Simon Brotherton
Match of the Day commentator at White Hart Lane

"Like many teams, Spurs' record in games immediately following European adventures has been mixed, with a couple of wins and a couple of defeats so far.

"Newcastle travel south looking to build on their first win of the season against Leicester.

"A win here would be their first on the road since the beginning of March when they were 4-1 winners at Hull - over seven months and counting for Alan Pardew's side."

Alistair Mann
BBC Match of the Day commentator at Turf Moor

"As the only team in England's top four tiers without a win, Burnley know this barren run cannot last much longer.

"At this stage last year though Everton were six points better off, with just one loss at the Etihad Stadium to damage their record.

"It is certainly possible therefore to make a case for Everton's need to win being as strong as Burnley's, which suggests that this match will not lack for entertainment."

Vinny Person:, external Roberto Soldado could go goalless all season, Harry Kane could get you 20+ and you'd still get some deluded Spurs fans crying for Soldado.

Gideon Leibowitz:, external At least with Mauricio Pochettino we have a consistent starting XI. With Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood, our team was an experiment every week.

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Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "I think that Burnley deserve a lot more points than they have already, maybe they have not had the breaks they deserve. We cannot allow the game to flow into a dangerous area where we cannot match their efforts. Burnley willl get plenty of points this season that is for sure."

Roberto Martinez could do with a win. At this stage last season his Everton side were six points better off.

At this stage a little more than six months ago they were led Arsenal by two points in the race for fourth after racking up a seventh straight league win.

Since then they have not put together two successive league wins. And there have been some shoddy performances, a 3-2 home defeat to Palace and a League Cup capitulation against Swansea.

Good news for supporters, of either side, travelling from London to Manchester for the 16:00 GMT game at Old Trafford, although we guess you set off a while back.

The Virgin Trains website, external report that all lines have reopened after safety checks at Milton Keynes and Watford Junction.

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Discussing the situation at Leeds, owned by Massimo Cellino. Head coach Darko Milanic left the Championship side on Saturday after only 32 days in charge.

Daily Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter: "The good news is that Neil Redfearn comes in - he has the club, fans and players in his heart. I just hope he is given time but Mr Cellino, as we saw in Italy, does not give people time. He wants to be the manager, that's the whole thing."

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel: "I am sure Cellino is out there today scouting and looking for the right manager - because he is not going to stick with Neil Redfearn. He wants somebody with a bigger profile."

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Discussing the success of Southampton under new manager Ronald Koeman this season despite their raft of high-profile summer departures.

BBC Match of the Day commentator Steve Wilson: "Before a ball had been kicked I said I thought Southampton would be fine. I saw them in pre-season and was really impressed.

"The likes of Steven Davis and Yoshida are good players who were there before but they have come in and done well. Tadic was the player with the highest assists in the Dutch league last season and he looks close to doing that again and Pelle has been excellent."

Daily Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter: "They have a manager who is humble, grounded and one of the best players in the last 20-30 years. With the dignity he has, there is something special about him.

"Also when new players come in they are introduced to the Southampton way, they are shown video clips when they arrive about the club, the success of the academy and the number of players that have come through ranks. There is a culture and philosophy there. We can almost forgive him for what he did against England!"

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel
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Discussing Sunderland's defeat against Arsenal - and the mistake by goalkeeper Vito Mannone that led to the Gunners second goal.

"Vito Mannone did not play too badly yesterday, but I am not going to explain what he was trying to do. The mistakes always happen at the worst possible time. And that is a mistake he could make in a period when he looked like the best goalkeeper in the world. There is no explanation. If you asked him what he was doing he would not be able to tell you.

"But what I would say is that on the eight goals he conceded against Southampton last weekend, I played in two games for Manchester United where we scored eight or nine, and I have never seen a team give up like that. That should be the big worry for Gus Poyet. It wasn't the goalkeeper but the whole team who have to carry the can."

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Peter Schmeichel went into bat for Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Mignolet earlier this week, defending him from criticism from Sky Sports pundits Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher.

The Dane has taken on a trickier corporate reputation salvage job with Vito Mannone after the Sunderland stopper's rick against former club Arsenal yesterday.

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Former Manchester United, Aston Villa and Manchester City goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel: "Newcastle are neat, but nothing is really happening for them. Their goal against Leicester came through Leicester's naivety more than Newcastle's creativity.

"At home at St James Park, Newcastle should really threaten all the time and that is not really the case at the moment."

Kritt Normsaskul:, external If Manchester United attack Chelsea this afternoon, they will lose. United's vulnerability at the back will play into Jose Mourinho's tactics.

Hugh in France:, external Last year United were good away and poor at home - cautious manager. Reverse this year - gung-ho manager. Need between the two.

Graeme Florence:, external Jose is a big match mastermind, and there's too much class in Chelsea's midfield, so expecting them to squeeze it.

Daily Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter
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"Harry Kane has talent and he has a great work ethic, which one of two of the strikers at Spurs don't have. He gives everything for the team, and if you are defending from the front in the Ian Rush way, Kane is such a valuable asset. Given the goals he has been scoring he has every right to be disappointed he is not playing. I think Kane is Spurs' future."

Kane is not Spurs' immediate future. The youngster has been left on the bench for the meeting with Newcastle with Emmanuel Adebayor preferred up front.

Tottenham's players have emerged for the warm-up wearing commemorative T-shirts, bearing the phrase "Echo of Glory".

It is a reference to Bill Nicholson's famous demand that his Spurs side always aim for glory. To dare is to do and all that.

"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low," he said.

"And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory."

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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino on the game against Newcastle: "It is always difficult [against a team who won the last game] - they arrive with confidence.

On the 10th anniversary of former manager Bill Nicholson's death: "It's important for our supporters that we get a win [in his memory]."

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Tottenham will mark the 10-year anniversary of the death of legendary manager Bill Nicholson before kick-off today.

The Yorkshireman was involved with the club for 68 years as a player, coach, manager and president. He led them to the Double in 1961 and under his stewardship they became the first British side to win a European trophy when they lifted the European Cup Winners Cup two seasons later.

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel
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"When you come that close to winning the league title for the first time in such a long time, yes Liverpool lost their best player, but why buy eight? Why upset the dressing room? You are indirectly telling the players who came that close: 'You are not good enough.'

"When you are finally moving in the right direction you have to keep what is really good about the team. One or two more players keeps you on your toes, and you like to have a new face in, but eight new players is a huge adjustment, and the manager has to keep the new and the old players happy. How are you going to balance that? For me it is not a recipe for success."

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Liverpool's underwhelming follow-up to their smash-hit 2013-14 campaign is next up for dissection...

The Reds recorded a rare 0-0 at home to Hull yesterday.

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Joe Royle famously dubbed one of his mid-90s Everton sides as Dogs of War.

I'm not sure that this pooch, pictured outside Turf Moor today, would make the starting XI. Even with the toothy grin.

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Discussing the job being done by Burnley manager Sean Dyche.

Daily Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter: "There is a strange dynamic around Sean that even if Burnley go down he will stay in the Premier League.

"You go the training ground and from the outside it is like something out of Dad's Army! But you go inside and it is full of sports scientists and superb equipment.

"He might have this bouncer-type image, yet he is a very bright, shrewd young manager who deserves an immense amount of credit for the job he has done with the money the club have spent."