 Welcome to the Premier League show here on Trophy TV. The England squad has been announced for the Catarwell Cup begins next week. Well, that's the week after, Sunday, week Sunday. Sorry, it's like nine days away or something, it's not long now, till it begins. It is still dead weird, even though we've been used to it for a number of years now when it was going to happen. Have you noticed there's a couple of Christmas avatars that are also like footy whale cup avatars, they're like mage in the two together. It seems a bit of a waste, doesn't it? But again, they're probably saving that avatar. Have you seen the Aster? Yeah, Christmas Aster. The Elf one, mine, mine, the Shrafe one. I'm not sure, I'm not sure I'm all favourite of that. I'm just not. I mean it's no. It's just a film that you've ripped out. It's no pandora. I was going to say it's no pandora. But you know, it's as far as Christmas Aster is going to be. What about the John Lewis Aster? It's quite good. And I don't think I've seen it. Oh, it's a tear, Jake. Very much a tear. Oh, well they can do one now. No, no, in a good way. It's not like I'm going to buy me that. No, no, it is happy. It's a tear. I mean old Christmas Aster, it's a mishable now. It's like mishable in there, but there's a point in thing at the end of them. That's why I like the Elf. That's why I like the Elf. You know what we're giving out this Christmas? Water bottles, blankets. Hey, what a time to be alive. What a time to be alive. Anyway, anyway. Anyway, back on to football apologies. Like you just said, the England squad has been announced. We were a good person on Saturday where Everton were absolutely diabolical. But one player who wasn't diabolical was James Madison, who was playing for Leicester. Well, he wouldn't be, because he wasn't playing for Everton. But there was still diabolical players playing for Leicester as well on Saturday. But now James Madison had an excellent game on Saturday night to shoot tremendous goals. Teal and his goal was incredible. What a goal. And Harvey Barnes scored a cracker as well. But Madison was excellent, partly because Everton allowed them to be. But he is a good footballer. He's a man. Playing out of his skin at the moment. There was a lot of talk that he wasn't going to be in this squad. I had done an overlap show the other day. There was talks in the room and I think James Carriger and Gary Neville were like, nah, I should go, but I don't think he will. And even as far as up till yesterday morning before the squad was announced, people were saying he wasn't going to be in it. But he is and deservedly showing it. What happened because of his form and because Leicester haven't been great this season, all of that conversation started again as whether or not he's the best one outside the top six who one of them could get. This is what we've had to say over on the playlist on 888 Sport. I've never really rated or particularly liked James Madison. But this season, there's been sensation, wasn't it? This season, someone can fact check this probably. I think you've got 15 goals last season. He's probably going in records, unbelievable. I was doing a show and I was like, did he? So he's been consistently doing his thing and he does get overlooked in the England squad. Do you think Madison would get into or ultimately get the move to Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool? More so maybe in Arsenal or Tottenham. It feels very Arsenal, doesn't it? I could see him at Chelsea. I'd love that. As of today, that's probably true. Potl would prefer to have someone like Madison. But you nurture Gallagher. I think Gallagher's great. Madison gets his free run for Leicester as well, which I don't think you have at a big club. He kind of floats in the 10, goes to the left, I don't even know what his best position is, Madison. I think he's a 10. 10, definitely. Behind a striker. He could play behind a Bamiang or a new look at Chelsea. No, I think so. He's a very chosen player. For me, he's exactly what Tottenham would need. Tottenham really needed a good... Tottenham really needed a good... But you say that at Arsenal, they've got Vieira and Odegaard. No. So does Madison leave Leicester? Yes. And does he go to a team that, let's just say, does he go to a team that are in the Champions League? Maybe not because the fifth team and the sixth team could be Manchester United's first or... Yes. Yes, definitely. There you go. He's playing Madison, big and good looking. But he's playing Madison at the moment. No, he well deserves it, it's the kind of... And I'm delighted at that. There's a couple of, like, ones like that in the squad, him and Callum Wilson being the two who've gone on on pure form. And that's the way it should be. And I know, like, 90% of the squad is players that, the manager has had around them for the last couple of years. He hasn't been zero preparation for this World Cup and he can understand that side and test it. But I think it's brilliant that there are a couple of, from an England point of view, a couple of ones where you go. You're in really good form at the moment. Can you just know what you did last week? Can you do it this week for us? And I think that's what should happen. I understand why that doesn't always happen in instant football. But I do think for this World Cup, I think that's really good. Madison deserves it, when you think of, like, someone like, what the numbers, Jackie, they're just posting at the moment. He's been excellent. And I think he's, you know, he was talking, he could have gone to Newcastle in the summer. I think he'll have bigger clubs knock on the door this summer looking for him. Cos, to me, fe, he does strike me as a city kind of player as well. I don't think they'll go for him, but he does strike me as a city kind of player. So, he's technically really good. He's really comfortable on the ball. He's got a good idea of what he's trying to do. I think his football intelligence is quite good. He's just a really good player. And, you know, his numbers are great. He's a player, play them. I think he's deserved it. I think, actually also, Garas Southgate's been really clever here. He's kept probably a lot of people off his back by putting them in. Cos I think if he hadn't, I think straight away. There's questions then, isn't it? You've got questions before you start where people are like, oh, he's starting to listen. You know, he's starting to take notice of, like, what's actually going on. And when you think for a 26-man squad, you think, you've got to have one, haven't you? You've got to have one who's a bit of a wildcat. Even though Madison's not, deserves to be in there. Because Tarkovsky and Lucky, not to go. Yeah, but he comes into the category of players that the manager already knows of. Cos that's where people go, Cody's very lucky. And he's like, he's not, cos he's been playing well forever. But at the same time, he is centre-backs. Maguire's the one who's lucky. Maguire's the one who's really shouldn't be in the squad. But the manager's like, I trust this fella's done the job for me before. Whereas Tarkovsky plays in a position. What if he goes into and he's not very good? At international level, do you know what I mean? Least I'm at, that's that's the... Only because of the form. We've seen him and he's been excellent. And England do have issues there. It's going to be dead interesting. I think you're right. I think there's no preparation. You know, the games are finishing this weekend. England play, like, a week after some of that. Monday, eight days after some, to finish playing the plenty league, which is on air. They're having a well cup for a well cup. So it's going to be really interesting. You're subscribing to the fact that it could be, this could be Messi's well cup because he's in such good form. I hope so. I do hope so. I just want, I would love him to win a well cup and put that, that would be the cherry core. Exclamation mark. I love it. But it wouldn't say. It wouldn't say. It would be doing more well cup stuff obviously. Of course. Just going back, obviously, into the Premier League, Manchester City, yet. Had a late win over Fulham when I went behind and had a man's centre on. Cancello. No, they were winning. Winning. Cancello was centre off, wasn't he? And it looked like, you know, that Harland had had a goldish lad, which there was some debate about whether he was offside or not. If only they had the A, I think. And it looked like Fulham had ground out a really great point in there. Man City, get a penalty in the 94th minute. And know that you're not massively convinced this is a penalty. It's not a penalty. It's not a penalty. It's just because your foot which is someone else's foot in the penalty box. Does that make, Kevin The Brain's a brilliant player and his ball for the goal is sensational. But does that really, really make you go? That's a penalty. Did he got one the other week? I forgot who it was again, but Bernardo Silva got one. Which was again, was in my opinion, he initiated the contract which really shouldn't be allowed. Why I let him off that day? He was Harland should have had the five minutes before which was a penalty and he didn't get it. From a purely wanting city to do well kind of thing. It was a great decision. Now, to be fair, full on, I've hung on in there and to be undone like that is devastating. It's just the way he does like, he taps his ankle and he just does this big spin and platooned that. That's what he did. Now I know, you're saying, you're the last minute and you've got your, you've got what you wanted out of it but it's not a pen. It's just not a pen. Let's be honest, if it had happened to another club, we'd be fuming about it. It's just not a pen. Harland actually got really lucky on the penalty. It was not a good penalty and he got really lucky. But city still ended again. It was like 75% position with 10 men. That's a little bit. It is. It's a tremendous try. Obviously Arsenal, all the weekend continued there. Excellent form. Good going to Chelsea. There was a big test I thought this one because they had been doing the flat track bully and things really well. I looked at this one and thought, this will be a big test this for Arsenal. And for Arsenal. And he'd gone there and won. At Chelsea, questions are already out over Graeme Potto. I think for me personally, I'm not a Chelsea fan. I don't know how they feel. But just being an outsider looking at it, isn't it too early? Do you know what's interesting now? About this, is the wheel starting to come on off for Tushall last season for exactly the same reason. Lost his wing backs. Lost both of his wing backs. They were obviously both out the well cup. He's lost both of those wing backs and that's exactly where it went wrong last season for Tushall, not having reached James. But shouldn't he be given just right now? Shouldn't it be like a little bit right? Because honestly, I was again just on the overlap thing the other day. Gary Neville and Jamie Carriga were like, he's at Chelsea, so he should be under pressure, and if this doesn't, he don't get a win soon. Since when did seven and eight weeks start becoming when you've judged managers? He's not a prime minister, is he? You know, 40 out days. I think once this weekend's over, everything's going to calm down anyway. So it's not really, I'm sure, to get a win this weekend will be fine. But I still, I still know that's, you know, to get a win. They've beaten, you know, everyone there, you know, okay, got beat the whole traffic in the year to play city, because they've got to be rearranged. But they've beaten everyone up there now, and beat Liverpool, didn't they? They've beat Chelsea, they've beat Tottenham, so they're in tremendous form. And for them, this break, I don't... I mean, I asked Robbie this the other day, he was like, it's this break coming at the wrong time for you. And he was like, I can't understand why you're asking it, because we're flying. But he was like, we haven't got any squad depth really. We've got no squad depth, so it might help us, like, refraining, not having loads of the whale cut, whatever. But I just think many teams in that go the way, sometimes a break might come at the wrong time, but they've done something brilliant for them. And you're right, Chelsea, you've got to pick themselves back up and get into the break, you know. I guess for Potty, for what he wants to get across, that break will be all right for him. Liverpool had a big, a huge win at Spray. For Tottenham, Tottenham's criticism was out again. The Tottenham scene was weak, though, very, very weak side. They put out, obviously, no sun, no charlots in the forward positions. Kureveski coming back. It was weak, and defensively, they looked under threat straight away. Game is too hard, though, really, one. Yeah, and first off, you just looked terrified of Liverpool, Liverpool got the two goals, and, um... Yeah, they looked terrified, and in the second half, they took over, got a goal, and bit like the Newcastle game, just couldn't go and get that second one, cos they're lacking that little bit of firepower. Yeah, don't know if they'll do anything in the transfer market in January, it's hard, cos they have got good players in those four positions, haven't they? We're looking at that. Newcastle, strong again, very strong again. Big win for them. Big Ralph's first job. Ralph, he's gone, 4-1 win. Ralph, it was mad this game, when you look at the stats, and Newcastle had five or six attempts of goal, and Southampton had... But why do you need more if you score four? No, no, it's very economic. But Newcastle, what they're doing very well is, right now, they're defending well, and when they get the opportunity to take in the chance. They've got a really good balance about them, they've got a really good balance, and they are efficient, and that kind of efficiency can get you to the outsides, the seventh place maybe, and do well in the cup competitions. And there's a real confidence there. So about the well cup coming at the wrong time, it's coming at the wrong time for them probably. They're in common, men, so Marty. So... Yeah, yeah, so you look at it and think, ooh, this may have come at the wrong time for them, but they're on 27 points. Brilliant. In terms of hitting your first marker, which is, you know, making sure you're staying in the Premier League, they're going to get that no problem. Oh, of course. And then you go on from there. I wonder if, where they are, and how strong they are at the moment in the position, I wonder if that'll dictate what they're doing in January. Will he gamble a little bit and go, tell you what, we could actually get into it. I don't believe champions... Coming down to FFP, doesn't it? FFP, I think, will be important, of course. He's got Chelsea this weekend, though, at home, that is a marker. That's a big marker for them, for both of those clubs, actually, and that's going to really tell us where they are. But Newcastle, just on buying plays, FFP will be the issue, because anyone they go for in January will be £10 million more than it will be in the summer. And with that ass-waith there, he might be thinking, let's walk before we can run. The better off, just don't do whatever that's the general rule. That is the general rule. The general rule. Other games, obviously, from the weekend. Bournemouth, beating 4-3 at Leeds. 3-1-0. And actually, in the first half, he probably should have been more 4-0 up. I spoke to, again, at the thing the other day, I spoke to a Leeds fan, and he was just like, I've just not happened yet, he must. And he was like, he said, don't get me wrong, because we come back brilliantly. I think the crowd pulled them through the game. Leeds are good at getting momentum, and Alan Road, when they get momentum, but like, nearly sometimes, when you get that momentum at that places like Alan Road, they're going to have a contain again. I think that's what happened, but he said, really, he said, boom, it should have been 4-5 in the last half time. We would have been out of sight. We had no chance of recovering from that, so that was interesting. But he has got two big wins, and he doesn't need to get you much on the run. One on Amphil. I've said that a number of times, I watched the academy on Prague, about Leeds Academy, in Christchennie House, and Sam Goddall, who also scored at the weekends, and it's dead interesting. It's really good, actually, it's really good. Give it a watch if you've got Prague. The academy about Leeds, the young players, dead interesting, I love all of that kind of stuff. But it's really good to see those two lad, the last season of getting the opportunity. It's great to see young players. That is really good. When you've seen players, you've come through the ranks, you can really get behind them. They've got Tottenham away this weekend, Leeds, so that's going to be a big game for both of those as well, because Leeds, they've had a couple of really good wins, so obviously they went to Amphil, people didn't even win there, and they did get a win, went home, 3-1 behind. So the fear goff factor, will be massive then, confidence. Tottenham need a win. They got beat last weekend, but they did win the week before, and they are in, it's still 4-4, but I know they do need a win. What I mean is, it's not, you know, it's not ended. They went out the Carabao Cup obviously, so they have got their issues. I think actually the break comes at the right time for space. So that will be a decent game with the weekend. Forest and Brentford, 2-2. The system at Forest, just knock on the all points on our depot. I think they'll be disappointed. They'll be disappointed because they think the PGML have come back and said that they should have had a penalty. They've looked at it again, and they should have been in a penalty. They got it wrong. It's a bit late now, isn't it? We've had this obviously, but this is something that needs to be sorted out automatically. You're all right though, you should have had a penalty now. Do you want an apology? This has got to stop, hasn't it? It's supposed to be the best league in the world, and it's not. But it is the best league in the world. Hang on, I'll tell you what, go watch some other leagues, it is still the best league in the world. It's all above levels, isn't it? I don't think anybody else is actually as good for teachers crap. I think you're right. Poor officials were continually seeing it. Continually seeing it. You've got to get it right. It's absolutely bad. I'm watching the rechsham document. Is that really a name drop? You're watching something on telly? You're sitting there watching it with Ryan Reynolds. That would be a... He's sitting in his full dead pool on foot, and you're past the popcorn. I want to look at his face. That's not in his contact. I love him. Even in that you're saying some decisions, there's the one, you'll remember it, this is massively off topic, I apologise. There's the one where mulling gets elbows that lad in the face, and the referee just sends off a random player. He's not even the same player. He's not even by the incident. And he goes over to the fella, he said, the lad says, he said to me, do you jump with your arms? Asked him a question, and sent off. And mulling's like, because he's a scouser if anyone. It should have been me. I'm the one who elbowed him. Ryan, have you heard this line? But it's absolutely crazy in it. Ryan Reynolds has actually had the game. And you've got fillparks in this area. She's going, there's nothing wrong in it. And when you say it again, there's a full elbow in it. But what I mean is, some of the referees, and that's at that level, there's probably no waste in the ones you were referring to in Premier League football. I don't know. Scott Minter, all the gooders in last week, wasn't great, was he? No, it's not good. They shouldn't be any apologies, let's be honest. But with the AR, should nothing in forest really be not getting the penalty? No, it's the AR, innit? We talked about the brain before, and you can look and go, it's that thing again, of like, if I initiate contact, we might clash and I might go down, but is it actually a swap? Seen too over the weekend there, Cancelo gets sent off. Cancelo gets sent off does exactly the same thing to a Tottenham player, and it's just seen as a shoulder to shoulder. And it's like, I don't get me wrong, I didn't think Cancelo should have been sent off. It's a penalty, but you shouldn't be sending off. That's the problem with football right now, is that those two decisions, two different games, and then you'll get people going, and then there's one in the forest, you know, forest, and the goal he brings the player down and he's not sent off, why? Did he make an attempt for the ball or did he make it look like he was making an attempt for the ball? So he knew he wouldn't get sent off, so double jeopardy. It's all these different rules, it's just my ars, that's all I'm going to say. OK. Brighton had a great win at Wolch this weekend, he followed the win, obviously the win against Chelsea. He hadn't won that deal, he was back to back. The goals, and then he's gone on one up Wolves as well. Wolves obviously had the play sent off as well for the scene, for the double jeopardy, and do that and all that. I mean it wasn't double jeopardy because it wasn't a penalty, but last man and all that. And obviously they've won it later on for the 3-2 wins, Wolves have gotten a new manager at least, it's the goal, I know they had the end of the tube at the weekend, but they have stuck up for goals as well, but for Brighton, who couldn't score a lot, seven in the last two games, so maybe it's a click for him and it's Sashu Olo team did score a lot of goals, with the formation and that he played, so interesting win there. What are the fixes this weekend? Well let me just go, you missed that one, the big one wasn't it? Big win for Palace, big win for Palace, that 6 points since we beat them. So you know, that's a goal in West Ham, I mean a lot of beating a bit of kicks in my mwys. Mwys under pressure. They got knocked out in the Carribean Cup as well didn't they, so on penalties. So yeah, so good win for Palace in the top half now. So that's an extra win for them. The goal light in the end of the time is obviously hugely talented. So you've got City Brentford, Bournemouth Everton, Liverpool's Southampton, Forest Palace, Tottenham Leeds, West Ham Leicester, Newcastle Chelsea, which is the R5 game, that'll be the size to it. Wolves vs Arsenal, quarter eight. And then on Sunday Brighton Villa, Fulham Manchester United, Fulham United will be a good game. It will be a good game, it's a tough place to go obviously. United, obviously in the Carribean Cup this week, at the good win over Villa for Tottenham. But it'll be a tough game now for them. Go on to go on there, that's obviously the last game for the Premier League. It's for the breaks isn't it. And nice, I mean, there's the celebration for the break. For the break. So yeah, but obviously we'll be here doing well cup stuff. So, just join for that. Why wouldn't you? The Leeds table, not just going to last year on, the quickly, I'm not even going to go for it. Arsenal's still top. Arsenal's top, there you go. And that's it, and the other end, Forest the bottom. Don't look at the bottom. I don't want to do that. Right, we're going. Check out the playlist over on 888 Sports YouTube channel. You know, tell them what you think about James Madison and Tarkowski not being in the World Cup squad. There you go, see you later. Bye.