Mick McCarthy

I don't mind it and I suppose I'm holding on to the reins for the time being as I've either been close or won in the first two weeks and then I'll pass it around the room, don't you worry.

Right, Arsenal, there's a school of thought that Arsenal need to go and say, throw everything out now.

It's not in their hands anymore unless they start playing swashbuckling football and win all the games, 4-5-0 and pass out Man City and goal difference.

I just think that's an unrealistic thing to happen.

Whereas it just feels like tight, nervy, Gabrielle header, you know, 74th minute and win 1-0.

And it kind of just gets them back on track a little bit.

And City aren't playing in the league this weekend.

And suddenly just things feel a little bit less... Maybe the swashbuckling comes in a couple of weeks' time.

But I can't see them doing that in Newcastle.

Now, the thing is, Newcastle, I just...

to Matthew's point about how much they're struggling form they're struggling in front of goal I again I think if Newcastle offer them a lot of problems this week I think it'll be on Arsenal rather than because of Newcastle and what they do to them so yeah I just I kind of like low tight scoring high tension low quality and low entertainment factor yeah and I think that leads to a nice little 8-1 bet builder well yeah

So Villa probably, you would literally say, it's hard for me and you to look at this objectively, but Villa probably have a 50-50 chance of winning

the Europa League at this point because they obviously have a slightly better than 50% chance of beating Forest and then they'd be heavy favourites for the final then you take away the fact that like they them of Manchester United and Liverpool are the only ones playing on another front which suggests that their league form might not last through the end of the season Chabazig through the league is basically assured at this stage or close to it anyway if they beat Fulham this weekend which we'll probably talk about they're basically in but at the same time I think they're looking up the fact that United haven't

I don't think they'd worry about the difference between fourth and fifth.

They finished fourth before.

I do wonder if third might be something that they're keeping an eye on.

Villa.

Yeah, Villa are level on points at United.

United have beat them and it looked like they were just waving them goodbye on the way past.

And since then, Villa's form has been better than United's.