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Favourite picture from Arsenal celebrations. Win, the dog, exhausted from all the partying.
Arsenal are champions: how Mikel Arteta’s side won first title in 22 years.... Heinze's role working withViktor Gyokeres, Declan Rice fuming and Arteta connecting the past, present and future. (Pic instagram)
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Did your Premier League club survive the break or are they now depleted?
With high-profile casualties and physio rooms busy at five clubs, we assess the winners and losers on the injury front ⬇️
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Laurence Stewart agrees to leave Chelsea by mutual consent as part of club's plan to adopt three-man sporting leadership team
His exit is latest step in the right direction for Chelsea
✍️ @peterrutzler
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Mikel Arteta has signed a four-year contract worth around £25million a year, making him the best-paid manager in the Premier League. Summer acquisitions aimed at winning now - with City pending punishment - rather than building a succession plan.
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Mikel Arteta has signed a four-year contract worth more than £20million a year, making him the best-paid manager in the Premier League | ✍️ @garyjacob thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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125 games and counting: Harry Kane’s record England career in numbers.
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If Manchester City lose their appeal and are relegated, will their big stars stick around?
Matt Lawton told The Game podcast that if the club is relegated or expelled from the Premier League and have to climb multiple divisions to return, it would be "the end of the club as we know it now".
🗣️ @Lawton_Times, @_TomClarke, Tony Cascarino
🔗 Link in the thread below to listen to the full episode
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⚽ What is the perfect air pressure for a football
🧦 The bizarre thing players do to their socks
👕 What is the secret to a happy dressing room
The Times was invited to help out Russ Worley, Rotherham’s popular kit man, for the club’s 500-mile round trip to Exeter City thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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How Thomas Tuchel is unleashing England: from uncaging Jude Bellingham to Harry Kane’s IQ
✍️ @JNorthcroft
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🏴 As Harry Kane prepares to equal Peter Shilton’s record for national team caps, we look through the stats and achievements of one of England’s all-time greats
⬇️ Read below
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Manchester City’s chief executive Ferran Soriano has insisted that his video message sent to staff this week about the independent commission’s devastating verdicts on Premier League rule breaches was not made with artificial intelligence | ✍️ @martynziegler thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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🔺 Update: Manchester City’s defence that their principal sponsorship deals were funded by the Abu Dhabi government and not the club’s owner may be undermined by a statement made by their principal sponsor Etihad to a US investigation in 2015 | ✍️ @martynziegler, @Lawton_Times thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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Can Trent Alexander-Arnold become a regular starter for England under Thomas Tuchel?
On The Game podcast, The Times’ chief football correspondent and SJA Football Journalist of the Year @JNorthcroft explains how the right back can follow in Jude Bellingham's footsteps and appeal to England’s head coach.
🔗 Link in the thread below to listen to the full podcast
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The FA has indicated that it will issue its own charges against Manchester City once the Premier League process has been concluded | ✍️ @Lawton_Times thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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Arsenal have ruled out a significant expansion of Emirates Stadium. Looks like small changes and emphasis on corporate offerings to boost match day
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Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC?
We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax.
There should be a criminal investigation.
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Here is definitive evidence that Etihad was complicit in the “sham arrangements”.
Note: Peter Baumgartner was Etihad’s Chief Commercial Officer at the time
@etihad try explaining that away before you pretend to threaten people for telling facts
🚨MAN CITY UPDATE - ETIHAD THREATENS PREMIER LEAGUE WITH LEGAL ACTION
😡Airline and City's major sponsor 'categorically rejects' PL panel finding it was involved in 'sham' deals
⚠️Explosive statement claims that PL has 'created damaging implications for Etihad' & warns it must now 'take responsibility for the consequences'
🗣️Also says 'at no time' was it consulted & will now seek legal counsel
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Here’s me and @fkhanage talking for an hour about the Man City case.
Sorry, I had to use AI to change my voice so it’s a little off in places but clear enough to follow.
It’s here..
THE most comprehensive guide to City’s charges and verdict, the Premier League’s statement and City’s defiant defence. With @themagic_tophat 🍿
A case that has rocked the world of sport.
YouTube | Apple | Spotify
🎧 Enjoy. open.spotify.com/episode/1Vw…
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Cristiano Ronaldo has walked out the Portugal camp having been told that the team’s needs are more important than his own after emergency talks to resolve a rift with the head coach Jorge Jesus
@garyjacob reports 🔽 thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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Ronaldo over and out
Ronaldo to hold crisis talks with Portugal after being left on bench | ✍️ @garyjacob
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Etihad Airways has said it is considering legal action against the Premier League, claiming the judgment published this week against Manchester City incorrectly suggests the club’s principal sponsor has been “involved in improper commercial arrangements”
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