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Southampton lost to Liverpool at home last Sunday and have scored just one goal in the last four league games.

"We will play a lot for our chances for a high position in the table in the next two games. We have to realise that," says the club's manager Ronald Koeman.

"We have to be prepared for that. I think we're doing well. If you go back to the game against Liverpool, we played well.

"We deserved much more than we got. Now it's about being more effective.

"That's maybe the question at the moment. We're not effective enough to score and to win games. But total feel of the team I am happy."

Southampton have won only one of their last four league matches as they have dropped out of the top four.

They will be aiming to get back on track and maintain their challenge to get back into a Champions League spot with a win at West Brom today. Victory would see them become the first side to win five successive away games in the Premier League this season.

Ten years on from her half-time speech, Delia Smith even earned a mention on the Graham Norton Show on Friday, with actor Hugh Jackman revealing he's a Norwich City fan.

Jackman was joined on the couch for some football chat by David Beckham. You can watch the programme again here (18 minutes in).

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As usual, we're teaming up with the Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live this morning and today we're asking you to tell us about a time a footballer or manager turned up at your house and why were they there?

Moza: Tony Morley with the European Cup. That's me with the body warmer.

Hang on, so that's Morley as a boy, but how long before he set up Peter Withe to win the trophy for Aston Villa, in 1982?

Stephen Berriman: Darren Anderton at our house to take my older sister on a date. As Arsenal fans we'd rather she had brought Oleg Luzhny round.

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Jonas Gutierrez could return to the Newcastle squad this afternoon after a 16-month absence following his diagnosis with testicular cancer.

"It's totally a football decision," said Newcastle boss John Carver when asked about the player's return. "I've been asked whether he might get a swansong before the end of the season, but I have never even been thinking about a swansong. Why would it be a swansong?

"I just want to make a football decision, and that is that it's right to put him on the bench. If I need to put him on the pitch, then I will.

"First of all, to actually come back and play in the Premier League again would be magnificent. He's had a hard fight. When I first saw him, I was really concerned, but I suppose that's natural because he has come from a serious illness.

"Over the weeks, he has got fitter and stronger. Today, more than any other, I have seen the old Jonas Gutierrez."

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Newcastle boss John Carver is confident that a frank conversation between him and his players means the club can put last week's 5-0 thrashing at Manchester City behind them.

"I was angry with myself, I was angry with the team, the team were angry with me, they were angry with themselves - that's the right way to be," he said.

"But once we sat down and discussed it, there was a genuine conversation and I was very glad that we'd talked about it in that room and put it to bed."

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As usual, we're teaming up with the Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live this morning and today we're asking you to tell us about a time a footballer or manager turned up at your house and why were they there?

Simon Essex, Elstead, Surrey: In April 1976 I shared a house in Holland-on-Sea with two girls who were at the local teacher training college. They came home one night telling me they had been "drinking with Peter Osgood and Mick Channon". Doubting the story, I went to bed. The next evening they had a party at our house and at 19:30 there was a knock on the door and in walked David Peach, Jim Steele, Jim McCalliog, Bobby Stokes and Peter Rodrigues! They were all lashed by half nine and left at about two in the morning to go back to Frinton Lodge Hotel. The following weekend their Southampton team beat Malcolm Allison's Crystal Palace in the FA Cup semi-final and played Manchester United in the final, winning 1-0. Being a United supporter I was behind the goal where Bobby Stokes scored five weeks later.

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Aston Villa have scored just 13 goals in 26 league games this season and boss Tim Sherwood is think of getting some outside help.

"If there's someone out there who I think can help the group - whether it be a coach or a psychologist, or whoever, we wouldn't turn it down," he says.

"They [the players] have to want to go out there and want to have bravery, go and get on the ball - even if they're giving it away.

"They mustn't worry about the anxiety around the place. If we're going to fail, we'll fail trying - and really expressing ourselves."

As the table below shows, Tim Sherwood may have the highest winning percentage of the managers in charge for today's Premier League games but he Aston Villa reign got off to a defeat by Stoke last week.

The new manager bounce Villa may have hoped for didn't materialise and they remain second-from-bottom going into today's game at Newcastle.

Looking at today's games, one of the things that sticks out is the number of British managers in charge of the teams. The foreign manager is supposedly a must-have fashion accessory for Premier League clubs. But is that still the case?

If you look at the 12 sides in action today in the top flight, only three foreign managers will be on show, with the rest coming right here from British shores. (I know... it came as a shock to me as well!)

Seven of them are English - Sam Allardyce, Steve Bruce, John Carver, Sean Dyche, Garry Monk, Alan Pardew and Tim Sherwood.

The two others are Welshmen Mark Hughes and Tony Pulis, while two Dutchman and a Uruguayan make up the foreign bosses.

Liverpool will assess Jordan Henderson (ankle) ahead of tomorrow's home game against Manchester City. Philippe Coutinho is set to return after being rested for the trip to Besiktas. Defenders Mamadou Sakho (hip) and Glen Johnson (illness) are not expected to be ready.

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As usual, we're teaming up with the Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live this morning and today we're asking you to tell us about a time a footballer or manager turned up at your house and why were they there?

Stewart McKenna: Hungarian goalkeeper Adam Bogdan crashed our house party. Big Sum 41 fan. Had a back-to-back to see who's tallest.

Alan Jones: No one has turned up, but Bruce Grobbelaar phoned me though!

Darren: Rickie Lambert knocked at mine once asking if I was looking to change my broadband provider. He was about 27 then too. Mad.

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We can't let the 10-year anniversary of Delia's brilliant half-time speech pass unnoticed. We just can't do it.

So to mark it and to go along with our 'has a footballer turned up at your house?' chat, we want your stories of great motivational messages.

Peter Collins: As the coach of a team that had struggled to score, my pre-match words were simple: "Get a goal. I don't care how." We lost 4-1.

N Moore: My favourite: "Dance like EVERYONE'S watching." And in the case of football, I'll add: "And they've all paid to watch!"

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On the subject of Brendan Rodgers and our chat about motivational speeches, who can forget his three envelope trick.

Shortly after taking over the side in 2012, Rodgers - as we saw in a documentary following Liverpool - held up three envelopes during a squad meeting and told his players that they contained the names of three players who would let his team down that season.

"If we are going to achieve, to be the best we can, we need to be together. But I think there's three, maximum, who will let us down. Make sure you're not the one," he said.

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Asked if Daniel Sturridge was substituted during Thursday's Europa League second-leg tie at Besiktas with Sunday in mind, Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers replies: "Daniel had given everything in the game. This is a player coming back from five months out injured. We have to be really, really careful he doesn't break. Daniel's history shows that.

"The bigger picture for us is the Premier League and the FA Cup were our priorities and that's still the case."

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has been holding his weekly news conference this morning - I know, on a Saturday? That pesky Europa League messes up everyone's timetable.

Looking ahead to Sunday's lunchtime clash with Manchester City, Rodgers said: "You don't need to be a sports scientist to work out that, if you arrive back at 04:30 GMT on Friday morning and have a game early on Sunday, then physically there's going to be a cost."

We can't let the 10-year anniversary of Delia's brilliant half-time speech pass unnoticed. We just can't do it.

So to mark it and to go along with our 'has a footballer turned up at your house?' chat, we want your stories of great motivational messages.

Maybe it's something you've been told by your David Brent-esque boss. Perhaps it's something you told your child before they went out to score a hat-trick. Or maybe it's a classic Ferguson line.

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Sunderland won at Manchester United last season as they earned a victory at Old Trafford for the first time since 1968. Can they serve up a repeat?

"I think it is going to be a totally different game - nothing compared to last year when Ryan Giggs was their caretaker and we were playing for our lives," says Sunderland boss Gus Poyet.

"Now they are in the process of changing their style of play - for a team that has been playing for 20-plus years in the same way it is going to be a difficult process.

"I think people are being a little bit harsh on Manchester United at the moment."

As usual, we're teaming up with the Danny Baker Show on BBC Radio 5 live this morning and today we're asking you to tell us about a time a footballer or manager turned up at your house and why were they there?

Charles Taylor: Had Patrick Vieira turn up at my house shortly after he started for Arsenal to take my au pair on a date.

Paul Anderson: Nick Pickering (Sunderland and one cap for England) went to my uncle's house to buy a budgie. Wrong house though.

Mark Healey: Former Hull City defender Justin Whittle is our postman, so he's often knocked on our front door.

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