I'M as excited as anyone about Sunday's FA Cup tie with Arsenal. It should be a fantastic day.

The game speaks for itself. It's a mouth-watering prospect against one of the best sides in Europe.

Arsenal are the Premier League leaders and probably the favourites to win it.

They've also got their eye on landing the Champions League for the first time in their history.

You see them on television every week and they are just fantastic to watch.

All their players have tremendous ability. The only shame is that very few of them are English.

I don't think you can necessarily blame Arsene Wenger for that.

Our society has a lot to answer for in the drop in good skilful British youngsters coming through.

Too many of our youngsters are watching TV and playing on their computers, and not enough of them are kicking a football against a wall anymore.

When I was a kid, I used to take a ball to the shops and dribble it down the street. You just don't see that today.

But children from some of these under-developed countries don't have all the luxuries. They are still playing in the streets and learning skills with the ball.

You look at Arsenal striker Eduardo and he's got all the tricks in the book.

I've watched him score goals in recent weeks and he reminds me a little of Jimmy Greaves, in the way he drops his shoulder and belts it into the bottom corner.

That takes fantastic ability and it's something he would have taught himself as a kid.

I'm not sure whether Eduardo will play against Burnley, or world-class players like Cesc Fabregas and Emmanuel Adebayor, because Wenger is known to give his younger players a chance in domestic cup competitions.

But still, Arsenal's young crop are fantastic too, and we've seen them knock Premiership teams out of the FA Cup and Carling Cup in the past.

It's such a massive game for the Clarets, and it's fair to say the biggest game in the careers of many of our players.

The chances of pulling off a major shock are slim, but there is still a chance.

If we were playing at the Emirates Stadium, I would probably say no way', but we are at Turf Moor.

There will be a big crowd and the fans can play their part, cheering on the lads and making it uncomfortable for Arsenal.

We've got to take the game by the scruff of the neck, and put Arsenal under pressure straight from the kick-off, snapping in at their heels.