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police have arrested 21 people in connection with plans to disrupt the epsom derby on saturday. officers said 19 people were arrested before the festival began while two others were detained on the grounds. one man was arrested for attempting to run across the track before the race began. and let's go back to the fa cup final now and that win for manchester city this afternoon keeps them in contention for a european treble. our reporterjohn watson caught up with former oasis member noel gallagher before the match, to find out what the result would mean for his half of manchester. not a bad season. no, for city? so far, so good. it's all going according to plan so far. yeah. is this the best city team you've ever seen? well... if we go in and do the treble and win the champions league,
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then it's the best city team of all time. you've got the first all manchester fa cup final to come. are you winning this one? well, the way i see it is this is like the treble is such a rarity in british football, so i've only ever been done once. so it's not nailed on that it's that it's going to happen. looking at the two teams over the season and the way city have just flipped the switch the last six six weeks, it's difficult to see past city winning, but i'll take any kind of 6—0 win. what are you like when you're watching? are you a nervous? are you a nervous fan? no. be relaxed. you get a bit twitchy. how is it? i hate when you go to football and the game kicks off and then someone will say so anyway.. you know, to watch the game. yeah, man, watch the match? you know? so i'm not that relaxed unless you're like 5—0 up with half an hour left city sometimes. ah, i'm a bit, i'm a kind of someone
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i've got a little bit of all that in me, but ijust watch it, take it in. ..known face there. when i'm noel gallagher, you're what, a0 years as a city fans. you've seen it all, haven't you? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. you think about those days at main road, your spiritual home to now and all the silverware. is it better now? different. can you compare and contrast those those you sort of missed some of those old days where, well, we weren't win, win, win? and no, these are the days. this is it. it's not going to get any. how can it get any better than this with pep and haaland? how can it get any better than that? we're in it now. you know, i mean, you can sense that we're in something and once this era is over and pep�*s decided to move on and probably work on the space programme, you know, you have to start getting this reset and start again.
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is pepe genius? you'd have to say he was. he's made the collective. as the season goes on, the team itself gets better. he gets better, you know? he made the club better. whatever a genius is, whatever that is, i don't even know what the definition of it is in the dictionary, but whatever, whatever it is, he would surely be one, right? if he blends the champions league, i'll be his butlerfor the next the next five years. it could be a fun job. if i do anything, he said. if he came into my house and said, i don't like the way i don't like the decor in this house, i'd say, i'll change it. don't worry about that. yeah, i'll do anything. so what do you say when people say city bought the title,
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bought the silverware? well, it's funny because when you don't win the league, they say that it proves that it can't be bought. so what is it? and at the beginning in two when when when they bought the club, they were trying to get somewhere in a hurry and they were throwing a lot of money at it. over the last... ..five, six years people spent more than we have. once we've won it. when we got to the points, as far as i'm aware, the other five times have gone to the last day. right? and four of those times we were behind. so it's not like we're running away with the league every season and it's not like, you know, there's a world auction for these players that come along and just obliterating everybody with a chequebook and city now have got their own their own rock star, i guess. in erling haaland, haven't they? he hasn't had the season. well, i know he's got superpowers,
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but he even suggested he might be able to get oasis back together. did he did he say that? i think so, yeah. he says you need a norwegian peacemaker. i think. what a cocktail. let's call that a few of those. well. yeah. greater men have tried. um is a great lot though honestly it's like he's he's he's well you know you forget he's 2022 and already like like like a superstar. do you remind your kids it wasn't always this good. they were i mean, i look at them sometimes. ithink, oh, rock star dad made you support the greatest team of this modern era. i mean, what are you looking for? i mean, come on. great hair. i mean, what do they want? so if we're assembling a band out
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of the band city squad, who's. who's playing drums, who's on lead vocals, who's on lead guitar? haaland, surely with that, hair has got to be on. well, you need... you need the power of the back. so i reckon ireland would be a great drummer with the hair. yeah. and then... bass player. nathan okay. because he's bound to have the funk. and then two guitarists with curves, the wizard. brian and jack could make a couple of wizard guitarists. the singer, who's the frontman, who is the frontman, said, it's got to be the gaffer on it. it's got to be pep on it. it's a great show. it's got to be. yeah. you know, bernardo silva, you play the accordion fellow.
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well, good luck. thank you very much. good luck with those two finals to come. and whatever whatever awaits after that. i mean, if we win the champions league, i'm going to walk on stage in my undies never mind erling haaland. bernardo silva needs to bring his accordion, doesn't he? great speech. nice one. thank you very much. thank you. let's go back now to wembley, where manchester city have become fa cup champions. they defeated city rivals manchester united 2—1. it's the first time the final of the competition has been contested between the two manchester clubs top right—hand corner, stunned everyone inside the stadium. there were fans who hadn't even made their way to their seats. yet the fastest ever goal in fa cup final history, just 12 seconds as i imagine. they probably should have had a few more before manchester united were handed a lifeline. because the mac ruled that grealish and handed the ball inside of manchester city. time for
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manchester united captain to play his part for the brutal fernandez from the penalties spot scored the game was even until then, 101 into the break. not long after because on 51 minutes it was ilkay gundogan another volley this time with his left foot. manchester united press as the game went on as you mentioned, 2—i as the game went on as you mentioned, 2—1 the final result of manchester city. erling haaland just a bit player but i'm sure that city fans won't care because they are now on course for that historic travel with that victory in the fa cup today. with that victory in the fa cup toda . , ., ., , ., today. yes, now two thirds of their wa to today. yes, now two thirds of their way to that — today. yes, now two thirds of their way to that trouble. _ today. yes, now two thirds of their way to that trouble. there - today. yes, now two thirds of their way to that trouble. there were . today. yes, now two thirds of their i way to that trouble. there were some people who thought that maybe their focus would be on a travel cover the champions league final next week. it seems it wasn't the champions league final next week. it seems it wasn't the champions league final next week.— final next week. it seems it was at decatur wembley. _ final next week. it seems it was at decatur wembley. yes, _ final next week. it seems it was at decatur wembley. yes, pep - final next week. it seems it was at - decatur wembley. yes, pep guardiola is 15 of the last six titles for the peas that manager, he's won trophies in germany and spain. he is very, very focused. he has 18 now who are
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trained winners. anytime you speak to them they never want to talk about to game time or three time, it's always the here now for that i think we saw that in the pre—formants today. i guarantee they won't be celebrating for too long. the trouble is on, they've already secured the premier league title, the fa cup today, and attention now turns to seven days from today, next saturday, the champions league final in istanbul. now on bbc news, erling haaland, in his own words. never, ever misses! this man is a sensation. another haaland hatrick! he's the norwegian super scorer who's taken the premier league by storm in a remarkable debut season in england. manchester city's erling haaland has established himself as world football's most feared striker, rewriting the history books in the process. and here at the club's training ground, he told me how he was handling sporting
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superstardom aged just 22. thanks so much for your time. you've just been training after a couple of days off. tell me, what is a day off like for you? normally i want to do something because when i'm in the season, i'm focused and i... ..i just cannot sit still not doing anything. so normally i want to do a bit. so normally i do work a little bit, sometimes a bit in the gym yeah. you tried to relax your head as much as you can, basically. how important is it to unwind and try and get away from football? a little bit? no, it's really important. that's what i do when i come home. i try to do when i come home or i watch a lot of football. but you can also disconnect from football. watching football, i think watching others play football. and so, yeah, it's really important to rest the mind body, of course, but especially in the mind. you seem to have adapted to life
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here in manchester remarkably well. what do you think of living in the city? do you enjoy it? what do you like about manchester? no, i like manchester. i enjoy it. i think to to play good on the on the pitch, you have to enjoy off the pitch as well. i like the people and i really enjoy everything. so, yeah, i like it. you're probably the most famous footballer in the country right now. possibly the whole world. what on earth is that like? that level of fame? no, it's nice. it's nice. that means i've done something right. my life has changed. that's something ijust have to admit. and that's how my life is. i can't complain. i try to enjoy every single moment of it and that's how it is. you've been described as a style icon. is that something you're comfortable with, you're proud of? i like to do a bit crazy kind of stuff, both on and off the pitch.
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so yeah, i like it. like the pajamas, which seem to be becoming something of a trademark of yours. well, what's the story behind that? is that just something it's relaxing. you feel comfortable or make a statement or. no, i like to be comfortable wherever i go. and i think i look really good. so that's that's why i use it, basically. because of that style, your stature, you're very recognisable. it seems that you're embracing that fame. you're not trying to keep a low profile or hide away. you're enjoying that element of life. what's the what's the thinking behind that? no, i, i of course. it's 196 tall and got long blonde hair. so wherever i go, people are going to see me. so that's how my life is. what can i do? there's nothing i can do. that's my life. ijust had to try to enjoy it as much as i can.
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try to relax when i'm home with good people around me — that's really important. and yeah, just try to to enjoy my life, basically. do you accept that your achievements are accompanied by a loss of privacy? you don't have that freedom, perhaps, that people who are not in the public eye have. and is that something it's a challenge at times, or is it compensated for by all the good things that come with it? yeah, of course. i could just wish i could walk into wherever i want without anyone filming me but that's. that's not possible. that's not how it is. but again, that's my life. again, i cannot complain about how my how things have turned out. when i was young, i wanted to become a professional footballer and the best in the world. so and a price comes with that. if if you're going to be that there's certain things you have to do different, you have to live different,
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you have to do this and that. and and that's just how it is. and yeah, i'm not complaining. your dream, you say, was to be the best in the world. have you achieved that dream? do you believe you are the best goal scorer in the world right now? a good question. i don't want to answer that. i think someone else should answer that. ithink so... that's a good start. can improve? so much. how can you improve on what you're doing? everything on the pitch from my right foot to my left foot. from the heading. from the build up play. everything. have you improved this season a lot? is that because of the manager? yeah. a lot on the manager and also the people in the club, around the club, people working with me every day from physios to trainers, also to the people around me keep on developing, me on and off the pitch
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and and making things as easy as possible as it possibly can in my life to to perform on the pitch. but of course, with pepe, the best manager in the world is of course, when you see my game, i've been developing in a really positive way and that's really important for me because i'm still really young, i'm still 22 and i've got a long career ahead of me and i still have to develop. and that's also something i was thinking of over one year ago when i was thinking about my next move, you know, about how i can develop even more and become even better player. so i've been developing in the right way. and what is it about pep guardiola that makes him different, special, unique? is itjust the attention to detail? i think it's i think it's different on on person to person or player to play because everyone's different. so everyone maybe needs a different approach on how to handle things or how to develop or whatever. but for me, it's about small details. of course, i have my own game and i should keep on doing
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why they bought me. you know, i should keep on doing the things i've been doing before, what they saw when i played for another club. what about small details? what to do here and there, what to do different, maybe in these kind of situations? that's what he's got. he sees things other people don't see, basically. here you are, erling sat here today, you're just two games away from the treble and sporting immortality. how does it feel to be this close? a really good feeling. of course, we've been chasing the whole season, so it's been kind of when we won the premier league was a big relief. when nottingham beat arsenal it was a big relief, to be honest. also a really good feeling of course, i have to say. and now we've got two finals left and now the only thing we can focus on now is to finalise before the vacation. and how special would it be if you were to achieve something that hasn't been done since before you were born? that's a measure of how difficult this is.
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yeah, exactly. now it would be unreal to make this history. i will do everything i can to make this kind of history. but really, it's not easy. it's two finals against two good teams that will do everything they can to try to destroy that. and they will be motivated, they will be ready. and we have to play it our best, because if we play at our best, we're going to be we have a really good chance of achieving exactly that. it will already be a great season. you've won another title, premier league title, but is there a feeling that you're this close? there's a sort of you have to seize this opportunity because you may never have this chance again in your career? no, we should we should definitely take this opportunity now. we should take game by game. it's a it's a thing i have to say, and it's a thing we have to do. we have to not to think too much. we just have to do what we've been doing basically the whole season and especially the last couple of months or the two in 2023.
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and we just have to keep going. basically don't think too much and just win the games. a lot of city fans will be feeling very tense ahead of these next few days. so much on the line. how do you how do you feel? no, i haven't thought too much about it. honestly, while we're doing this interview, i try not to think too much about it because overthinking is not a good thing. i think i try to never overthink that's the most difficult thing in this world. and 2023, not to not to overthink in this world. so that's what i'm basically trying to do. i didn't think of the final until you ask me about it. so that's basically how it is. so you don't imagine what it would be like then to to lift the fa cup or to win the champions league? you try and keep that out of your mind. no, i try not to think about it because the champions league, if i start focusing on the champions league final now, it's i cannot do you know, i have to focus... three hours ago, ifocused on the training today. tomorrow we focus on the training tomorrow and then we start building up to the game.
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that's how we're trying to do. you hear people say city are making winning seem too easy. it's almost becoming too predictable. a little boring, perhaps because they've won five titles in the last six years. so strong a team, it almost seems too simple. does that not maybe give the impression of how difficult this is? do you think maybe city deserve more credit for what they're doing here? i think this will... ..people understand how difficult it is in the next years because i didn't understand how difficult the premier league was to win until i actually was in it and played the 38 games. you know, that's when i understand why people were so happy winning it last year and you can see it in the face. and that's why also i was so happy because i understood how difficult it was. and it's also a nice thing when it's so difficult and you achieve something. we've been chasing arsenal throughout the whole season and in the end wejust passed through them. it was an unreal feeling. how do you maintain and keep that hunger, that desire when you've already achieved so much? i mean, very few players win the premier league title,
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a few others will win the fa cup. very, very rarely do you win a champions league, but you could achieve all this when you're just 22 years of age. how do you then keep going in the years ahead potentially and maintain that hunger? no, for me that's easy. when i do something a nice thing, i often want more of it. when i score a goal, it's like, oh, this feeling is so nice. like, i would love to do it again. kind of a feeling. so it's easy, really. i'm a simple guy. i when i do something and i like it, i want to do it more. exactly with the premier league, i would love to do it again because of the feeling, you know, and defend that one again and exactly with trophies. i would love to win more trophies because of the feeling and exactly the same with goals, exactly the game. exactly the same with the winning games, you know, becausejust the feeling is so nice. so for me, it's it's a natural thing. is there something which you can identify as the secret to being such a great goalscorer? what sets you apart, do you think,
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from other great strikers? this, i don't know. for me, it's about restarting or kind of taking the confidence from the last game. no matter how it went. if you didn't score. you take this confidence with you that. ok, i didn't score the last game. it's more likely i'm going to score in next game because it's gone for me. it's a big headline if i suddenly i don't score in a game. so because it's so unusual suddenly. but for me, it's about keeping the confidence and trying again. try not to think too much, because when you think too much, it's not a good thing. ijust try to go in the game and try to make the team as good as possible. and if the team plays good, i'm a striker, i will get chances. and then when i get chances, normally i score.
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so that's, yeah. do you ever have a self—doubt period of low confidence like normal human beings would have? or do you just believe the whole time that you will succeed because you seem so unshakeable on the field? no, i mean, i'm only 22, but i feel like i'm an experienced guy because i've been playing football for me quite a long time. and now i start to understand how it works. and again, it's about thinking it's in the mind, it's about keeping the body ready, it's about keeping the mind clean. so that's just basically how it is. and ijust... that's just my main focus. be sharp in the head and then. be ready for the game, basically. and do you have to tell yourself, don't get carried away, don't get too confident? is there a sort of a level there's a limit to that? no, it's about staying humble, but being confident that you're going to achieve something, that you're going to perform but still do the hard work and never
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relax throughout the whole season. it's a long season. that's why i have to stay sharp here. and it's not easy. but you have to stay sharp here. stay humble, work hard. that's the most important thing. what's the single most important piece of advice you would give a young footballer who wants to pursue the dream that you have achieved and becoming a professional? yeah, for me it's about having fun because again, if i'm having fun, i want to do more of it. exactly how it was with football. when i went play with my friends, it was really fun. i wanted to do it again. and then when it became a natural thing and i wanted to train more, i wanted to become better, i want to become better than others. so for me, it's about really having fun. try to enjoy the little small moments a lot and try to do them again. if you score a goal. take a minute to feel this feeling how good it actually is, and then try to do it again. same with the goal. same with our winning a game and everything. so yeah, it's about having fun.
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many of us remember your father, from his time in english football. how special has it been for you? the last week or two, making him so proud with all the goals you've scored, and then the premier league title and still these two huge matches to come. yeah, of course, it's special for him to play in the same club and he's a really important guy he's a really important guy in my in my life. he's my father. and he's also a really good friend of me. wejoke a lot. we have a lot of fun we enjoy. joking around together. we enjoy ourselves in the same company and that's a really important thing. and i've got a good relationship with him and he's supported me a lot and a really important guy in my life. you've experienced champions league football with salzburg and dortmund, of course, but is there something about that competition here in manchester? because it's the one that they've
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so far struggled to achieve. and what would it mean, do you think, to to land it? no, i mean everything. this is why this they brought me, of course, to the club to to get this. we don't have to to hide that. so i will do everything i can, i possibly can to try to make it happen. and, yeah, it's my biggest dream. and hopefully dreams do come true. you've been described as a goal machine. i think, in fact, the manager called you a goal machine last week. that expression suggests a lack of emotion, a sort of coldness, a ruthlessness, if you like. are you an emotional man away from the field? do you sort of before a match get get emotional? when you think about the people who have helped you on yourjourney or after a match when you reflect back on it, or do you just manage to maintain that coolness? yeah, of course. before games, after games, yes. but in the game, no. and then ijust try to do myjob to to help the team win. so, yeah, of course.
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in my first home game, i was looking around like, wow, this is amazing, you know, this kind of feeling. and you can also see me sometimes... you probably often i try to smile as much as i can because it's it's a good thing to have fun and to smile. and and yeah, it's — i'm an emotional guy, and i love to have the people that i love around me to enjoy the moments with me and to help make me a better person and a player. erling, thanks for your time. good luck at wembley and in istanbul. thank you. hello there. good evening. for the vast majority of us across the uk, it's been a beautiful day of weather with plenty of blue sky and sunshine, some of the best of it again across wales. here's denbighshire as recorded by our weather watcher, and it even brightened up for east anglia too where it's been cool and cloudy with a northeasterly wind for much of the week. but here is diss in norfolkjust basking in all of that sunshine. and there is a lot more to come as we head through tomorrow.
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and indeed, for much of next week, high pressure is set to keep us dry and settled. we're keeping the easterly wind, though, for most of us. so always towards north sea facing coasts it's going to be feeling cooler. overnight tonight some of that wind could blow us in some more areas of cloud, i think towards eastern coastal areas further west. then we'll see clear skies but mist developing into tomorrow morning but it's not so chilly a start, temperatures in mid to high single figures at this time so a milder start to sunday morning than it was earlier on this morning. and that cloud will once again just burn back towards the coast. could be some cloud lingering for eastern areas of scotland. it's a sunny day, i think, for the western and the northern isles on sunday than it was today. just the small chance of a shower or two popping up across northern ireland and the south west of scotland. but even here, temperatures will peak in the late 20s in celsius. the sunshine, higher temperatures the further west you are. don't forget the sunshine is strong at this time of year. the uv levels will be high and the grass pollen levels are high too and will remain so into next week.
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now into monday and not a lot is set to change. high pressure keeps us dry and settled. we do still have that northeasterly wind and it's likely to blow in some cloud. we're starting off with cloudy conditions, but the cloud again burning back towards the coast as the sunshine gets to work, always breezy towards those north sea facing coasts. the highest temperatures and the most sunshine the further west you are on monday. the same is also true on tuesday when it could be quite a cloudy start for many of us across the south of the uk. as the week wears on, the area of high pressure, keeping us dry and settled will gradually drift its way further eastwards, introducing more of a south easterly wind into southeastern areas of england in particular. so here the temperatures could start to climb and there's a depression out in the atlantic that could give a few showers to the south west of england, too, and possibly a bit more in the way of high cloud. but here's the outlook for our capital cities. as you can see, for the vast majority of us, the sunshine continues and temperatures
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will start to rise. live from london. this is bbc news. manchester city win the fa cup final at wembley, beating manchester united 2—1. and i'm nesta mcgregor, here at wembley with all the reaction from that final. 288 people are now known to have died and a thousand are injured in the most deadly rail disaster in india in two decades. turkey's president erdogan has been sworn in for a third time following a run off vote criticised by opposition groups. hello, i'm lucy grey. manchester city are fa cup champions.
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