Struggling Leicester will have a new manager in charge on Saturday – but he faces a daunting task in his first game.
“Poor old Dean Smith,” said BBC Sport’s football expert Chris Sutton before the Foxes’ visit to Etihad Stadium.
“He has got an impossible job, to try to take on Manchester City at this moment in time – they were absolutely brilliant against Bayern Munich on Tuesday.”
Sutton is making predictions for every Premier League game this season against a variety of guests.
For this weekend’s fixtures, he is up against Jack Jones, frontman with Welsh indie band Trampolene.
Their latest album, Rules of Love & War was released last month and they are currently touring the UK.
Jones is a lifelong fan of Swansea, his hometown team, but admits he has a soft spot for a Premier League side too.
He told BBC Sport: “My dad is from Southampton and I didn’t see him much when I was growing up – and the only time I did was when he took me to Saints games.
“They are not doing too well at the moment but I don’t see relegation as the end of the world – then again I don’t mind too much about Swansea not being in the Premier League either.
“I know everyone is like ‘oh no, the Championship’ but I love it down there. it is such a mad league, like a real football fans’ league.
“It feels like anything could happen every week, and anyone can get promoted or relegated. It’s impossible to predict anything, really.”
Despite taking 10 points from their past four games, Swansea have left it a little late for a promotion push this time around – they are 14th, nine points off the play-off places with five games remaining, and it appears their five-year wait for a return to the top flight is set to continue.
“I was still hopeful we could challenge before the World Cup but we fell away a bit after that,” Jones added. “I still really like our manager, Russell Martin, though. I just hope we back him and give him some money.
“The story of how we went from the bottom of League Two to the Premier League in 10 years from 2001 to 2011 was incredible, but it does not feel as if we are far away from getting back up there from where we are now.
“We just need to show a bit more ambition. Every time we get a decent crop of players, they seem to get sold and it is hard to build anything when that keeps happening.
“Joel Piroe is scoring all our goals at the moment – he slams them in. He’s not the fastest, but he is somehow just amazing at scoring – I just hope we can keep hold of him for a bit longer.”
Source – BBC Sport
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