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• Enzo Maresca refuses to fully commit to staying at Man City if they are relegated - LIVE: Manager insists titles are NOT tainted as calls grow for 'relentless' punishing9 October 2026, 12:59 pm
  The Premier League returns this weekend - and Manchester City's guilty verdict is the hot topic. Managers are calling for a 'relentless' approach to punishing the Premier League leaders.
  
• Defiant Enzo Maresca insists he would have taken Man City job had club already had guilty verdict - and vows to speak 'when we win the appeal'9 October 2026, 11:02 am
  Maresca presented defiantly after the guilty verdict handed down by an independent commission last week, confidently claiming that he will talk openly once City win an appeal.
  
• Everton owners The Friedkin Group open to full sale of club - less than two years after completing takeover9 October 2026, 10:58 am
  Everton owners The Friedkin Group have confirmed they are exploring selling the club, less than two years after completing their takeover.
  
• Chelsea's breakthrough star, London City's Halloween fan... and the Man United supporter named after Eric Cantona! The young stars to watch in England's World Cup qualifiers against Greece9 October 2026, 9:33 am
  TARA ANSON-WALSH: There is a new guard champing at the bit, waiting to usurp their heroes and book a seat on the plane to Brazil, should they get there, of course.
  
• Defiant Enzo Maresca insists players and staff 'completely trust' Man City despite guilty verdict and insists there are NO concerns in dressing room after Erling Haaland became first star to speak out9 October 2026, 7:13 am
  MIKE KEEGAN AND JACK GAUGHAN: Enzo Maresca says he is 'very calm' despite Manchester City's seismic guilty verdict and has claimed the club's players 'don't care too much about the noise'.
  
• Oliver Glasner's battle plan for fractious Crystal Palace return: The three players key to taking down old club, what he's improved from last two Nottingham Forest managers and the targets new bosses have set for him9 October 2026, 7:00 am
  This is it, then. The big one. Whichever way you look at it, however many times Oliver Glasner says it's just another game, everyone at Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest knows it is anything but.
  
• Matildas coach throws support behind star Mary Fowler after her sudden withdrawal from the squad8 October 2026, 11:18 pm
  Coach Joe Montemurro says the Matildas support Mary Fowler's decision to miss upcoming friendlies for personal circumstances
  
• Stats boffins reveal the Premier League side with the TOUGHEST fixtures before the next international break as Man United face tricky tests and City have mixed run after guilty verdict8 October 2026, 10:02 pm
  The sports data wizards have rated the difficulty of every Premier League team's matches over the next four weeks. Fulham are believed to have been handed the easiest run.
  
• Arsenal were the biggest losers from the three-week international break as team with the most average minutes is revealed - but how did it affect YOUR club?8 October 2026, 9:31 pm
  There are several reasons why most football fans dislike international breaks - especially when they last three weeks - but chief among them is the fact they regularly leave their club's best players injured.
  
• Jose Mourinho aims playful dig at Man City over bombshell guilty verdict - and insists he 'would rather have a laugh' about club's cheating scandal8 October 2026, 9:25 pm
  Jose Mourinho says he 'would rather have a laugh' about Man City's cheating verdict than be drawn into a serious discussion of the financial cheating scandal. 
  
• Stephen Ireland opens up on 'life-changing' double-leg break while playing for ex-Premier League all-stars, why there's a target on their backs - and the 'f***ing mental' mistake by a Man United cult hero!8 October 2026, 9:20 pm
  CHRIS WHEELER: Stephen Ireland cries out in pain as the paramedics try to stabilise the fractured tibia and fibula bones in his right leg.
  
• Where it's all gone wrong for Arsenal Women: A coach in trouble, terrible finishing, letting tenacious duo leave, predictable substitutions and the Alessia Russo and Steph Catley dilemmas8 October 2026, 8:26 pm
  On October 4, 2025, Renee Slegers' Arsenal fell to a defeat to Manchester City after a frustrating start to their season. A year later, to the day, the Gunners once again fell to City. Same old story.
  
• ONE TEAM IN TALLINN: 30 years on, how Scotland 'won' the shortest international match in history8 October 2026, 8:20 pm
  Warming up alongside his Scotland teammates on the pitch at the Kadrioru Stadium in Tallinn, Craig Burley was consumed by one thought: Get me out of here!
  
• Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal walk-out left mother in 'tears' as she reveals what she told star, 41, after he quit the team's camp 'through the back door'8 October 2026, 6:53 pm
  Cristiano Ronaldo's mother has revealed she 'cried' following the 'shock' of his walk-out from the Portugal squad last week.
  
• Ex-Arsenal captain Granit Xhaka's Covid fraud relief: Premier League star spared jail after confessing to faking vaccine8 October 2026, 6:45 pm
  Swiss authorities investigated the case, with the possible penalties including a major fine and a maximum of five years behind bars, and he did not take part in Switzerland's recent camp.