Hello everybody, it's the Gary Neville podcast, which comes to you from Stamper Bridge this evening at not quite the end of the Premier League weekend.

There's a big game tomorrow which we'll talk about, but at the end in the context of the title race of what we might consider Gary to be a swing weekend.

And Manchester City have just made a big statement.

They have and the perfect scenario for anybody in a title race is that you play first,

particularly when you're in front and you can just stretch that league and really apply pressure

and Arsenal lost that ability yesterday by losing that game against Bournemouth.

So you wake up this morning, Manchester City have travelled down to London yesterday afternoon with a bit of a smirk on their face thinking something's happening.

And when you're a serial title winner like Pep Guardiola and this Manchester City team or some of them, you're going to be thinking, right, it's happening.

And I thought Manchester City would win today.

I was surprised at how lethargic they were in that first half but he's obviously sort of put a rocket up them

in the half time and they've come out in the second half they've really stepped up a

gear or two they've added pace and tempo into everything that they're doing they've been a

bit more direct I don't mean direct by knocking it long I mean a bit more direct by

placing putting balls into the box a bit quicker. And they got the benefit of that. It was a statement victory, a clean sheet, not a great Chelsea performance just generally. Even in the first half, think, when I was listening to Micah and Daniel said at half time they thought Chelsea

done okay and they did do okay but I think that was more about Manchester City just not laying a

glove on them and not being anywhere near their level as soon as Manchester City went into third

and fourth gear Chelsea were nowhere to be seen in this game they were miles off it and it was a real

big victory and I've been there a lot in my career where you're

watching the other team and they look confident and I think there are just a couple of

things I think Cherokee's become a little bit of a what's the word?

Maybe a pantomime villain or maybe a character in this last few weeks i mean i'm absolutely

convinced over on that far side the camera didn't pick it up he was taking he flipped it up

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