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