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Premier League news, Arsenal v Liverpool buildup and more – as it happened

And with that, I’m done. Here’s a farewell gift, in preview-shaped form. Bye!

And Michael Duberry has been talking about his memories of life at Chelsea after the death of Matthew Harding in a helicopter crash in 1996:

He was always around the place, he was so popular. Money was no object yet he was seen as one of the fans; probably equivalent to Roman Abramovich sitting in the Shed End nowadays. So Matthew’s death sent a shock and disbelief through the whole club.

More here:

Neil Lennon has been talking today about the racism he has experienced as an Irishman in Scotland. Here’s a news story:

Here’s David Wagner on Huddersfield’s travails, and the prospect of beating Fulham. “With one win,” he says, “everything can look different”:

We have shown a lot of good performances - not last weekend against Watford but the weeks before. We have shown a lot of good things in our game. The players have shown the right spirit. We got unbelievable support home and away from our supporters.

But we haven’t won now in this season so far, and it’s now the next opportunity, a big opportunity for us, against Fulham - a team which I absolutely respect. I’ve seen them yesterday live, I was at City. For sure we have to be at our best.

But I think it makes it even more important that we are focused on us, and we know our strength, we know with the support from the stands we can do this extra yard which is unbelievably important for our game, and this is the moment where we would like to turn it around. And with one win, as we all know, everything can look a little bit different.

Another match preview for you. Enjoy!

Here’s a story on the latest plot twist in Nicklas Bendtner’s one-man soap opera:

Here’s a Newcastle v Watford match preview:

You’re welcome.

The Fiver has landed!

“What’s a monthly ethics bonus, why do players get it and what do they get it for?” wonders Andrew Benton, having read (see below) that Marco Verratti is to forfeit some of his.

I imagine that players got tired of being fined their actual wages for their occasional misdemeanours, so someone had the cunning idea of giving them extra money for not committing misdemeanours, so when they are fined they are not losing money they have earned, which they dislike, but not getting money they haven’t, which feels a bit better. I could be wrong, mind, and normally am.

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“Is it me or do Jürgen Klopp’s Steinway keyboard gnashers get pearlier each week?” wonders William Hargreaves. “He’s getting like that Kenny Everett Bee Gees sketch.”

Crikey, this sketch hasn’t aged very well. Here it is, though:

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Here’s Watford’s Javi Gracia on Newcastle and their manager, Rafael Benitez:

I know him from a long time ago. He trained my hometown team Osasuna. He is a coach with a lot of recognition in England and Spain. Everybody knows he is a great coach. He always shows it at all the teams he has been.

They are a good team, they have a very good coach. Newcastle are looking for their first win, they are working very hard to try to get it and we need to be ready for a difficult game, for a tough game. All the games they are playing, they are playing with the option to get a better result. I am sure in the next game they will try again.

This just in from Reuters:

The Paris St Germain midfielder Marco Verratti has been fined by his club after being stopped for drink-driving by police in France.

PSG said in a statement on Friday that Verratti had been stopped at a roadside check in Paris in the early hours of Wednesday morning and was found to have a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.

French newspaper L’Equipe reported that the 25-year-old Italy international was detained by police who placed him in a “sobering cell” before releasing him. The report added that he would be charged at a later date.

“Under the rules applicable to the contracts of all our players, Marco Verratti will be deprived of a portion of his monthly ethics bonus,” PSG said.

Yes this does indeed appear to work. And it seems the players aren’t similarly bemused, so it’s all good.

Another video-based treat for you:

A lengthy article about the relative merits of north- or south-facing cockerel sculptures can be found on Tottenham’s website here, but I thought the debate was important and interesting enough to quote a little bit here. The headline news, though, is that the club has reviewed its cockerel-positioning policy:

Our original designs had the new Cockerel facing North, overlooking the stadium bowl – this resonated given our proud North London heritage and the fact that the Cockerel that sat on top of The Lane’s East Stand also faced in this direction from 1958.

Interestingly, when this Cockerel was replaced due to weather damage in the 1980s, it was placed facing the opposite direction, South, with its right flank towards the pitch, resulting in strong feelings from fans being expressed that the Cockerel should be repositioned back to how it was. The Cockerel was subsequently repositioned and remained facing North until the Finale of White Hart Lane.

This influenced our initial thinking in terms of which direction the new Cockerel should face, particularly as it will not be sitting on either the East or West Stand. We were also aware though that the Cockerel that sat on top of the Lane’s West Stand, however, faced in the opposite direction - South. In fact, from 1909, when the Golden Cockerel was first seen at the Lane, it resided in this position before it was moved to the East Stand 49 years later.

Mauricio Pochettino has sought to calm the nerves of jittery Spurs fans, insisting “I want to feel the glory with Tottenham”.

After another tumultuous 10 days for Spurs, rumours began to circulate this week linking Pochettino with a move to managerless Real Madrid. Speaking ahead of his Premier League fixture with Wolves, the manager did not address the rumours directly, but called for renewed patience as the club seek to achieve ‘the last level’.

“We are very close to creating, in terms of facilities, one of the best clubs in the world”, Pochettino said. “Of course all have different costs to pay. Sometimes to win titles today is difficult, for many reasons that you and our fans know very well. But sometimes patience is short and frustration is there. I think we are so close to reaching the last level but we need to have that patience that makes us stronger

“I think that the period today in the club in Tottenham is so exciting. If you look backwards, it seems like we have been at Spurs for 20, 30 years because it was so tough and the moments that we shared were so intense. But I think we are in the middle of a transition and I don’t believe it’s the end of something.

“When I arrived at Tottenham the first video that Daniel showed me had a message, ‘when we are talking about Tottenham Hotspur, we are talking about the glory.’ I want to feel the glory with Tottenham. I think when I watch video from the 1960s, it’s very emotional and I think it would be fantastic to deliver that moment again for our fans. But first of all we need to finish the stadium, move in, make home.”

Tottenham announced a further delay to the new White Hart Lane stadium last week, with the ground now not set to be ready until 2019. The bad news punctuated two deflating results, a Champions League draw against PSV Eindhoven being followed by league defeat against Manchester City. But Pochettino’s team bounced back in midweek when they knocked West Ham out of the Carabao Cup, while Dele Alli also signed an extended contract with the club.

Asked if the midfielder’s deal sent out a message about the direction Spurs are travelling in, Pochettino said: “In the next few years we will see if it’s a statement. I think it’s important for him to improve his salary, important for the club to reward him. But at the end, extending the contract or not, he was still with a big contract a long contract. I think for Dele it’s a very good thing.”

If you’ve had enough of reading what managers have had to say in their weekly press conferences, here’s a great chance to watch what one of them has had to say in his weekly press conference:

Breaking: Mario Balotelli has had a hairdo.

The latest twist in the madcap world of Nicklas Bendtner:

Slavisa Jokanovic has meanwhile insisted that he is the right man to lead Fulham away from the relegation trap door:

This kind of situation is part of football. I am not here three days, I am here three years and the board must have some kind of opinion about my work. From my side, I have the confidence, and believe in my job. People around me are professional and we don’t try to make some crazy things.

We know it’s not an easy job ahead of us, we must be brave and encourage the team not to stop, never give up. My experience in this club - this is my fourth season here - and always it was complicated and always we reached the target at the end of the season.

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Rafael Benítez has defended Jamaal Lascelles after the Newcastle defender was criticised for calling the savagely unpopular Mike Ashley “a nice guy”.

We met Mike Ashley - and they didn’t know him - for a dinner that was supposed to create a good atmosphere, so his first impression is something that you cannot control. But I think his message - and I was talking to him this morning - is just try to keep everybody together, try to work hard.

I think he was trying to be positive, trying to send the right message to everyone. Okay, there are things off the pitch you cannot control when you meet one person at a dinner for a couple of hours. It’s not that you are having an opinion about what has happened in the last 11 years. He’s not trying to do that. It’s just a moment and that’s it. You have to understand that he’s a young player and he had this first impression.

And this will tell you what to expect from Everton v Brighton:

All your Cardiff v Leicester previewing dreams have come true:

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Nuno Espirito Santo has been asked for his opinion of his Spurs counterpart Mauricio Pochettino. Shock news: he thinks he’s good.

Success cannot be measure with the number of titles. The how is very important. Tottenham are very competitive. What I admire is what I see on the pitch and I see a very good team. I know him and I admire him. The quality of the work they’ve been doing is amazing. The core of the squad, the amount of success they have had.

Sky are reporting that Leicester’s entire squad, plus coaches and key members of staff, are planning to fly to Bangkok to attend the funeral of Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.

This just in from Romania, where a third-tier derby in Craiova has turned bonkers:

Here’s Unai Emery on Arsenal’s poor record against the top six. I think he thinks it can get better:

We want to write a new history. With our players, our quality, and our capacity, I believe in our players and I believe in this project. We are starting this project with very positive things.

News from Chelsea and Maurizio Sarri: Eden Hazard is fit to play but probably not the entire match, Ross Barkley “has great quality, technical quality [and] quality from a physical point of view” and “is becoming a very, very important player for us”. And he has finally picked a captain:

The captain is Cahill, and if he’s not on the pitch it’s Azpilicueta,. Our captain is Cahill because Cahill was the captain last season and I have spoken with his mates, and everybody told me that he was really a very good captain. For me Cahill is very important on the pitch but also off the pitch.

Pep Guardiola has also responded to renewed chatter concerning a potential Manchester City move for Lionel Messi:

I have said many times, that when I left Barcelona and went to Bayern Munich and Manchester City, that I never went to the clubs and said I want this player. I know how important he is for Barcelona.

This might be interesting:

Hello again! I’ve got Pep Guardiola’s reaction to Kevin de Bruyne’s injury. Warning: it’s brief.

We are sad for him. Nobody likes to be injured. Unfortunately he is injured but fortunately it is not surgery.

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And with that, Simon Burnton returns from lunch to take you through the rest of the afternoon. Cheers!

Still, Poch is taking the slightly odd kick-off time in his stride....

Actually, scratch one of those funky options: Vertonghen is out too.

Tottenham could be in trouble, midfield-wise, against Wolves on Saturday. Eric Dier tweaked his thigh against Man City on Monday and will be out for a few weeks, while Victor Wanyama did something unfortunate to his left knee in the Carabao Cup two days later (and, incidentally, not enough has been made of the fact they had to play twice in three days this week), so Joao Moutinho and Ruben Neves might be doing their stretches with a little more relish.

So does this mean Harry Winks and Mousa Dembele in the middle? Probably: alternatively Poch could get funky and try Kieran Trippier there, or maybe Jan Vertonghen. What do you reckon?

OFFICIAL UPDATE from Manchester City on Kevin de Bruyne...

Manchester City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne suffered knee ligament damage in his left knee during Thursday night’s Carabao Cup fourth-round win over Fulham

The Belgian underwent scans on Friday at the CFA.

No surgery is needed but he is expected to be out for between 5-6 weeks.

Hi! Santi Solari! Welcome! Fancy taking control of this flaming bin that is Real Madrid for a bit? Cool! Care to do it without three-quarters of your first-choice defence? Lovely stuff!

It’s already a fairly thankless task for Santi, but news reaches us that Marcelo, Raphael Varane and Dani Carvajal will all be out of his first game in charge, against Valladolid. All the best.

David Sharpe, grandson of Dave Whelan and boy chairman of Wigan, will step down from his position when the takeover of the club by the cuddly-sounding International Entertainment Corporation is done and dusted next week.

“My grandfather will of course have his own words,” Sharpe said, “but I would just like to state what a privilege it has been to follow in his footsteps. He is Wigan through and through and his passion for Wigan Athletic has never flickered.”

IEC will pay £22million for the Latics, and it’s perhaps a sign of what football has become that it’s almost a sum of money where you think “I could’ve had a whipround and got involved in that...”

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Small update on the fitness, or otherwise, of another brilliant Belgian...

Hello. Nick Miller here for a bit. Here’s some more detail on the injury that could keep Kevin de Bruyne out for a month, in which time Manchester City will come apart like a deliciously moist cake. Or cope fine because they already have a load of other brilliant players.

And with that I’m going to step away from the blog for a little while. Nick Miller will look after you in the meantime - email him here. Bye for now!

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Here’s a bit from Reuters on that Balkan World Cup bid:

Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Romania will explore a potential joint Balkan bid to host the 2030 World Cup, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said on Friday.

A Balkan country has never hosted the World Cup. Yugoslavia, which collapsed in 1991, hosted the four-country European Championships in 1976.

“I think it is worth discussing the proposal of [Greek Prime Minister Alexis] Tsipras,” Borissov told a joint news conference during a four-party summit between Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia in the Black Sea city of Varna.

Tsipras said the four countries would discuss the possibility of becoming candidates for a major sporting event within 10 years.

“Just as Bulgaria and Italy hosted the world volleyball championship [in September], the four countries - Serbia, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria - [can] bid to host the world’s [soccer] championship in 2030,” Borissov said.

The English Football Association has already announced plans to conduct a feasibility study into a joint bid for the 2030 tournament along with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The Football Association of Ireland said it will join them in exploring the potential bid.

A South American tri-nation bid involving Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay has already been announced for 2030. The bid is designed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first World Cup, which took place in Uruguay in 1930.

Morocco, which has made five unsuccessful bids to host the tournament including 2026, has also said it would try again for 2030. Algeria and Tunisia are considering joining Morocco in a joint North African bid.

Here’s Roy Hodgson on whether his team’s confidence has been boosted by last week’s draw with Arsenal, as they head to Stamford Bridge this weekend:

I think you need to have the courage to play football. I think we’ve shown that this year, and haven’t got as much to show for it as we would like. But the courage to play has always been there, and as a result that has bred a certain amount of confidence. You have to be careful, because confidence gets knocked when you don’t take the number of points you should get. You need to some extent divorce the confidence you get from the points you get. If the performances are good and you’re unlucky to lose you shouldn’t really lose confidence in what you’re doing.

Sunday will be as tough as the Arsenal game. You’re talking about teams that have got very, very good players, they’re very organised. We know it’s going to be very difficult. The top teams all pose their different problems, all we can do is try and make certain that the things we did in the last game against Arsenal we repeat, that our work rate remains high and that we keep believing in what we are doing.

Further to the chatter earlier about Kevin De Bruyne being out for four weeks, Jamie Jackson understands that that is indeed the current state of affairs, but the player is still waiting on the results of further tests so better or indeed worse prognoses are still possible.

What in the name of all that is holy is this?

Arsenal lifted out of comfort zone by Emery, says Klopp

Jürgen Klopp believes Unai Emery’s arrival at Arsenal has lifted the club’s players out of the comfort zone they enjoyed under Arsène Wenger.

Liverpool visit the Emirates Stadium on Saturday four points clear of Arsenal who, despite losing their opening two league games under the new manager, have risen to fourth in the Premier League and won 12 of their last 13 matches in all competitions.

Klopp attributes the impressive run to Emery, who he claims went under the radar in England despite his successes with Sevilla and Paris Saint Germain, and the reaction of Arsenal players to a new voice on the training ground.

“Arsène Wenger is one of the best managers in the world, there’s no doubt about it,” said Klopp, who has not lost to Arsenal as Liverpool manager. “But sometimes after a long time when the mood in a club changes, it’s quite difficult to work against that. That was the situation a bit last year, people respected him a lot but on the other side they thought; ‘Now we should change something’. A change is only good if it is for the better.

“Unai Emery: all people in football knew how good he is, but I am not sure all Arsenal fans were over the moon at first when they heard it would be Emery. But that’s England a little bit, you want the poster boys. Unai was in France and before that in Spain in a smaller club, so you can go a bit under the radar. Not for all the people in football, though. I saw yesterday that he won eight titles in two or three years. That’s pretty big. It was clear that things will change, and the players know now.

“If a new manager comes in – it was the same with me here – all players are immediately out of their comfort zone. They all have to prove from the first day that they are not only the name, they are the footballer as well. They used it obviously pretty well.”

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Here’s Sean Dyche on his Burnley players’ confidence, having lost their last two games, against Manchester City and Chelsea, by an aggregate score of 9-0:

I haven’t really had to restore it because there is a balance. You have to realise the players have an awareness of who they’re playing against. There’s no point in dressing it up to players because I think players are bright about football. They watch other teams and they know where it’s at.

The big boys are showing why they are there, showing the power of their finances, the power of the quality they bring in, the power of the coaching. So I don’t really think there is that big a deal about confidence - it’s just a reality of the market.

I think if you can see through that, still make sense of it, because you have to learn from it, but remind ourselves of what we are and go and deliver performances, then that’s the key to it. You’re going to take some knocks over a Premier League season. It’s about dealing with that, making sense of it and moving forward, and that’s something we’ve been good at. The resilience and the mentality has been really good, and it has to be good because it’s a demanding league.

There has been a lot of talk recently about a UK bid to host the 2030 World Cup, but it looks like there will be other European offers:

Fans of Barney Ronay will be delighted to learn that he’s written an entire book of stuff about the World Cup, perfect for Christmas stockings, bedside tables and also other surfaces and containers. Here’s a taster:

Paul McInnes has had a chat with Carlos Carvalhal. It is predictably entertaining:

I saw U2 in Vilar de Mouros in 1982 and I saw The Cure there too. Lloyd Cole and the Commotions also did a very good concert. But there is more. I remember Simple Minds, Echo and the Bunnymen, Nina Hagen, Elvis Costello and Duran Duran. And the best concert I ever saw was the Rolling Stones, in the stadium of Sporting Lisbon. Usually a band plays like a team; they want to entertain the people. For the people, they need catharsis and concerts give that to them, like football does. I think it’s not too much different.

More here:

And here’s a taster of (what might have been) Carvalhal’s favourite concert:

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News from Leicester this morning is that Daniel Amartey has had surgery on the ankle injury he sustained against West Ham last weekend, and will be out for about four months.

I’m a bit confused by the fact this shortlist is quite different to the one Sky have here, and even more confused by the fact Roberto Pereyra v Huddersfield isn’t on either of them (it turns out that Carling’s is the official list). But, still, some good goals.

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Jamie Jackson was at José Mourinho’s press conference this morning, and this is a full account of what he had to say:

More from Jürgen Klopp, who is asked about his record against Arsenal, against whom he has never lost in the league.

They are a different proposition every year. That’s how it is. I’ve had a lot of good games, tight games against them, proper football, always a big challenge for us. That will be the case again. So, that’s the situation again. They are really strong. Emery had the big task to come in after Arsene Wenger, and he did brilliant. He did really well, and after a tough start they started an impressive run. Hopefully they are not still in it. It will be hopefully a very, very interesting game. they are good, organised, clear plan, good on counter-attacks, what they can do quick is outstanding, good in small spaces as well. It’s a tough game. We need to be ready for that, for sure.

More from Klopp:

Vardy: Leicester players want to play at Cardiff to honour Vichai

Jamie Vardy has spoken to Sky today about Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha:

The relationship was exactly how you’ve seen it put out there. He wasn’t just a chairman, he literally was part of your extended family. It didn’t matter who you was, he always made time for you, and as all the pictures that have been put out have shown, he was always smiling. Those are the things you will never forget and which will stay engraved in your mind.

From day one, literally from when I first met him, up until now he’s always been really friendly and always wanting to be involved. He wasn’t just a chairman he was part of the squad itself and was always here and always giving you encouragement and wanting to be involved with the lads and that’s credit to him.

On the Cardiff game, which is set to go ahead on Saturday following the postponement of the Carabao Cup tie against Southampton, Vardy said: “We all spoke about wanting to play, it’s what Vichai would’ve wanted and that’s what we are going to do. We need to make sure we go out there and honour his name and put in a performance that will hopefully get the win. I know people are saying the result doesn’t matter but for us as players we want to get a positive result. It’s going to be tough and very emotional and what the lads wanted to do was play this game and honour the man himself. The main thing is we all come together even stronger and do Vichai proud.”

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Jürgen Klopp has confirmed that Jordan Henderson and Naby Keita will both miss the trip to Arsenal this weekend, but Mohamed Salah will play.

The Telegraph are reporting that Kevin de Bruyne will be out for at least a month after sustaining a knee injury against Fulham in the Carabao Cup last night.

Eddie Howe, whose Bournemouth side host Manchester United tomorrow, thinks they are still good:

It’s very, very difficult to draw conclusions from just watching games. You don’t know what’s going on at any football club. No one knows what’s going on internally at this football club, day to day. I’ve been impressed with Manchester United, they’ve dealt with the instability they had at the start and now they seem to be growing again. And quietly, slowly but surely I think they’re improving all the time. I have no doubt when you look at the table at the end of the season they’re going to be where they’ve always been, very near the top five.

The week is almost over, but have you been paying attention?

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Mourinho also has a bit of a gripe about Manchester United’s fixtures, bemoaning the luck that left them playing away at Juventus a few days before they visit Manchester City, and away at Valencia a few days before they visit Liverpool.

In this part of the season we play away against the three biggest candidates for the title. The calendar was not nice to us. But I think by the end of December, which is the end of the first half of the season, I think we are not going to be in the position we are now. We are going to be in a better position.

Jose Mourinho’s press conference has happened, and he spoke about being cleared of using foul language.

The reason why I asked the club and the lawyers to appeal was because I was 100% that I was not guilty of this charge. But you never know how it ends. Yes I’m pleased but I know that I have to respect the process, and I have to wait for what is going to happen next. But I don’t appeal to lose my time or to make other people lose their time.

Also breaking today is news of a security breach at Old Trafford:

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Bad news today for Usain Bolt, whose footballing dreams are in tatters following his departure from Central Coast Mariners. This from Reuters:

Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has finished his football trial at Central Coast Mariners and will leave the club after failing to agree commercial terms, the A-League side said on Friday.

The Jamaican’s mission to secure a professional contract in Australia at the age of 32 dominated pre-season and proved a marketing boost for the sleepy Central Coast region north of Sydney.

However, his performances in training and trial matches over the last two months did little to remove doubts about the eight-time Olympic gold medallist’s chances of making the grade.

Mariners owner Mike Charlesworth said the Mariners had been “thrilled” to have worked with the popular athlete.

“Despite the fact that we could not come to an agreement that would continue Usain Bolt’s football journey with the Central Coast Mariners, we’ve been thrilled to have the Olympic champion sprinter and world record holder as part of our Club for these past eight weeks,” he said.

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Neil Warnock is hosting his Friday press conference, and is talking about the Leicester owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, who died last week. Cardiff host Leicester tomorrow:

It’s the one miracle of football, really. What they achieved. Everybody would doubt anything being possible like that. It was just a miracle that they went on to win the league. I think around the club everything’s changed. Leicester City is united, really. A lot of owners get criticised but I think he’s tried to make it a family club, and everybody tells you what he’s done around the city as well. It was a tremendous achievement, and that made it more of a shock for everyone.

It was surreal last weekend. We were just landing from Liverpool and the news came out and it was just an eerie situation for everyone. Our players were visibly shocked. It was just a hell of a day for me, what with Glenn Hoddle earlier in the day. Life is just on an edge, isn’t it. Sometimes you take it for granted. It puts into perspective all our problems and our worries, promotion, relegation and all that. I think the whole football community have felt the shock.

Somehow the two teams have got to get on with a game of football. It’s an important game for us. But it is just a game of football. It feels irrelevant, really, compared with the things that have gone on this week.

We’ve all had things happen in our family in everybody’s family, but tragedies such as this are few and far between and they do hit home about the reality of what is important in life, really. It is only a game of football. We have got to get on with it, but you can’t just push this under the carpet.

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And here are 10 things to look out for this weekend:

Let’s kick things off with a round-up of today’s finest and freshest rumours:

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Hello world!

And so another weekend races remorselessly towards us like a horde of Roman soldiers, and with it being Friday we must bravely hold back its advance like so many plucky Gauls. Thus we can still concentrate on our day jobs, though a few press conferences and previews might like rogue footsoldiers squeeze through our heroic defences from time to time, and it will be my task to round them up and herd them into a controlled and well-fortified enclosure. This blog is that enclosure.

Hopefully you are less confused by that than I am. Here, then, are the top-flight games that we will be looking forward to (other leagues are available):

Saturday (3pm GMT unless stated)
Arsenal v Liverpool (5.30pm)
Bournemouth v Manchester United (12.30pm)
Cardiff City v Leicester City
Everton v Brighton & Hove Albion
Newcastle United v Watford
West Ham United v Burnley
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur (7.45pm)

Sunday
Chelsea v Crystal Palace (4pm)
Manchester City v Southampton (3pm)

Monday
Huddersfield Town v Fulham (8pm)

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