Peter Smith

Welcome back to this Sky Sports Football podcast where we're looking ahead to the Premier League's return.

Now, one of the big fixtures of the comeback round will be Tottenham versus Man Utd.

It's a huge game for Spurs.

They're down in eighth and they really can't afford to lose this one if they want to reach those Champions League qualifying places.

Meanwhile, Man Utd will want to strengthen their own chances of making it into that competition next season.

I'm delighted to say Sky Sports News' North West reporter James Cooper joins us now.

Yeah, absolutely.

And we come back with some big games as well.

We've got Tottenham Man United on Friday night, obviously a big game in the race for those Champions League places.

So tell us a bit about Man United's preparation and how they've been getting ready for this restart.

Yeah, interesting how that might have affected his future.

Certainly feels like a long time since we've seen him in a United shirt.

But off the pitch, James, as well, Marcus Rashford has been making some really positive headlines recently, hasn't he?

Yeah, he is.

We talk about on the pitch, James, I've talked about it's been a big game for the Champions League in the race for the Champions League places.

You know, we always say the top four, the race for the top four, but could potentially be top five this season because of what's going on with Man City.

Just bring us up to speed with where we are with their legal situation at the moment.

Yeah, it could be a very strange situation, couldn't it, that one?

But as you said, a huge, huge win over Real Madrid in that first leg away at the Bernabeu.

You know, it gave them so much confidence just before the lockdown that, yeah, perhaps this could be their year.