"I always think it was more subtle and grey than sometimes it gets portrayed," Hardwicke told BBC Sport. That is a really important thing to distinguish because they both wanted to win - they just had different ways of going about it. Some people were saying they were completely with Roy in this moment, while others were totally on Mick's side. Chris Sutton and Éanna Hardwicke were speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. The AI predictions were generated using Microsoft Copilot Chat - we simply asked the tool to 'predict this weekend's Premier League scores.

Source: BBC January 22, 2026 16:58 UTC