Emile Heskey

But when you see the kind of results that Roy Hodgson is getting out of this Crystal Palace side, does it show you the value of experience when you've got a team who are struggling?

They were absolutely rock bottom.

As he said, look, they're up to 14th, but the rest of the games haven't kicked off yet and they can be caught there.

But as he was saying, they're now in touch with the teams round about them.

We know that those six points separate the bottom 10 teams in the Premier League.

So what can Crystal Palace, notwithstanding that really tough run of games they've got coming, what can they do?

Do they look like a side now who can stay up comfortable?

Leicester, meanwhile, stay in eighth place in the Premier League table.

Let's take a look at what they've got coming up.

They can't drop out of eighth because of this round of Premier League fixtures.

They're four points clear of the teams below them, Watford and Everton.

They play Watford twice, actually, between now and the end of January.

What do you make of that run of fixtures, Clinton?

Five points off Southampton, who are just inside the bottom half of the table.

Have Leicester got themselves in a position now where they can keep looking up rather than over their shoulders?

Well, how do they get the balance right, Claude Puel, between getting the best out of those players who did win the Premier League title with them and replacing them with young blood to replace the players who've moved on?

Now, talking of squads and squad rotation, let's take a look at the Premier League table because while Leicester are in eighth, I'm going to talk about another of Emile's old clubs, Liverpool, who are in fifth place, only below Tottenham on goal difference.

Jurgen Klopp looked at January last year when Liverpool had something of a slump and said, I want to avoid that by using my squad better and more efficiently in December.

But that's two draws in a row.

So has he just moved the slump to December instead of in January?