{"id":82363,"date":"2019-03-01T14:51:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/01\/tottenham-v-arsenal-buildup-brendan-rodgers-premier-league-news-and-more-live\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T13:51:59","slug":"tottenham-v-arsenal-buildup-brendan-rodgers-premier-league-news-and-more-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=82363","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham v Arsenal buildup, Brendan Rodgers, Premier League news and more \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest team news, previews and press conferencesPremier League: 10 things to look out for this weekendAny thoughts? You can email Ben or tweet @benfisherj 1.45pm GMT More from Rodgers on his hopes, and dreams, for Leicester: I think the expectancy is to challenge for a European place, and look to win a trophy. I think what Leicester achieved [winning the Premier League in 2016] was an incredible story, and it will always be difficult to repeat. But after a couple of years of instability and being in mid-table, we need to move [up]. It is such an exciting group of young players, the likes of Harvey Barnes, James [Maddison] and [Wilfred] Ndidi. And then we have the experience around that, Jonny Evans, who is a top-class defender, Wes Morgan, who has been a brilliant skipper and still has a very, very important role to play. 1.38pm GMT So, Scott Parker reveals Sir Alex Ferguson was among the dozens of people to get in touch to congratulate him after becoming the caretaker manager at Craven Cottage but, first, we go to Brendan Rodgers. He is busy explaining why he swapped Celtic Park for the King Power Stadium, and a title challenge for Leicester\u2019s aim of establishing themselves as the \u2018Best of the Rest\u2019: It was a very, very difficult decision to leave Celtic. It wasn\u2019t easy at all, I\u2019ve got family and everyone who are still deeply upset and whatever, but I have to remove that emotion as a manager. If I was making the decision with my heart, I\u2019d be with Celtic for life, because it\u2019s a club I\u2019ve supported all of my life. I felt that after three years at Celtic, everything we had achieved and the success we had, I felt it was time to move on to my next challenge. I have had opportunities to leave over three years at Celtic but this was one that I felt was too good to turn down. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2019\/mar\/01\/premier-league-team-news-and-more-weekend-football-countdown-live\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham v Arsenal buildup, Brendan Rodgers, Premier League news and more \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest team news, previews and press conferencesPremier League: 10 things to look out for this weekendAny thoughts? You can email Ben or tweet @benfisherj 1.45pm GMT More from Rodgers on his hopes, and dreams, for Leicester: I think the expectancy is to challenge for a European place, and look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}