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City looked to be an absolute force.

There are signs that most others are coming back to the kind of form that makes him the best player in the world when he is on form.

I think Villa are sleepwalking into a relegation battle at the moment if they continue

with Stephen Gerard the way things are.

Christian Erickshend will be Manchester United's player of the season, this season.

Hello and welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast. I'm Dan Bardell and this is the weekend preview.

I'm joined by George Ellick and Bet365's very own Steve Free. We're here to look ahead to Manchester City's visit to Anfield on Sunday and about the mounting pressure on Aston Villa by Stephen Gerard ahead of Chelsea's

visit to Villa Park. Plus, Manchester United welcomed Newcastle to Old Trafford, with both

looking to break into the top four. So, Mohammed Sala was off the bench to score a hat trick

within six minutes and 12 seconds, which begs the question to open the show. George, who is the best

super sub of all time?

Well, Moes Adam, I don't think you can categorise him as a super sub,

but when you're Rangers and you're facing up to a heavy defeat,

having taken the lead, and you've got one of the best players in the world

who's not in the best Nick coming on to change the game

and scoring the goals of the quality

that he scored in six minutes.

Probably has to put him up there. You know, Oligona Solskill is probably the one that we will think about when you're talking about a super sub. But Steve's shaking his head. So I want to know who is his suggestion is. I would have pulled someone from the 70s, weren't they here? I've never heard of. Go on then, Steve. Yeah, Liverpool, yeah, one sub.

Yeah, David Fairclough was nicknamed. Oh, of course. Super Sub back in the day when he's got those how many goals coming off the bench. But they always seem to score later on whenever it was like star soccer or match of the day or whatever. The big match live or whatever. I don't even think it was live back then. But yeah, with his hair and everything like that, coming on with number 12 on his back, David Faircliffe always used to score whenever he could. He didn't obviously score in every game, but I've just read he scored 35 goals after 60 minutes. So he was a fair goal scorer. Good shout. I only got a soul show for me. He's the ultimate super sup.'ll give a quick nod to Marlon Harewood, who was a good sub for a season.

Well read by Edison, but not well cleared.

Surely not.

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