Why Alisson STILL Isn't the Best Goalkeeper in the Premier League!
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Chris, come on, let's get straight at it. Do you still think Emi Martinez is the best goalkeeper in the Premier League? Come on, let's have the answer. Where have you got this from? Why have you asked me this on this day? Tell us why. Alison Becker, the Red Wall of Paris.

is what we'll call him from now on, even though he's wearing yellow. The yellow wall of Paris. And is this your thought process, or have you sort of stolen this attack off another male colleague? I'm an individual and free thinker, as you know, and you may not think so from anything I ever write. Dominic King, of course, the biggest Liverpool fan.

on male sports staff was into your ear or all over your WhatsApp as we were all watching that incredible Liverpool PSG game from the Champions League on Wednesday night and digging you out for what you said about Martinez. That was a while ago I said that. That was at the start of the season. And I mean, you know, I haven't heard from Dom all season. And then all of a sudden, Alisson has a brilliant evening and there he is, pops up in March.

I wish I could say I hadn't heard from Dom all season. I hear from Dom most days. He's getting excited about Liverpool. Lots of people excited about Liverpool. But come on, Alisson himself called it the performance of my life. Harvey Elliott, who scored the winning goal late in the game in Paris, described...

His team-mate is unbelievable, the best in the world. 27 shots, PSG, two shots, Liverpool, 1-0 Liverpool. That's the way it rolls, isn't it? But you still haven't answered the question. Is Emi Martinez still the best goalkeeper in the world?

in the division well that was in the Premier League wasn't it yes he is Alisson is the best goalkeeper in the Champions League anyway incredible night that's one of the reasons that we love football can't take your eyes off nights like that why did Arnaud slot why did he take off Mo Salah

Mo Salah was having a stinker, wasn't he? Mo Salah was having an absolute stinker. He wasn't having a stinker. He was having a quiet game. He was having a stinker. But my son, Harry, who's a Liverpool fan, what's he doing taking off Salah? Oh, well. Well...

Props to darling Darwin. You know, I have to admit, I have lost faith over the last 12 months in Nunes and what he can bring to Liverpool, having spent all of last season bigging him up. But his contribution to this victory was important. Great bit of hold-up play for the winning goal, laying it off to Elliott. As a centre-forward, Chris, I would imagine...

You take an awful lot of pleasure from something like that, if not quite the same as scoring the goal yourself. But he would have gone to bed feeling chuffed to bits, wouldn't he? Yeah, and especially after the recent criticism from Arnaud Slott. But fairness to Slott, he put him on and he gave Liverpool a bit more

physicality didn't he and yeah great assist weight of pass really important in those moments to allow Harvey Elliott to come on to the ball first time and Donnarumma might have thought he should have done better but it was a tidy finish and I still think I still think I don't know what you think there's very much a game on at Anfield though I don't think that this tie is done I thought PSG offered enough

where they, I mean, that might be an obvious thing to say, but I can't remember this season Liverpool being pushed back by any team like they were.

against PSG last night? Well, they were, no, not like that. They were, they were against Manchester City a fortnight ago. They spent an awful lot of time in their own heart, in their own half in that game. But without conceding that number of chances and without ever feeling as though they were absolutely under siege like they were in Paris. I agree with you. Game on. Liverpool are heavy favourites. I would,

I would be surprised if they don't go through. PSG, I do not think will be the same team on Merseyside as they were in Paris, but let's see. The second leg of that game takes place next week. How would Behemoth and Artie stayed on, by the way, for that push in the back of Bradley Barker in the first half? Baffled me, I have to say. At least it shows that some daft decisions get made abroad as well as in the Premier League.

Liverpool are home to Southampton this weekend before they have a bit of a break from Premier League action because they then go into the Carabao Cup final against Newcastle and then there's an international break. So this is their last Premier League game for a while. They'll be 16 points clear of Arsenal, the top of the Premier League if they win it. It's against Southampton. Everybody would fancy beating Southampton at

the moment Southampton reserves would probably fancy beating Southampton at the moment and the record of the Southampton coach Ivan Juric one win out of his 10 games in the league one win and nine defeats he will be on his way this summer Chris Danny Roll the Sheffield Wednesday manager former assistant manager at Southampton is the heavy favourite to replace him in

in the summer. Interesting that. Would you swap Sheffield Wednesday for Southampton or Sheffield Wednesday not the bigger club given that they'll both be in the championship? Good question. Historically, I mean, maybe so. Is this my northern bias coming through? Yeah, I mean, it's interesting but...

I hope you're not blaming Ivan Juric for Southampton's season, though, when you said one win out of ten. The mess he inherited and there's a slight tweak in the change of style. You were very much anti-Morris.

Russell Martin, that brand of football, or maybe not. No, that's probably unfair on you. Not necessarily anti the brand of football, but they kept making mistakes playing out from the back. And I know you were... Suicide football, I called it. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, I understand that. But...

I do think there is a bigger picture with clubs like Southampton. They're a sort of a club where they had a foundation or it was a house built of straw, really, Southampton. And when I say that, because if you have a philosophy in Russell Martin, whether you like it, Ian, or whether you don't, I think they should have, if they're going to go with Russell Martin and his philosophy, they have to stick with it.

and they didn't do that. We know how difficult it is for sides promoted from the championship to go up and stay up. But of course, there's the other side of it. It's a result-driven business. But the point I'm trying to get to is Danny Roll plays a similar brand of football to Russell Martin in that he likes to play an expansive brand of football. So Southampton, all of a sudden,

Because of results, they didn't trust Russell Martin anymore. And then they've gone a bit more direct, lump it football. And at the end of the season, they're going to go back to a similar style to Russell Martin. I don't think that that's joined up thinking. Well, there's a...

There's a way to play attacking free football without being as ludicrously open as Russell Martin and Southampton were. Just because you play attacking passing football doesn't mean you have to do it inside your own penalty area for 90 minutes. Is it not about personnel? No, but yes, it is. But it doesn't mean you have to do it inside your own penalty area for 90 minutes. It doesn't mean that you have to...

that you have to put up with your goalkeeper turning possession over five times in a half of football. Danny Roll has done a great job at Sheffield Wednesday, went there when they were struggling, kept them in the championship, has consolidated them in the championship. I think there are two things... Is that a great job? Is that a great job, consolidating them in the championship when you look at the chat? I'm not dismissing what you're saying. I'm just questioning what you're saying.

Well, it's very, very, and this kind of leaves my point. It's very difficult in the championship. If you're, even if you're a big club like Sheffield Wednesday, um, it's,

It's very, very difficult to compete with the gaggle of teams who have come down from the Premier League in the two or three seasons before and are all being subsidised by parachute payments. If you've not been in the top flight like a club like Sheffield Wednesday hasn't for so many years, it becomes impossible.

ever more difficult to get back up there, which is why other big teams off the top of my head, such as Coventry and Sunderland and Birmingham and Middlesbrough and Derby find it very, very difficult. So I think Roll has done a good job. And I think because they were a mess when he took over Sheffield Wednesday, I think the two things that will make him think, yeah, Southampton's a good bet for me. One, he works for a difficult owner.

at Sheffield Wednesday, without a doubt, works for a difficult owner. And secondly, Southampton will be coming down with all of that parachute money. And that gives them a massive advantage when it comes to getting back up. So there we go. Just very quickly on Danny Roll, though. So would this be in the back of his mind then? Would he look at the Russell Martin situation?

And would he think, okay, well, I get Southampton back up to the Premier League and all of a sudden we struggle in the Premier League, which we've seen how difficult it is. I'm repeating myself for clubs who get promoted. And then all of a sudden, Southampton pull the plug on Danny Roll because he doesn't start the season in the Premier League. Firstly, I would imagine he would back himself. And secondly, he'll probably look at the club he's at now and the club that he's been tapped up by, allegedly, or the club that has an interest in him

and will think, which of those two clubs is going to give me the best chance of getting the Premier League? And he'll look at Southampton and he will think it's Southampton. Anyway, I would imagine Liverpool will be flying into that game this weekend against Southampton. They'll be full of beans after that incredible win in Paris. And like I say, 16 points clear of Arsenal if they're to win it. Just to move things onto a serious topic for a minute, Chris,

Chris, I mean, a really, really serious topic. The former Liverpool midfielder, Jason McAteer, who you will have played against, and I certainly remember. I played with Jason for a season. He came to Blackburn when Brian Kidd was manager. Absolutely. Very, very good player. Liverpool, Bolton, Blackburn, Republic of Ireland, of course, has been talking on...

a Be In Sports podcast about the difficulties that he's faced in

post playing career difficulties with mental health and, and depression. And I just want to read out a couple of things that he said in that podcast to the former, my United defender, Mikel Silvestre. Jason said, I just had no purpose, no structure days and days with nothing to do. I was driving through the world tunnel one day. And I remember thinking to myself, I could just swing the car here and just act.

end it. I was fighting myself not to do it. I miss everything about playing, just running out free on a football pitch. Nothing in life is a problem for those 90 minutes. It's just the best. It's just the best. Um,

courageous of Jason to open up like that. I've met Jason a couple of times. I played golf with him once, actually. Liked him a lot. Fair play to him for opening up. We hear stories like this occasionally, don't we, Chris? The difficulties that players do have when, for want of a better phrase, the lights go out at the end of a top flight football career. The transition from football to what you might describe as normal life.

Yeah, I think it's...

It's difficult for all players at the end of their career because Jason there talking about no purpose, no structure, everything for football when you're a successful footballer. You have that daily routine. You have everything done for you. You have the games at the weekend. That's all you think about. And then all of a sudden, 16, 18 years, you finish your career at a relatively young age. And it's about trying to...

trying to recreate something then which can stimulate you. And I don't think that anything can maybe... Most ex-players would say the same thing. I don't think anything really can recreate that sort of high as of when you're playing and certainly when things are going well. So then players come out, and Jason talked about no structure, no purpose, no...

It becomes difficult for certain players, hence we've seen ex-players turn to drink, to drugs, and then...

mental health issues. And it was very brave of Jason to come out and speak as candidly as he did do. And I hope that he's all right. And I think he also touched on the need for greater support within the football framework. And I would agree with that, that at the end of players' careers, it's a very dangerous situation.

and a lot of players, like it or not, lose the way. And that's, you know, I think that that's, it's not, I'm not saying it's, it's totally the norm, but it has happened in a, in a lot of cases. And you would expect with all the money in the game that there is, that there would be a, a better support network and framework than there actually is. But I,

I think that people like Jason coming out and talking as openly as he did, I think that that can be of a great help to other players who are in a similar situation and suffering, whether it's with suicidal thoughts, whether it's with drink, with drugs, whatever. But no good on Jason for that. No, absolutely.

Absolutely. And people always say, oh, well, players earn a lot of money and they don't need to work again when they finish their career. And that may be true for many, many footballers, but money doesn't protect you from boredom and loneliness and lack of direction and self-worth and all the rest of it. My mindset, Ian, my mindset, and I really miss playing. Of course I do, like any other player, but my mindset, and I always try and sort of

always have tried to think like that was

was I was lucky to have played. So I'm one of those where, you know, I thank myself really lucky to have had the career, which I did. There was some good, there was some bad in it. But I always look at it like that. And I think, well, I can, I'll never hit those highs in terms of what to do now. Although it's very close working with you every Monday and every Thursday. But, you know, you have to try and find something to, you know, to, to,

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A few comments, Chris, on the back of Monday's show. We talked about whether Anthony Gordon should be banned from the Cowboy Cup final after being sent off in a Premier League game and whether that was fair. Steve on Spotify says, well, if Millwall were in the League Cup final, would anybody be thinking it was a shame that their goalkeeper would miss out?

I expect most people are happy that the rules are what they are. That was a controversial game, of course, between Palace and Millwall at the weekend. The Millwall goalkeeper clustering in to Palace for his own fleet for

Mateta. Um, I thought it was a bit rum of the Palace chairman, uh, Steve Paris to come out at halftime and talk about the severity of that challenge, um, et cetera. Damien Hines on Spotify. I agree. It was very odd to see the club chairman talking about a serious incident like that. The interview should have been delayed until after the game, um,

if at all. And finally, a little bit about Manchester United. Hanon Rai says on Spotify, Ruben Amun is failing, they've gone backwards. The squad tip for the top four and he's got a 24% win rate.

It took Klopp years to play the football he wanted, but he clearly was having an impact. David Moyes has rejuvenated Everton. Amirim has done the opposite. Is he the guy to give £400 million to? It's a reasonable question. Manchester United at home to Arsenal on Sunday, Chris. You and I were both in Eindhoven this week as Arsenal beat PSV Strasbourg.

7-1. Don't think we expected that to happen. Standout performance for Arsenal, probably young Ethan Waneri. Declan Rice. Declan Rice was good, wasn't he? Martin Odegaard also had a brilliant game. Waneri, third youngest scorer in the Champions League knockout stage ever. 17 years old. Too early to talk about him for Thomas Tuchel's England squad or not? Why? Why?

Why is it too early if he's performing at the level which he is? It's been the age-old argument, isn't it? Should you pick players on current form? I think so. And the other one is Lewis Skelly. Tell me, at this moment in time, who is a better England left-back than Lewis Skelly? Who is fit?

Well, you'll make Dan Byrne. Is Dan Byrne fit? You remember tipping Dan Byrne for England in the left-back last year? Is he better than Lewis Skelly at this moment in time? No, it's a good shout. Lewis Skelly needs to learn to keep himself on the field. He was lucky not to be sent off again, I have to say. He was, but, you know, I think Wanyeri...

But Wengeri is a really interesting one. There is a lot of competition in those wide areas. Madueke, Gordon, Rodgers, Bowen, but in a recent form. I mean, Phil Foden can play wide right as well, can't he? Cole Palmer, of course, as well.

But on recent form, I mean, he, it's the first time I've seen him in the flesh, Ian. And, you know, blimey. I mean, he's intelligent, really intelligent physically. He more than copes, but he's clever. He drives the outside. He's got that little step over. He can drive the outside and then he can,

you know, work situations to, to, to come on that inside. He has great awareness for, for one who is so young. But if I was Thomas Tuchel, um, England want to, um, want to win a, a World Cup, then, uh, I'd throw in the best players at that particular time. That's always been my, uh,

my thought process England squad announced next week by the way for Tuchel's first World Cup qualifying games goodness me PSV were poor Chris we don't need to dig deep don't say it

Don't go into Farmers League stuff because PSG have taught you not to go into that. Well, they were, um, they were desperately poor. I was, I was a bit embarrassed for them actually. And they're the, they are the Dutch champions, but well. They beat Liverpool not so long ago. Well played. Yeah. Well, Liverpool reserves. I think that was, um, well played, um,

Don't give the Dutch any credit. Well played, Arsenal. Fabulous way to get yourself back to winning ways. And they will go to Old Trafford on Sunday, expecting to win. I would imagine, my goodness, they'll have to, unless this title race isn't going to be over soon.

before the daffodils have all been taken out. Scottish football, Chris, interesting quotes from, I don't know why I'm laughing. I'm laughing because it's Jose, Jose Mourinho. Never known to answer a question with a straight bat or a no comment before Rangers game against Mourinho's Fenerbahce game.

in Europe on Thursday night. Mourinho has asked whether he would be interested in managing in Scotland. I'm not looking for a new job, but why not in the future? Southwark Rangers, they are big clubs with big fan bases, big emotions, big responsibilities, big expectations. It's a league of passion. And for me, it is everything.

Can you imagine Jose Mourinho in Glasgow, Chris? Jose at Rangers, Jose at Celtic. Imagine that. Not sure they'd be able to pay him. I could imagine him fitting in quite well in Glasgow and the Goldfish Bowl up there. 2003, though, I don't know how the Celtic fans would feel about that with his diving Porto team when they beat us in the UEFA Cup final.

But he's got the personality to handle Glasgow for five minutes, maybe. Could Glasgow handle him? No, absolutely. I've got to say, I'd love to see it. I would love to see him in Glasgow. I mean, that would be absolute powder keg.

you know, stuff on, you know, one side of the city, all the other ranges, ranges, ranges, you know, that they'll, I mean, they, they cannot, um, uh, have Barry Ferguson in place at the, uh, at the start of next season. They just, they just can't do that. Um,

you know, Barry L. being for an interim period. So they are looking for a new manager. Who knows if it all ends badly for Mourinho at Fenerbahce this season. Well, it always ends badly for Jose at some point. It will end badly for Jose at Fenerbahce on just a matter of when. I mean, he'd blow the roof off

Scottish football in about two months, wouldn't it? Because of the, because the way it works. We're used to, what was it you said recently about Philip Clement, the outgoing Rangers manager. I think you said that Scottish football had eaten him up or something. Yeah, it does. It does. It does everyone. It does do that to people, doesn't it? No, it does. You know, it absolutely, that worm gets in people's head without a doubt.

Yeah, exactly. And, you know, I do think, say, I mean, say Mourinho took over at Rangers at the start of the next season, and it is about recruitment and personnel. If it didn't start well for him, you could imagine him kicking off left, right and centre and...

Yeah. One thing's for sure. It wouldn't be his fault. It wouldn't be his fault. It wouldn't end well, but it would, it would be great.

It would be great. That 2003 final you mentioned, by the way, when Mourinho's Porto beat the Celtic team in which you played, Martin O'Neill's Celtic. The cheating Porto team. No, seriously. Seriously, Martin O'Neill. That was one of the first times that we really saw Mourinho. I mean, Martin O'Neill seriously has still not really got over that, has he? I mean, they absolutely did spend a whole...

of that game lying on the floor didn't they they absolutely did they did look in the end you know it's tongue-in-cheek there um you know what i said they did throw themselves here there and everywhere time wasting all the dirty tricks um which uh which which they got up to but look in the end they they won the game that's uh that's it but it is are we are we bitter all these years on

The cheating so-and-sos, absolutely. Absolutely. Can't stand them. Absolutely. Well, look, there's your first daily record, Colin, for the moment that Jose rocks up at Ibrox as a new Rangers manager. There you go. I mean, you've got, come on, let's face it, you've got under Michael Beale's skin, you've got under Clement's skin. I mean, come on.

Sutton against Mourinho, that would be worth watching. Yeah, and the last Portuguese manager at Rangers was? Pedro, Pedro Cachina, wasn't it? And how did that go for you? He had a phrase, didn't he? The dogs bark, but the caravan keeps moving on.

And it did right off the edge of a cliff. Absolutely. Okay. Well, there we go. Let's keep an eye out for that one. Jose versus Sutton coming to a podcast near you. You never know. Right.

So touch briefly on England. Let's do this quickly. And England squad, that is announced next week. Thomas Tuchel's first one. At the end of the last international break, which was way back in November, Lee Carsey finishing off the Nations League campaign, if you remember all of that. Harry Kane wasn't in the team. Lots of chat about Kane. Is he good enough for England? Will Tuchel pick him? Blah, blah, blah. Let's just say that Harry Kane has gone away and had quite an effective run.

I don't really see anyone stepping forward in terms of English strikers to replace him. And Kane has just kept on scoring goals. Two more in the Champions League this week as Bayern Munich beat Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 in the first leg of their season.

Last 16 tie at the Allianz Arena. Kane has got nine goals in the Champions League so far this season. That's the most by any English player in a single campaign. And he's now scored more goals across all competitions than any other player in Europe's top three.

five leagues since he joined Bayern at the start of last season. 75 goals. 17 of those have come in the Champions League. Something tells me he will be starting for England. Yeah, I suspect so. It's what the competition is. I mean, it was an interesting debate in the Euros about Kane doesn't stretch.

Yeah, but it doesn't stretch back lines. Has he lost a bit of athleticism? Should England go for, say, an Ollie Watkins who...

you know, has greater mobility than Harry Kane, but his numbers just carry on being remarkable. So it's about, it is about the team first and foremost. I mean, he's going to be involved in some way, shape or form, but if Kane plays, it's how do you get the best performance?

out of him? How do you create those opportunities? And that will be the conundrum. How are you going to stretch back lines and not be predictable? Because Harry Kane, let's get it right. He does...

he comes to the ball. He just drops deep and comes to the ball. Yeah, absolutely. And half turn and links up and you need players who suit the way that he plays. The fact is though, that Hurricane's rivals or competitors for that number nine England shirt have had all winter to push themselves to the front of the queue. And you could argue that

Quite convincingly that nobody has really done it. The World Cup, of course, is the aim for Thomas Tuchel when he starts, finally, and takes control of an England team just about five months since he got the job. We've talked about that before. Um,

The World Cup finals, of course, take place in the USA and Mexico and Canada in the summer of 2026. Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, not exactly a friend of the podcast, says,

has confirmed that the World Cup final that will take place in New Jersey in July 2026 will have a halftime show a la the Super Bowl. There will be halftime entertainment, and we're not just talking about a brass band or a few kids doing keep-ups. We're talking about music. We're talking about big stars, infantinos,

apparently asked Chris Martin, the Coldplay lead singer, for advice on putting a crew together. Not sure why he needs his particular input, but there we go. Infantino on Instagram. I can confirm the first ever halftime show at a FIFA World Cup final will take place. An historic moment for the FIFA World Cup and a show befitting the biggest sporting event in the world. How on earth do you do that in 15 minutes?

Yeah, it's a great question. You have to change the fundamentals of the game, but it would be great, wouldn't it? It would be great in many ways to have Teddy Swims or Lowly Young on at halftime or Dasher, wouldn't it? Dasher, is that one of your dogs? Wouldn't it be great? Tell me about those artists.

What, Teddy Swims? Tell me about them, yeah. Bad Dreams? Tell me about them. Bad Dreams, Teddy Swims. Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, one of my favourites. And Lowly Young Messi. Is that not one of your favourites as well? Wouldn't it be? I mean, look, for me, Gene Pitney. 15 minutes of Gene Pitney. Absolutely brilliant. Do you know, now, I might be going down to Dangerous Avenue here, but is Diana Ross still alive?

I was just thinking the same thing about Gene Pitney. Is Diana Ross still alive? Anybody know? Because you remember Diana Ross, don't you? You remember Diana Ross from the...

Come on. I should have been prepared. Was it the 94? Yes, 94 World Cup. Was it 94? Opening ceremony. Opening ceremony. And opening ceremony. And the whole plan was that she would kick a ball into an empty goal from about three yards. And when the ball hit the back of the net, that would trigger a huge kind of explosion of kind of fireworks and fireworks.

Ticket tape and all the rest of it to close the show. The only problem was she missed. She missed from about two yards. The thing is, I've missed worse than that, Ian. Seriously, I think that... Indeed. I think the danger... At least she was good at her day job. The danger of this halftime show is if...

They decide to make it last more than 15 minutes. The Super Bowl halftime show is half an hour. You can't have a half an hour halftime at a World Cup final, can you?

I don't think so. Well, you're changing the whole fundamental of the game, aren't you? I'm not a sports scientist. I don't know this stuff. But say, for example, American football, it's a stop-start game, isn't it? It's not going to have the effect which it would have on...

on soccer as it will be over there. So, I mean, I don't get how it works. I mean, how long does it take to erect a stage? Yeah, indeed, yeah. That would take me half a day. I mean, I know these people, you know, they play

plenty on there, but I mean, that's... But seriously, and then the players would be getting cold and would need a second warm-up. Maybe not. Depends where you are in the US. No, but you know what I mean? You know what I mean? In terms of the muscles and all the rest of it, they'd need a second warm-up before the game and all that, second half and all the rest of it, wouldn't they? So I suppose, you know, if he's going to do it, and they are going to do it because they will do it, because if Infantino wants to do it, he will do it. All he cares about is getting more eyes...

on his showpiece event. And more friends, more high-profile pals. No, it is. Teddy swims and he can, lowly young. No, you know, Salt Bae will be on the pitch again, no doubt. No, it is about that. It's about more friends. It's about getting more eyes on the final. It's about getting, therefore, the knock-on effect for sponsorship, the knock-on effect for TV figures. It's all about money.

It's all about ego and it's all about money and none of it is about football. And it is a load of bollocks, as you and I both know, but it will happen. It will happen. So I think it's important that if it does happen, then for God's sake, it's got to be kept in some kind of perspective. You know, we don't want a Super Bowl halftime show happening

At halftime of the World Cup final. We absolutely do not want that. And by the way, I can confirm Diana Ross, thankfully, is still alive. Diana is 80 years old and going strong. So if she wants to come back, give it another go. The goal is waiting, Diana, and empty once again. Right, there we go, Chris. That's a reasonable place to finish. Let us know, everybody, your thoughts on that World Cup final halftime show. Are Chris and I stuck in the past moments?

Should it be happening? Is it a load of old nonsense? And if it should happen, who do you want to see perform there? And what kind of context should it be in? How long should it last? Etc. Jose Mourinho in Glasgow. Blimey. Yes or no. Could that work? Alison Becker, is he the best goalkeeper in the Premier League?

or not. And before we finish, Chris, I did promise on Monday's show that we'd answer this question as to why the VAR checks took so long at the weekend, given that we were using the semi-automated system for the first time in the FA Cup. There was a seven and a half minute delay at Bournemouth and there was a huge delay at Newcastle as they looked at a

a clearly offside goal there. And it is, as we thought, it's because they're using, they are using the semi-automated system, but the British football, English football, in their wisdom, are using slightly different technology. Don't know why. Tony Scholes, Premier League's chief football officer, says, I have to confess, given the difficulties that we had,

over the first few months of the season. I think he means in terms of testing. I had severe doubts about this, but the progress made over the last four to six weeks has been significant. Tony Scoles doesn't even sound convinced himself about the Premier League's VAR system. Let's see how it gets on going forward. Thanks for being with us, everybody. We'll see you on Monday.

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