:00:08. > :00:12.Good evening. Welcome to North West Tonight. Our top story: We speak to
:00:12. > :00:17.the Prime Minister as he visits the region after riots and ask if more
:00:18. > :00:21.could have been done to keep our streets safe. We also challenge him
:00:21. > :00:26.on today's stark warning from the Police Federation here, who say
:00:26. > :00:31.more cuts to police numbers will mean they won't be able to cope in
:00:31. > :00:36.future. If we lose another thousand police officers, which is what the
:00:36. > :00:39.Government want to do with 20% cuts, I've got very real concerns if we
:00:39. > :00:42.could cope with another situation like this week. Jailed for
:00:42. > :00:48.targeting the driver of a luxury car. The thieves who stopped at
:00:48. > :00:52.nothing to get the keys. I felt a blow to my face, saw a
:00:52. > :00:56.gloved hand with a bar across it coming towards me. Max Lonsdale was
:00:56. > :01:00.desperate for a career in professional football so he created
:01:00. > :01:10.this DVD of his best bits. Find out what he did with it later in the
:01:10. > :01:14.
:01:14. > :01:17.programme. Prime Minister David Cameron saw
:01:17. > :01:22.for himself today the aftermath of the rioting in Salford. He praised
:01:22. > :01:26.the emergency services for their work in coping with the
:01:26. > :01:28.unprecedented outbreak of looting and arson. As communities in
:01:28. > :01:31.Salford, Liverpool and Manchester start to rebuild their pride in
:01:31. > :01:36.their cities, questions are being asked as to why more couldn't have
:01:36. > :01:39.been done to prevent the violence. In a moment, we'll have a full
:01:39. > :01:43.interview with the Prime Minister. First our chief reporter, Dave
:01:43. > :01:47.Guest, who's in Manchester City centre tonight. At the start of a
:01:47. > :01:52.busy weekend, what's the atmosphere there like? Does it feel quite
:01:52. > :01:55.normal? I have to say, yes, it does. It feels like pretty much any other
:01:55. > :01:58.Friday night in Manchester. It is starting to rain though. That
:01:58. > :02:01.business as usual message is one that the police and local
:02:01. > :02:05.businesses have been keen to promote. There can be no denying
:02:05. > :02:08.that the troubles earlier in the week had an impact on the city.
:02:08. > :02:12.Numbers coming in on Wednesday about half what you expect. Tonight,
:02:12. > :02:15.many of the bars and clubs which closed earlier in the week re-
:02:15. > :02:19.opened and people coming to enjoy themselves, reassured by this
:02:19. > :02:23.larger than normal police presence. The Prime Minister, David Cameron,
:02:23. > :02:27.went up to Salford today to see for himself the effects of the rioting
:02:27. > :02:30.there. And there was a stark warning from police leaders that
:02:30. > :02:38.Government cuts could undermine their efforts to control any future
:02:38. > :02:44.problems. Viewing the aftermath of anarchy, the Prime Minister is
:02:44. > :02:48.shown around what's left of the lidl supermarket, attacked during
:02:48. > :02:53.the riot. Local shop keepers describe how frightening it had
:02:53. > :03:00.been. They were at the shop window deciding what they were going to
:03:00. > :03:04.take when they came in. The Prime Minister listened. He nodded and
:03:04. > :03:07.promised his full support for the police. I think it is important we
:03:07. > :03:12.learn lessons from what happened. Clearly, there was a need for more
:03:12. > :03:17.on the streets. But from the union that represents those officers this
:03:17. > :03:19.warning about the possible impact of budget cuts: If we lose another
:03:20. > :03:24.thousand police officers, which is what the Government want to do with
:03:24. > :03:30.these 20% cuts, I've got very real concerns whether we can cope with
:03:30. > :03:33.another situation like we found this week. And there was a more
:03:33. > :03:38.vocal protest about spending cuts in general, as the Prime Minister
:03:38. > :03:42.left the BBC studios this afternoon. Meanwhile, the police operation to
:03:42. > :03:46.bring those involved in the riots to justice, continues. This 13-
:03:46. > :03:50.year-old among them. He admitted having a hammer strapped to his leg
:03:50. > :03:55.during the disturbance when's he appeared in court. His mum had been
:03:55. > :04:00.unaware of what he was up to. sat at home. Did you know he was
:04:00. > :04:04.out on the street? No, I didn't. Another mum, who had no idea what
:04:04. > :04:08.he son was up to on Tuesday evening, was palled to see pictures of him
:04:08. > :04:12.apparently trying to force open the shutter at the shop here. As soon
:04:12. > :04:16.as she saw those images, she marched the 15-year-old down to the
:04:16. > :04:19.local police station. To date, almost 300 people have been
:04:19. > :04:26.arrested on Merseyside and in Greater Manchester. Both police
:04:26. > :04:30.forces expect to make many more arrests. Greater Manchester Police
:04:30. > :04:34.today launched a shop a looter campaign, having electronic display
:04:34. > :04:38.boards of people they want to trace after disturbances. In Liverpool,
:04:38. > :04:42.meantime, where they've been recovering from their own problems,
:04:42. > :04:46.the Lord Mayor invited volunteers, who helped in the clean up
:04:46. > :04:50.operation for a civic reception, wanting to pat them on the back for
:04:50. > :04:57.the public spirit they had shown. That's all now from Manchester city
:04:57. > :05:00.centre. Earlier today, the Prime Minister came into this studio and
:05:00. > :05:04.following the complaints that police had held back while crimes
:05:04. > :05:08.were being committed, I asked him if those people who claim the
:05:08. > :05:12.police are no longer able to guarantee their protection in the
:05:12. > :05:15.city centres were right? I believe it's vitally important we get back
:05:15. > :05:19.to normality. What we've seen in recent days is a huge increase in
:05:19. > :05:23.police numbers on our streets to give people that reassurance and
:05:23. > :05:27.that sense of safety. I think it's very important we send out a
:05:27. > :05:32.Messiage that Manchester is open for business, is open for shoppers,
:05:32. > :05:36.is open for tourists. I hope people, ordinary, law-abiding people, will
:05:36. > :05:41.return to this great city centre and have a night out, an evening
:05:41. > :05:44.out and go shopping an all the things they normally do. They'd
:05:44. > :05:48.have that belief because of what they saw with their own eyes.
:05:48. > :05:52.Police were accused of not moving in quickly enough. In Manchester,
:05:52. > :05:55.the police stood back. They didn't go forward and arrest looters and
:05:55. > :05:59.vandals. They allowed the destruction to happen. They, the
:05:59. > :06:03.police themselves, admitted that they had underestimated the scale
:06:03. > :06:06.of the violence, despite having seen what had happened in London,
:06:06. > :06:10.they underestimated and were outnumbered. That's what doesn't
:06:10. > :06:15.give people confidence. Let's be fair to the police. They do a very
:06:15. > :06:18.difficult job on our behalf. They put themselves in harm's way to
:06:18. > :06:21.keep us safe. They're the first to admit they needed more numbers on
:06:21. > :06:25.the streets more quickly and the early tactics didn't work wha.
:06:25. > :06:28.We've seen in the last two days, they've got on top of the situation.
:06:28. > :06:31.They've reclaimed the streets. It's very heartening to see how many
:06:31. > :06:35.criminals are going through our courts in quick time and being
:06:35. > :06:39.sentenced to prison. I think people can know that the police are on top
:06:39. > :06:42.of the situation and we can get back to what we want, a normal,
:06:42. > :06:45.functioning, great, successful, buzzing Manchester. But they were
:06:45. > :06:51.stretched. They were fully stretched. Over the next four years,
:06:51. > :06:55.they're going to have to cope with heavily reduced forces, 900 less
:06:55. > :06:59.police officers in Manchester. 800 less in Merseyside and Lancashire
:06:59. > :07:04.and Cheshire losing large numbers as well. We are told by those force
:07:04. > :07:06.that's this will affect the front line add the Police Federation
:07:06. > :07:10.today in Greater Manchester said they're not going to be able to
:07:10. > :07:15.cope. First of all, let's be clear about what we're asking the police
:07:15. > :07:19.to do, living inside what are tight budgets in coming years as every
:07:19. > :07:23.Government department, family and business is having to do. We're
:07:23. > :07:26.asking the police to cope with an 8.6% cut in cash terms over four
:07:26. > :07:31.years. I think that's something they can do without reducing the
:07:31. > :07:35.visible policing that we all want to seat the chief constable said
:07:35. > :07:39.previously there are police officers in back office jobs, in IT,
:07:39. > :07:43.in HR, in other things that should be done by civilians, to get the
:07:43. > :07:47.police on the frontline. I'm convinced we can do this with
:07:47. > :07:50.having visible policing and being able, as we have over the last few
:07:50. > :07:55.days, to see a great surge in police numbers on the streets. That
:07:55. > :07:58.is what left people feeling unsafe on Monday, was the fact that we
:07:58. > :08:02.didn't surge police numbers fast enough. They have now done that.
:08:02. > :08:05.That's why people feel safer. chairman elect of the Police
:08:05. > :08:08.Federation here in Greater Manchester was on our programme at
:08:08. > :08:13.lunch time. I interviewed him. Though he didn't know I was going
:08:13. > :08:15.to interview you, he said there is no more slack to cut. He said the
:08:15. > :08:21.Prime Minister wants to come with me into the station and see if
:08:21. > :08:25.there's any slack to cut. The first duty is to preserve the safety of
:08:25. > :08:29.its citizens and this Government is failing. Frpl I don't agree with
:08:29. > :08:34.that. At any one time there are only 12%, one in ten of police
:08:34. > :08:37.officers on the street. What we have to do is reform and modernise
:08:37. > :08:41.and improve the practices of policing. Very brave people, they
:08:41. > :08:45.do a brilliant job. We can make sure we get more police on the
:08:45. > :08:50.streets. We put more into the teeth if you like and less into the tail.
:08:50. > :08:53.Nationwide there are some 7,000 officers in back office job like IT
:08:53. > :08:57.and HR. That isn't right. We need changes to have the visible
:08:57. > :09:01.policing we want to see. This man is about to lead the Police
:09:01. > :09:06.Federation, the union, if you like, in greater Marge, he is telling us
:09:06. > :09:09.what the ordinary police officers in Greater Manchester are saying
:09:09. > :09:13.and believing. And he says, "We will not be able to cope if these
:09:13. > :09:17.20% cuts go through. The Government have got to rethink and rethink
:09:17. > :09:22.urgently. They have got to listen to the public." He's not the only
:09:22. > :09:27.one saying that. Are you listening? I'm listening all the time. We are
:09:27. > :09:31.asking police budgets to come down. 8.6% in cash terms, over four years
:09:31. > :09:35.here. But at the same time, because we're taking difficult decisions as
:09:35. > :09:39.a Government, because we're freezing pay in the public sector,
:09:39. > :09:41.because we're cutting the paper work that police officers are
:09:41. > :09:45.burdened with, because we're changing some of the allowances,
:09:45. > :09:49.which won't always be popular with police officers, but I think people
:09:49. > :09:53.know reform is necessary, we can achieve the spending reductions,
:09:53. > :09:56.modest spending reductions without reducing visible policing. Chief
:09:56. > :09:59.constables are coming out and saying this is possible to do it.
:10:00. > :10:02.It's not easy, but it's necessary because we can see all over the
:10:02. > :10:07.world what happens when governments don't live within budgets. We
:10:07. > :10:12.mustn't make that mistake here in the UK. Let's turn to why it
:10:12. > :10:17.happened and you talked about a certain sick element of society.
:10:17. > :10:21.Others might put it as an unequal society where the gap between rich
:10:21. > :10:25.and poor are getting greater and greedier and the example is not
:10:25. > :10:30.being set from the top. I think frankly there is simply no excuse
:10:30. > :10:34.for what we saw. When you saw people going out and smashing down
:10:34. > :10:39.windows and stealing televisions and trainers and all the rest of it,
:10:39. > :10:42.it was criminality. It's no good saying well, I did that because
:10:42. > :10:47.it's unequal society. There's no excuse for that sort of law
:10:47. > :10:50.breaking. We shouldn't get into a mushy argument that says somehow
:10:50. > :10:56.it's OK. It's not. The vast majority of the British public
:10:56. > :11:00.agree it's not OK. I've been struck with your talking to black
:11:00. > :11:04.community leaders, police officers, shop keepers, members of the public
:11:04. > :11:08.are all saying the same thing. It was criminality. We mustn't put up
:11:08. > :11:12.with it. We mustn't excuse it. It needs to be punished. Of course, we
:11:12. > :11:15.have to look at the level of family break down, look at the lack of
:11:15. > :11:20.discipline in schools. We've got to look that too many dads aren't
:11:20. > :11:23.there for their children. Yes, let's look at them, but not excuse
:11:23. > :11:27.what happened. Nobody's excusing what happened, but one of the
:11:27. > :11:31.youngsters caught up in the riots said, hang on, look at what we're
:11:31. > :11:35.looking out onto. He said look at the bankers, there they are lining
:11:35. > :11:39.their pockets, as he said, ruining this country where other people
:11:39. > :11:43.have to pay, looting the economy if you like. We see MPs, lots of MPs
:11:43. > :11:47.on the make as well from their expenses. Who are then allowed to
:11:47. > :11:53.pay it back. He said we take what we want and looks what happens to
:11:53. > :11:59.us and look at people lecturing us about morality. People who cheat in
:11:59. > :12:02.banking, they should be punished. MPs should have been pubbished.
:12:02. > :12:06.There are MPs in jail today because of that. We need responsibility
:12:06. > :12:11.through our country. It's the most important words in politics. It
:12:11. > :12:17.can't be used as an excuse. That was law breaking. That was looting.
:12:17. > :12:20.That was threeving. -- thieving. There are MPs in prison and a damn
:12:20. > :12:27.good thing too, excuse my language. Most of them were allowed to pay
:12:27. > :12:32.back what they had taken wrongly. Those that broke the law... Were
:12:32. > :12:36.prosecuted and sent to prison. These people in terms of looting,
:12:36. > :12:39.pillaging, the violence we saw, that was law breaking. Law breaking
:12:39. > :12:42.has to be punished. One of the heartening things we're seeing now
:12:42. > :12:45.is because the courts have been sitting around-the-clock, we're
:12:45. > :12:49.seeing a much tighter time table between getting your collar felt by
:12:49. > :12:53.a police officer, going to a cell, appearing in front of the court and
:12:53. > :12:58.being sent to prison. I hope one of the learnings of the last few days
:12:58. > :13:02.is if we have that speedy justice at this time, why can't we have
:13:02. > :13:06.speedy justice all the time. Is it going to help when the leaders on
:13:06. > :13:10.this programme, the leaders of Manchester City Council and Salford
:13:10. > :13:14.City Council say if you are caught being involved in any way in this
:13:14. > :13:19.rioting and in this looting, any single member of your family, we
:13:19. > :13:22.will throw you out of your council houses. I think that is helpful. We
:13:22. > :13:26.have to find ways of enforcing responsibility in our society. If
:13:26. > :13:30.you live in a council house, you're getting a house at a discount from
:13:30. > :13:33.what other people have to pay W that should come some
:13:33. > :13:37.responsibilities. Is that thought through? When they leave the houses,
:13:37. > :13:40.when they're thrown out, what happens to them? They mightn't be
:13:40. > :13:43.able to afford other housing? Frankly, they should have thought
:13:43. > :13:48.about that before they turned on their own community and looted a
:13:48. > :13:52.shot. -- shop. Isn't it better to include people in society than
:13:52. > :13:55.exclude them further? For too long we've taken a too soft attitude
:13:55. > :13:59.towards people that loot and pillage their own community. If you
:13:59. > :14:03.do that, you should lose your right to the sort of housing that you had
:14:03. > :14:06.at a subsidised rate. Obviously, that will mean they have to be
:14:06. > :14:10.housed somewhere else and will have to find housing in the private
:14:10. > :14:15.sector. That will be tougher for them. They should have thought of
:14:15. > :14:19.that before they started burgling. The other point I'd make, in some
:14:19. > :14:22.cases it may help break up some of the criminal networks on some
:14:22. > :14:27.housing estates if some people are thrown out of their houses and
:14:27. > :14:31.quite right too. Prime Minister, thank you very much. Thank you.
:14:31. > :14:36.A 29-year-old man from Preston has been jailed for life for the murder
:14:36. > :14:39.of his former girlfriend. David Bullman pleaded guilt why to
:14:39. > :14:42.murdering Nicola Seed in February. The mother of four was found dead
:14:42. > :14:46.at her home with severe head injuries.
:14:46. > :14:50.23 members of staff have lost their jobs at TJ Hughes in Salford. The
:14:50. > :14:52.shop, which was already in administration, was so badly
:14:52. > :14:57.damaged in the riots that administrators have decided to
:14:57. > :15:02.close it down. Two houses being rebuilt after a
:15:02. > :15:05.huge explosion in Irlam in Salford last November have been damaged
:15:05. > :15:09.extensively by fire. It broke out last night and is being treated as
:15:09. > :15:14.suspicious. An official gay quarter has been
:15:14. > :15:18.approved by Liverpool council today. It will see the Stanley Street area
:15:18. > :15:21.transformed in a bid to attract more tourists and create new jobs.
:15:21. > :15:25.It follows the success of the second Pride Festival in the city
:15:25. > :15:30.over the weekend. A judge in Manchester has warned
:15:30. > :15:35.that anyone earning a -- owning a high performance car is at risk of
:15:35. > :15:39.being targeted by criminals. He jailed three men for terrorising a
:15:39. > :15:42.family in Cheadle Hulme in order to steal their car. Roger Dean was
:15:42. > :15:46.knocked unconscious and left with sight problems after a gang raided
:15:46. > :15:49.his home, terrifying his wife and baby daughter.
:15:49. > :15:56.Every time there's a bang or anything happens in the house, I'm
:15:56. > :16:01.at the window. I'm on edge. Just can't seem to relax. Roger Dean is
:16:01. > :16:06.now afraid to leave his family. Last November a gang targeting his
:16:06. > :16:11.high performance car knocked on his door and attacked him. I felt a
:16:11. > :16:15.blow to my face, saw a gloved hand with a bar across it come ing
:16:15. > :16:19.across me, clunked in the face. I went flying backwards and through
:16:19. > :16:22.the child gate at the bottom of the stairs and was unconscious. There
:16:23. > :16:28.was a time when thieves would have been able to break into and start a
:16:28. > :16:32.car like this with a few simple tools. But Aztecnology's developed
:16:32. > :16:36.high performance cars have become more secure, meaning that the key
:16:36. > :16:40.is now crucial and criminals are increasingly confronting the owners.
:16:40. > :16:43.I always thought I could protect my family, which obviously I can't do,
:16:43. > :16:47.if there's determined criminals wanting to get into your house.
:16:47. > :16:50.It's the nighure of cars today and the security systems. You can't hot
:16:51. > :16:55.wire a car now. You need the keys to take the car. People are
:16:55. > :17:01.prepared to go to lengths now of breaking in the house. Michael
:17:01. > :17:05.Williams and Mr Shepherd and keeton Sam use pleaded guilty to robbery,
:17:05. > :17:09.sentencing them to a total of 14 years in prison, the judge remarked
:17:09. > :17:14.that anyone who has a car of that value in Greater Manchester or
:17:14. > :17:17.other cities is at risk of being targeted in this way. It's just the
:17:17. > :17:21.memories that this house has got now of the three men coming through
:17:21. > :17:31.the door uninvited. We're selling the house and trying to move on
:17:31. > :17:31.
:17:31. > :17:34.somewhere else. Now, still to come: It's back, on
:17:34. > :17:39.the eve of Premier League season, we look at the prospects for our
:17:39. > :17:43.seven sides. And heads you win - the aspiring
:17:43. > :17:47.footballer who went to the top to get a trial. I didn't know what I
:17:47. > :17:56.was going to do. I got to the door and I saw this big house. It was
:17:56. > :18:00.difficult to press the buzzer, but I did it.
:18:00. > :18:04.Now, it is the weekend, millions of football fans have been waiting
:18:04. > :18:08.impatiently for, there may be other who's have not. But football fans
:18:08. > :18:13.have been waiting since May. To preview the new campaign, Richard
:18:13. > :18:18.is here with the sports desk and a special guest.
:18:18. > :18:22.Yes Kevin Gallacher, former Blackburn Rovers and Scotland
:18:22. > :18:26.striker. Thanks for joining us. It's the makings of a cracking
:18:26. > :18:30.season. I'm looking forward to it. The amount of money being spent on
:18:30. > :18:34.new players, this is going to be really exciting. Let's' start the
:18:34. > :18:37.the top, Manchester United, they've strengthened in the summer. Phil
:18:37. > :18:42.Jones and so on. Do you think they'll be the team to beat?
:18:42. > :18:46.think so. They're not coubed champions for nothing. They had a
:18:46. > :18:51.hard season last year. I think it will be a tough season. The way
:18:51. > :18:55.they turned out the charity cheeld, I can see them doing it again.
:18:55. > :18:58.about City? How close do you think they will run for the title?
:18:58. > :19:03.think they're getting closer. I think it will depend on how they
:19:03. > :19:07.work together. It's getting new players in, it's OK spending
:19:07. > :19:11.millions, if they work together and get the system right, there will be
:19:11. > :19:16.another couple of teams dropping down the table to let them to
:19:16. > :19:19.number two. Liverpool have made the fifth signing of the summer, Jose
:19:19. > :19:24.Enrique from Newcastle. The boss, Kenny Dalglish, know that's
:19:24. > :19:28.expectations are really on the rise. We're happy with the business we've
:19:28. > :19:34.done. We look forward to the start of the season same as everybody.
:19:34. > :19:39.Every club's the same as ourselves. We have high expectations. We just
:19:39. > :19:42.hope we can fulfil the expectation. I'm sure he'll madgeage -- manage
:19:42. > :19:47.those expectations. What do you think about Liverpool's prospects?
:19:47. > :19:53.I'm thinking higher as well. They finished sixth after a bad season.
:19:53. > :19:58.Kenny will be aiming for a top four place. It's getting the players in
:19:58. > :20:02.he likes, the 4-4-2 system. They'll football as well. They're getting
:20:02. > :20:07.stronger. They will finish in the top four this year. Confident stuff
:20:07. > :20:11.about Liverpool. Everton's game against Spurs is off because of the
:20:11. > :20:15.riots in Tottenham. David Moyes, how long do you think he can keep
:20:15. > :20:20.Everton moving forward, we know he hasn't got a great deal to spend?
:20:20. > :20:23.think that David Moyes' motto you know. I think he's a better manager
:20:23. > :20:27.for not having money to spend. He has the quality to get out of
:20:27. > :20:31.players in the squad. When you have that bit of money to spend, it adds
:20:31. > :20:38.pressure. I think Moyes has handled his job really well. Bolton have
:20:38. > :20:43.lost a couple of key players that form part of the squad last season.
:20:43. > :20:47.A couple of players have had broken legs in the summer. The manager
:20:47. > :20:51.admits not all things have gone to plan. Sometimes the managers have
:20:51. > :20:57.to adjust and readjust. That's what we've had to do. We're excited for
:20:57. > :21:01.the new season. We want to do all we can to improve upon last season.
:21:01. > :21:04.What about Bolton then? I think it will be the same again. It depends
:21:04. > :21:09.on the start of the season they get. They've lost one or two players.
:21:09. > :21:13.They've got one or two in again. Owen is trying to get a good little
:21:13. > :21:18.football side, like at Burnley. I think they'll finish around 15 this
:21:18. > :21:21.season. Now, Blackburn Rovers and Wigan Athletic fans won't thank me
:21:21. > :21:26.for pointing it out, they flirted with relegation last season. Do you
:21:26. > :21:31.think the same again or could they move up the table? Think more or
:21:31. > :21:35.less something similar. I think the three teams coming up, that's the
:21:35. > :21:40.standard. That's what they'll have below them. They've not spent a lot
:21:40. > :21:44.of money. They've sold top players. They've took money in, but they
:21:44. > :21:46.haven't spent that much money. Blackburn now are developing a
:21:47. > :21:52.younger squad probably for the next two, three seasons. Next season
:21:52. > :21:57.will be a tough battle, but I don't think they'll be flirting with
:21:57. > :22:00.relegation, just above it this year. Thank you very much. See you
:22:00. > :22:03.tomorrow. Let's talk about a different football story. As the
:22:03. > :22:07.big spending Premier League begins,00s of young footballers
:22:07. > :22:10.released last season are fighting for aifyure in the game. One of
:22:10. > :22:15.those is 18-year-old Max Lonsdale, who went to extraordinary lengths
:22:15. > :22:20.to keep his dream alive. Since he was given this kit at the
:22:20. > :22:24.age of two, Max Lonsdale has been desperate to play for Manchester
:22:24. > :22:30.United. But after being released by League Two side Macclesfield that
:22:30. > :22:36.seemed a long way off. Not many opportunities after being released
:22:36. > :22:41.from Macclesfield town this year. I zooded to make a DVD. We dropped it
:22:41. > :22:51.off at reception. This is Max Lonsdale. Until recently he played
:22:51. > :23:01.
:23:01. > :23:06.He also put the DVD on u tube attracting soo,000 hits. Max didn't
:23:06. > :23:09.stop here. (150,000 hits) he was so determined that he took a copy of
:23:09. > :23:13.his DVD and knocked on the door of the Manchester United manager.
:23:13. > :23:16.didn't know what I was going to do. I got to the door and I saw this
:23:16. > :23:21.big house. It was difficult to press the buzzer. But I did it. He
:23:21. > :23:29.let me in. He was brilliant with me. He gave me ten minutes of his time.
:23:29. > :23:33.I explained my situation. He said he watched the DVD. Sir Alex liked
:23:33. > :23:37.what he saw and invited Max for a trial. Man United have been
:23:37. > :23:40.brilliant with me. Initially it was meant to be two weeks. I was there
:23:40. > :23:45.for just under four weeks. In the end he didn't quite make the grade,
:23:45. > :23:48.but the club has recommended Max to other sides. I'm quite shy, but
:23:48. > :23:54.sometimes you need to put yourself out there and do thipbgdz that
:23:54. > :23:57.you're not necessarily comfortable with. And Max has already shown
:23:57. > :24:07.prospective employers that he'll do whatever it takes to show off his
:24:07. > :24:07.
:24:07. > :24:11.skills in the professional game. Imagine how he felt knocking on the
:24:11. > :24:16.door! Macclesfield have been well rewarded for their Carling Cup win
:24:16. > :24:21.away midweek. They visit Bolton in round two. Tuesday's other giant
:24:21. > :24:31.killers Morecambe and Bury are going to Millwall. And a home date
:24:31. > :24:32.
:24:32. > :24:37.with Sven-Goran Eriksson's You can see more on the build up to
:24:37. > :24:41.the opening weekend on Football Focus BBC One tomorrow, 12.15,
:24:41. > :24:45.Patrick Viera is a special guest. Kevin, putting you on the spot, the
:24:45. > :24:49.top four in order, finishing? Manchester United, Manchester City,
:24:49. > :24:55.Chelsea, Liverpool. And no Arsenal incidentally.
:24:55. > :24:59.Excellent, thank you for that. ( We'll see. That's ot tape! --
:24:59. > :25:01.that's on tape! Let's look at the that's on tape! Let's look at the
:25:01. > :25:04.weekend weather. The chances of him being more
:25:04. > :25:08.accurate than me are fairly strong. We'll see how it goes through the
:25:08. > :25:12.weekend. Things are going to change. It's not a wonderful weekend. But
:25:12. > :25:16.there is good news in there. Over the next couple of days, we get
:25:16. > :25:21.drier, cooler and fresher. Drier is the thing we're concentrating on.
:25:21. > :25:25.Through the day today it's not been too bad. Predominantly cloudy. For
:25:25. > :25:28.many places dry. For the next couple of hours this is what you're
:25:28. > :25:31.looking at. Already one or two showers move ing across the region
:25:31. > :25:34.through the afternoon. There is more rain waiting in the wings.
:25:34. > :25:38.There's a gap here, but if I move out of the way, there is more to
:25:38. > :25:41.come. If you don't have it with you now, it will be with you through
:25:41. > :25:45.the night. This is our picture in Manchester City sin ter. That's the
:25:45. > :25:49.skyline. It's grey and overcast. The rain will arrive sooner or
:25:49. > :25:52.later. Light and patchy for the most part at first. As the night
:25:52. > :25:59.progresses, as it comes and goes, over the high ground, it could get
:25:59. > :26:02.fairly heavy from time to time. For most, dull, damp and drizzly. Mild,
:26:02. > :26:06.temperatures 14-16. Into Saturday and it's not the best picture when
:26:06. > :26:09.you first get out of bed. It's fairly grey and drizzle here and
:26:09. > :26:14.there. Through the day this cloud cover, you can see the map is
:26:14. > :26:18.trying to lighten up. That means every now and then the cloud cover
:26:18. > :26:22.will be thin enough for brightness. There's improvement going on from
:26:22. > :26:26.morning through to afternoon. The wind back round it a south-westerly.
:26:26. > :26:29.It is relatively mild, 19 or 20 as your high. Then for Saturday night,
:26:29. > :26:32.we've got another line of light drizzly rain which will work
:26:32. > :26:35.through as the night goes on, particularly as you head to the
:26:35. > :26:39.early hours of the morning. That should be gone by the time you get
:26:39. > :26:42.up on Sunday morning. Then Sunday, not bad, won't be brilliant. I
:26:42. > :26:46.think there'll be one or two glimpses of sunshine from time to
:26:46. > :26:50.time. But it is dry. Temperatures around 19 degrees. Yes, Monday
:26:50. > :26:52.doesn't look bad at all. There are one or two showers on Tuesday, but
:26:52. > :26:56.one or two showers on Tuesday, but the pictures is for it to settle
:26:56. > :27:03.down. Kevin, how confident were you at 18,
:27:03. > :27:07.going back to Max there, at 18 being so brave? I was lucky. I was
:27:07. > :27:11.actually professionally at 18. I was in the first team. It was a bit
:27:11. > :27:17.of luck for me. I started at a young age playing in the first team
:27:17. > :27:21.at Dundee uetd. Would you have had the guts to believe in yourself?
:27:21. > :27:26.He's got great belief this man? have a good self-belief in my
:27:26. > :27:29.ability. I don't know if I would have been as brave as him. How do