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Oct 17, 2026 - Sports

There have been few winners in Manchester City’s guilty verdict, except highly paid lawyers and the inflatable fruit industry. The fans have suffered, being forced to question everything they have been told, while being labelled “cheats”, but they were able to forget the cacophony of noise around the club as Enzo Maresca became the first manager to win his first seven games in charge of a team.Ipswich were the latest victims, but they put up a fight in City’s first home Premier League game since being found to have breached financial rules. Defiance has fortified most of the City fanbase, who were able to see local boy Phil Foden instigate the triumph with a kiss of the badge, before an emblem of their wealth, Erling Haaland, secured the points to move six clear, albeit with a few scares between, courtesy of Daizen Maeda and Zian Flemming. Continue reading...

Oct 17, 2026 - Sports

It was not until his post-match lap of the pitch that Álvaro Arbeloa allowed himself a smile. After an uncomfortable week when his future was being called into question, the former Real Madrid manager has a Premier League win under his belt at the seventh attempt, lifting his side off the foot of the table. But it is not a win without caveats.Alex Iwobi’s goal in the first half should have been one of many, with the Nigeria winger among those guilty of missing gilt-edge chances. Gonzalo García, who has not scored in the league since the opening weekend of the season, headed against the crossbar from close range in the second half. Continue reading...

Oct 17, 2026 - Sports

Ombudsman emphatically reversed the form from last year’s Champion Stakes with a defeat of Calandagan in the feature race on Champions Day at AscotFifteen minutes to the off in the Long Distance Cup, the first of today’s Group One races, and Oddschecker have been in touch with the latest prices:Highwayman 9/4 Continue reading...

Oct 17, 2026 - Sports

An equaliser from Olivia Smith averted defeat for Arsenal, but a home draw with Birmingham did little to calm fears for Renée Slegers’s future as Gunners coach. Boos accompanied the final whistle at the Emirates Stadium, as the result left Arsenal on six points from six matches and without a win in five Women’s Super League matches, the club’s longest winless run in WSL history. They are eighth in the table, nine points behind the leaders, Manchester City, who have played one game fewer.Birmingham opened the scoring at the start of the second half when Océane Hurtré coolly tapped in after her run from the halfway line went unchecked. Alessia Russo had hit the woodwork in the first half with a diving header, among a slew of Arsenal chances as Sophie Baggaley was kept the busier of the goalkeepers. Continue reading...

Oct 17, 2026 - Sports

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