Jose Mourinho believes Manchester City’s players go down very easily, with the Manchester United boss saying it only takes a “little bit of wind” to knock them over.

With Christmas still to come, it’s way too early to be talking about a golden era for the Premier League but you would have to say that the signs are certainly more encouraging than they have been in a long time.

There was a time when owning three high-priced forwards seemed like the only the way to go in Fantasy Premier League.

Manchester City’s Fernandinho expects Manchester United to feel the absence of Paul Pogba in this weekend’s derby.

In Paris tonight, during a television programme hosted by David Ginola, the famous Ballon d’Or trophy will be presented for the 62nd time.

Arsene Wenger insists his team selection will always reflect what is best for Arsenal — even if that means frustrating some of his star players.

Manchester City slumped to their first defeat of the season with a 2-1 loss to Shakhtar Donetsk in their final Champions League Group F game.

Manchester United came from behind to beat CSKA Moscow and top their Champions League group as Jose Mourinho’s men took their unbeaten home run to a club record-equalling 40th match.

Jose Mourinho is treating striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic with kid gloves by keeping the striker out of tonight’s Champions League clash with CSKA Moscow as Sunday’s top-of-the-table clash against Manchester City looms large, writes Rory Dollard.

If you can’t get yourself up for a match like this, then you shouldn’t be playing football, writes Liam Mackey

It’s probably inevitable that, going into these end-of-season friendlies against France and the USA, much of the media and public focus is on the new and more inexperienced players in a transitional Irish squad.

Real Madrid star Gareth Bale has been keeping a suspiciously low profile in the build up to his team’s Champions League final against Liverpool on Saturday – indicating that his days in Spain could now be numbered.

Rory McIlroy is nothing if not bold. He’s a Manchester United fan who hopes Liverpool win the Champions League final on Saturday, admits he enjoyed his round of golf with Donald Trump, and he’s back at Wentworth, where he has missed the cut four times in his previous eight outings at the BMW PGA Championship, the European Tour’s flagship event.

Jet black hair, a booming voice, a gleaming smile behind a Spanish accent as strong as his handshake, Unai Emery made an immediate and positive impression on his first day as Arsenal head coach.

Every so often a paper emerges in sport science or coaching science that encourages academics and practitioners to stop and think, writes Dr Ed Coughlan

Manuel Pellegrini has targeted “four or five” signings to launch a blueprint of attacking football at West Ham.

Antonio Conte left Wembley with another piece of silverware and the love of the Chelsea faithful ringing in his ears on Saturday, the self-proclaimed “serial winner” who wore the look of a man who knows he is about to move on.

Chelsea 1 Manchester United 0: If this was Antonio Conte’s final game in charge of Chelsea, then he at least enjoyed the kind of swansong any manager would want.

Daniel Storey on the weekend’s talking points...