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Hello, happy Saturday and welcome to the TalkSport Daily Podcast. I'm your host, Jon Jackson, and let's get straight to it, shall we? We begin today with the build-up to the massive heavyweight boxing clash between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury over in Saudi Arabia. And of course, it's live on TalkSport. Let's go.

I don't feel any pressure at all. I've come back from the depths of despair. He will never have a bigger fight than coming back from defeat. He understands that this is going to be the fight of his career. If he's done, his career is finished. He's one punch away here, Oleksandr Isik, very possibly from being crowned undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Tyson Fury is ready to go.

It's hard opponent. It's a great boxer, father, husband. I much respect for Tyson Fury. Usyk adapts to all styles. He adapts to all situations. From Ukraine, Paul Sander, the same. Up the cup from Fury, followed by the left hand, and another one.

Down goes Diolara! And the referee has waved the fight over. I'm going to come back and I'm going to win it. That's it. That's all it will ever be. Nothing more, nothing less than a good old-fashioned night. Very, very, very good smile. Very, very, very good smile.

So the big question, who's going to win the fight? Here's the take of boxing promoter Eddie Hearn. Head says Usyk, heart says Fury and it's difficult to go against the Ukrainian but I've got to do it. I've got to do it. Good vibes towards our fellow countryman Tyson Fury. I would love to see him do it. I really would. And you

You're going to see one of the great fights of our generation in the heavyweight division. Tyson Fury is weighed in at just under four stone heavier than Alexander Usyk ahead of the pair's rematch in Saudi Arabia. Tyson Fury has changed it up a little bit, but Usyk equally has taken that calculated gamble and he's coming in heavier as well. He looks bigger, but he looks very athletic. I mean, it's going to be a fascinating contest, whatever way this one goes. TalkSport Daily.

Now Spurs manager Ange Postakoglu has been speaking to the media ahead of their huge fixture against Liverpool on Sunday afternoon. Here's Big Ange's response to Jamie Carragher's comments about Tottenham's style of play. Jamie Carragher, mate. You can name him. People tell me he likes me, so that's a good thing. They tell me, I just hear what he said, but he likes you as a person. I go, oh, that's important to me. Look, it's all valid. It's all valid. But I don't need validation from anybody to do what I do.

you know, whether you, like I said, whether you agree with my approach or not, that there's validity in both. Like, and I don't have an issue with that. I mean, that's,

I love the fact that people are talking about our games and analysing our games. I mean, I think that's important as well for this football club. I'd rather that than us being anonymous and no-one talking about us or we're just sort of grinding out an existence. I like the fact that, you know, and as I've always said, you've got to be prepared for scrutiny, you've got to be prepared for criticism. It's how you react to that that's more important. But whether it's Jamie or anyone else kind of, you know, scrutinising or criticising our approach, that's healthy because...

To me, how you react to that is much more important than that itself. On to Manchester United now, and here's Gabi Agbonohor claiming that after some impressive performances recently, Ahmad Diallo is not all that. Fraser Forster, what are you doing?

dawdling on the ball, inviting pressure, and Ahmad was there to tuck it home. Last night, he done okay when he come on. He wasn't like a well-beaten yellow. Yeah, he got the block for the goal. He wasn't outstanding when he come on. He done some decent things. Maybe I'm just coming from an era where I was playing against like...

Top, top players week in, week out. Now I look at some of these players and they're average. Martinez at the back, not having him. Weak, poor last night. Bullied by Solanke. Bad game for him, but good player. No, I don't think he is. I'm not having him. He was good last season. This season he's been very poor. He gets found out, set pieces. Everyone talks about his height. He's been found out for set pieces. He always gets outjumped by the opposition. But last night, comical at times. His flick was...

Who clears a ball like that for the Kunishevsky goal? Clear the ball properly like a defender. At lunchtime today, the Premier League sees Aston Villa face Manchester City live and exclusive on TalkSport. Prior to the game, City defender Josco Guardiola says he's extremely confident the club are going to come through this difficult run of form. Yeah, I think after last year and all the years

I mean, especially two years ago when they won Treble. And as you said, that we looked like machines and that we were on the top. So it was...

It was almost the feeling that I had last season was going into the game, you just knew that you're going to win it. You're going to win the game because you could feel the spirit from the dressing room and from the team. But this time it's a bit different and I think it's difficult to handle this and I

I think this situation is not going to last forever, so we're going to be back sooner or later. I think we are the ones who have to change this and we have to be aware of this and start working on it. And now for the Villa perspective, with Matty Cash speaking to our very own Alex Crook about taking advantage of City's current predicament. Yeah, maybe you could say that, yeah. I think...

Obviously the manager is going to give us a game plan and he seems to know everything all the time so we'll just listen to him and try and do it. But obviously at home we've got to feel confident. We like playing on the front foot at home as well and getting after teams.

And we want to make it a tough place for clubs to come, you know. And I think last year we went 15 in a row at home. I think it was last year and obviously, yeah, last season and the season before we went on a really good run. So we're looking to do that this season, yeah. TalkSport understands that former AS Roma boss Ivan Zurek is set to be appointed as the next Southampton manager. TalkSport's chief football correspondent Alex Crook said it's a risky appointment for both parties.

A six-month contract for a team that are ensconced in the relegation zone, in fact, bottom of the Premier League by some mile. I mean, it's a risk for both parties, isn't it? It is, and I think it's probably a reflection that Southampton were struggling to...

a proven Premier League manager. Graham Potter gets mentioned by a lot of Saints fans because he played for the club but we know he's turned down a lot of jobs so why would he take this one? David Moyes, if you're looking for a firefighter but I think even he is aware that it's a tall order to save Saints from the drop so it could be a relegation on his CV. They looked at Carlos Corbin at West Brom but he's got quite a big release cause as well and I think it proved too expensive. It's a tall order

He's a combustible character, Duretz, as well. Kevin Hatchard, our European football expert, tells us he once had a physical scrap with his sporting director at Torino, so that could be good fun.

On to the Championship now and Luton's clash last night with Derby County down at the Kenny. And it's ended, Luton Town 2, Derby County 1. A result which didn't really look possible until the last couple of minutes of the game when Luton Town won it with two goals in as many minutes. The first of the goals, well that came from Kenny Ruddock and Panzu whose volley from the edge of the D after the ball had been fizzed out to him was just sumptuous

and it was actually Carlton Morris who got the winning goal, a shot deflected after Derby defender I think it was Nat Phillips and into the back of that, all this harsh on Derby who'd led from pretty much the hour mark, a lovely ball in from the right hand side by Kane Wilson headed back across Kaminski by Caden Jackson to give Derby the lead, it looked like they were going to hang on for it and inflict only a first defeat in two months on Luton until that very, very late show, it will be

A happy Christmas in Bedfordshire after all. It's finished. Luton 2, Derby 1.

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And we finish, of course, with clips of the week from Hawksby and Jacobs. The boys then moved on to movies always shown over Christmas, where Alan made a shock revelation. Chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang. Chitty bang bang, chitty chitty bang bang. Oh, you. Chitty chitty bang bang. Chitty chitty bang bang. We love you. Hi. Hello. I think I'm the chitty chitty bang bang car.

Really? I mean, he would have... Was it sponsored? Yeah. By somebody of Ipswich. Imagine that, yeah, some sort of local Opel dealer in Ipswich. Ness Allen's got a flying car. I ain't got a flying car. But imagine, I mean, remember the model it was as well. It would have been sort of fairly out of kilter. What if Arnold Murham would have made of that in the...

Very weird. Anyway, Alan's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car. Ali's post-party voice, they heard a little bit of that, the singing version. The good news was, though, his whistling was unaffected. His whistling is excellent. And it did make us wonder whether he would have made such a good milkman. I'm sure he would have done. Graduate? Was he a graduate in the 60s? Hoffman. Yeah, brilliant. And Bancroft. You had Sergio Loni. Woo!

Brilliant. You know what they were shot? Morning, Mrs McGregor. Extra paint for you today. Great. Milkmen can whistle well. I think that was when they go for the interview back in the kids. Ask your mum and dad. People used to deliver your milk. You didn't get it from the supermarket. I think they're still out there, aren't they, the milkmen? Yeah, of course. It's good to hear. But they were always good whistlers, I find. I did a milk round and I can't whistle.

Well, I think that's probably why you're not doing it anymore, Andy. That's right. What a great loss to radio that would have been if you'd stayed on the milk round. I mean, what's your reaction times like? Morning, mate. Do you do eggs? Do you do orange juice? Orange juice, yeah. I'll ask all those questions. Anyway, back to the clips. It's you, isn't it? Yes, and another casualty of the Talk Sport Christmas party was sports newsreader Ben Fletcher, who failed to notice the red studio live light was on. Talk Sport. I've never grasped on anyone, actually.

Good afternoon. There we are. Old Fletch. I wonder what he was going to say there. I think that was another tale from the Christmas party. It probably was. We know from Paddy's Challenge that Fletch can be a touch indiscreet. All right, well, thanks for listening on the TalkSport app or wherever you get your podcasts from. There'll be another one of these TalkSport Daily podcasts out first thing in the morning, so make sure you do hit that five-star review button. Don't do what Cundie does. That's a pretty good lesson for everything in life, to be honest.

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