Hello, Alistair Bruce Ball here before you get stuck into your podcast. I just want to quickly tell you about the fantasy 606 podcast because we are back for another season.

Who would have thought it? Well, my place has never been in doubt. I'm a Champions League winner. And I'm the Rating Champion.

And I was champion the season before anyway. I'm here with Chris Sutton and Statman Dave and we would like you to come and join us.

So what is the code to play in our league, Chris?

Yep, good question Bruce. The code is a H R S F 2 all in lower case Bruce. And my team's already done. We're ahead of the game, Brucey.

I'm impressed Chris and this year you at home could get involved even more than before. For this season, we're going to have a team in our mini league that's managed by you.

The listeners, the pod comes out every Thursday on BBC sounds now back to your podcast.

BBC sounds music radio podcasts. The football daily podcast from BBC radio five live.

Hello there. I'm Steve Crossman and we have a very special interview for you today on this episode of the football daily. Surely the player who's generated the most excitement going into this new Premier League season Manchester City's early Harland.

We sent somebody who knows the thing or two about goals growing to chat with him. So take it away. Alan Shira.

The biggest debates. The biggest names. The football daily podcast from BBC radio five live.

Great to meet you. Thanks very much. How's Manchester treating you and have you settled in?

Yeah, thank you for meeting me. Yeah, it's going good. A lot of new things. But in New Country of course, but it's good.

The lads are nice and the people around this nice. So I'm enjoying so far. We've seen the pictures of you as a baby in the Man City. What are your earliest memories of playing football?

I remember as young as I can that I want to become a footballer. I think because of my father, I told myself early that I want to become better than him.

That's what I wanted to say or what I said to myself really early. Getting the players up on my wall, the posters and so on.

I remember having fun. My cousin always going down, down playing in the hole and on the pitch and everything.

In the end, it's a beautiful game because you can do so much so easy around everywhere. You know me and you could stand here playing football.

That's also something I like about it.

You mentioned your dad, I played against him lots of times. He kicked me many times. Over the years, so you can thank him for that.

What kind of influence has he had on you? You mentioned as soon as you saw him, you wanted to play football.

Of course, he kind of printed football in my head quite early. But also in the end, he didn't put any pressure on me about playing football.

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