“They got very quiet when I asked about what happened, so I started joking around with them,” Bartell says in an interview with TODAY.com. “And that’s when they really started to relax.

Ange Postecoglou is on the brink after Liverpool smashed Tottenham to knock them out of the Carabao Cup and Aston Villa eased them out of the FA Cup three days later. Which poor sod will be left ...