一個隊長能夠在降班戰中擔起一個角色，這就是更衣室裡的一個真英雄。

他可以在更衣室裡遊走並確定各隊友有高漲士氣和一齊正常。這正正是高文將要為這支愛華頓做的事。

但是，最重要，林柏特都要帶出他的領袖魅力和領隊個性出來。

如果領隊是有信心和表達出他有能力帶領球隊走出困局，這樣隊伍的所有人都會同意並支持他。

一個隊長同樣地亦需要扮演一個重要角色，就好似我幫屈福特做的那樣，但是他要以他們的表現反映給領隊。

某領隊像林柏特這樣高動力和高信心。

他將會散播清晰明確指示，這有賴於隊長在之後如何在更衣室裡注入新的活力。

這工作非常艱鉅，特別是領隊缺少隊中球員支持。原因可能是缺乏成續及方法。

但是我不認為愛華頓隊內有任何一個球員在想，”我們不能夠逃出降班區。”

他們將會用正面態度並以最好狀態阻止降班危機出現。

正面想法並不是最主要因素去阻止降班出現，但如果有一個領隊，他是樂觀並且鼓舞，那絕對是一個好重要的關鍵因素。

作為一個隊長，你可以對所有隊員作出鼓勵，但是，如果領隊不能夠顯示出這信念，你和你的隊員都無機會阻止今次降班。

這是簡單正常的道理，正當所有在更衣室的事失去控制，這是高度危險。所有微少的事被仔細檢查，特別是當你球隊處於非常負面的降班區域。

當你球隊處於勝軌時，有問題的事往往沒有人理會。

但當成績差的時候，所有人都會來找領隊。”點解這位球員不做這些事？”這是很大壓力。

假若事情真的失去控制，好似我職業生涯見過很多次，作為隊長一定要阻止這些事有機會在更衣室裡發生。

這開始令到更衣室的氣氛愈來愈差，有少少似諾域治今周輸了球賽一樣。

我可以想像得到更衣室有幾差，而且被自私的氛圍圍著。當領隊去到這階段，球員就會想自己的後路。

每一位球員就會介意降班，不要攪錯，這些人是會從各方面去想這次降班。

沒有任何一個球員喜歡在他們履歷上有一條疤，但領隊始終會得到一些不愉快的情境，他們因為意料到會降班，又或者準備轉會。

這是很惡劣情況。

以現在的愛華頓來說，最理想就是每場球賽單獨看，一場接一場來應付，但我不想這樣說，但我很清楚這情境，這就是領隊的工作。

你要分析每場賽事，做一些計算工作和想一想：”如果我們擊敗這球隊，同時那隊又輸了另一場賽事”。

之後，突然之間某隊取得了驚訝成績，此時你想：”神呀，他們是從何處來呀？”這是精神上的放棄。

如果球員話他們不看績分板，但這是一派胡言。

所有人都望住績分板，並想出所有的不同情境和有什麼方法逃出此困境。

同時，愛華頓球員會為這星期的比賽繼續努力，他們會想盡辦法在車路士身上取得成績。而另一方面，般尼會跟屈福特進行護級戰。

這星期，對於拖肥糖一眾球員不是在賽季上一場過的比賽，但是如果他們在車路士身上取得勝仗，那麼他們會贏之後幾場比賽，而你會認為他們能夠留級抱著正面態度。

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Troy Deeney: Everton boss Frank Lampard has to be highly motivated and highly confident and squad will follow in battle to beat drop

A CAPTAIN can be the real difference-maker in a dressing room that is fighting relegation.

He will float around the group, making sure things are ticking over and morale is high – and that is exactly what Seamus Coleman will be doing at Everton.

But, more importantly, it comes from the leadership and the persona of the manager, in this case Frank Lampard.

If the manager is confident and showing you ways in which he feels he can get the team through a situation, the rest of the squad will fall into line and back him.

A skipper has his role to play too, like I did at Watford, but ultimately he will react off the back of the manager.

Someone like Lampard is highly motivated and highly confident.

He will be spreading a clear message and it is down to the captain to then reinvigorate the dressing room.

That can be a difficult task, especially if the manager is losing the support of a squad because of results or methods.

But I don’t think there will be one Everton player who is thinking: ” We cannot get out of this”.

They will be positive that they are good enough to get themselves away from danger.

Positivity is not all it takes to beat the drop but to have a manager who is upbeat and inspiring is a massive contributing factor.

As a captain you can shout all you want to rev everyone up or to keep them from downing tools but, if the manager isn’t showing that belief, you have no chance.

It is very easy for things to boil over in a dressing room. It is high octane. Every little thing is scrutinised, especially when you are in a negative position.

Questionable things a player does off the pitch or in the dressing room when you are winning, people give you a pass for it.

But as soon as the results hit the fan, everyone goes for you. “Why is he not doing that?” it is high pressure.

And if it does boil over, like I have seen many times in dressing rooms before games or at half-time, you have to nip it in the bud quickly as a captain.

Yet it only starts to get toxic and nasty when the writing is on the wall, a bit like if Norwich lose this weekend.

That will be a nasty dressing room, I would imagine. The selfishness takes over. When you get to that stage, players look after themselves and that’s when you see their true colours.

Everyone will care about getting relegated, don’t get me wrong, but people care in different ways.

No one wants that blemish on their CV, but you get some bad eggs and they get nastier because they realise they are going down or they have already sorted out a move away.

It is a tough one.

For Everton right now, and I don’t like the cliche of taking each game as it comes, but I have been in that situation and that’s what you do – no matter how hard you try not to.

You are identifying games and doing the maths and thinking: “If we beat this team, and that team may lose”.

And then suddenly a team around you gets a freak result and you think: “God where did that come from?” and that is mentally deflating.

Players say they don’t look at the table but that’s b******s.

Everyone looks at it and thinks of all the scenarios and ways you can get out.

And Everton players will be doing that this weekend as they look to try to nick something against Chelsea while Burnley play Watford.

This week won’t be make or break for the Toffees but, if they can get a result against Chelsea and then win their next few, you would have to make them survival favourites.

哥利摩亞專欄：利物浦仍然有機會贏盡今季四冠王，包括英超，歐聯，足總杯和聯賽杯，但是與曼聯的1999年三冠王來比，仍是要比下去

如果利物浦在這季蠃得四項錦標，又或者短期內曼城嬴出，這無可厚非是一個不錯的成就。

但是這不代表這個四冠王名銜超越1960-61的雙冠王熱刺，1970-71的阿仙奴，或者1985-86的利物浦。這根本不可以與當時1998-1999年三冠王的曼聯雙提並論，他們始終是最偉大的。

我更加不確定這是否史上最偉大的四冠王，因為在1966-67年的些路迪以14名球員去應付比賽，並且在本土頂級聯賽贏得錦標，並且再贏得兩項本土杯賽冠軍和歐聯。

我知到有些人 – 特別年輕一輩 – 會嘲弄和說現今足球是比以前好。我們只需要看看近兩三年英超的曼城及利物浦的得分，對比起其他隊伍，這是一個明顯的差別。

我承認全部是事實，但我同時承認這不是巧合，就好似英超球賽的體能要求低，對抗性低，少了恐嚇性和身體接觸，任何一個誇歐洲的紀錄都一一打破。我們要承認這事實，就是前十年的球隊在差勁的球場作賽，亦同時沒有現時大量金錢投資。

再看看利物浦如何從修咸頓那邊取走雲迪克和文尼。我在聯賽踢球時，拿鐵斯將他全個職業生涯給了修咸頓，但我相信如果今時今日他在聯賽踢球，我想他已被大球會羅致，並去到新球會後，我也不知道他是否在正選名單，還是後備替補。

當年熱刺，阿仙奴和杜格利殊的利物浦全部都靠一個比現在高普的紅軍陣容或曼城陣容少的人腳去捧杯。我再講清楚一點，當以下出色的利物浦和曼城球員如杜格利殊，佐治格拉咸，Danny Blanchflower和其他球員通通都可以再在現在的頂尖球隊裡好似以前一樣發展出色。

話說回來，這球季來說，固定讀者都知道我覺得曼城會贏得英超及歐聯錦標，而利物浦會贏得兩項杯賽冠軍。但這不代表我會驚訝利物浦會贏全部錦標，同樣地，我亦知道他們今晚對華拉利爾的比賽裡絕對會使出他們近期一如往常般的肌肉和腦記憶去爭勝。

我不贊同華拉利爾已和淘汰的路不遠。他們一定需要找到一個方法獲得早段的一個入球，如果他們做到，那隊出線還要對戰後才知。但是以現時利物浦的心態，就算他們在頭五分鐘落後兩球，他們還是會從後居上和贏4-2 ，我仍堅定的認為我們將會見到紅軍與曼城在五月二十八日到訪法國來一場巴黎最後決戰。

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Stan Collymore Column: Liverpool are still on course to win four trophies – Premier League, Champion League, FA Cup and Carabao Cup – this season but Manchester United’s 1999 heroics are still top of the pile

If Liverpool win the Quadruple this season, or if they or Manchester City win it anytime soon, it will obviously be a fantastic achievement.

But it won’t be any greater than Tottenham’s Double win of 1960-61, Arsenal’s in 1970-71, or Liverpool’s in 1985-86. Nor will it be any greater than Manchester United’s Treble triumph in 1998-1999 which, pound for pound, would still be the greatest achievement of them all.

I’m not even sure it would be the greatest Quadruple ever, either, because that accolade surely has to belong to the Celtic team of 1966-67. The Lisbon Lions won the Scottish top flight at a time when it was the equal of the English First Division, two domestic cups and the European Cup … with just 14 players.

I know some of you – youngsters in particular – will scoff and say football is much better these days than it was back then. That we only have to see how many Premier League points have been won over the last two or three years by Liverpool and City, and the huge gap they have created between themselves and the rest of the division, to see that.

I acknowledge all that, but I also acknowledge it can be no coincidence that, as the game has got physically easier, less combative, with less intimidation and less physical contact, every single record across Europe has been broken. We must also nod to the fact those teams of yesteryear played on dreadful pitches and that there wasn’t the financial doping then that there is today.

Look at the way Liverpool picked off Virgil van Dijk and Said Mane from Southampton. When I played, Matt Le Tissier spent his career with the Saints, but he’d have been taken by one of the big boys after a couple of years these days, whether it was to go into their first team or sit on the bench.

Spurs, Arsenal and Kenny Dalglish’s Liverpool all hit the heights with smaller squads than Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool and City have at their disposal today. And let me be clear, while there are some wonderful players at Liverpool and City, Dalglish, George “Stroller” Graham, Danny Blanchflower and others would all have played in elite teams at the elite level now just as they did back then.

In terms of this season, regular readers will know I fancy City to win the Premier League and Champion League Double, with Liverpool settling for the two domestic cups. But that’s not to say I’d be surprised if Liverpool didn’t win the lot and I know they will be on it from the off against Villarreal tonight out of sheer muscle and brain memory from the way they’ve had to perform in recent days and weeks.

I don’t buy that Villarreal aren’t still in the tie. They just need to figure out a way of getting an early goal and, if they do, it’s game on. But the mentality of this Liverpool team is that even if they went 2-0 down in the first five minutes they would come back and win 4-2, and I’m still adamant we’ll be seeing them and City clashing in Paris on May 28.