 We're back with the breakfast in Plus TV Africa. It's a beautiful Friday and as always we talk about spots with a lot of emphasis on football. This morning we have an in-house guest. We'll be looking at the EPL, especially the weekend fixtures, but just before then it's not possible to ignore the fact that you know the spotting world, especially football, has lost a legend. We're talking about Pele. This morning I have with me in the studio an in-house analyst or football journalist or sports journalist, I beg your pardon. Mouda Shiro joins me in the studio. Mouda, it's good to have you on set this morning. Yeah, it's good to be here. All right. So how do you feel the world yesterday? I looked at 1.7 million tweets and still counting them. That's the time I looked at everyone tweeting about Pele. It's a big loss for the spots world. It is a big loss indeed. Pele, the Brazilian, is what Muhammad Ali is to boxing. He is what Michael Jackson is to hip-hop world. And you know like Nigeria, he is what Fela is to the Afro beat and all that. So if there's anybody that has become the first global icon in football, it's Pele, the man that has done so well and he's the only man that has won the World Cup twice and nobody has won the World Cup as a player three times. And we remember in 1958 when he came in as just a 17-year-old boy against Wills and then he brought the world together by doing so much in the Qatar final and the semi-finals and the final against Sweden. Since then he has been living a perfect life and this is a life that has been without scandal. You know there's some footballers that know how good they are. Their life still involves scandals and involve but in on the field and out the field we see Pele living the perfect and gentleman. And we can remember when he came to our beloved country in Nigeria and that was doing the civil war to ensure there was peace in the country. So it's beyond a footballer. He's all things good when it comes to humanity. He has used his football to support, to eradicate poverty for his country and even for his own time where he comes from. So this is not just a footballer because he plays football. This is a footballer that lived his life beyond the green grass of football. So the world will continue money in, the world will continue playing homage. We've seen, there's a time he visited America and the president there at the Reagan actually asked to tell him that he asked to introduce himself even as a president of USA but Pele needs no introduction to the world. It's so popular and I think the world will continue more in. And when he had the colon cancer two years ago, he was visiting the hospital in and out. But this year and some few weeks ago we're told that the cancer progressed and this high time perhaps that he might not be able to. So his daughter actually tweeted and showed the world his last video on a sick bed. So this is a legend who will continue money and face the rest of his life. Muda, let's quickly bring in Benga this morning. Boiga is also a spot analyst. He joins us from the FCT. Benga, good to have you join us this morning. Thank you very much for having me. I'd like to show your thoughts on the departure of a football legend that the world is celebrating and talking about up until this moment. Do you think that this would have any impact on, you know, the Brazilian team? Let's not forget that, you know, he's from Brazil and of course he's played not necessarily but he's played for the Brazilian team. I think it would be fine. I think it would be fine. If anything, the Brazilian team would see this as motivation to produce yet another legend. They've never stopped with this legend. Okay, so let me get back to what you would have here. Yes, we can hear you go ahead with your thoughts. There seem to be some sort of background noise from your parts but if you're able to control that it would be good for us. Okay, can I hear you clearly? I can hear you clearly but we seem to be having some background distortion from your end. Okay, is it better now? Yes, it's better. Go ahead with your thoughts. All right, so they would always produce legends. They would always produce the greatest of all time. As a matter of fact, Pele was the initiator of the 10th greatest of all time. Before the likes of Maradena's coming in the 80s and Messi have now done in the 20s, Tennis started it all. He's won three workouts, he scored in two finalists, he scored in all the workouts he's played in. He's a legend of the zone and if there's any way to affect the Brazilian national team, I think it's going to be a motivation. All right then, Moudre, what do you think? Do you think that his debts would have any impact? I mean, in a negative or positive way, do you think? Because I'm sure that for every other time that the Brazil has to go especially the World Cup for 2022 like with us, I'm sure he probably would have had one or two contributions to make. Yeah, I think it has an impact on the country because even at the World Cup, just concluded the World Cup in Qatar, doing one of the games we are, when he was admitted into the suite, there was a flag, a tribute paid to him that should get well soon. Unfortunately, we've lost him yesterday. What I think he's going to have an impact on him is that Brazil and doesn't like some other countries don't have too many motivation or so many legend to lead our hands on. For Brazil, there have never been anybody in the same level with Pelé and I think it's taken a lot of things. There's nobody to really point to that's not even Ronaldo de Lima, not even Romário, not even Neymar. Nobody has lived up to that level of legendary status like Pelé. So I think they need to start looking forward to how they're going to make his exit from it a very positive one. They're going to celebrate him, they'll be tributed or like Argentine or like other countries that you can have many legend to name when it comes to someone to look up to football legend. But Brazil, it has always been Pelé and he's a national treasure because there was a law that prevented him from playing outside the country. He has been playing even when offers came to play for other country. The country made him a national treasure. That means that he will not be able to play for another country. He's a treasure that means Brazil is life and it sometimes belongs to the Brazilian government and he is bigger than life and I'm sure this is going to be bigger than any other sporting legend has left this country because he's not just football we are talking about now. He's not just Pelé as a footballer. We're not just talking football and Pelé as somebody has won this best player, the greatest player of the century was given to him in the year 2000 by FIFA. We are talking about somebody that is life has really tried to position the world in a better place. We've seen him in Nigeria. We've seen many people talk about him. He's more popular than any other person. So I think his impact will be felt. It will be felt and we just had some prayers of course with the family and of course with Brazil and the entire football federation. It's a worldwide thing right there. But let's move away from Pelé now. Let's quickly take a look at the EPL. The EPL is back and the remote controls have moved. Times hands have changed in the houses now. So Benga, are you still with us? Yes, I am. I'm here. Okay, looking at the fixed short weekend fixtures to be very precise. There will be, you know, there's a game from today. Apparently, there will be a game West Ham and Breitford will be playing Liverpool and Leicester City. You would have Wolves playing Man United. That will be tomorrow. Man City, Everton will be playing tomorrow. And Fulham will be playing Southampton. And of course, Crystal Palace will be playing Botmarts as well as Newcastle Leeds. And Astna will be playing Brighton and Tottenham will be playing Aston Villa. And on Sunday, that's on Sunday, the first of January, you also have Nottingham or North Forest playing Chelsea. I'd like to ask you which of these teams should we be looking at at the time where we know that there's been a bit of some transfer or buying at the time? Which particular weekend game would stand out for you and should we look out for? So that's one beautiful thing about the English Premier League. The struggle to find one match that will take the whole conversation. We have Manchester City trying to catch up with Astna, something we really hear this week here. We have Astna at the hem of a case, facing a Brighton side that has endured the transmission from the importer to Roberto Rebedi. We have a lot of things to look out for. Personally, I would look now for that Astna Brighton side. A lot of people have asked questions of the runners, how far will they go, how many strong teams have been faced, the way we made the top of the league when 30-30 started. And the answer to all those questions was just one game so far, beating things that you would expect them to beat in previous campaigns. And for the first time in a long while, Astna is going into two and another year at the top of the league. So I'm looking for that Astna Brighton game. I'm looking for the great four West Ham games today. We know that the players are struggling with West Ham and they are in number three positions. Thomas Frank has been trying to rejuvenate the side. We talked about transfers. I would also be looking towards Chelsea, who have been linked with a lot of young stars. Starting from the summer, going into the winter, young stars coming through. So you could talk Chelsea as the young shall develop club. So we're looking forward to Chelsea and seeing how they can revive their season. Their eight positions, that is all about the table. If you look at the table, the renovation zone, the top four, top half of the table, the bottom half of the table. It's unfamiliar territory for a lot of teams and the IPL is wonderful. We look forward to it. All right, Modashiru, we're costing the conversation down. Which of the teams would you be looking at? Yeah, obviously from an analyst's point of view, that four teams won't always look forward to in an IPL game. Next season, this season, tomorrow, next tomorrow, is the top four and the bottom four. The top four are trying to maintain their position to ensure that they either have the possibility of winning the league or holding on to the qualifier for the Champions League or the Europa. So we are the teams in the top four. We have Arsenal, we have Newcastle and I think Manchester City, the top players. So now Newcastle is not about just Arsenal alone because it's surprising to a lot of people that Arsenal are on top of the locked table and statistics and history have supported that anybody that still stays on top of the locked table after Christmas has almost more than 50% chances of qualifying, of winning the league. But it's also surprising team also, not just Arsenal alone, is Newcastle. Newcastle has been able to hold on to themself. But in a few seconds, because we're out of time, we're looking at the fixture for the weekend. It's quite exciting, the line-up. Arsenal game, we look forward to, whether Arsenal, surprising to a lot of people, Arsenal lost one of the last games after the World Cup. The opponent scored first before this reply with three goals. We have Wenger in that game looking at the game. So we look forward to the Arsenal game, looking forward to the Newcastle games and also those on the bottom log of the table. How come nobody is talking about the Liverpool game that will be played with Bredford? Of course, they started off with a three-point clean and looking at also the buying and transfer season, it's been great, the golden boy of Manchester United has even got it. From that look, from that fixture, would I expect that it's a team, it's a win for Liverpool and Liverpool also, it beats outside, we're expecting them also to climb up. But critically, most times, it's always those on the top four and bottom four. What a sure, let's do this some other time, hopefully in 2023. Wenger, we have to go now. 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