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• Celtic sign five in one day after Van den Berg & Lotomba arrive

  03-09-2026 00:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celtic complete loan deals for former England goalkeeper Sam Johnstone and teenage Chelsea duo Shumaira Mheuka and Landon Emenalo.
  
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• Premier League buildup to Arsenal v Chelsea, plus Everton v Manchester United and WSL – matchday live

  06-09-2026 11:14 via theguardian.com
  Buildup, news and discussion before Sunday’s gamesThis weekend’s fixtures | Mail us with your thoughtsDave Estherby gets in touch: “Not sure about the pile-on for Russell Martin - it takes a very select set of skills to make three teams in succession worse. Love to know the odds on him being the next Tottenham manager.”Trouble at Fulham? Crystal Palace made it three defeats in three in the Premier League. Continue reading...
  
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• Scottish Premiership: Celtic’s Yang completes fightback to see off St Mirren

  05-09-2026 23:36 via theguardian.com
  Celtic come from behind to win 2-1 at St MirrenRangers beat Motherwell 1-0 but lose Shankland to injuryYang Hyun-jun scored the winner as Celtic came from behind to beat an impressive St Mirren side 2-1. St Mirren were heading for the top of the Premiership when Nikolas Agrafiotis netted from the spot midway through the first half.Liam Scales conceded the penalty with a handball but made amends when he headed home six minutes after the break. And Yang finished off a counterattack midway through
  
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• European football: Martínez seals thrilling comeback for unbeaten Inter

  05-09-2026 21:50 via theguardian.com
  Champions Inter and Roma pull off stunning comebacksSchalke 0-0 Bayern Munich; Hoffenheim 2-3 DortmundLautaro Martínez scored in the 91st minute as Inter rallied from two goals down ⁠to secure a stunning 3-2 home victory over Napoli, continuing their 100% start to their ⁠Serie A title defence.Napoli looked ⁠to be ​on course for victory when Matteo Politano and Rasmus Højlund put them 2-0 up after 53 minutes, but Martínez’s ⁠first goal halv
  
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• Arteta v Alonso, part one: a desire for control and the theory behind the chaos | Jonathan Wilson

  05-09-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso prepare for an intriguing tactical battle in the first Premier League meeting between old friendsControl v chaos. On the one hand, the forces of order, regimented, playing in precise patterns and, on the other, something darker, more visceral, a method that acknowledges the imperfection of the human soul, the unknowability of football in all its randomness; better, that second way says, to attempt to ride the fury than to believe it might be harnessed.When it began,
  
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• High-flying Hull stay unbeaten by holding off Aston Villa in stalemate

  05-09-2026 20:28 via theguardian.com
  It’s never dull in Hull, as the saying goes in these parts, and after just three games the Premier League is proving to be quite some ride for Hull City supporters.Having embarrassed Manchester United here on the opening day and won at Coventry last weekend, this deserved point and third successive clean sheet merely reinforced Sergej Jakirovic’s belief that his men can beat the drop. Continue reading...
  
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• Glasner claims VAR was ‘guessing’ after Forest are denied winner against Spurs

  05-09-2026 19:59 via theguardian.com
  Oliver Glasner argued there was insufficient evidence to disallow Neco Williams’s goal against Tottenham, accusing the video assistant referee Peter Bankes of guessing that the Nottingham Forest defender handled and said ruling it out weakens the officials’ authority. Midway through the second half, Williams stooped to head in on the goalline as Sandro Tonali attempted to hook the ball clear after Morgan Gibbs-White’s deflected effort bobbled towards the net.Glasner conceded at
  
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• Championship roundup: Bristol City add to Burnley’s woes, West Ham beat Derby

  05-09-2026 19:01 via theguardian.com
  Burnley 1-2 Bristol City, West Ham 3-0 DerbySwansea still top despite stalemate against WrexhamNicky Hayen has told his under-fire Burnley players they need to dig deep to come through “a really difficult situation” after a 2-1 defeat at home by Bristol City left them rock bottom of the Championship.The Turf Moor crowd vented their anger – most vehemently towards the owner, Alan Pace – after Aaron Ramsey’s 56th-minute opener for the Clarets was overturned by an 82nd
  
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• Enzo Le Fée penalty redemption rescues point for Sunderland at Brentford

  05-09-2026 18:14 via theguardian.com
  True redemption, perhaps, would have been to score with a Panenka, but Enzo Le Fée didn’t quite have the chutzpah for that. His duffed dink at Brentford in January was the low point of one of Sunderland’s two worst performances of the season, but he converted from the spot with eight minutes remaining to earn a draw in a battle of two physically aggressive and well-drilled teams who must both look at the chaos elsewhere and be thinking again of top-half finishes.It had seemed
  
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• Chilwell seals Crystal Palace comeback win after Mitchell double at Fulham

  05-09-2026 18:13 via theguardian.com
  The managers may have changed but the result stays the same. For the fourth successive trip to this part of west London, Crystal Palace returned over the river with a win as Pierre Sage got his reign off the mark in dramatic style. Their hero was Ben Chilwell, the former England left-back who was signed on deadline day from Strasbourg – this time permanently, after a loan spell in which he helped Palace win the FA Cup – after he came off the bench to volley home the winner.It was a b
  
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• Luka Vuskovic rides to the rescue for Brighton as Leeds fail to take chances

  05-09-2026 18:03 via theguardian.com
  What might have been; what should have been. By the end of this strange, enthralling match two exhausted teams trudged off the Amex Stadium turf wondering how they had not won it. Both sides’ ruminations were entirely legitimate.Leeds, who remain unbeaten three games into the season, rued not putting the game to bed long before Brighton even remembered they, too, were allowed to attack. Having led through Jayden Bogle’s early tap-in, the visitors were utterly dominant for the best pa
  
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• Haaland edges Manchester City past Coventry as Fernández sparkles on debut

  05-09-2026 18:02 via theguardian.com
  Enzo Fernández started for Manchester City after Nico O’Reilly’s back injury during the warm-up and sparkled, showing why the club paid a British-record-equalling £125m for the midfielder. The winner came courtesy of Erling Haaland’s 300th goal in club football and Fernández had a key part, feeding Antoine Semenyo, whose cross from the right was crashed home.In the second half Coventry hammered away, but their wait for a first top-flight goal since Mustapha
  
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• Own goal and inspired debut from keeper Akane Okuma earn Villa point at Chelsea

  05-09-2026 15:45 via theguardian.com
  A Veerle Buurman own goal punished a profligate Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, securing a point for Aston Villa in a frustrating start to the hosts’ push to win back the WSL title.How Villa came away with a point having conceded 65% possession and having amassed just seven shots to Chelsea’s 34 and five touches in the opposition box to the home team’s 57 is somewhat inexplicable. Continue reading...
  
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• Jacob Ramsey comes in from the cold as Newcastle peg back Bournemouth

  05-09-2026 15:44 via theguardian.com
  Just as Bournemouth’s Alex Scott seemed to have succeeded in building a personal playground by the Tyne, another midfielder emerged from the shadows and stripped the shine from his afternoon.Since Matthias Jaissle succeeded Eddie Howe as Newcastle’s manager Jacob Ramsey has been largely shunted to the margins but the home substitute’s superbly executed 88th-minute equaliser ensured Scott and his teammates needed to settle for a point. Continue reading...
  
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• Mike Dean insists he refereed ‘properly and professionally’ after podcast claims

  05-09-2026 15:37 via theguardian.com
  Former official ‘regrets’ controversial commentsHe claims he did not intend to ‘undermine’ othersThe former referee Mike Dean regrets his controversial comments on a podcast this week, but insists he always did his job “properly and professionally” during his 25-year career.Dean sent shockwaves through football when he claimed on the Jamie Vardy’s Having a Party podcast he would “joke about” during matches and would see how long he could go w
  
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• Uefa legal case may be beginning of the end for Infantino as Trump’s support evaporates | Barney Ronay

  05-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  The order of discovery related to Fifa’s failed plan to sell the World Cup will worry the American president, a situation that tends to end badly for the culprit“Tell Mike it was just business. I always liked him.”“He understands.” Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Reverse bucket list’: Arteta channels Wenger in defence of Arsenal window

  05-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  The champions’ manager echoed his illustrious predecessor and urged fans unhappy at the lack of a deadline-day arrival to see the bigger pictureFor many people connected to Arsenal, it has been a time to remember the old line from Arsène Wenger. “We live in a society of ‘news’,” the club’s former manager once said, and by that he meant new things – the shinier the better.Nowhere is the obsession more obvious than in the transfer market, when a clu
  
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• ‘The noise was unbelievable’: the referee’s view of Mexico v England at the World Cup

  05-09-2026 07:00 via theguardian.com
  England’s manager Thomas Tuchel called the officiating ‘just not good enough’ in the fiery last-16 tie. Now Alireza Faghani gives his version of eventsIt was 6pm on 5 July in Mexico City, and Alireza Faghani, a 48-year-old Australian-Iranian, was asleep in the locker room, snoring. His assistants had turned the music down. Had it not been for the muffled roar of nearly 90,000 fans through the concrete walls of the Estadio Azteca, he could have slept until the following morning.
  
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• Chelsea hit bullseye with Morgan Rogers as Arsenal rue what might have been

  04-09-2026 21:00 via theguardian.com
  The Gunners will have a look at what they could have won when the former Villa man lines up against them, having made a flying start for Xabi Alonso’s teamChelsea thought they had little chance of signing Morgan Rogers at the start of the summer. Xabi Alonso and the club’s recruitment team had the England international as a priority target but a deal seemed unlikely. Chelsea had endured a disappointing season, missing out on European football after finishing 10th, and their expectati
  
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• Football Daily | What you won’t see in the Premier League this weekend

  04-09-2026 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!That icy wind rattling the rafters is the cold reality of what follows the closure of the transfer window, a hungover pall of regret. Despite £3.5bn shelled out in the men’s window, several things will not be happening in the Premier League when they might have been. When Arsenal host Chelsea for a most super of Sundays, Vinícius Júnior will not be playing in their attack, and neither will Gabriel Martinelli, whose leng
  
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• Nottingham Forest’s Liam Delap: ‘I play at my best on the edge of being horrible’

  04-09-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  After a difficult year at Chelsea the striker hopes to get his career back on track at the City Ground“You can imagine it: he’s a centre-back, I’m a striker,” says Liam Delap, Nottingham Forest’s £45m club-record signing, smiling as he sets the scene. He is reliving taking on his younger brother, Finn, in the garden. These days, they are each other’s biggest supporters – Liam attended Finn’s victory for third-tier Burton on Wednesday –
  
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• Arsenal take on Chelsea and deadline-day chaos | Football Weeky Extra – video

  03-09-2026 15:07 via theguardian.com
  Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Seb Hutchinson and Robyn Cowen to preview the upcoming Premier League weekend Continue reading...
  
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• Loan stars: Premier League youngsters to watch in the EFL

  03-09-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  From Maynor Figueroa’s son Keyrol at Wigan to Spurs’s Irish forward Melia at Lincoln and Stockport keeper Whatmuff, we look at nine to keep an eye onGoalkeepers are supposed to peak at about 30, which makes one wonder how good the 18-year-old Whatmuff will be at that point. He spent last season playing professionally, earning promotion from the National League with Rochdale under the tutelage of Jimmy McNulty. When the manager jumped two divisions to Stockport, Whatmuff was the first
  
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• Azeez to Andrés: seven smart-looking Premier League deadline day deals

  03-09-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  An 18-year-old who has played at two major international tournaments and the division’s top clearance maker from last season also featureA tricky, exciting, quick and versatile midfielder, Azeez has proven himself in the Championship with Millwall over the past two seasons and now deserves a chance to test himself in the top flight. Continue reading...
  
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• Premier League paradox: midfielders are more and more expensive, yet more and more mediocre | Jonathan Liew

  03-09-2026 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Enzo Fernández and Sandro Tonali had big-money summer moves, but can they hold a candle to past greats?Perhaps the only thing you really need to know about the modern midfield role is that Enzo Maresca reckons that Marc Guéhi can play it better than Mateo Kovacic. Guéhi, in reality a centre-back, started the season in midfield for Manchester City, ahead of Kovacic, the now-departed Nico González, and Matheus Nunes. In this context City’s purchase of Enzo Fern&aa
  
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• Man City buy costly new midfield - but have they overlooked Haaland cover?

  03-09-2026 00:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City have completed a squad overhaul including a fully revamped midfield to the tune of a Premier League record £458m, but that eyewatering number does not tell the full story.
  
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• Chelsea make contact with Wijnaldum - Thursday's gossip

  02-09-2026 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea make contact with former Liverpool midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum, Arsenal eye Bournemouth striker Eli Junior Kroupi, Everton play down prospect of signing free transfers, plus more.
  
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• Wrexham boss pleased to see transfer window close

  02-09-2026 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Phil Parkinson admits he is pleased the summer transfer window has closed and says Wrexham's 3-0 win at Millwall highlights the progress his side have made.
  
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• Aasgaard makes Anderlecht switch as Rangers reject Raskin bid

  02-09-2026 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rangers midfielder Thelo Aasgaard is on the verge of a loan move to Anderlecht, while the Ibrox club have knocked back an loan bid from Besiktas for Belgium midfielder Nicolas Raskin.
  
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• Man Utd sign Bernal from Washington Spirit

  02-09-2026 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United have completed the signing of Mexico international Rebeca Bernal from Washington Spirit.
  
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