 Right, we're continuing to press on to the top of the hour with football. Round 15 of the English Premier League continued with six matches on Wednesday, featuring defending champions Manchester City losing to Aston Villa 1-0. The last-cap city's points tally at 30, six behind leaders Arsenal who are two points above Liverpool. Fourth place Aston Villa, Tottenham and Manchester United occupy the other European spots. The focus has been on Manchester City and their chances of completing a beaver trick of English Premier League titles with pundits being doubtful. They can accomplish the feat after dropping points to Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham in their last three fixtures. Well, former Liverpool captain Jamie Carragog has been critical of the team which urged the citizens boss to respond. Honestly, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think it's about the complacency. Honestly, I know that players, I know how we run, I know how we behave, it was extraordinary. So I had the feeling we would maintain that level, we would win the Premier League. We would win it again. So he knows how difficult it is, otherwise you got to never have won for Premier League in the best period of my reality. He didn't do it. You know? And maybe he knows the complexity, but then I see my team, how is the back course, how we fight, how he press, how he continue the end, how he upset they are after consider goals or how we react and everything. I don't have that feeling. But maybe, maybe, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they see everything that I'm not able to do to see. Well Carragog, he took to X to respond. I think I'd probably won one if Liverpool were owned by a nation state and pushed the rules so far that the Premier League charged us 115 times. I was actually praising Pep's team after the game on Sunday, but Carragog there laughing. So Ricardo, you get the first shot at this. Pep, of course, to me, responding to what was asked to him. And to me, Pep never really responds like that in that type of manner. He always says, you know, it's still early in the season. Like, it's an answer that even I can go to press conference and respond for him. He always says, it's too early in the season. We have a lot of work to do. All teams are capable opponents and, you know, let's just take it one game at a time. But this, this time, he says, my feeling today is we're going to win the Premier League. Should we be worried? Me, as in, we, me, Mariah, Ram-Hara. Oh, as a Manchester City fan is, is what you're saying. Yeah. Well, the truth is, when you've won the Premier League three times in a row, then you are allowed to have the level of confidence that Pep Guardiola has at the moment, especially when you have pulled back deficits in the past. Don't forget last season when they're reeled in Arsenal down the stretch and they have a knack of doing that. So the confidence that Pep Guardiola is showing is because he knows the quality that he has in the squad and, yes, as you pointed out, they have now dropped points in their last four games with the defeat to Aston Villa today. But I don't think anyone, despite the fact that Manchester City have now slipped a fourth in the Premier League table, would bet against them still going on to win this league. They're only six points off the top at the moment with Arsenal leading the way and that is not an insurmountable lead for Manchester City. It's not an insurmountable lead for Pep Guardiola. And so from that standpoint, you can't fault Pep Guardiola for showing the level of confidence he is showing now. Having said all of that, Mariah, it was a massive day in the English Premier League with Leon Bailey scoring the winner for Aston Villa in the 1-0 victory against Manchester City, a fourth consecutive game, City dropping points. But Leon Bailey and the raging debate in Jamaica... Why doesn't he score for Jamaica? Yeah, talking about Leon Bailey's performances in the national colours as opposed to his performances for Aston Villa. He's now scored in back-to-back games for Villa and by all accounts, his performance today against Manchester United was of the highest quality and so he is showing that he is a world-class player and he is showing that at the Premier League level. I did say when we spoke about him and his performance for Jamaica that I personally think that he is playing significantly better for Jamaica than he was a year ago or even six or seven months ago. The issue though is that in the recent matches in the Nations League he was not scoring and ultimately that is what I think everyone is seeing. They're not seeing the gameplay and how involved he is but they are seeing the fact that he has missed some opportunities that you would expect a player of his quality to take. But he is improving, he is getting better and at least for Aston Villa he is putting away his chances in fact. He is making some of those chances and that can only do well. One of the issues for me Mariah with fans of Caribbean sports and it probably happens elsewhere but I want to speak specifically to the Caribbean here is that we often can't see beyond what happens today. So a player misses a few chances. Yeah a player misses a few chances today and you go oh he's the worst player in life. He shouldn't start, he shouldn't do this. Tomorrow he scores? Tomorrow he scores and that changes and nobody really thinks about or not often enough I think do fans think about the trajectory that a player is on trying to analyse the issues why this might be happening as opposed to that and what needs to be corrected and whether the player is on the right path to correct those and make the adjustments. But yeah I think Leanne Bailey is improving in national colours and for Aston Villa he's flying at the moment. Yeah really good for them and you know if Aston Villa continues they might even play Champions League football but Ricardo back to the question can Manchester City make it four? You think yeah? Oh I answered that already. Pep Guardiola thinks so so who am I to think that they can't and as I said they're only six points behind yeah that's not insurmountable. And last season they were eight points behind Arsenal and then they went on to beat to win the EPL by five points. Yeah so yeah there you go great win today by the way from Manchester United beating Chelsea by two goals to one scott metonymy yes with a double cold Palmer scoring for Chelsea but a massive victory for Manchester United keeping them in the top six taking them to 27 points tied with Tottenham who have a game in hand so looking up for the Red Devils. Yeah happy for that win from Manchester United today. Are you? Yeah yeah yeah I'm not bad mine at all. If you say so. What one of the things though Ricardo when Manchester United is concerned is like you know today they produce the result they look as if they're looking up and then another game you'd look at the team and it appears as if it's a different team and for me that I've seen that too a lot too often this season and it's a bit worrying. Well in my opinion the Manchester United result is dependent on the quality of the opposition. Chelsea has been poor this season. Chelsea is in 10th on 19 points Manchester United have been better than Chelsea this season so in a matchup between Maneu and Chelsea I expect Manchester United to come out on top and by the way Bruno Fernandez missed a penalty in the first half that would have sent Manchester United one nil up but the better the opposition gets is the more Manchester United is likely the struggle because at this stage Manchester United is not a top three team in the English Premier League and as they have shown in Europe as well there are many deficiencies that with a certain level of quality can be exploited and has been exploited. I mean one of the things you realize this season once United comes up against a half decent attack they tend to concede goals even if they score a few they concede many as well and we've seen that on a number of occasions in in the Champions League but as far as I'm concerned beating Chelsea was very much expected and it would have been shocking if they had lost to Chelsea to be honest. Yeah what's very impressive as well is Liverpool their second on the EPL table they had a 2 nil win today Ricardo against Sheffield United Virgil van Dijk Virgil van Dijk getting that first goal and then they had the second goal coming from Dominique Sopo-Sazlai. Yeah good win for Liverpool as well very good win for Liverpool as well and as you rightly pointed out they're getting things together Trent Alexander-Arnold is becoming more involved on the attacking front again was involved today I think assisted the first goal coming off the weekend where he scored and that can only be good for Liverpool when they're getting contributions goal scoring contributions from right around the pitch and you know one of the things that I give Liverpool credit for and they've they've had their bad season but I believe that you could always see the pieces to the Liverpool possibly and put together. Yeah at any time and online so remember at the start of the season when I said that Manchester United would finish fourth the only reason I said that is because Manchester United is my team I can't truly say that I was convinced that based on the shopping that we did in the summer I felt that United would be a top four team Liverpool on the other hand based on the pieces that they put together and I figured that with the likes of Trent once they got some level of rest because it's been seasoned up on season going going going and I think they needed some quality rest and I think we're just seeing the results of that they have a really good team and I think they're going to challenge for this title in fact I wouldn't be surprised if come the back end of the season Liverpool are the ones challenging Manchester City for the crown for the crown. All right Ricardo well let's leave that EPL discussion right there we'll take a break and when we come back we have a lot of time for interactive.