Steve Rankin's is the club's director of communications we take them through seriously we are absolutely determined to do the right thing to fully investigate and support those affected and we'll assess the authorities supporter of us occasions the British Dental Association says children in England are getting a 2nd rate service compared with those in Scotland and Wales there were $170.00 hospital operations every day last year to remove teeth in the Under eighteen's The union says government indifference is partly to blame Ministers insist they're determined to reduce the number of extractions from today there is no longer a fee for paying by debit or credit cards the end of surcharges applies to online payments credit transfers and direct debits and will remain law when the u.k. Leaves the e.u. Harry rose is the editor of which money we've been campaigning on this for a long time now because we think it's been unfair that consumers have been penalized simply because of the method of payment they've chosen and from from today that will no longer be the case so this is a this is a big win for consumers police in Los Angeles say they're investigating sexual assault allegations against Steven Segal they go back to 2005 the 65 year old actor hasn't commented on the claim but has denied previous misconduct allegations rescue crews have expanded their search for 5 people missing in the mudslides of Southern California 18 people are now known to have died including an 87 year old man Clyde Lewis has returned to Jeremy Corbin's front bench he resigned as shadow business secretary last February in order to defy Labor party orders and vote against the e.u. Withdrawal bill the Norwich South m.p. Was then investigated over allegations of inappropriate conduct our political correspondent has Christmas and the suggestion that it squeezed a woman's bottom while giving her a hug at an event at Labour's annual conference in Brighton back in September he was cleared of groping allegations by the party and he has now been appointed as a shadow treasury minister and the entertainer. Emberg has died at the age of 80 she started many programs including the Ross Abbott show in which she played the character blonde woman has a spot now with James Burford the Scottish Football Association will hold talks with Michael O'Neill with a view to him becoming the national team manager after agreeing a compensation package with the i.f.a. The Northern Ireland boss has been the face preferred candidate since Gordon struck in sacking in October face to face talks are now likely to take place next week Phil Neville has emerged as a leading contender to become the next in good women's manager Moema Lee has been taking charge of the side since Mark Sampson was sacked in September Manchester City could miss out on signing Alexis Sanchez to close rivals Manchester United because they don't want to pay Arsenal's $35000000.00 pound asking price $10.00 man Sheffield Wednesday held off city rivals United to draw their 1st game under new manager ya the feisty Darby finished goalless and in rugby union Scarlett's have kept alive their hopes of reaching the Champions Cup quarter finals smashing bar 35 points to 70 this is b.b.c. 5 live on digital online smartphone and tablet the full cost then staying largely cloudy overnight with some light rain or drizzle on the hills in the West with rain which a Northern Island and far west the core temperature cold with frost mainly in northern Scotland where the skies are clear of those overnight of 6 Celsius. Breakfast his Morgan was on the Question Time panel and the 1st call on Question Time after time prayers along with very strong feelings about the performance of Piers Morgan really good to carry a few people President Trump follows on treacherous on the 1st one it is not in full as yet it was a trial of does that mean 2 degrees of separation if you're basically President Charles best friend a frozen block approaching has come to the rescue of a little chap who got knocked out in a walking. The phrase out I wanted it. If we threw this one a have you ever been saved by a black pudding saved by a sausage churn and next wave of 5 like for a 1st fact Monday morning from 6. New sons of Africa who was getting kicked off a world football photo in the numbers a court of law to join in is 080-859-0969 extension 3 That's 800-859-0969 extension 3 this one which o. King football in South America with the legendary toad sim Vic Cruz in Rio Good morning Jim. Well good morning good morning everyone and we hopefully will be joined by the spring book of Judy a mug Leeson over in Africa many questions in African football and plays for my audience what I thought hopefully me as he done a bunk. Hopefully means you know how this president Shrum what kind of countries these African countries are he says they're wonderful countries but sometimes it's telecommunications does less hold down don't they yeah I'm going to say right here on the bank well yeah Ronnie Lisa 67 yeah it's going to he's going to say the line he's going to sell a song I know it's a punk Yes it's a way they said. Let me just say very quickly I'm not saying what prison terms and I have an African I don't agree with any of that No but we see a way for Greece and hopefully he will join us and the communications to the United States offer less is that as well that's what we've got you in South America rather than North America you know going into Yeah just like carrying a flag over south exactly So tell me this has got a quarter in a minute yeah all your loyalties ever torn between Brazil and England. In what way in support your football do you support. No I mean as a wiser man the mist self once said you can put a dog in the oven but I've done my kind of biscuit English. Formed by the English education systems and most the things only have it's a line from White Men Can't Jump it's always makes me. Good right. You know I'm very grateful to Brazil been here now for me 5052 years I've been here now for 23 of them so we're moving towards kind of half my life one sided and 2nd half life on the other and I'm very very grateful to it but my I don't I don't really understand these people who their identity merges with someone new I don't really or like people who really really support a football team in somewhere else move somewhere else and really become avid supporters of that same my i'll think of a very strong sense of my own identity and that's that that's a very English identity so so that doesn't change but in terms of being as I've never been a great supporter one with football I grew up it was very very much a kind of father to son thing and mild mannered I love football only nearly it was in the main always a great disappointment to him because I was expected to come along and realize the dreams that he was unable to do I think their trials for Charlton you know even but even he couldn't get it going with that lot you know so we decided he wasn't he was going to be a professional footballer but he was never really was never a supporter Reeky could never really get into that totally passionate supporter frame of mind you always had a kind of quite an analytic was an educated man he had a very analytic view of what was happening on the field and he kind of passed that to me so I've never really been a kind of diehard real supporter but I suppose one to answer this question than the last time this was put to the test. It was the recent world under 17 Cup win when Brazil played England and it was a great game and I was delighted it was a great guy not for me was the most important thing but I was always plays an England one well we have got Mark with us Lisa I was pretty lucky gene a good morning good morning to you you see what you made me do you made me actually say to people Mark will be with us shortly very very shortly he was still way you know Mark and eventually we'll get Marg lease in here and we finally got you African meantime do you want to explain to people what that is. That the London must. Not to like is not nuts and I would great to have you with us Happy New Year and all of that stuff so you've got I think we've got calls straightaway 080-859-0969 extension 3 clear apologies that we made you wait a minute but you know what Mark's like good morning. Good morning. I'm going to have this. Cup warm up and you. Know Grant from that they treat. A special that they make. Well it's looks especially things clear you remember every year I think as time marches on the less we remember these things the better it will it really and yes you know. I mean I'm into that. Anyway that's Nigeria's player playing England at Wembley. As one who will be able to deliver to most of what. I think success of what but I think of it as a good old Nigerian named inherited. Name 6 at their. Own what are you how are you know when it'll be before strength I think I mean 1st of all it's it's right around the corner from the start of the World Cup So that's you know it's and that and the measures now are limited in terms of the games you can have in order to put your best 11 together for the tournament but the real thing I think we're Nigeria particulars it's such a prestigious friendly you know you don't go to you know going to Wembley and mark about you go to Wembley with your with your with your strongest side and it's made she what Nigeria he led the sort of mini revolution the revolutions perhaps not the right word because this change that the African confederation of made as far as the next. Set of internationals in March is concerned that the next window it was supposed to be a round of qualifying games for the African Nations Cup but their next match is actually gave the Seychelles certainly not the right kind of preparation that you'd want before a World Cup So they've managed to persuade in the calf to slow down that entire round of matches for everyone concerned in the mood the. Central October and and allow everybody to play friendly so the 5 Russia bound African sides can get better opposition in March so I think Nigerians are playing polo not I think it's been 100 percent secure the number one other friend in March in this England in at least June 7th and 2 more games to still be fixed there'll be a quality European and South American opposition and then off to Russia so kudos to Nigeria to pulling it off. Certainly looking to be a lot better prepared than perhaps African sides were going to the World Cup In additions like 1994 extra. Is that would feel. Very happy. Thank you thank you for the call as well Happy New Year that this is a this is a point that I've heard you might mark recently that there seems to be a difference about Nigeria this time in terms of of organization how much do you think this will have an impact on what happens on the field. It's a done we want to say to him because you know that there is no sort of correct Mexican particularly in African football in terms of you know how to do it and how to do it properly and then and in the results that come out of that I mean the great yardstick and the incorrect yardstick is 9090 Cameroon I mean they didn't have a single international friendly and remain one of the best performing African teams in the World Cup finals you know they went to Yugoslavia all Yugoslavia played 2 matches against club opposition and big internal wrangles amongst the. Amongst the players big fight between Thomas and Kona and Joseph and to unbolt about the number one jersey and on paper given the way they're prepared were said to be absolute rubbish and I mean they turned out to be. Massively glorious moment for African football we've seen well prepared African teams do very poorly we've seen ill prepared sides do a lot better but you know I think times are changing out of it you've got to do your homework properly and. I think everyone in Africa is really pleased that everybody seems to be particularly serious but you know we take I think it's true of Asia or and the other sort of so-called 3rd world confederations are with you know everybody takes the tone set now by the major nations of world football we live in a global village yeah it's really an interesting point actually because I think there is a sense certainly amongst those African football is playing in Europe now that they want to win the World Cup but they get a break for their countries as well and maybe the country is also taking you know the possibility of winning a World Cup much more seriously hold that thought because what come back to our mid is with us as well in London are made good morning and I don't also know how you very well thank you one of lot of russkie what he wanted. Yeah but it's more akin to my. Full Mark I want. On his opinion on the Kenyan national team and it seems like they cannot qualify for the nation let alone the World Cup and I was thinking why is that the case when they actually extremely popular the Premier League's explain you put up with that. I just want to know that much financially better off than some African countries that qualify for a Cup of Nations I don't know what is Kenya. Who's a coach of Jim. Jim I want to ask I've been thinking about this. During the World Cup that in cities like. Brazil. Where none of those cities have a serious. Play in the 1st division so I was like if you have a big stadium have teams last lament them and then lesser extent of the damage. Both about relocating to those like they do in American sports because like so many of them immensely have been have been marked not a problem like the Stadium of the sun to some Vasco da Gama even though they do have a stadium it's like $17000.00. Crumpling by the looks of this are just one in the. Ever been the goal to really take some of these traditional real so part of. The centralized. I'm like. Big city like will to live. Like a serial. Killing go anywhere because you know it's very well you. Will come to the question mark in a moment. That there's absolutely 0 percent chance of relocation and relocation the the American thing that you talked about is just utterly 100 percent foreign to the way that football is run here and these clubs the clubs that you mentioned are hugely traditional clubs with very very deep roots in the cities of Rio and Sao Paolo and Santos and so on so the idea that they would they would they would. Pick pack you know pack up and March across and relocate thousands of miles away is totally foreign to the idea of Brazilian football and I don't think anyone here is ever ever even suggested it what the sides have frequently done is taken some of their games to these new stadiums. This however is being stopped. The clubs met last year and that they decided to put a stop to this so you can't take games to. These that these grounds which which has a basic logic behind it it affects entirely the logic of the ethics the integrity of the league system a league system is based on home advantage and playing away you know all of the teams of 20 teams they all meet need each other home and wife so everyone who travels to play such and such a team travels to the home stadium of that team and plays that scene there if you start taking that especially Brazillian there were a lot of games being taken to Brazil you know it can be a neutral or saw it especially towards the end of the season sides were effectively selling their games to these new stadiums and so it was their home game but they had nothing to play for particularly so they would sell it played in one of these stadiums Brasilia or or one of those where it would be a home game for them anymore where they would be out and their fans would be outnumbered by fans of the opposition and that clearly in. Fringes the the integrity of the league system and since we're not going to get relocation on their own they kind of American Airlines I'm quite happy with this bid that this did this big which is coming in to stop teams moving there at their old game because the only way that there's only one way that the stadiums in these cities are going to become viable only one why and that is if there is a local team based there with roots there becomes popular enough to work to fill that stadium on a regular basis always and if you get Yeah but if you get kind of visits now once every 2 months from a glamorous team a glamorous team with lots of history from Rio or some pilots liking to going there how can the local team compete if you know once every 2 months are going to get a big team so I think these visits actually make it harder in the long run for local clubs to establish a so to establish a sport bikes because the cities that you're talking about they're all big enough in theory to sustain top top level teams on their far far bigger in population and lots of them even Manchester for example many of them a bigot in Manchester and Manchester or even before the money from the from from magnates in this part the world that part the world now Manchester was supporting 2 big teams year after year after year and lots in the hinterland of Manchester as well so in the long term the only way those stadiums are going to be viable is if local teams based there with roots in the community become popular enough to fill up on a regular basis and can you can yet tell us about Kenya so can we cannot rely just add to terms the bridge to what he said because we have exactly the same thing in South Africa and the difference a little bit is that they there are stadiums in established cities with established teams who still look to draw in other teens the biggest prize to Johannesburg Kaizer Chiefs for example the most popular team. Play 3 or 4 of their home games in Durban at the big stadium there and get paid to do so by the municipality because they feel it does turnover revenue for the for the city in terms of all the fans coming in from a particular game and it keeps the stadiums busy you know the big fear in South Africa was that after 2010 most stadiums would become the soak Sokol white elephants but they they really have used them a lot. And a lot of it is on this basis the terms just explain and his argument is very interesting to me because you know on the one hand from a sporting to state that he's an absolute right but only on the other hand particular in a country like South Africa moving those games to go to Paula Kwame and the stadium particularly Nell spaded bombero where they don't have a where they don't have a franchise or they did they had a franchise but it no longer exists you know it's still it's an important way to keep stadiums in the condition that they were left at the end of 2010 which I must say to to to the pride of most of Africans is the case you know all of those venues are still going strong the grounds of magnificent The stadiums are still in tip top condition and a lot of that is because of the system of paying teams to come and play there particularly in in some of the smaller venues that were used for the World Cup. On the subject of Kenya they haven't been to the Nations Cup since 2004 I'd say that they are the England of Africa. Perennial underachievers and. It's true you know I mean it's a country with a great economy. Limping dominance in that letter except where they've certainly got the prowess and they've got a fairly strong domestic league they just don't seem to produce any decent footballers. And maybe they are one Yama Now as you know is a sort of role model that might lead to a more exciting generation coming but it's a head scratching exercise not only for the rest of Africa but for Kenyans in particular why their team. It's such rubbish Well I didn't mean to cut you but leasing to make it into the European Championships Medusa are you running out. Are you expecting Kenya to make it to the European Championships and that would be hard work couldn't it. Ok I rest my case I was going to say something else was my head now but Member when we have the will for bullfighting 23rd eventually a few weeks back remember all those artists yeah we got members of pasties Germany the peloton actually memory to anyone that they were gone ya just turn me back yeah . I'm guilty as charged. We had loads of pasties sent to us free of charge by the great Simon in Coalwood he listens to us every week as he's making these passes and now has decided to join us for the willful vote in Simon Good morning. Same even Yeah good morning even though he's past he's went down very well I must say whenever we. Got somebody well he. Had a big back saying same. Does who does it work. The way I grew up you know if you don't eat you know if you don't eat. You know. Exactly well and we never even gave you a Brazilian shirt name because you deserved when after all of that you know yeah we need to do tonight what he did tonight get things the protocol in order says Simon in the same. Cabin cabin bakery I'm not as Cornish is I sound like somebody Baker in the country don't know my way say way way down the list the most southerly bakery in the country does a good Cornish pasty and you need to Brazilian shirt name to anything else will well it's you know Simon. Is one of the depressing topics but more and more particularly I mean I sort of Twitter a lot more and more you you watch all around the world but the money and. Taking pick me. And if the insurance based side of life. Comes up for have a talking about the money crown the spade and so on the moment I felt it was in the psychic promise compared to cite what he said he is again I just want to it's a matter of time before we start you know which is going to be horrible saying the same infallible It seems incredible that bulls exams on that topic when it seems that many many other schools like psych and I say it's ready seems to be a perennial problem different subsidies they sound like individual schools was even named individuals cap if you are a footballer he's going to have many quite a year and somebody can improve you saw it made is it not naive to think that that doesn't happen to him. I think it's it's an excellent topic for discussion and I'm sure it's already there however I can I can't imagine. Taking any drug in football that will have anything like the same effect on performance as say Ben Johnson in athletics or Lance Armstrong in cycling The reason being is that that football demands such as a wider range of of skills and abilities many of which come down to decision making and football to play well is to choose well. And technique is another think technique on the ball is something that so obviously the athletic the purely athletic side can be enhanced by the taking of substances the You Can Do take me and rescissions the recovery. Kind of thing indeed but the technology and the rescissions of the game belong to the game and let's take a what was a realty really mild example of cheating which is Donna when he was kicked out of the 1994 World Cup. Because he'd taken. A kind of cocktail of things for 11 reason which was to get his white down our member seeing him on the bench for Argentina in March before that World Cup and he looked at him and he is no way going to play in a World Cup It was huge Can the World Cup and he was really thin and really in condition cheating in the way that he cheated war or what it did was it gave him an athletic platform to show his skills when in the case of what Ben Jonson and Lance Armstrong the cheating was the performance so I think football is in comparison with other sports it's relatively immune because you need so many other things. And what what the athletics side of it does is give you a platform to show skills and decision making that got that make you a great player but you're trying to get get in there I think Tim's 100 percent spot on I mean I can take as many drugs are possible like you know you know I'll still be just on the fringes of selection for the national side. Yeah you can say that you can say that but what about if I mean what always strikes me is that football now focuses on tries to shy away from performance enhanced seeing in terms of physical performance and what not drugs tends to sort of try and suggest that that doesn't really exist where is somebody that is caught smoking cannabis for example is treated really really severely almost as if to say this is the worst that can happen in football but it makes no sense to me and the way that these 2 things are confused on the one hand people who are taking a substance. With the aim of cheating that's one thing that the social drug thing is is another totally it's not cheating in any way whatsoever and you could argue it's there to protect the physical integrity of the athletes protect things and I don't protect him not only from things that would benefit performance but from things that would worsen his performance you could argue that it is basically a moralist thing and I always detest it when well I say my man a dollar is called a cheat often buying by body English for his kid is cocaine problem it's not going to make you play better football it really it really isn't you know I don't I've never heard any specialists who thinks that prolonged cocaine cocaine use will do anything other than damage your athletic performance. Well I've got to just on that one I totally agree with the way the football works. But I just I just which. If you look at a premiership squad it's a. And one guy he's good enough to be in that saying but somebody is telling him in the background quietly which happens in so many sports I can I can make you run 3 miles in a match I can make you run 5 miles an hour further and I foster to much I can I'm not going to happen either and it's not supreme entry but the big question I got as well is could say the next time he's in the u.k. Give me a different address that you don't have access to i we're going to. Need subject docs and the 9 lies that you had 4 months advancing with a. I always just. Always quote I always quote this what. I would do with my local said she north London is Barnet and the closes was to me you know the place was you can actually get tickets for so I went to see them and the opposition a kind of if it was out as soon as they had the fact it's gone the page and everybody lost 20 came out and then he went to score to crack. That's why I gave up . So that's what I'm doing about rubbing my belly actually when I ask you what do you think to be fair some I wasn't talking about would you think about drug taking his will I was thinking what do you think about this really Brazilian shirt name for Maxine Glasgow Danielle past year rela do you get it. Would you reckon like a very Celtic connection to Glaswegian she would be there I wouldn't be Shell Yeah Ok you're not going to get that then and thanks we'll see if other listeners suggest something so many Thanks so what do we have much you're welcome what should be the Brazilian shirt name for pasty men Downing called will feel free to text me 185058 pick up the phone to give us a call the flight joining the wolf will funny that we're talking football in Africa and South American players from over there playing in our leagues the number to call these. 080-859-0963 but 1st let's get the latest 5 I've heard loud says Nick corrosion. Premier League football live and you want to use this is b.b.c. 5 Live the African Union says it's extremely appalled by Donald Trump's alleged use of an obscene term to describe their countries the organization has called for a retraction and an apology the president has denied using racist language during a meeting about immigration dentists have accused the government of having a short sighted approach to tooth decay in England after hospital operations to remove children's teeth increased to around 43000 last year ministers say they're determined to reduce the number of extractions not again railway station will reopen this morning after a suspected arson attack disrupted services yesterday East Midlands Trains says there will be a reduced timetable after a fire on the concourse and roof and police in Los Angeles say they're investigating sexual assault allegations against even to gallop dating back to 2005 there has been no comment from the 65 year old actor Time now for the sport with James Buffett the Scottish f.a. Will hold talks with the Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill with a view to him becoming the new Scotland manager the 48 year old has been the s f A's preferred candidate since Gordon struck and departure in October elsewhere Manchester City are prepared to risk missing out on Alexis Sanchez possibly to rivals Manchester United rather than pay Arsenal's 35000000 pound asking price city would prefer to wait until the summer to get the Chilean for free Jermaine Jenas says Sanchez is holding all the cards surely what will happen will be exactly what he wants because you know what Manchester United are doing and you know other clubs that may be interested is that yes he's a fantastic player but it's also an unbelievable investment it just makes complete sense Yeah Ok forget with 25 for a 1000000 you know that money safe really with a Lexus and. As well as in add in you know just bundles to your team in trying to get anywhere near Manchester City Well Theo Walcott could be on the way out of Arsenal to Everton are in negotiations to sign the forward Don Hutchison appeared on the Friday football social and was asked if Walcott had fulfilled his potential I don't think yes I think when you are silent and is upset if Lyon are say that more of a fit 11 because it will go boy there and look man who looks brilliant to me I think he looks as though he's got a lot I don't know I don't know what the culture is like Arsenal I don't think is there's any reason you blame culture other than you can go through a training session there are only looking from the outside as if you can just about do and off and were happy until wash and Theo I think is just about done and off. The former Manchester United and Everton fullback Phil Neville is a contender to take over as the manager of the England women's team and both Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy have been interviewed for the vacant Wales manager's job in the Championship meanwhile to man Sheffield Wednesday held off city rivals United to draw their 1st game under new manager. Connor McNamara was watching. The Steel City jobbies do produce thrilling games the last league meeting here at Bramall Lane finished 32 earlier this season it was 42 it Hillsborough but this game remained stubbornly scoreless even though the visitors were forced to play much of the 2nd up with only 10 men after Captain Glenn Loovens was sent off but nil nil means a point for ya slew Kay in his 1st game in charge of Sheffield Wednesday rugby union and Scarlets took a step towards the European Champions Cup quarter finals they dented boss hopes with a $35.00 to $17.00 bonus point victory at the rock Jerry Guscott was watching for 5 Live Sports Extra He says both just couldn't get going they started with a lot of territory and a lot of possession and they couldn't turn into points and when that happens and then the opposition can I get a little sniff and turn it into points and then go one man dying amends kick start their game stop playing wonderful rugby kind of thing When's it gonna happen for us and they couldn't get their heads round that and Edinburgh have secured a home European Challenge Cup quarter final it's thanks to a thrilling $34.00 points to $33.00 victory over stat Francais b.b.c. 5 Live. In every Sunday 5 Investigates world class investigative a world football phone in this morning is Africa and South America plays remember they're playing Ali's particularly in this January transfer month which of the players coming from over there to us you might want to ask or which of the players from going there or anywhere else in the world you might want to know the number to call if so if you'd like to ask any questions with regard to football from those regions connected in any way or indeed in those regions themselves to. Police in using Cape Town and legend victory who is in Rio call the mono 808-590-9693 That's 808590693 as Joel in Burton upon Trent in the Midlands has done a no no Glatt country actions on this one Tim behave yourself rich and almost so ever None whatsoever but Joe gone you give us what it sounds like to be you from the Black Country give us the authenticity Joe if you don't mind well call. Sounds good so I agree that it still sounds better than symbolically. The one. I know. You go. Use me however you want it's pretty good. Thank you very much. You know remember. Oh right of course yeah yeah. Regarding. The proposal play so I don't actually know you know I mean I'm a boss like. It as it is a kind of like a least. If you're active to incentivise come into it meant to be the next big thing never contemplate the best example the 2nd think of a. Plan to remember to even play in the cup a little is one and he 'd that caught promising us a red also said no we have a case where is that they came out against boss lane about never happen I believe he's playing in Switzerland. I mean of the one now separates where he's going to go on. Well I think a little bit harsh on some of the way under Vincent Sanchez is progressing very nicely. At Inter Milan he seems to have lost his whiny look very very promising for a while as a Colombian center back and seems to have lost his way little bit. And after lots of injuries and a crisis of confidence. Seems to be going quite well in Switzerland. Looks like the most impressive of the bunch of I've been raving about him here for years and years are I remember meeting because he came in made his name it was nice 1st club but he made his name with Santa Fe in Colombia and I remember meeting someone with links to the club that soon after years ago now and I just couldn't believe that he wasn't on the radar screen of every European club because he is giants he cleans up in the air in both penalty areas he's quick as well he's really quick along the ground in the end he's all right on the ball and he just looked title made for European football and this fellow with links to Santa Fe was telling me that you could have him for 1000000 dollars I was thinking wow I have a look at my bank account a 1000000 dollars and I don't think I can quite do that quite That's about 2 weeks I mean why something like that yeah if I put him on a little bit they celebrated my mantlepiece you know. On that the better although she does she has a very nice job but anyway you put on the mantel piece nice so big it just brought to mantel piece so it surprised me and it'll bit that he's taken so long to get to Europe one paramedics of Brazil saw him 1st and got in there and used him for a while I have with Barcelona I have just one or 2 doubts on this one doubt wherever he goes which is whether he might be a little bit injury prone and he's broken down once or twice and that giant frankly is huge There's a photo I saw just a few hours ago of him meeting me. See there about some of them shaking hands messy messy is honestly half the height you know and it's ridiculously funny photo of 2 teammates and I suppose a great if you like for for the wonder of football it's for all shapes and sizes but I do worry that that dangling frame might might turn out to be injury prone especially in quick and more intense football Another thing I worry about is whether he's going to pick up cards because as he so big he so huge and if he flies into a tackle and Miss times it and it looks really bad so that that can that concerned me a little bit but also specifically with Barcelona and there's a set model of play with Barcelona and if you're a center back you know they're going to pass the ball out the back which means that you're going to receive the ball on lots of occasions in situations where if you lose it then there's a potential goal for the opposition on the fellow I think is it just so vital to Barcelona when he plays well Barcelona play well is your boss gets who you know you sits in front of them and he dictates the play from from there but what he has to do there he has to receive the ball from the goalkeeper from the center backs and easy receiving it under pressure and he'll give it back to them and then group which gets will will will move into positions receive the ball and then he will make those vital parts forward that make space for Messi and Co higher up the field so gets is continually in and in a footballing dialogue with the center backs giving the ball to them getting it back for them so there are many many times in a game where the center backs are having possession of the ball and their passing needs to be spot on now meanor is not bad on the ball the loves are forward surge and he loves a bit of that but at Barcelona he will be he will have to take responsibility so many times and we haven't really seen him do that you know pass the ball out from the back so many times and. Obviously you might 2 or 3 mistakes and it becomes very very high profile and the opposition will press you all the more so I'll be very interested to see how it goes with Barcelona but the potential very huge with the size of these peise the threat he poses attacking set pieces in your penalty area as well as the way he can clean up. In his own penalty area. There is a really really fine player there but just one or 2 worries about not how he might that to Basilan roomier essentially goal Jack in London's reverse is Roger good morning. And. The question turning to him was talking about this which I have a lot of the. Great stuff as usual. From Mark. You go to games all the time right I think I think you're a commentator That's correct so your experience. Whatever the equivalent of the media is whatever. And you. Know. What's going on but what what is happening then kind of. Tell me tell me how many black South Africans have played the bass and the recently I level in Britain. Since Clinton 14 and Benny what I mean. Why they are not and why is there not enough migration of the new No you must think you are presented as a gent as a journalist kind of like commentating and commentating on this. Like there are no doubts or that everything is. Because I don't feel like particularly want people to coming to Britain and probably die I don't but you know what the Christie's kind of like if we don't see what is the need the city 1000000. Yeah listen it's a great question and it's a question that that is raised very often in South Africa that particular around this time where the national team has done so poorly you know the feeling is that they're not enough South Africans playing in decent leagues in Europe and it does affect the national side and we we just haven't had as exciting a generation as as as we previously had new mention to them could fortune in Benni McCarthy and of course in the same time with Sean Bartlett at that wonderful club Charlton Athletic eccentric sector so it's it's. It's something that is regularly brought up here and this is a lot of different schools of opinion one is that you know perhaps things are a little bit too comfortable in South Africa for for your average footballer black or white in the sense that it's a it's a good paying league and you can earn a very good living here and and there the motivation that South Africans have to go overseas and play is not as extreme as it would be for let's say someone from from a West African country where you know it's life changing in some traders more sort of prestigious earning it's not to say you know they're not put guys who could really change their lives by landing a contract and and are motivated by that but often talk of the feeling is the motivation is not is not the same as it is it isn't in other parts of Africa and people critics of the South Africans you know often point to Nigeria and Cameroon Garner and top African football playing countries and say look at how many of their players go overseas and why are we able to achieve wild our chaps able to achieve the same and that's. One of the reasons is it's perhaps a little bit too comfortable I think it's also a little bit generational I think also it's got a lot to do with physique. The. You know the sports but here or perhaps a little bit smaller and it's also perhaps got to do with. With development it at. Age level you know so I think there's certainly doesn't produce the quality of players that go to Europe at 161718 that one sees from from from West Africa next will be areas reasons and perhaps a little bit to do with you know the inability to cheat the age as much as as it is possible elsewhere but it it's a very good question that you raise and it's a question that is vexing insular figure all the time it's raised often and people do still feel that we would be so much better had if we had a few more players who play in the Premier League exceptional and able to. Bring that back and inspire you know people in Inside Africa Yeah and thanks should I remember Mark. I remember a few years ago you know there was that spite of position coaches going to South Africa with the national team in one or 2 I think at club level as well and our members have seen a couple of empty talk about it and one thing that really struck them about South African Football was that a player of like say 25 or 26 was being considered by South African Football was being considered as a youngster you know whereas for South American football if you've reached 25 and 26 and you haven't been sold to Europe it's unlikely that you're going to go you know you're a youngster at your 7 sayings lightings nineteen's So is there a problem there with youth development I don't think so you know I think look at it I think most of it's driven by the fact that it's you know it's a very competitive league and it's a it's a must win it's a must win situation and you know kids people don't put a lot of faith in kids and it's hard for youngsters to break into the teams and we do see a lot of. Players at old age beginning to come through because teams really have to win you know I suppose that's true elsewhere in the world as well but but. You know every club has gotten the cademy there are a lot of private academies as well looking to find players I just think. Perhaps there's not as you know it's not as fertile a footballing ground as people like to think in South Africa and that has their sobriety good points I wonder whether the people that you've mentioned we could mention Louis Hriday be amongst them as one of the you know all the footballers that you've mentioned I wonder how even you know comparisons Winston Reid from New Zealand we don't have any of the New Zealand players in the Premier League performance really just wonder whether they are big fish in a small pond wherever that restricts you to some extent are they over and above all the other players in their environments in their regions so there isn't enough competition there for the really top players as it was the one or 2 that do develop don't actually get to the level of being you know considered to be good enough to play in the European leagues and stuff because they don't have the competition there is enough strength in depth if you don't know I mean the I think the league is a very good league and you know one of the questions was are there no Scots down there are certainly plenty of Scots down here source for European sides and it's quite interesting to see how celebrity there is often a conduit for someone else from Africa to go 'd on to something bigger and better in Europe we've had a lot of players who've come to South Africa for a year or 2. And then gone through and invariably they're all foreign and I mean well they are all foreign and they and they just seem a little bit hungry and you know. I think the other thing that retards the progress of science and so seems to is that you know the clubs are fairly hefty transfer fees and it is and of course while European sides willing to pay Edison dollar for a decent player it's certainly not that easy cheap rich pickings that you find elsewhere on the continent you know at least these problems professional clubs driving hard bargains when when you want their best players that's why the team hasn't been trying to raise bank account to sign them and is now making selfies others of us good money minute. Good morning Don How are you I'm very well how are you. Working out. We will be working not may you know unusual in that respect will be will be with you know not to be working. Absolutely Jim Beaver in Ally good. Let me give let me give you let me give you a question Clinton please Ok We're going to over Christmas I did yeah I did have a Christmas question you know. Obviously. The. Killing me. Christmas I ever Anyway I saw the sign you're the winner you give me you have to give me don't. Please give me to your guest. Let you do you know and the spring because you know Jones Ok we go back to the subject we were talking earlier if you don't mind. Drugs. I think. We just think. A very distinct. Difference between when you say and that's a lake or cycling's or something that I are using performance enhancing drugs as opposed to somebody like say well known footballer from Argentina Asian recreational drugs. Because. Insufferable Asian markets are ational Gox that is not going to haunt performance and if you know business into Tim's reason he said executives will Miss Woods who would do you would you do. Makes any better of course he did because it is. So as far as I'm concerned the man who hambone was a car owner. Instead of Bank of and made some for us having a rogue cop. On Iraq that never. Well. I mean I don't want to you know like you say listen. Yeah you have made the point loud and clear. That Siri Audrey could not get a good miss in either one. Thanks very much for the you know you know. When at that time I love that well that World Cup made me fall in love all over again with football I don't think I'll be working inside the game were it not for that walk up I actually love that walk up and at the time I'd never been out of England and so on and really want anybody to England to win. And but I found it very easy to forgive him to forgive man I don't and I'll tell you why my God Did he take a clattering he really really and I kicked him all over the field and Terry Fenech who was a gutsy player and a good bloke good luck to have in your side but he wasn't and he would same self he wasn't up to Mark in marathon or smashing his elbow into the face of Marat on or off the ball you know I consider myself a kind of stand up kind of guy but you know if someone's elbowing me in the face and kicking me all over the place and I've got a chance to put one in with me hand. Sorry I'm psyching and I'm celebrating and I don't really care if you don't like it so I found it very easy to forgive him Mark you know reading a question for both of you question which has problems are for America at the moment is it as bad as it was reported a few years back Mark do you rate readings Gambian forward Barrow so far he's done Ok for us but I feel he should be scoring more who do without 1st. He's the guy from Swanzy had a couple of Premier League. Last season and. You know I don't know I mean you know he's he's more he's war actually a British were. Raised we should say British raised player who with the African connection has gone back and played a couple of games will again be again be unfortunately a little bit you know sort of the Luxemburg of the end or African football qualify for a major championship or 40 because of the size of the country so. You know his is excessive going to all of them by sending gold Brady you know I mean geographically but also vote in terms I imagine the Gambians who are really good at football will cross the border and you know because it's surprisingly there's a surprising amount in Sweden it seems you know once they tell a fairly good junior side they were the best in the 20 five's of the African under the chairmanship but they they certainly certainly battle at national team level I can tell you about Sweden the Swede Gambhir was the one country when I lived there Gambia was the one African country that didn't need a visa to go to Sweden because it's there that's an obvious reason why the footballers go there exactly exactly it's because Gambia is the one country in West Africa certainly the Swedes were going as tourists because you know they had spent a lot of money in the infrastructure to attract tourists there so you know the tourists would go to Nigeria or anywhere like that there's a great heiress there's the ration Yeah yeah they go to Gambia so Swedes don't like applying for visas when they go travelling and they travel a lot it's only 8000000 of was about 10000000 nowadays when those only 8000000 of them they did not apply for visas so they did a kind of a quid pro quo with Gambia suddenly you know you went to Sweden and it was I had to jump through hoops on a Nigerian possible to get there but my Gambian friends if I met you know it's a true story I met a couple Gambians to 2 or 3 Gambians who had stowed away on a ship there what 1516 years old bumped into them in Stockholm and they were literally just. Of the ship and they were not looking for a relative in stucco they funny found a relative is talk about she but it was amazing story 1516 year olds it stowed away all the way from Gambia to Sweden jump ship there I managed to sort of you know have because you know the passports didn't need to be stamped in Sweden they were normal residency and never showed a jump ship and. Lots of questions will come back to this thing about hooliganism Oh can you wrap it up in 45 seconds. I druther No I'd rather asking for if I'll come back to me after the news how do you apply for a visa or. What you mean. How to do it. For the heart until stalled for Votto health. Care for a pole still storm is. A visa would just be. If it's printed on every word you never know when he's going to come in. The area for the sale story. I know you. Did but want to blind you don't even know what fish story that. Is. For anyone else this c.b.c. 5. 3 o'clock Good morning this is up for nigh on 5 Live and daughter Nattie by the main news on 5 Live an organization about African country an apology from President Trump and installed Northern Island manager Michael O'Neill is set for talks over the Scotland job. This is b.b.c. 5 live within. His job. African countries so demanding Donald Trump apologizing solved he apparently describes them offensively the president tonight is using racist language in a White House meeting on immigration Wendy Thompson is a political lobbyist in the Volga his choice of words was not good and I totally agree that you know Norway versus Haiti or versus Africa definitely has a racial tone to it and I can't deny that but I look more at again the steps to.