The Football Show - Neville, Carragher, Grealish, Mahrez, Bowyer, Frank and MacAnthony
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What is the significance of the Premier League's return?
Good morning and welcome to the Football Show. It is Wednesday, June the 3rd. Two weeks today until the restarts of the Premier League. This morning we're speaking to Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish, managers at the top and bottom ends of the Championship. Lee Bowie has an even bigger job in his hands than originally thought. We'll also have the thoughts of Peterborough United's owner Darren McCantney, as well as an interview with Riyad Mahrez. It's Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher who'll be with me all morning. Morning, chaps.
Morning.
Morning, Scott. Morning, Scott. Gary, I was going to mention, first of all, and we'll talk about it later, 25 years ago to the day since you made your England debut, but I think that haircut of yours is probably more newsworthy at the moment.
I know. It's absolutely brutal, that. Look at that. That's the old ball like that? it's a new ball then my my daughter my daughter's been quite successful this uh last couple of months but she's just had a she had a bad day yesterday bad uh she just went for it it's a bit of a wedge unfortunately you're setting a trend gary that's what it is jamie look we'll talk later about it as well but can you believe a decade ago today rafa benitez left liverpool
Yeah, you mentioned that. There was something in the papers I saw this morning as well, the American owners ran about that time. I'm not sure if it's gone quickly or slow, really, but there's definitely been a huge turnaround since then, still with American owners doing a far better job. But yeah, looking at what Rafa did, I'm sure we'll come on to that later on. He did a brilliant job for the six years that he was there, and yeah, 10 years ago, it flew by.
Yeah. Okay, packed show today. Let's start with a warm welcome to the Brentford head coach, Thomas Frank. Thomas, thanks very much for joining us. How's Project Restart going for you and the lads?
Okay. Try to go back to normality. Finally, we could do some contact training yesterday, so that was...
How does Jack Grealish view his role in Aston Villa's future?
a pleasure to finally do that. I think the lads have been brilliant in terms of coming back in a very good place and in a good shape. So we all hope that we finally can start playing some football.
Well, everyone's been happy to see the restart dates of June the 20th, QPR being one club to clearly voice their concern and Mark Warburton calling it ludicrous. What do you think of the start dates?
I think it was mentioned that we potentially could start the 13th of June earlier. So now we actually have one more week. So I think it's important that we can start as quick as possible because we know there is hopefully another season coming after this and that could potentially come a second peak of this pandemic. So the sooner the better we can start. I think that's the right thing to do.
Thomas, you worked for 15 years in youth coaching and I know that Brentford have got quite an innovative model around how they approach it. They actually ditched the EPPP system some years ago and have actually created their own sort of what would be elite development plan. Can you just tell us a little bit about that and how it works?
Yeah, and it's absolutely right when after 15 years working in the academy and you're coming to a club with no academy and I always like that work and that developing players and getting into the first team. But I think the strategy is actually for Brentford, right? We're competing against six, seven big clubs in London that are bigger than us. So we need to find our own model to get the best young players between 16 to 20 in the B team and also have a fairly young squad in the in the first team. And then we use our experience in terms of try to get the best out of these young players and develop them into promising Premier League players. Hopefully we can go there ourselves and play and use our top players.
If not, then we know we are good at this and we've proven that quite well the last three years with a decent track record.
Yeah, I was just going to say about the track record, you've obviously had some success with it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the significance of the Premier League's return?
0:15–2:15
2
How does Jack Grealish view his role in Aston Villa's future?
2:15–5:08
3
What challenges are faced by clubs at the bottom of the Championship?
5:08–7:19
4
How does Thomas Frank manage player development at Brentford?
7:19–9:29
5
What insights does Lee Bowyer provide about player contracts?
9:29–11:36
6
How has the pandemic affected football management decisions?
11:36–14:24
7
What are the implications of points per game for relegation?
14:24–17:00
8
What future plans does Darragh MacAnthony have for Peterborough?
17:00–1:30:39
Speakers
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