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    Get Involved - favourite football faithfuls?published at 11:22 Greenwich Mean Time

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    Dean LewingtonImage source, Getty Images

    Dean Lewington is both a traitor and a faithful. He did the switch when Wimbledon were killed off and 'became' MK Dons, then hung around for another 20 years and chalked up about 800 appearances for them.

    Tom, Nottingham

    Dean LewingtonImage source, Getty Images
  2. 'Leicester fighting to stay up and will make it difficult'published at 11:20 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 GMT)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou on Leicester: "It'll be a tough game. They're in a fight to stay in the Premier League and they'll come and try and make it difficult for us.

    "We're in our own tough moment, being at home will help us, it will give energy to the players. Hopefully there will be a really good atmosphere."

  3. 'Hugely positive'published at 11:18 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 GMT)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou on younger players: "We will benefit from the growth of our younger players, but we have to be careful with them, we can't ask 18-year-olds to keep dipping in and out.

    "I thought Archie [Gray] out of position was great, Lucas [Bergvall] worked his socks off for the time and Mikey [Moore] got an assist.

    "So there's no doubt we will get benefit from these players for many years to come, they've had a tough start to their careers. I think it's hugely positive."

  4. 'Resilience and the determination of players is fantastic'published at 11:14 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 GMT)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou on injuries and team mentality: "We should have light at the end of the tunnel in a couple of weeks, it's not as dire but at the same time there's always a possibility that before those guys come back we might lose a couple of these guys [current players in form].

    "That's always the challenging bit, that's what we're going through.

    "It's been two months of hard grind for the players, just trying to support them as much as we can. Our schedule is not going to ease up at all.

    "The resilience and the determination of the players to get out there and perform is a fantastic thing for me to witness, couldn't be more proud of them."

  5. Spurs team newspublished at 11:12 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 GMT)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou on team news: "Djed [Spence] still sore from the weekend, he's a doubt for this weekend, had a knock so he's a doubt.

    "Pape [Sarr] is still a doubt, [Sergio] Reguilon should be OK."

  6. 'Nothing's changed'published at 11:10 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 GMT)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou on bringing in a player to replace Dominic Solanke: "All those things are known, nothing's changed in the last 24 hours.

    "We knew with Dom probably a few days back, I had a press conference in the meantime, so all these things are known."

  7. 'Young players as always giving everything they've got'published at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 GMT)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Tottenham boss Ange Postecoglou on the win at Hoffenheim: "Very proud. Outstanding effort by the players in a really important game for us in European context. Positive result helped us with our target.

    "I thought the lads gave everything on the night, senior players outstanding, young players as always giving everything they've got, really pleased with the outcome."

    Ange Postecoglu speaking at a news conferenceImage source, Getty Images
  8. Ange is on the scenepublished at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00 BST)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    Right, a little later than advertised, it's time to hear from Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou.

  9. Colwill and Fernandez could return, Lavia outpublished at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time

    Man City v Chelsea (Sat, 17:30 GMT)

    Chelsea

    Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca on team news: "Probably Levi [Colwill] and Enzo [Fernandez] could be ready [to face Man City], it depends on today's session.

    "Romeo [Lavia] will be out for Saturday. We don't know yet [the severity of the injury]. We need to wait a little bit more, but at least a few weeks more [he will be out]."

  10. 'I'm happy with the ones we have'published at 11:04 Greenwich Mean Time

    Man City v Chelsea (Sat, 17:30 GMT)

    Chelsea

    Alejandro GarnachoImage source, Getty Images

    Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca on links with Manchester United's Alejandro Garnacho: "No, no. I'm happy with the ones we have in this moment.

    "We've said many times on the right side, it's Pedro [Neto] and Noni [Madueke] and left side is Jadon [Sancho]. Misha [Mudryk] was with us and is now not with us. I think Tyrique [George] is a young profile that can help us so at this moment, we are okay."

  11. Palmer 'getting better'published at 11:02 Greenwich Mean Time

    Man City v Chelsea (Sat, 17:30 GMT)

    Chelsea

    Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca on Cole Palmer's fitness: "He's better. He did an unbelievable effort to play against Wolves and he's getting better."

  12. Postpublished at 11:00 Greenwich Mean Time

    Man City v Chelsea (Sat, 17:30 GMT)

    Chelsea

    We've got a little bit more from Enzo Maresca to bring you shortly on Cole Palmer's fitness and reports linking Chelsea with Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho...

  13. Lecce enquire about Leicester youngster Omobolajipublished at 10:51 Greenwich Mean Time

    Nizaar Kinsella
    BBC Sport football news reporter

    Laolu OmobolajiImage source, Getty Images

    Serie A club Lecce are among the clubs to have enquired about signing Leicester City winger Laolu Omobolaji.

    The Foxes are believed to be keen on tying down the 17-year-old, who is a regular for the under-18s, to a new deal.

    Omobolaji joined Leicester in February last year. He is eligible to play for both England and Nigeria through his parents.

  14. Efficient or ineffective?published at 10:46 Greenwich Mean Time

    This Premier League pursuit becomes a lot easier if you take your chances.

    BBC Sport has checked in on some data comparing goals versus expected goals this season.

    You can see from the bar graph some teams aren't finding the goals (yellow) to outstrip the expected goals they should score (black).

    Tottenham, Manchester City, Arsenal, Brentford, Newcastle, Brighton, Fulham, Nottingham Forest, Wolves and Leicester have all scored more than expected.

    Wolves in particular have found the net 32 times from an expected 23.56 - a significant overperformance.

    League leaders Liverpool are pretty much bang on in returning what they should, while Arsenal have outperformed, with 43 goals from an expected 37.78.

    Bournemouth - 36 goals from an expected 43 - are leaving opportunities on the table.

    xG chart
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    Get Involved - favourite football faithfuls?published at 10:39 Greenwich Mean Time

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    Bob PaisleyImage source, Getty Images

    Bob Paisley - 250+ appearances for Liverpool, 14 years assistant to Bill Shankly, nine years as manager and going on to be the greatest English manager ever.

    Chris

  16. English clubs looking good for 'top five'published at 10:34 Greenwich Mean Time

    Simon Stone
    BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

    It's been another good week for English clubs in European football, with two more wins last night taking the tally up to four for the week.

    Aside from Manchester City, all will definitely make it at least into the play-offs.

    That will eventually bring more points in the battle to get one of the two European Performance Spots in the Champions League next season - Germany and Italy got them this season.

    England are now well clear of Spain and Italy, with Germany and France much further behind.

    It is not all about the bigger countries but all the points are divided by the number of teams each country started the three European competitions with. It is the bigger countries whose teams tend to last longest as a whole, which is why they are thought most likely to get the spots.

    Five English teams will qualify for next season's Champions League as it stands.

  17. Postpublished at 10:29 Greenwich Mean Time

    Tottenham v Leicester City (Sun, 14:00)

    Tottenham Hotspur

    We've moving to north London for the next news conference of the day.

    Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou is speaking ahead of his side's home game against Leicester. He's due up any moment now.

    Spurs will be hoping to end a run of six games without a win - and they've lost five of those - in the Premier League.

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    Get Involved - favourite football faithfuls?published at 10:25 Greenwich Mean Time

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    The club hero for the now no longer Macclesfield Town was Sir John Askey. Arrived as a player in 1984 then left as the manager who took them back to the football league in 2018. A club legend. He is now manager at Truro City.

    Pete in Macclesfield

    Alan Knight at Portsmouth. Over 800 appearances for the club and holds the record for most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper.

    Trevor, Hampshire

  19. 'Pep is strong enough'published at 10:23 Greenwich Mean Time

    Man City v Chelsea (Sat, 17:30 GMT)

    Chelsea

    Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca on whether Pep Guardiola needs more support: "Pep is strong enough. Like any human being, he needs support. In the last eight or nine years, they were always on top, always winning trophies and important things."