29/10/2017 MOTD2 Extra

Hello and welcome to

Match Of The Day 2 Extra on BBC Two,

5Live, the BBC Sport website

and app, as well as the iPlayer.

With me, former Newcastle

and Ireland goalkeeper Shay Given,

former Everton and Manchester City

defender Joleon Lescott,

and the Mirror's football

writer John Cross.

Get in touch using the hashtag

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or you can text us on 85058.

Coming up over the next 45

minutes...

Was that as calm a three points

as Jose Mourinho suggests?

Manchester United beat Spurs

in the big game of the weekend.

West Ham got a lesson in how not

to hold out for a win,

as Slaven Bilic's side concede

in the final minute to only draw

with Crystal Palace.

And we're at the day's two

Premier League games

as Brighton face Southampton,

and Claude Puel begins his Leicester

career at home to Everton.

We will keep you across Birmingham

against Aston Villa, which is

goalless after 15 minutes.

The newspaper headlines

are dominated by England

under-17's World Cup triumph.

The Sunday Times labels them

"Kings of the World".

The Observer has Jose Mourinho

telling his critics to pipe down

after the win over Tottenham.

And the Sunday Mirror

headlines "Freebie Sanchez",

saying Manchester City want to sign

Alexis Sanchez for free

in the summer, and won't go

back Arsenal in January.

We're going to start with those

events in Kolkata and England's

under-17s winning the World Cup.

They beat Spain 5-2 to lift

the trophy, having been 2-0 down.

Phil Foden of Manchester City

scored two of the goals.

And remember, victory over Spain

in the final followed beating

Brazil in the semi-finals.

The win means England are now

world champions at both

under-17 and under-20 level,

European champions at under-19

level, and finalists in the European

under-21 championship.

The question now is how

many of these players will we see

playing Premier League football

in the next few years.

Shay given, given the record, they

have to win something at senior

level in the next six or seven

years?

As an Irish man it is hard

for me today that it is fantastic

for England!

That is why I came to

first!

Congratulations to them, they

will be buzzing this morning,

especially the context of the final,

two goals down, it is a learning

curve and all this, but in the

second half they came out, scored

just before half-time, started the

second half flying, what a fantastic

result. But, as you say, they have

won three major tournaments at under

age level this summer alone and now

the next crop of fantastic young

English players coming through.

Before we look at the bigger picture

we can expand on that because we

were sailing off air they looked

like they were genuinely enjoying it

yesterday, even as they were

striving to get back in the game,

there was never any panic, they just

kept playing their game and they

seemed very relaxed, very happy, I

suppose?

They looked like they had

been told to go out and express

themselves, and that is exactly what

they did. 2-0 down, not fazed, they

dominated with the goal before

half-time, they thoroughly deserved

to win, even at 3-2, 4-2, they kept

pushing forward, Spain looked more

tired, the confidence started to

show, they were expressing

themselves.

People said to me that

the -- Steve Cooper said to me, the

England under-17 manager, we don't

think about failure, as in what is

happening with the senior teams over

many years, we embrace the fact that

we have the chance to win something,

and that has always been the

mentality?

Absolutely, and the FA

can point to St George's Park and

the circumstance and situated around

that, and developing players. You

are reaping the benefits of that,

the under 20s, Triumph for them, I

think there is a certain expectation

in the under-17s, that this

generation is bleeding through and

can hopefully make it. It is

interesting, the Chelsea, Man City

dominating through the numbers of

it, a number of the squad.

Seven of

the starting XI yesterday were

Chelsea or Manchester City.

If you

contrast that to Spain, it is eight

between Barcelona and Real Madrid,

so you are seeing similar numbers

but how many can actually get

through to the seniors? That is a

challenge but also what is the

pathway into the seniors, the club

team?

The point there with Chelsea

and city is plaudits to both clubs,

because they have developed those

kids into what they are at the

moment.

They have come through,

haven't they?

So then they have got

to go again.

Comparing them to the

Spain setup, they are teams that

play in the lower leagues, that

helps, playing against people at a

younger age, that helps develop

them, that is something that maybe

as a nation we need to look at, how

to develop the kids.

The next

question, can they bring that to

senior level? People asked, why

can't the senior England team play

like the under age teens, but it is

the freedom, the confidence, yes,

they were 2-0 down, but they say,

keep playing, keep attacking. If

England were 2-0 down in a major

tournament, the senior team, it

would be like, just try to keep it

at two, lad! It is quite refreshing

that the younger lads say, we are

going to get back into this, and the

next question is whether they can

bring this into international

football and club football as well.

Phil Foden is probably the wrong

example because Pep Guardiola has

used him in pre-season, we will hear

from him in a moment, said that is

maybe the wrong example but if you

were at another club and one of

those kids had done what they did in

the under-17s yesterday, how much,

as a senior pro, would you be in the

year of your club manager saying, at

least get him involved in training?

It depends if he is playing in your

position! You would always try and

help them, you can see with Phil

Foden that they respect and rate him

highly. I'm sure all the players

there.

But will he get a regular

start at Man City with the players

and team they have?

I think he

trains with them pretty much every

day, so that is obviously the first

step, then it goes too, are you

performing everyday? It is just

progression because they are still

young kids, they will still be

inconsistency of the natural

progression is, can they perform,

are they playing well in training

every day?

Let's hear from Pep

Guardiola, this is what he said

after Man City's win yesterday on

Phil Foden.

He's an English player, he loves

Manchester City. We will try to do

everything to help them.

Unfortunately he played in a

competition where the competition is

not... He deserves to play to grow

but of course he is our player, you

will be a player for the next years,

I'm sure of that, so I'm happy for

England, of course, for him, it is

important for English football,

especially the young players like

Phil, 17, 19, 21, they can achieve

finals, semifinals, because that guy

will grow.

It is interesting he talks about the

different levels of competitiveness.

We had this discussion on the sofa

last week in relation to Harry

Winks, Pochettino kept Harry Winks

at birth because he felt he would

benefit more from his coaching and

being with the first-team there and

not getting bad habits from maybe

going out on loan and being coached

differently. It is a difficult

decision for managers to make?

It is

a fine balancing act and I think

there is a tendency to be critical

of clubs like Man City and Chelsea

which is totally missing the point,

because the tendency is to criticise

them because they are not making the

first team. Actually, look at it in

a positive way that they are

producing these kids and producing

brilliantly technical talented kids,

and then it is maybe the failings, I

guess, not so much of the first-team

but the whole system at moment,

Premier League team for me is a

waste of time...

The under 23 the?

Complete waste of time. I think we

miss the old reserve team setup when

basically...

When old pros played...

If you did not play on a Saturday

you played a reserve game in the

week. No disrespect to the under 23

's lead, you have played against the

same players for the previous three

or four years, under 19 is, U21, you

play against the same players and I

think the progression then is being

in the League Cup, I'm not sure of

the name of it...

League Cup will

do!

It is a competition that it

means more to the lads.

I don't

know, it is hard to say what to do,

Guardiola made the point that it is

not being carried away, it is only

the under-17s, but it is refreshing,

the Manchester Scouts are worldwide,

Brandywell, but this guy is a local

guy.

He is a true blue.

It would be

great if he could be a regular in

the first-team, if they could not

send him out on road and bring him

into the first-team and blossom in

the first team in the Premier

League, that would be fantastic.

Clare says, under-17 players play

Premier League in a few years,

realistically probably five. Things

have to change. Interestingly the

England under-17s ten years ago

reached the quarterfinals of the

World Cup, four of that squad are

playing Premier League football,

Danny Welbeck, Danny Rose, Victor

Moses and Dan Gosling.

Marcus says the under-17s should

broaden their horizons, be willing

to play in the other big leagues.

The Premier League is not the be all

and end all and German clubs are

certainly skipping around, we have

already seen Sancho go.

Absolutely,

he is a brilliant talent and

obviously just felt that moving to

Dortmund was a better option than

staying at City.

He is getting game

time now. No disrespect, I don't

think he would have made his debut

at City this year, where he has

obviously made his debut for

Dortmund.

Talking about the old

reserve league, be honest here, at

the end of your career, if you had

not played on Saturday, would you

have happily turned out on a

Tuesday...

Good question!

You are

next! As a senior pro?

Yes, because

it would have been expense, I spoke

to Man City about doing that with

them now because you learn more, if

we are both 17-year-olds, I make a

mistake, you don't know what I

should have done. Playing with those

players and against those players, I

can learn and help teach them, that

is the kind of thing, when I was a

young player, playing against

players, disappointed not to be

playing obviously, but it was

helping me out.

Do you think you

were in a minority, that you would

be in a minority?

Possibly. I can't

imagine every player looking forward

to a reserve game. And I understand

that, but that is the way it goes.

Your love for the game is

everything, it is a game of

football.

Would you? When you were

at Stoke, would you have gone and

played in a reserve team game to

help two 18-year-olds centre halves?

I have done in the past, to help

younger players, but it is different

for gold keepers because players

need to keep their match fitness,

but we just stand there with our

hands in the air! It is difficult to

coach and work on that in training,

but, I don't know, coming back to

what John says, I think the setup of

the under 23 thing doesn't seem to

work. I don't know why they had to

revolutionise it or change it, it

was fine beforehand. The bigger

picture is the Premier League and

the FA have a certain amount of

English players within the 25 man

squad, I don't know how strong it

can be to bring that into the

Premier League because there are so

many foreign players coming in and

people say it is a foreign league,

the English Premier League.

Tottenham do send players out on

loan simply to get football, which

is supposed to be the replication of

the old reserve league. If you drop

down the championship, League 1,

that is what they are trying to do.

It is difficult with Harry Winks, he

is an outstanding talent who is a

more technical player, he would

probably get kicked all over the

place in the championship.

Pochettino is brilliant for bringing

kids through, obviously feels that

Harry Winks' needs are different.

We

will go to Saint Andrews shortly to

bring an update on the Birmingham

derby, goalless at the moment. Text

us or use the hashtag if you wish to

get in touch.

So now to the big Premier League

stories, and we'll

start at Old Trafford.

It ended with Jose

Mourinho shushing us.

He said it was to show

everyone should be calm.

But what might have been another

inquest into more points dropped

ended with a fifth straight home

league win without conceding a goal,

against a Harry Kane-less Tottenham.

We can hear from both managers.

Both

teams tried to win but I think both

teams feared the opponent because it

could hurt at any moment. So I think

a game with a motion, with

everything, probably one goal in the

first half would make even a better

game.

The team is competing in a

very good way. Of course Harry Kane

is one of the best strikers in the

world, that we cannot hide, but I

think the team is ready to fight,

last season we had Harry Kane, the

team can beat very good, but of

course you are going to miss your

best striker.

Jose Marini, who we heard from

first. He said it is the 90 minutes

on the pitch. All the noise around

football doesn't matter. Some people

speak too much, he said. Calm down,

relax, don't speak too much, don't

be so nervous, don't be so excited.

Just stay calm.

People having a go,

especially with the Liverpool game a

couple of weeks ago. Manchester

United, one of the biggest clubs in

the world. One of the favourites for

the title, you go to Anfield and you

could argue Liverpool's week as

point is their defence. Why not go

and have a go and try and score more

goals. We look at the trophies he

has one, what he's done in his

career, he is an experienced

manager. The balance of being a

Manchester United manager and being

a manager somewhere else is a tricky

one.

Did you say the pens being

sharpened in anticipation of a

goalless straw with ten minutes to

go, John Cross?

Yes, I thought it

was a disappointment, we had built

it up as the game of the weekend.

What Jose Mourinho is referring to

is having his ego pricked a bit

because of what praise Porcher Tino

is getting at the moment.

He hasn't

said this, but, would it be fair to

say there would be an inconsistency

with Manchester United goalless at

Liverpool and the Manchester United

getting the criticism over that game

and then goalless at Spurs and

getting the criticism for that as

well?

The inconsistency is, you are

Manchester United. Manchester

United, the expectation has been to

go away to places, not only just to

win but do it with style. Yesterday

was...

They are not.

The expectation

doesn't change.

I am with Jose

Mourinho on this little bit, they

got him because they to win. Pep

Guardiola and Barcelona, you want to

get back to winning ways and that is

more important to Manchester United

than playing attractive football.

Let's get back to winning ways and

when we are winning regular, then

you can say you want to win with a

bit of style. That is what he's

doing at the moment. Last year they

won three cup competitions.

I am not

trying to get you to alienate your

fans, but as a defender, could you

have seen yourself improving under

him, would you like to have played

under him?

He has managed the top

teams in the world. If you're

working with Jose Mourinho...

Do his

defenders improve under him?

I think

his defensive record is second to

none but they don't play the same

way, they don't aim to score three

or four goals every game. Like the

comparison is the Manchester City

and Manchester United is hard at the

moment for Jose Mourinho Yobe to win

that way of playing, they are not

going to do that, they don't try and

played the same kind of football.

Are you surprised Spurs didn't play

Llorente yesterday?

Yes. Obviously

Kane wasn't available. My argument,

why didn't he start with Llorente

yesterday? If he is a like-for-like

replacement, I understand Old

Trafford is a difficult place to go,

but why when you go there, don't you

play with Llorente.

He has played

for the biggest teams in Europe so

he's used to that occasion, he is a

Spanish international, no reason for

him not to play.

Do you think Gareth

Southgate will be watching?

Ashley

Young, his level of performance in

recent times, he has been rewarded

with the captain's armband on

occasion. He has been outstanding.

He is combative. He went for a

yesterday, had a real tear up with

Dele Alli. Knees so consistent and

has been around the England setup

and has been an England regular. If

he doesn't get the call on Thursday,

he must be questioning is it Gareth

Southgate who has something against

me.

He does deserve the England

recall. He does deserve it but I

don't think he is going to get it.

James Milner, playing outstandingly

for Liverpool at left-back and never

got look that. And also Delph. If

you are playing for the big clubs,

you should be in the England squad.

The first Premier League football

of the day is on the south coast.

Brighton are at home to Southampton,

and Steve Wilson is at the Amex

for tonight's Match Of The Day 2.

Good afternoon. We are here for

Brighton & Hove Albion against

Southampton. Steve Sidwell is

injured at the moment, but you must

be pleased with the way this season

has started, because teams sometimes

need to adjust to the Premier League

but Brighton have them that quickly?

100%. The majority of the squad, it

is a group of players who

individually have not performed in

the Premier League, so it is all new

to them and we have hit the ground

running. We have shown in our games

so far we have been involved and we

have been involved in the match

right to the death, near enough so

that is a positive sign. We have

slowly got there and picked up

points away from home, which is key.

Home form will be the one where

we'll be looking to pick up most of

points, obviously.

Premier League

Knauss, you have bundles of that

over the course of your career, but

you were a bright player as a

teenager on loan and you are coming

back to a club that is

unrecognisable?

Yes, chalk and

cheese from when I was here as a

19-year-old. Now this fantastic

facility, the training ground is

worthy of Premiership status. It is

geared up for Premier League

football, the infrastructure is

there, now it is maintaining it and

that will be the hard part, but we

are giving it a good go at the

moment.

The three teams that a up

bar eighth, 11 and 12 in the table.

Sometimes by the time a newly

promoted team get themselves sorted

out in the Premier League, the gap

is too big to make up and they never

recover. But all three teams who

came up have started well. Do you

think the gap is not as big as

people suggest or is it good

management and spending power?

It is

continued from last season, a

winning mentality. It is a big step

up to the Premier League but the

winning mentality is that to play

the football we were playing last

year in the championship. You look

at this year, the Premier League,

there is a lot of teams not playing

to their standards and be have shown

that this year and hence, look at

the table and wider teams who have

come up are doing so well and where

they stand.

You're back injury, when

can we see you in action?

It is hard

to put a time frame, it is nerve

damage so you have to take it one

step at a time. It is harder for me

because I want to rush, but it is

building blocks and slowly, surely

does it.

Brighton versus

Southampton, watch the highlights on

Match Of The Day 2 this evening.

Thank you to Steve and Steve.

So let's get the team news for this

game, from Alistair Bruce-Ball.

All positive for Brighton at the

moment. Their manager has named an

unchanged team after the 3-0 win at

West Ham. So the record signing

starts again on the left. Glenn

Murray through the middle. A few

changes for Southampton. Sofyan

Amrabat fell, the wonder goal

against West Brom gets his second

Premier League start of the season.

So running at over to your manager,

thumping your chest and shouting me,

pick me, it works. It isn't all

Dutch centre-back pairing. A big

loss for Southampton is Mario

Lemina, out injured.

James

Ward-Prowse replaces him in the

midfield. Thank you. Plenty of

updates on five live sport. Fraser

Forster has had an uncomfortable

start, has been getting some

criticism. How difficult is it when

you are in an isolated position as a

goalkeeper, Shay Given?

It is a

confidence thing. He had a difficult

start, you look and think could he

have done better? It is the position

where nobody can help you out but

yourself. I know him very well from

my Newcastle days and he works as

hard as any professional footballer

I have come across. At this stage in

his career, it is all about what is

going on between his ears. If he

clears his mind, stays in the

present and gets mentally tough, he

will be fine.

Is the last thing he

needs is to be pulled out of the

firing line?

I think so, he is in

the England setup and an experienced

goalkeeper. He needs his manager to

support him. He's playing him every

week and he will get through that.

Just one game for a fantastic

performance and then he builds on

that and his confidence is back

again.

Mario Mola mean is a big

loss?

Massa. He looks like he's

played in the Premier League for

years.

The Birmingham derby is

underway.

Robin is at St Andrews.

Five minutes ago and goalless. We

have had Che Adams and Robert

Snodgrass booked for a set too early

on. Birmingham could be ahead, Sam

Johnstone, the Villa goalkeeper

nearly embarrassed firing a goal at

a Birmingham player which then went

just wide of the post.

Let's move on

to the game at Selhurst Park

yesterday.

I cannot believe we have done that.

We have come in quick after the

game. Probably shouldn't have come

in quick after the game. We fought

all the way to the end like that and

then been so unprofessional at the

end.

He last speech as now, is it

speechless in the dressing room?

A

little bit. No body does things on

purpose in this team, but two points

dropped, simple as that.

He is

always a good post match interview,

Joe Hart. He wears his heart on his

sleeve, no pun intended.

He is

always honest, unprofessional, big

words. What is he doing in the

corner, he romps to the corner flag.

You should ask why so many West Ham

players are in the opposing penalty

box in the 97th minute. Why Antonio

has to put in a cross to launch

another attack when he can just play

it out. If he had played it out,

because it was so late in the game,

the revelry would have probably

blown his whistle. Joe Hart showed

what a top goalkeeper he is. He

clearly has had dips, but he made

about five or six world-class saves.

He is fantastic and that is why he

was newly crying in the interview.

He was nearly crying.

Because he

played so well and he got some

criticism over the last few months

for England and what have you, but

yesterday he was phenomenal. But is

the Joe Hart we know, making

unbelievable saves. I felt for him

at the end because he would have

grabbed the headlines today and

rightly so, because of his

performance, now we are talking

about Antonio and what he should and

shouldn't have done.

But the

unprofessional line be accepted in

the dressing room because you would

accept you had throw it away?

From

him, because he is professional. If

it was somebody not as professional

as him saying those things, you can

question it but Joe Hart wears his

heart on his sleeve and there will

be a lot of disappointed players are

not dressing room but you can take

criticism of your peers if you

respect them.

Tweets coming in,

Antonio Lotz stood the two points,

so ridiculous not to keep the ball

in the corner. Tom Jordan says,

coming back from 2-0 against Spurs

and then drawing with the worst team

in the lead. Mark on Twitter says it

is things like this that cost

managers their job. Adam Dyer on

Twitter, not good enough, it is time

for a change at West Ham.

It is a very difficult one, it is a

difficult week to sum up for West

Ham?

It is ridiculous, I do feel for

village at the moment.

He needed a

hope that the full-time whistle!

I

think there have been points this

season when he thought, do I go or

am I going to be pushed? He has been

that bad. One of those occasions was

after the Brighton game, I don't

think he has at any point lost the

dressing room or the players, I

think they've responded with that

incredible fightback as they showed

at Wembley, and then yesterday,

where did you get to with that?

Sometimes village can be down and I

do feel sorry for him but I think he

has an expectation not just from the

fans but the owners which I think is

incredibly unfair at times and I

think it has been difficult for him

to manage and come through, but I

still think they will stick with

him, I think their tendency is to

stick with managers, the owners, and

I think that is the right thing to

do.

What I would say, after the

defeat to Brighton, if the argument

was, they are not working hard, not

playing for the manager, not putting

in the high-intensity runs, not

covering the distance, which was all

discussed on double Spurs game. The

Spurs game they fall from two down,

the second half yesterday was

fantastic, partly through West Ham's

defending, putting their bodies on

the line, blocking everything, so

even though it is two points

dropped, they still did what,

arguably, they hadn't been doing in

the Brighton game?

Of course, and I

think the decision made yesterday,

it wasn't anyone's desire, it was a

bit of inexperience showing, I don't

think you can even look at the

manager and criticise anything he

has done for that one lack of

judgment from Antonia not to keep

the ball in the corner and I think

it is just obviously the

circumstances around West Ham is

bigger than this one performance.

Yes, he was distraught after, you

saw him walking off the pitch

shaking his head and as a manager

you prepare all we can do this, you

put in a great performance in the

second half, and you shoot yourself

in the foot in the last seconds of

the game, especially away from home,

you could see how frustrating it

was. But for all managers, it seems

every week a manager is getting

fired, under pressure, who is next

ago, the bookies have a favourite,

it is a thankless job.

It would be

interesting to know what the Crystal

Palace texts and tweets would have

been if West Ham had held on because

now all of the Palace tweets are

fairly positive. Clive, total

commitment, definitely staying up,

Zaha was awesome, can't wait for a

fully fit first 11. Danielle, seeing

that resilience is something I

haven't seen for many years, gives

me more hope on avoiding the drop.

Jayden, kept going to the end,

pleased with the point, should have

been more, performances have

improved lately, we are desperate

for a striker.

But if Michalak Tony had not done

what he had done and they had

scored, they would have been

different tweets because they would

be beaten at home by a relegation

rival. But it is not!

As I said,

they would just be pleased on both

sides, you feel like you have lost

when you have gone to nil up and

then draw 2-2, and vice versa when

you are down.

Palace are not adrift,

but what I would say is that they

have dropped so many points in an

early stage of the season. I felt

when Roy Hodgson went in there that

he would keep them up because he is

an experienced manager, say what you

like about him but I thought he

could get enough out of that good

group of players. It is not really

working out like that at the moment,

at some point during the course of

the season they will have another

lull and this bad opening to the

season, they are not adrift.

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Sturridge but is 100 club goal, he

has made 65 starts, 31 from the

bench, 67 bowls of a pool. You have

laid against him, what is he like to

mark?

Very elusive. You don't want

to face him one-on-one. He can go

both sides, very nimble changing

direction. I'm a big fan, he gets a

lot of criticism for missing games

but when he is fit and playing, it

did not surprise me that he scored

yesterday, it does not surprise me

whenever you scores because he is a

top talent. He can just create

something out of nothing

top talent. He can just create

something out of nothing.

He gets a

lot of stick from missing so many

games... Were you at city when he

was a kid?

Yeah, he felt he had a

better opportunity going to Chelsea

and he played more, from a young age

she thought it would not get an

opportunity here, get a fresh start

somewhere else and you have to give

him credit for that. A couple of

seasons ago for Liverpool he was on

fire and I think the fans just want

that Daniel Sturridge back but he

has had injury problems and cannot

get up to that level.

It is simple

to get that Daniel Sturridge back,

is it down to his personal fitness

rather than how Liverpool set up,

how they play, the players around

him?

I don't think he has done

anything wrong, I think he has just

been unlucky, he is not a

professional, he does everything by

the book. Because he is so quick, so

explosive, you will pick of these

injuries and niggles, how do you

stop that? I don't know, I am not a

professional in that department.

No,

no you are not!

He is a brilliant

technical player, he is one of

those, if you were picking five

strikers for England, he is sort of

the one out of the ordinary, the

Joker in the packed comedy genuine

-- he genuinely is. His finish

yesterday summed him up as a player,

it was an outrageous finish,

something special. He can add so

much. We all thought maybe he was

not a clock player but he gets

enough minutes, does enough damage

to justify a regular first place.

For England at the World Cup, would

you take him and use him as an

impact player off the bench?

100%. I

think he is likely better than that

but I think it is difficult at this

point in time with Harry Kane being

such an outstanding player, can you

justify two in the starting line-up?

Harry Kane has been so prolific of

late for his country but Daniel

Sturridge for me get in the squad,

in and around the starting line-up

every day of the week.

I agree with

that, Daniel Sturridge has to go, if

he is fit, to the World Cup.

But you

would not play him with Harry Kane?

I could see him, he likes to play

short, get involved in the build-up

paper may does not mind providing

assists, so I think they could play

together but again you have got Dele

Alli who has a great relationship

with Harry Kane, both performing at

club level. I'm glad I'm not the

manager!

Let's move on to the late

again this afternoon, Leicester

taking on Everton.

Claude Puel will take charge

of Leicester for the first time.

It is an opportunity, especially

Leicester, for me it is a great

club, great fans, fantastic

opportunity. There are difficulties

in this moment but it is a good

challenge, good challenge, and I

have a good feeling to come here and

now to be a fox is fantastic.

Claude Puel well in one technical

area, David Unsworth in the other as

he continues to make his case for

getting the job at Everton

permanently.

Conor McNamara is at

the King Power Stadium today.

So far this season in the Premier

League three clubs have chosen to

change manager and we see two of

them against each other head-to-head

today. I was at Goodison Park last

weekend commentating on Everton's

defeat Arsenal, dropping into the

relegation zone, but there was not a

mood of anger amongst the Everton

fans, it had almost reached the

stage of acceptance, disconsolate

mood, and may be that much as

anything forced the owners' hands.

David Unsworth gets the chance today

to see how he fares as a manager in

the Premier hope for the lift a new

man often gets with the dressing

room trying to impress the new

manager but he will be well aware

that Claude Puel will get the same

effect from the Leicester City

players ahead of his first game in

charge in the Premier League at the

club. He knows he has a talented

squad, virtually the team that won

the league under Claudio Ranieri,

and how ironic it was this fixture,

Leicester City hosting Everton, on

the day Leicester were crowned

Premier League champions. There has

been water under the bridge since

then, Ranieri had a poor start last

season, Shakespeare had a poor start

this season, and the Leicester fans

would not swap their happy memories,

but thinking back to Andrea Bocelli

singing lessons or mamba pitcher, it

all feels a very long time ago now.

When Claude Puel was announced, on 5

Live people were saying, this is not

too bad, if you look at his record,

he won in Monaco, Lyon in the

Champions League semifinal, but

Southampton to eight, made the

League Cup final last year, they are

right, aren't they?

He is a Fox now

as well! I don't know, it just

doesn't inspire me, I have seen his

interviews and I see him and if I

was in the changing room I would be

thinking, is he inspiring?

He might

be different in the changing room.

Possibly, I could be doing him a

disservice because of the language

difference, in Lyon, he had the

language there as well. You imagine

him in the changing room trying to

get the best of the players in the

team... I don't know, the Leicester

fans will hope he does great, of

course, but he doesn't inspire me,

there are no British or Irish

managers or coaches getting an

opportunity...

Although he is

replacing a British manager in Craig

Shakespeare.

I will get my coat

them.

I was just making the point!

Point taken!

On you!

His record

speaks for itself, no one is

doubting his ability as a manager

and I was surprised he left

Southampton last season but in terms

of what Leicester need, reports

suggesting they want to attract

bigger names, potentially still

riding the wave of winning the

league, attracting bigger names, for

me that puts pressure on him to go

out and provide what they have said

they will deliver on, attracting

bigger players.

He fits into their

structure, though, doesn't he? I'm

trying to convince all three of you,

putting the other point of view! But

they have their director of

football, their backroom staff has

often stayed the same whether it has

been Pearson, Ranieri, Shakespeare,

they tend to keep the same people in

the background.

He did that at

Southampton as well, did not

necessarily bring in a new team.

It

is easy to say that the dressing

room suits and Englishmen being in

charge, forgetting the fact that

Claudio Ranieri is the Italian who

won the title with them! Say what

you like about Ranieri but that is a

fact. It seems to me that along the

way people were desperately trying

to detract from his achievement,

which is so unfair. Coldwell is

interesting in that there were two

sides to him at Southampton, the

site where they did indeed finished

eighth and arguably deserved to win

the League Cup

final, then decide where they were

desperately dull at home, couldn't

score goals, were not inspiring the

home fans, and if you ask

Southampton fans, I would say that

they were not particularly surprised

when he went because that is what

the club do but I don't think they

were particularly disappointed

either.

We have about a minute to

talk Everton and on the basis that

you might still be talking to me,

David Unsworth, yes or no?

I would

love to see him get the job, he has

got Everton in his blood, I would

love to see him get the opportunity

to get the big job at Everton and

bring the club forward, the bookies

will have four or five foreigners

lined up, I'm sure, but why not give

David Unsworth the chance?

He has

got Everton in his blood,

considering that Ronald Koeman

seemed to spend a lot of time

flirting with Barcelona.

I think

that is a massive 's selling point

to the Evertonians. The effort

needed to play for an Everton team,

David Unsworth knows that.

The

positive fear, going full circle,

even though we criticised the under

23 league, he won the under 23 lead

and he will play some of the kids?

Yes, he has that connection with the

young kids coming through, Everton

should be so proud of their youth

system and the way big evolve kids,

and I don't think there is a better

fit at this particular moment in

time that Unsworth, who has got

their faith and their aspirations

that heart and can bring them

through, given the chance.

Thank you

all very much for your company today

on Match of the Day 2 extra.

Brighton Southampton and Leicester

evident across 5 Live this

afternoon, then Match Of The Day to

later tonight. -- Leicester Everton.