures for us this season, is it going to be the

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same for Liverpool over the festive period? Do you think it will define

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how and where they finish? Possibly. The big telltale sign was not having

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structure imand Gerrard and -- Sturridge and Gerrard and still

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winning. They proved, to win 5-0, irrespective how Spurs played, they

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were fantastic. Henderson looks a new player, and Joe Allen and

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Flanagan with his goal. I think they've got a realistic chance. I

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think they will finish top four. That's not great for Manchester

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United. City, Arsenal and heal will be above united. What happens if he

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dips or gets injured? Are they still good enough to keep in the taxpayer

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four? Well... They started very well without Suarez. You mentioned how

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they started without Suarez this season. This calendar year they've

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scored more goals than any other Premier League side. Yesterday

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during the game gay describe hem as Leicester City-Lite. Do you want to

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justify what you meant by that? The first half yesterday they were

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terrific. It is some way since I've been at Anfield and heard the home

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supporters purr at the way Liverpool... Do you think they are

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contenders? I do, with Suarez leading them like that. Remember,

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the season we are this is unusual because of the change and all of the

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big clubs apart from Arsenal, I feel this season there is an opportunity

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perhaps for Liverpool. If Arsenal get beat tomorrow, they're fourth.

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Incredible. They are title contenders. Graham from Taunton says

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Liverpool had every chance of winning the title if we keep Suarez

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fit. I suspect Everton supporters might be saying the same thing. Text

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us. 85058. Tim from Kent, Malky Mackay for

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Spurs. We could do a lot worse. Spurs today are at Southampton. In

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charge of them for the moment is Tim Sherwood.

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If it was down to me I'm getting a ten-year contract now. Football

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don't work like that. It is all about getting results. I played

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here, it is my club. I know what the supporters want. I know what they

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demand. It ain't my decision to make the appointments. We've got to

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respect the men who take that decision. Well, Simon Brotherton is

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at Southampton for Match Of The Day 2, which is on tomorrow night. So we

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can show you Arsenal against Chelsea. He wants the job

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permanently. Do you think he stands a chance? I don't think he's going

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to get the keys to the Tottenham job permanently Mark, no, because he

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doesn't have any management experience. He does have a lot of

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experience of Tottenham as a club, as a player and on the back room

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staff. He's been involved for a number of years, so in the interim

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he's a good person to have around. I don't expect next season he will be

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the manager of the team though. I think he will get the Christmas and

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new year period. They will be hoping that the team gets decent results,

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because the pressure will come on to make an appointment, if they

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struggle over Christmas and new year. Clearly, from what we can see,

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the club don't particularly have a plan in place in managerial terms

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that they can execute at this point. The big plan he had in place,

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certainly against West Ham in the Capital 1 Cup during the week, was

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to try to change the tempo against Spurs' play. He wanted them to play

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a much quicker style of football. I'm not sure watching it on

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Wednesday that all the players were able to buy into that. Well, I think

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they probably tried to buy into it but I'm not sure they had the gas to

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carry that out for the full 90 minutes. They were winning with 10

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minutes to go before sum coming 2-1.The idea of upping the tempo is

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probably the right one. It is interesting he chose to do that. He

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went to a more traditional British style of 4-4-2. A lot of fans were

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excite excited to see two up top, with the wide men out there. The one

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thing I've noticed, not just this season, watching the teams that

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Andre Villas-Boas is putting out at Tottenham, when you look at the

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talent on the pitch, they really did struggle to break other teams down

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at times. They were more laboured than you would have expected in

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breaking some of the opposition teams down. It is a good idea. What

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did concern me though was the suggestion that maybe the players

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weren't quite fit enough to be able to carry out that, and they did sort

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of run out of gas towards the end. One of the things that Mauricio

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Pochettino did when he took over Southampton was to increase the

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tempo. This is an ideal chance to get back on track. It is not just

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Tottenham that's desperate for a result. . Southampton five games

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without a win. To be fair, they have had a tough ticks ture list. It is

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not surprising that results-wise it's been a blip. The Aston Villa

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home defeat, they would have expected to take 3 points but didn't

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get them, so they are desperate for the win here. He's done an excellent

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job and he's been linked with a Tottenham job in the last week or

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so. Just reading the papers and looking at the story, it seems like

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a wide open field. I don't think Tottenham are particularly close to

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making an appointment as a successor to AVB.

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Bringing you the team news shortly for this game. Why couldn't Sherwood

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be the next Spurs manager, Ian Ladyman? Why would he, would be a

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more pertinent question. No, the you're here to answer. It is

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Christmas, so I changed it around! Of course he knows the club, it

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doesn't mean he doesn't know football, but he hasn't been a

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manager. I can't believe for a minuta Tottenham are going to get

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rid of AVB and seriously give consideration to promote Tim

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Sherwood, with the greatest respect to him. Equally I can't understand

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how they've sacked AVB without any idea who they want. The press box at

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Spurs is above the dugout. He was up most of the time shouting at his

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players. To in which this tempo, he was furious so many times with how

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slow they were. The defence not push Pep Guardiola up to the halfway

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line. They wanted to increase it and they didn't seem able to. I'm

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surprise odd, because in the Europa League campaign they should be fit

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enough to increase the tempo. Is that stuff on the training ground?

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Are the players not physically fit enough? Surely this far into the

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season the players should be fit enough to increase the tempo. You

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made a point about Pochettino. I agree with Ian, I'm not sure

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Sherwood her has enough experience to manage. He's picked an attacking

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team, Lloris in goal, Dembele, Soldado...

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Spurs fans the other night as well. Their anger wasn't necessarily

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directed at the players when we spoke to them on 5Live or at Andre

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Villas-Boas, but at Daniel Levy, saying explain to us what's going on

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at this Football Club. It is a fair question. Looks as though they are

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going to be 4-4-2 again today with Adebayor and Soldado. All options

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are open for Spurs in terms of Tim Sherwood, possibly. A manager until

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the end of the season. Or they bring in someone now. But again, it just,

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all options are open, but it means where are they? Glenn Hoddle. I

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would give him another go. There is an issue at Tottenham like at some

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other clubs, nobody is sure who is buying the players at Tottenham. The

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Continental system that some clubs like these days, I'm not convinced

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it works. I think any manager who is going to go into Tottenham,

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especially if it is someone with the history of Hoddle and the ego and

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the self respect that someone like Hoddle's got, is he going to manage

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a club where he can't be sure he will be choosing the players next

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summer? The papers are saying they want the Dutch coach, van Gaal. If

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Baldini was to go, the would it clear things up for you at Spurs?

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Would ITMA make the next managerial appointment easier? Roberto Mancini

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gets a mention in the Daily Telegraph as well. Baldini was

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getting a huge amount of credit at the start of the season when the

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seven signings were made. What was Garth Crooks's quote? There are so

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many memorable Garth crooks quotes I can't remember. They sold Elvis and

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bought the Beatles, remember? Everybody thought Baldini had pulled

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off a master stroke, but there were injuries. The key to Tottenham's

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season was how they spend the Gareth Bale money. You lose one of the best

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players and replace him, that was always going be crucial. If you are

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the coach or manager and you don't have the final say, how is that

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going to work? You will have problems. It appears there is no

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strategy, and Spurs' season a damaged as a result. John Murray

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asked for Everton texts. When John Murray speaks, the people listen.

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What's the secret to Everton being so strong this season, asks Mrs

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Walker with, who says she is Evert's biggest fan. And this one says there

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is another club on Merseyside, guys. This one asks could we get top four

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with luck on our side? Michael says win today and we are well in with a

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chance today. Don't count us out. Robbie Savage? The key to Everton,

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the manager's a fantastic tactician. I've never seen forward-thinking

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players thinking of this so much. When they get in between the lines

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or the back four on the midfield, they are so attacking. I've never

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seen a team get united in the way they did. They get between the lines

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had and attack. They are fantastic. Barclay is a player to watch. So

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confident, so poised on the ball. I was speaking to David Moyes about

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him and asked him what he thought his development would be. He said he

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can do anything he wants. He is so confident. So clear in his mind what

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he wants to do when he gets the ball. He and Lukaku have been

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fantastic this season. ALL TALK AT ONCE

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Consistency of selection I think is a big thing for Everton, which

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doesn't work for every team. The players happen to be in form, and

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very good loan signings for Everton. They are well coached. Manchester

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City fans can't work out how well they do... Let's move on to City.

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How big a result was it for them yesterday Robbie? Just because they

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allowed Fulham to get back to 2-2 and there've been so many questions

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about their away form. Yeah. ??FORC At 2-2 there was a period when

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Fulham looked dangerous. . City have moved up a gear and scored four

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goals away from home. 51 goals s. Three goals a game... I'm not bad at

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maths! I'm improved. We could all see the cogs whirring there. Now he

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has to work on the English! I think The their away form is crucial.

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Let's give City credit yesterday. They scored four goals away from

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home. They were tlivg. They had that period at the moment, highlighted on

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Match Of The Day John Murray, when they had 20 minutes away from home

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where they struggled to keep possession. We saw it at Villa and

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Stoke. That section where they don't tend to have at home Robbie is

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probably a better man to answer. Will there be any damage from the

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fact that there was that wobbly spell, or will it be brushed over by

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the fact that they did come back in the game? Conceding two goals,

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Fulham have come back into it but they scored four goals away from

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home. They'll think we can outscore other teams. That was without

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Aguero. They are not right defensively. They did concede three

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at home to Arsenal, despite scoring six. Is that will improve. Joe Hart

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is back in goal. You will imagine that respect with Hart and Kompany,

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you can see them getting better. I think they will be the champions.

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They are the only team of winning ten games straight in the league and

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just putting a zip on and putting distance between them and the rest.

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They have got some issues which I think were outlined last night on

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Match Of The Day but I think they will start those out. Let's look

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ahead to the big Match Of The Day 2 is on tomorrow

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night. Arsenal against Chelsea. Let's hear from both managers. Look,

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it is not a personal battle. Honestly, we had some big games and

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what is important for me, I'm completely focused on Arsenal

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Football Club and on my team and doing well. Do we play Monday night

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against Chelsea or anybody else? For me it is exactly the same. What is

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at stake for us is to come back to winning habits. It is not me against

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Wenger. It is my Chelsea against his Arsenal. That doesn't play Monday.

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It has no influence. For the game of Monday it means nothing. How do you

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see this going tomorrow? Referring there to the fact that morinho has

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such a good record at against Wenger with, nine tames his Chelsea have

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played Wenger's Arsenal and Arsenal have yet to win against Jose

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Mourinho's Chelsea. I feel it is almost a bigger game for Arsenal

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having been beaten so badly by Manchester City. If Arsenal had been

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able to get something at Manchester City, I think that would have eased

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the pressure a little. Huge, huge night for Arsenal in particular. You

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were nodding and agreeing? I totally agree. It is more predictable to see

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the way Chelsea's season will go from here. They are not the most

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exciting team to work at the -- to watch at the moment. They should be

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though. The Morinho doesn't see it that way. Arsenal terrific on the

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day, the a little more unpredictable. What's interesting is

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that two of their biggest games this season they've already lost. One at

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Manchester City and one at Manchester United. I think it will

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be those games that might just come between Arsenal and breaking this

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long period without a Premier League title. I think the game's midfield

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battle, the Capital 1 Cup game, he played Essien and Mikel that day.

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Morinho keeps saying Chelsea are playing well. I haven't been seeing

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that. I think they've been lucky to scrape past Palace. When Jose

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Mourinho was first here, they had Drogba, a young Essien. I don't

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think they have got the same spine of the team this time. Chelsea might

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need a transition period. This view says he needs at three or four world

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class signings. The gulf in quality with Manchester City is massive. We

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should point out that you and I will be there for the commentary tomorrow

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night an 5Live. Do you want to answer her question rather than plug

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yourself? I thought I was going to get away without you mentioning

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that! I felt that the Manchester City-Arsenal game, an awful lot has

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been loaded on to that. A Arsenal in some quarters have been dismissed.

:30:38.:30:42.

But I felt on that day Manchester City virtually to a man produced

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very good performances. . The opposite applied to Arsenal. They

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were below par. They could have scored five on that day. And

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conceded ten equally. Initiative over seen an Arsenal team give the

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ball away as often as that did. Arsenal look vulnerable when they

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don't have the ball. . Any team with serious aspirations of winning

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things can't exist in that environment you have to be more

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secure when you don't have the ball. At the moment I don't think they

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are. No Koscielny for this game, which is a loss. Do you have any

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problem with Ashley Cole going to a rival team's Christmas party? Not

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really, because in football you usually have acquaintances and not

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mates. You can move from club to club and you will be friendly with a

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few players. It is no it a rare thing. I've got no problem with that

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personally. OK. That's the game on Monday night. We'll have Match Of

:31:46.:31:50.

The Day 2 after it on BBC One. We should pay tribute to David Coleman,

:31:51.:31:54.

who passed away yesterday. Described by so many as being the best sports

:31:55.:32:00.

broadcaster of all time. John, just a chat about what he was like as a

:32:01.:32:07.

commentator. Well, he was one of those voices who I grew up with.

:32:08.:32:18.

Memories of Grandstand and Sports Night and listening to David

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Coleman. When it was announced during the Liverpool game, when

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Liverpool scored, I was thinking it would have been great to say 3-0,

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almost by way of tribute. To come out with a line as simple as that,

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just to give the score when the goal goes in the net, and be remembered

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for it, is... What better tribute than that? The other thing we spoke

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about yet was his journalistic side, which came into force so many times

:32:52.:32:57.

during the Olympics, particularly the 1972 Olympics. It was one of the

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great things about him. He wasn't just a comforting and in many ways

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inspiring voice, he was a reassuring voice, because you trusted what he

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told you. From any journalist, whether written or broadcast, you

:33:12.:33:16.

can't ask for more than that. David wafz comprehensively reliable. And

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we all grew up with him. Sports Night. I was allowed to stay up on a

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school night to watch that. A fantastic commentator. 5Live will

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have more tributes to David Coleman throughout the afternoon. Are Mark a

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Liverpool fan texted. The only title rival Liverpool have to play away

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from home is Manchester United. If they can is a stay in touch, surely

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will will be a big advantage. On 5Live start this afternoon,

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Southampton against Spurs, Swansea against Everton. . Match Of The Day

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2 tomorrow night on BBC One, 10. , 10.35pm.

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Bye-bye.

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