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Lambert confirms Keane visited Cleverly at his home

Friday, December 19 2014 by SNTV
  • Intro:

    Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert spoke to the media on Thursday ahead of his side's English Premier League meeting with Aston Villa on Saturday.

    Script:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Lambert, Aston Villa manager (on reports that former assistant manager Roy Keane confronted Tom Cleverly at the midfielder's home believing he had leaked stories about Keane falling out with the club's players):

    "I spoke to Tom briefly.... really briefly this morning, things to do and.... he assures me that what was portrayed was certainly not.... what had happened, so, and that was it really, so.... I've spoke about Roy, I've probably spoke about Roy, more since he's left than when he was here, so I think.... you give the guy a break, but, I certainly in the brief chat I had with Tom it certainly wasn't what was portrayed (in the media)."
    Q: "But he did go round (to Cleverly's house), but it wasn't how it was portrayed?"
    "That was what was telling me this morning, yes."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Lambert, Aston Villa manager (on Tom Cleverly picking up a one-game ban for five yellow cards in the season ahead of the meeting with his parent club Manchester United - a game in which he was already ineligible to play):

    "No, he told me, obviously he was on the edge of, to be fair we never spoke anything, I never spoke to him about it. That's the.... the five yellow card situation makes you, miss a game, but it's not something we, we spoke about at all. He just plays the game, we're not going to curtail anybody's enthusiasm for the game and.... (I) actually, actually forgot about it, didn't really pay any great significance to it and that's the way, that's the way it's happened."
    Q: "But do you think it should be this game he's missing when he can't actually play the game anyway?"
    "No, yes I do. Whoever makes up the rules. Yes, I do."
    Q: "Is it a loophole?"
    "Don't know, you might call it loophole or, cuteness or whatever, but, it didn't really effect me 'cause I never really thought about it. I'm just interested in, winning the game. And obviously Tom, Tom's playing his club, he can't play."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Lambert, Aston Villa manager (on the number of players missing for the Manchester United game):

    "Yes, there's a few, yes and.... but the team I pick will be strong, and we'll go and try and win. I have the belief in the team that we're going to go and, they're playing well, I can see that in training as well, the confidence is there, so we'll go and try and win. We're up against a.... good team.... but also, we've got players that can hurt them."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Lambert, Aston Villa manager (asked whether Manchester United can win the Premier League):

    "Yes, I think they've got enough to challenge.... but they probably know themselves they can't afford to lose too many more. I think Chelsea and Manchester City are.... going ever so well and.... they've had, less defeats, obviously, than Manchester United but.... they can certainly challenge, that's for sure. They've a massive say in it (the title race) if they don't win it."

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