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• Michael Wynn Jones dead at 85: Delia Smith's husband passes away as Norwich lead tributes to their former chairman28 September 2026, 5:59 pm
  Wynn Jones death was announced by Norwich City, where he and Smith had been majority shareholders for 28 years.
  
• Rio Ferdinand tells Joleon Lescott to hand over his Premier League medal as he doubles down on calling for Man City to be stripped of titles after guilty verdict28 September 2026, 5:58 pm
  City and their fans, despite an almost-certain appeal, are nervously awaiting punishment after they were found guilty on the vast majority of their 115 charges around financial irregularities.
  
• The many faces of Wayne Rooney: From the fresh-faced teenager who took the world by storm to his remarkable Disney glow-up - but football legend insists he has NOT been on the weight-loss jabs28 September 2026, 5:49 pm
  The Manchester United icon has been involved in football for more than 20 years now. He started off as a teenager with high hopes at Everton, and is now one of the faces of football analysis.
  
• Israel footballer pleads his innocence as he's sent off for 'GUN GESTURE' celebration - but rules show he could have seen red for removing the corner flag!28 September 2026, 5:49 pm
  Sayed Abu Farchi was given his marching orders in the second-half of his side's defeat by Austria, having taken the corner flag out the ground and mimicked a gunshot during the game.
  
• Furious Martin Odegaard aims X-rated slur at Bernardo Silva with ex-Man City star lucky to escape red for VERY late tackle on Arsenal captain28 September 2026, 5:46 pm
  The Arsenal and Norway star was left fuming by Silva, who kicked him in the ankle long after the ball was gone and sent him tumbling. 'He completely lost his head,' Odegaard told reporters.
  
• Cody Gakpo withdraws from Netherlands duty and returns to Liverpool after suffering ankle blow... joining Alexander Isak on injury list as club face anxious wait for updates28 September 2026, 5:35 pm
  Dutch forward Gakpo will, like Sweden striker Isak, be assessed on Merseyside by club medical staff.
  
• 'They HATE us and we don't like them': Israel captain Manor Solomon vows 'revenge' in anti-Ireland rant and insists his country are 'ten times better' after rivals refused to shake hands before match28 September 2026, 4:10 pm
  Israel star Manor Solomon has launched an astonishing rant after Ireland refused to shake hands with his country and blanked their national anthem.
  
• Why Premier League's Man City verdict is treacherous for Prime Minister Andy Burnham, the threat it poses to the British economy and how the Abu Dhabi investment in Manchester is not all it seems28 September 2026, 4:00 pm
  There are reasons why the emergence of only half the story of City being found guilty of all substantive charges of the 115 brought by the Premier League helps the club.
  
• Morgan Rogers has hit the ground running with best mate Cole Palmer, Enzo Fernandez won over Man City fans at Old Trafford - but Bradley Barcola is still looking to make his mark: How the new members of the £100m club are faring28 September 2026, 3:45 pm
  Since Grealish's historic transfer from Aston Villa to Manchester City in 2021, as many as 11 high-profile signings worth £100million or more have arrived in the English top-flight.
  
• Man City's legacy will be 'GONE' if they lose appeal against Premier League - and Liverpool could be handed two titles as a result, argues Graeme Souness28 September 2026, 3:07 pm
  City have been found guilty of 114 of their 115 rule-break charges, according to sources, with the club accused of widespread financial cheating over an era of sustained success.
  
• OLIVER HOLT: How do we stop the Man City scandal from ever happening again? It's simple, the Premier League MUST ban nation states from owning our clubs28 September 2026, 2:44 pm
  Among a sizeable number of City fans, it is possible to detect a certain relish about the idea of being underdogs again, about being on the outside again, about going back to their roots.
  
• Pep Guardiola's Man City glory has been built on the club's cheating, lies and institutional filth, writes RIATH AL-SAMARRAI - now he must publicly shame his old bosses to salvage his reputation28 September 2026, 2:07 pm
  RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: The first time Guardiola's legacy was threatened by serious accusations of cheating, it took eight years to clear his name.
  
• The ugly stories around Man City's 'warfare' over the 115 charges: The army of lawyers, the brick through the window, the tracker on a car, tension, paranoia and journalists targeted for reporting the truth, as revealed by IAN HERBERT28 September 2026, 2:05 pm
  There's no suggestion the tracking device found under an investigator's car, at the height of a forensic investigation into City's finances, had anything to do with the club under suspicion.
  
• World Cup viral star, 40, who gained 29 MILLION followers after his Cape Verde heroics, reveals the dark side of newfound fame: 'I have lost my peace and privacy'28 September 2026, 2:04 pm
  He went into the tournament as an obscure Portuguese second-division stopper and emerged from it as a global phenomenon, with almost 30 million followers.
  
• Norway could become first nation to scrap VAR - with clubs working to axe controversial technology after three years following fan protests28 September 2026, 1:48 pm
  While Sweden's Allsvenskan rejected its introduction in 2024, no country has yet introduced it and then voted to remove it.