Mitchell Stirling: Desailly, Paulo Sousa, Pique and Eto'o all won consecutive Champions League trophies with differ sides.  

Matt Smith: Come on, Zlatan wins this by miles. 03/04 Ajax, 04/05 & 05/06 Juve, 06/07, 07/08, 08/09 all Inter, 09/10 Barca, 10/11 AC Milan   

Ben Morton: Not in the prem but probably more impressive... Eto'o won the Champions League with Inter and then Barca in consecutive years   

Well now you've just taken my little successive league winners nugget and ran with it...fantastic.

West Bromwich Albion

West Brom keeper Ben Foster on BT Soprt: "We're disappointed to lose the game but we did well and limited them to a few chances. And at the other end of the pitch we had a few where we could have scored. The goal we conceded was disappointing.

"It was a brilliant finish from Diego Costa. We dealt with him well apart from that.

"There's a great solidity in our team. We haven't changed our team for four or five games. Whoever is in knows their job. We might not have the individuals but we work well as a team."

And up and running down south too.

We are under way...

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Southampton were terrible in the Europa League in midweek, snatching elimination from the jaws of qualification. Can Boro take advantage? 

The teams are out at the Riverside and at Old Trafford. Kick-offs two and three of our quadruple-header are almost among us 

A Spurs win this afternoon would lift them into the top four, and at the same time leave Manchester United nine points adrift of the Champions League places. 

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Fresh from his trip to watch Anthony Joshua last night, Wladimir Klitschko is at Old Trafford for this one. A sports buff it seems. 

Southampton manager Claude Puel rings the changes from Southampton's 1-1 draw with Hapoel Beer Sheva which saw the Saints exit the Europa League last week.

Fraser Forster, Virgil van Dijk and Oriol Romeu are the only survivors as the likes of Jose Fonte, James Ward-Browse and Jay Rodriguez return.

Southampton XI: Forster, Martina, Fonte, Van Dijk, McQueen, Clasie, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Tadic, Boufal, Rodriguez

Subs: Taylor, Yoshida, Long, Davis, Reed, Bertrand, Redmond

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Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka makes two changes from the side which beat Hull 1-0 as Cristhian Stuani and Jordan Rhodes comes in for injured duo Gaston Ramirez and Alvaro Negredo. 

Middlesbrough XI: Valdes, Barragan, Chambers, Gibson, Fabio, Clayton, De Roon, Forshaw, Stuani, Fischer, Rhodes    

Subs: Guzan, Bernardo, Nsue, Leadbitter, Traore, Downing, Nugent

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Jermaine Jenas
Former England midfielder on 5 live

Spurs are at a big moment in their history, a fork in the road. Do you want to chase titles? You need to pay your players. Kane, Alderweireld, Alli - they would be getting £100k a week plus anywhere else. It's time to loosen the belts. They have to stop selling as well.

When Dele Alli, Kyle Walker or Danny Rose are on international duty and look around the dressing room and realise they are on half the wages of team-mates it will unsettle them. It's human nature. It might sound alien to the public to say 'I'm only on £50k a week' but within that profession it's all relative.   

Jermaine Jenas
Former England midfielder on 5 live

Virgil van Dijk is on his way, it's as simple as that. He is the best defender in the Premier League and whether he goes to Manchester United or not, he will leave Southampton. 

Bryan Fish: If we're going continental, I'm pretty sure Cantona won the French title b4 joining Leeds so won 3 in a row  

Ding, ding, ding. I think we'll struggle to beat this. Eric Cantona a league champion with three different teams in three successive years, and four consecutive titles in total - with Marseille in 1991, Leeds United in 1992 and Manchester United in 1993 and '94.

Manchester United

Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho is playing the old Jedi mind games all the way up until kick-off.

He tells Sky Sports that Tottenham are "the best team in the Premier League".

"They're the most complete team. The best defence but lots of quality in attacking areas."

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas: "It was a good and maybe fortunate pass but it was all about Diego for the goal, he made the pass special. He fought for the ball. We had to push them but I think the game is asking for a change for something and I glad for that. 

Diego Costa added: "I am in great form, but not the best. The best way to attack is to defend well, They had a few chances in the beginning, but we are well organised and strong."

Jermaine Jenas
Former England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

I think when you have that whole blend in your squad you know you are onto something special, and that is all down to Antonio Conte.  

Costa is the type of player defenders and midfielders hate playing against, you never know where he is in terms of when you have the ball.

You can talk about scoring goals, but that is what you expect from centre forwards. It's towards the end of the game when he is closing down and then the next minute running at players - he brought this place to life today.

Jermaine Jenas
Former England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

That was tough for Chelsea, they worked their socks off for that result. At times throughout the game the fans were getting frustrated, but Conte kept his cool, adapted and made changes at the right time.

Tony Pulis will be delighted with his players' performance as a whole. Collectively they played well. It was just that mistake that cost them.

BBC Three

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The Special One has overseen Manchester United's worst ever start to a Premier League season, and now they've got to play Spurs who've only lost one league game so far.

Check out BBC Three's take on Jose Mourinho's start at Old Trafford...

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has explained his decision to drop Eric Dier to the bench on Sky Sports. Toby Alderweireld's return sees the England international miss out.

"We are Tottenham. You need good players. It is good competition. I feel sorry for the players that are out today but we can only pick 11."

We've gone continental...

Andrew Reyes: Zlatan won with Inter in 2009, then Barca in 2010. Still counts even though not in PL  

Jack Morgan: Not in EPL but Pirlo won the Scudetto with Milan then won with Juve the next season  

Jorge Vinicio: Shinji Kagawa, BVB Dortmund (2011-12) Manchester United (2012-13)  

Manchester United keep the same side that drew 1-1 at Everton last weekend - Wayne Rooney and Juan Mata, who started the win over Zorya in the Europa League in midweek, are on the bench.

As is defender Eric Bailly, who continues to step up his recovery from injury.

Man Utd XI: De Gea, Jones, Rojo, Valencia, Darmian, Pogba, Carrick, Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Ibrahimovic, Martial

Subs: Romero, Bailly, Blind, Fellaini, Mata, Rashford, Rooney

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Tottenham fans will be pleased to see influential defender Toby Alderweireld making his first start since October after an injury lay-off.

Mousa Dembele is the only other name to come into the side from Wednesday's Champions League win over CSKA Moscow.

Eric Dier and Harry Winks drop to the bench.

Spurs XI: Lloris, Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose, Wanyama, Dembele, Eriksen, Alli, Son, Kane.

Subs: Vorm, Wimmer, Davies, Dier, Winks, Sissoko, Nkoudou

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