The Athletic. Hello and welcome to the weekend preview on the athletic football

podcast sponsored by Bet 365. I'm Dan Bardell and each and every Friday myself and George Ellick will preview the

best of the weekend's Premier League action alongside Bet 365 Steve Freith, although we won't be doing that this

week because if you're paying attention, there is no Premier League action this weekend.

So instead we are going to talk about the Premier League and a bit of England as well. So luckily for me we're going to talk

about Stephen Gerald's appointment as the new Aston Villa Boss. That's literally what I've been doing all week. We're also going to touch on

Norridge's search for Daniel Farker's replacement.

And then as I say, we're going to cast our minds forward to around this time next year in Qatar

and try and pick an England squad, but will Sancho, Smith Row, Curtis Jones and Even Deli Ali make the plane.

So it's another international break with little riding on it.

England who is surely going to coast through.

They only need four points from Albania and

San Marino to qualify but there is a little more interest

surrounding the other home nations Wales and Scotland this week.

George how do you see those games going it's's going to be interesting to watch, you know, with Wales it's properly going down to the wire.

You know, they have a game in hand on Czech Republic.

They face Belgium in the final game. If they do win that one then all they need is a

point or for the Czech Republic to slip up in the in the final game. So it's going to be

dramatic I'm sure Wales rarely make it easy for themselves in the away game at Belarus

took a Gareth Bale 93rd minute winner in order to get them three points so it's by

no means a shoe in and for Scotland you know I watched Scotland's couple of qualifiers last month and

whilst they got the job done pretty late they weren't particularly impressive in doing so

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