 Welcome to the Premier League Show, we are back and we are talking about the race for survival because obviously it was FA Cup weekend wasn't it so a lot of the teams at the top sitting in Liverpool Manchester City didn't play Arsenal space did, we'll talk about them in a bit but there was a couple of games that affected the other end of the table. Everton Newcastle was the first one, Everton won the game 1-0, huge win for Everton. Newcastle has been on a really good run, two defeats on the run for then, two narrow defeats away from home but I think we decided last week that they'll be fine, they've got a point in the bag. Big win for Everton and yet too, to get that victory gives them a good opportunity to get out of the games and although it's still going to be, it's still too close to call I think for Everton without, you know, take our blutes into glasses off it's going to be, if Everton survive it'll be the skin of the teeth I think. And all about that survival, the lad son, the last fan standing have been a discussion, like whose time should be up in the Premier League so let's listen to a little bit of that one. It's a good idea, they've invested a lot of money this time finally but it feels like it's coming way too late and I just want to see a new team come up playing a new style of football. You know, you're looking at champion clip clubs working out, full of what we're doing right now, be nice to see them back playing nice football, making the league entertaining. I just feel that finally, you know, I'm just a bit tired, it's the same old system, same old tactics. So we're all supporting clubs that typically finish in the top six and Burnley tend to be a fawn in all of our sides. Are we just wanting them out because they're difficult to play against because you know how Burnley play and we'd rather a team like Fulham come up who are going to be open and easily beaten? Yeah, you've got to be tactical in this league, you know what I mean? Burnley have been a very difficult team, one of the most random teams so they're just literally, you don't even know what Burnley will play against but they've got to in them to just pull us ups out from nowhere. But like I'm saying, teams that want to play open football, I'm more happy with that. Burnley is the team they want out. I think Flav makes a really good point there though. It's very Burnley because Burnley is generally just horrible. He's the difficult to play against Andy and that's why I think a lot of people wouldn't be too bothered to see that. Not any slant on Burnley, a slayer on Burnley but just because it's like a compliment that's just so difficult at times to play against Andy. Yeah, no-one fancies playing Burnley even though they only won a couple of games or whatever three games this season, no-one fancies playing them. You always expect a difficult game. I think also there's a lot of other factors that probably play into that which you don't sort of consciously think about. The stadium is an old stadium, it seems like a very old fashioned ground, seems like a very old fashioned place. There's been a couple of other things in the last couple of years which have reared the heads, which to me wouldn't be bothered if they went out of the Premier League. So I think a lot of people would say Burnley, but I also think a lot of people would probably say Evan as well. I think a lot of people would say Evan, I think a lot of people would go like the idea of a big club going on to Premier League and the drama that creates. And also we have become, certainly if you're young, we are a club that does nothing. We are a club that offers very little, don't win any trophies, have threatened European places a few times. Normally don't go down. Yeah, we don't go down. There's always drama, there's always flux and I don't think people like our fans because we do sell out in droves and we do go places. I'm very opinionated. I think people don't like coming to go to St Park either and there's a stainless about Evan as a football club, which we know all about. And I think a lot of people would be happy to see the back of us as well. So I do think it would be Burnley and I do think it would be Evan would be the two. I think a lot of people would say. The rest are all wafford of being up and down, so no one's going to be too bad about them. They like to lead, they've only just come back. So I think, yeah, I'd say. I think a lot of people say Newcastle. Yeah, I think they probably would, but then now they've got the money. Yeah, people would, but people I think like the idea of Newcastle going down because because they've got the money because it's like we have let off at you for another year. And that's also because a lot of people I think are worried about Newcastle as well. Long term worried that they're going to encroach on their positions, you know, whether not to like the top two, but you know, you can European places and pushing for that with the money and stuff. So buying players that maybe other teams would normally be in the home for. And they will, let's be honest, they will. They've got money, they'll offer great wages. You know, so. It has to be a gradual thing. This idea that they can turn it around quickly can't be done. No, no, but I do think they'll buy a lot of players though. I do think they'll spend a lot of money. They'll only be able to if they can sell out the players though. I think they'll have them. I think they'll have them. I don't think they'll be asked. They've got 90 million to play with. I think they'll spend 150 million without a shadow of a doubt. So they'll beat you. They'll do it. No problem. No problem at all. They'll spend 150 million this summer without even worrying about it. And then they'll worry about it later. Because that's what the promise is to start close with loads of money. Can I fork out noise? We've had loads of money. It didn't help us. But that's not the point. We bought terrible players. I'm saying Newcastle will spend the money and they will worry about the stuff. Probably buy terrible players. You can't say they're going to buy good players. No, I think they will buy good players. They have them so far. I think they are. I don't think they'll buy players that shoot where they are. Then they'll buy better players. I think Newcastle will be a top 18. Actually no problem at all. And then they'll just keep building and keep building. And they'll find dodgy sponsors and all the rest of it. And as I said, clubs with a lot of money have a lot of money to spend on lwys. PSG and Manchester City have proved that. And that's the kind of money we're talking about. So I think that's the reason why a lot of people would have liked to have seen them down. But barely are naturally a club that I think a lot of people just feel like I'm one that. They really want to stick around. I can care. I don't want them to stick around. Because it means we might have had. No, it's difficult to argue with that. I think some people's choice, definitely. Newcastle, like I've said, maybe leads because they're a big club with good fans. And barely will probably be won because of the awkwardness of them and they're horrible to play against in a righteous way. So, yeah. But on to, obviously, we've just touched on that. Everton beat Newcastle in that game and then on Friday night, there was a home banker, if ever there was a home banker. Wolves in great form, playing late United and they were just won last minute against Norwich the week before but letting goals in. And Wolves turn it up and absolutely cruising. Leeds looking like they're going to lose the game and then. For me, an absolutely ridiculous decision to send Rael Jimenez off. Absolutely crazy. I don't nearly effald him, if anything. But it was a common together. That was not a book for either of them now. For some how, with VAR, they've managed to convince themselves that Jimenez needed to go off. I've seen things of pure conspiracy theories like you don't want these to go down and all that. So they changed the decision but it's not that. It's just the incompetence of referees in VAR. Play to Leeds, the full advantage of that and Wolves collapsed in a way you wouldn't have expected them to collapse. Now, they're the kind of decisions in the Premier League where the worst ones then. That's not a yellow card, that's just a common together. Anyone who's ever played football, if two people go for a ball and one just gets there slightly earlier. It's a foul at most, it's not a yellow card. How can it be a yellow card when it's just a collision? He doesn't kick them. It's a disgrace, that's what's wrong with football in this country is that the referee can't recognise that. And then you see them afterwards and he's given a role that puffing his chest out and it's like, you're a prick mate. You're a prick and you don't understand football. And that's why the referees need to just be bombed out in this country all in because they're shocked. What have you made of obviously the news yesterday that Mike Deans becoming the VARF at the end of the season? He's the fella that the season finishes. He's becoming the VARF. He's also apparently going in the jungle while the Premier League's on. But you know what, right? VARF's number one. But he's not going to ref any more. No, no, it's the same as the other fella. The other fella's not a ref, is he anymore? And he's just a VARF. Personally, what I think should happen is, we've said this before, all VARFs should be, for me, at plays. Do what's signed up. But I also think in the middle all VARFs shouldn't be refs. They shouldn't ever come on the pitch. They shouldn't be any crossover. You shouldn't have this thing with on a Thursday night. You have a, we had Alan sent off and then on a Sunday he's ref, the VARFs refereeing your game. That's a disgrace to me. It should never happen. I think you should have VARFs who concentrate on that and referees who concentrate on what they're doing and they should never ever mix. And we should get, we shouldn't have this, we shouldn't have this mix art because it's, to be honest, it's the standards are just so poor. So poor in the Premier League. It's the biggest league in the world with the Welsh referees. And it's, it's, when you see, this isn't like that. And when you see obviously the handball against those for city and there's been loads more recently loads all during the season. You just look at the situation, you just think this is beyond broken now. What do you think about? You know when they do the VAR? Do you think that VAR literally should just, the only communication? The VAR should be with the referees going have a lookery. I think you should have a lookery and then just to back yourself up. And I don't think they should communicate again after that. I don't think there should be any, so there shouldn't be a conversation when you're looking at the screen. There should be a conversation but I think the conversation should be, should be almost telegraph responses and telegraph questions. So I was watching the rugby union over the weekend, the Six Nations and everything they say is all, like, scripted in terms of what gets said. It doesn't go away from the parameters of like, can you, can you tell me what this is? Can you tell me what that is? Do you feel? There's no like conversation. It is purely scripted, everything they say. And that's the other side of it. We should be hearing what they're saying. It should be fully transparent. It's just to be on the joke. VAR is there to help and it should help. And it doesn't. I know you get this apology if you get it wrong. Why aren't this getting stood down? Why isn't something happening? Why is this allowed to continue to happen? It's affecting the game. It's because a lot of people are asking questions now. I'm saying why is this allowed to go on? You see, I believe that if I was a referee and you're on the VAR, you should just, and I give a decision or I don't give a decision, you should say to me, if it's like, say, let's take the Rotary thing for argument's sake, right? There's a handball, go and look at it. Like, oh, just go and look at the screen to back yourself up. So I go over to the screen, then I should just look at the pictures myself to go, is that and then you just play me the pictures. I don't think, because what I think you're getting is, you're getting the VAR fella trying to change the referee's mind. Whereas if I, like the Alan's sending off, right? You can argue, listen, I'm not saying it was the way sending off ever, but the referee was two yards away from the decision and gave a yellow card, right? Which should have been sufficient. The conversation should be was, did you have a good view of that? And if the referee goes, yeah, then I'll give him a yellow. They should be the end of it, right? If the referee goes, no, why? And they go, well, just go and have a look at it and just see if you're happy with the decision. And then he goes over to the screen. He doesn't need the VAR fella going, it's both feet are off the ground there. He's out of control. You've made the wrong decision. They made the referee go over and just look and go, right, play me the pictures. And they play it and if the ref goes, oh, yeah, I've made the wrong decision there. Well, VAR should be for things you don't see. Not the things you really do see. That's the thing about it. It's like the handball against us. The ref couldn't see that. So the guy should have said to him, go and look at that on the monitor because from where I'm sitting, I can see the other angle and it looks like it might strike his hand, but go and check because you couldn't see that. But you're right, you see that. It's supposed to be an obvious error. He gave me yellow card, he's five yards away. He's right on top of it in real time. In real time. So it's the way the user is. It's not only ever and obviously other teams have been getting hammered with their enemies. It's utter nonsense. So far, I started against Liverpool in the FA Cup the other day. Goal that was given that would have been ruled out the other week. Le Cahy got one ruled out in the Cup final. And then a penalty that lots of teams have been given because it was against Liverpool he didn't give it. And it is what it is. I'm just using for it. Liverpool have added in games, city. We've all had it. We've all been on the wrong end of it. For this particular one, it's just... That's a mazeway where the VAR should say to the F. Do you want to go and look at it from another angle? Because you might think he caught him, but I don't think... It's just a comment. Not every comment together. There's a book in it. It changed the game. It went on and won the game. It's a huge three points for them. Huge three points to get them. Well away now. The confidence will be flowing. Six points in a week. And really it's a referee decision that can change the complete momentum of the game. Can't send everything down or can't send anything down or can't send what for that. And it's nonsense? It's just poor, poor refereeing. The standard refereeing is terrible, but Leeds... I get me if everything has to go down or whoever had to be getting the lawyers onto this. From that perspective because it's a huge thing. It costs your club so much money. You go after the referee or the Premier League because these mistakes and the arm mistakes could be interpreted as... ..people deliberately trying to change these sorts of games. Cos it's that bad. What's the other alternative to that? When you see decisions for other clubs, even for other clubs, what's it like for a Wolves fan? Wolves might get in the Champions League or into Europe now because of that. There's only two things, isn't it? Franck Llympard said that the other week it's one or the other. They're either so bad and incompetent or there's something else going on. So if you want to discard something else going on, then they're so bad and incompetent. Well, why are they so bad and incompetent then? And why are they still getting to referee games? That's the top bottom for me. There's no punishment. No one ever comes out and gets punched for it. It's so damn with no wages. It's crazy. For a game that, for the money that's in the Premier League and the money that, you know, for the spectacle of it all. It just makes the Premier League look like it's gone. It's can't be right. It's absolutely crazy. But Leeds went on on money. Leeds won it brilliantly. They went after the man fair play. They didn't settle for the points or whatever. They went on and they got the win in the end. It's a big win for them. The other team who's kind of in there as well, Brentford, they've got some points in the bank ball. Another defeat for them at Leicester. Leicester, Leicester, were looking like they might be tagged into the other way. But they got some positive results and this was another one for them. It got two-one with Eldon in the end, didn't it? Eldon, Brentford score. Some two-go-goals actually by Leicester and then Brentford score the cracher as well. And Schmeichel made a couple of big saves as well. So Brentford on out of it by any stretch. They got points in the bank, which is what you always want. But there's teams like Everton. They've got three games in the hand-on and if they win, then they're above them. So even though they've got the points in hand, you'd won them. But yeah, you'd rather have them. I think they need another five or six points Brentford from their remaining games. Well, good win for Leicester. And then the other games were at the other end of the table. Top four, yeah. Obviously looking at the top four. A couple of big games. Obviously Aston Villa have been doing well of late. Arsenal went to them and big, big win for Arsenal this 1-0 win. Sacher got the goal, good goal. But I thought what was interesting after this game was through some criticism of Arsenal and they're celebrating. And I heard this from Wolves when Arsenal beat Wolves recently as well away. And I'm just like, what's going on here? We were at the game on Thursday. And you win a game like that and the emotions just take over and you can't control yourself. And you know, it's just a game of 40, I understand. It's just three points, but that's what football is all about. It's about the journey. It's about the moment. It's about when you win a game. Who's criticising Arsenal? The likes of Bon Le Horde and people like that and a few others. Really? They've gone over the top and all that. It's like, well, I'm gone. If you won a game of football, tough away from home, come off the back of that Liverpool game. And they've gone to Ville being in decent form. And they've got the win. And it's a huge win with Manchester United and Spades around them, a West Ham around them. They've got it and they're up into the top four. They're the games that get you top four. They're the games that get you where you need to be. Going to Ville and winning 1-0. If I was a Ville fan, I'd take that as a compliment that they've celebrated like that. Ac Bon Le Horde's a beat, though, is it? No, he's a beat. But I've seen it recently. It seems to have become a thing of criticising fans for celebrating. You're not allowed to celebrate any kind of football. Social media foul outrage. No, it is, but it's just pathetic. That's what it is. When older people fall into the trap of, well, they beat your team mates, let them celebrate. Ville are celebrated loud when they came to Gotherson. And Gerard was like, that's amazing what it's all about. He won, so that's what it's all about. He's done the most important thing, which is winning. You can't have this thing of, like, you celebrate, look at the way you celebrate. It's nice to win games. Nice to win games and for Arsenal, if they get in the top four, it's a huge achievement because they weren't one of the favourites. I don't think they're amazing, but they're doing what they need to do. And that's sad, so you've got no issue. Go away when a tough game you should celebrate. You can't be... You know, it's this way we are now. You win a game, you're not allowed to be happy, you're not allowed to celebrate, you're not allowed to do this. That just comes across to me as pure bitterness. And, you know, you've got to be on the horse, like I said. You know, it wasn't a very good football. I had a great dream when all those trophies. Lots of trophies. Now, listen to these infighting through his opinion, of course, but don't criticise people for celebrating a big win because it was a big win. And obviously the final game of the weekend, obviously Spears, playing West Ham, Spears got off to a great start. Son scoring. Then King. West Ham got one back, but then it was sung on another one later on. Obviously those two are huge. And that keeps them in. It keeps them in the hunt, doesn't it? It really does. You know, that was a really big win. It was against a rival, Andy, who were battling in there as well. You know, I think David, he was probably the toughest fixture. He could have had after because he beat Shavir. He did. You know, I played on Thursday and that was a tough game. I had to go to Spears, and there's a bit of needle in that game anyway, and Spears had gone for that as well. But a big win for Conti's team. And the team were a little bit hit and miss without them, and you can say this with a lot of teams. Dows Fronts are unbelievable, aren't they? Got the record for the most... Combination. They're incredible. They blew Everton away. The home game before, they blew Westam away. No Westammer in it made them more of a fixture. But they were the ones, they were the difference makers there. And that's what those two are, they get your goals. Westamers dust themselves down. You know, they've got Everton next, and she's the home game for them next. And they just have to go again. But for Spears, a big win because obviously lost at United the week before. So now, get a bit of momentum going, but every three points. They've all got to hold on to Arsenal's coattails at the moment, because Arsenal are in the boxy, a couple of games in hand. They're in the boxy, United are the same, they've got to win their games when they give them the chance. We'll see what happens, but big win for Spears keeps them right. But for Westam, as you mentioned, they had to be a really tough game in the Europa League, and they're into the quarterfinals. But it's always going to be tough three days later to for the players and to get up to those again. You've got to get yourself up to that level again, and it's a tough place because Tottenham are a good side. They'll be happy they're through to the quarterfinal and they'll go from there, and they've got a decent draw. So it's up at the league table. So obviously nothing's changed at the top. It's just tight, isn't it? It's a very tight point there, isn't it? And obviously Arsenal are right in. Right in the mix, aren't they now? I mean, that was a big win to go to Ville and get that win, which was incredible. And then obviously at the bottom of the table, obviously Everton with Darwin, with Arwin, pulling away a little bit from Wafford, four points now from Burnley. But obviously Everton, what we would have loved, leads to have been beaten to keep that, that was only a point gap, that's four points now. Three games in a hand. But we've got the games in a hand, we've got to win those games in a hand. What's mad is, Everton, what's a win? The three games in a hand and the two games in a hand on Newcastle, people of all of that. But I'm just saying it. But I'm just saying it. That's where we are, isn't it? You look at the likes of Brighton, you were up there earlier in the season and it's off four of now. Newcastle, only two points behind Brighton and things like that. So very, very interesting. There you go. Yeah, obviously no games this weekend, which is fantastic. Nice little break this weekend. And then when they come back, I mean, I've said it last week, but I'll just reiterate those fixes when we come back, cos it really is a crunch weekend when they come back into some huge games in the Premier League and it could be a weekend where, you're never going to look and say, oh, it's a weekend where loads of things will be decided, but it's a tough weekend, because Brighton Knowledge, Burnley Man City, Chelsea Brentford, Leeds Southampton, Wolvesville, Man United Leicester, and then only Sunday, Westam Everton and Spades Newcastle. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of big games there, so it's going to be very interesting as well. Don't forget, you can check out the rest of that last fan standing video. There's all the stuff discussed on it as well, so give that a watch. The description. Like and leave a comment on that. Interesting shot. And we'll be back, we'll be, I'm sure we'll be back next week with something to talk about even though there's no games. So we'll see you later.