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Mikel Arteta: Arsenal boss has clear conscience over Man City charges
9 October 2026 Off

Mikel Arteta: Arsenal boss has clear conscience over Man City charges

By Total Football News

Mikel Arteta says his conscience is clear over Manchester City’s Premier League rule breaches during a period when he was assistant manager at the club.

The Arsenal boss worked under Pep Guardiola between 2016 and 2019, which overlapped with the nine seasons during which City have been found to have broken rules and disguised secret funding of more than £830m.

In his first news conference since the ruling – which

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Portsmouth 2-0 Ipswich Town: Pompey move four points clear of drop
14 April 2026 Off

Portsmouth 2-0 Ipswich Town: Pompey move four points clear of drop

By Total Football News

Ipswich started the game well and had a great chance to open the scoring when Kasey McAteer was slipped in down the right and found George Hirst in the box, but his shot ended up being blocked behind for a corner.

The Blues had a brilliant effort well saved just before the half-hour mark when Millenic Ali let fly from 25 yards with a thunderous right-footed effort that had to

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Swansea City 0-3 Coventry City: Matt Grimes scores against old club as Sky Blues go nine points clear
22 March 2026 Off

Swansea City 0-3 Coventry City: Matt Grimes scores against old club as Sky Blues go nine points clear

By Total Football News

Swansea head coach Vitor Matos:

“We had chances, we didn’t score. That shows that in this kind of game, being clinical is massive, having the mental focus in that kind of situation is massive.

“That’s something we need to improve. For 30 minutes I think we were a good team who properly pushed Coventry in moments they didn’t like.

“Cross bar, post, good chance for Franco as well, then a

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Coventry City 3-0 Preston North End: Sky Blues eight clear at top of Championship
11 March 2026 Off

Coventry City 3-0 Preston North End: Sky Blues eight clear at top of Championship

By Total Football News

The home supporters erupted into chants of “we’re going to win the league” when news of Boro’s defeat filtered through and off the back of their performance against the Lilywhites, that looks likely.

The Sky Blues controlled the tempo and direction of the game from the moment they took the lead, although Iversen can feel hard done by with the first two goals.

First, Sakamoto’s shot wrong-footed him after hitting

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Bristol City 0-2 Coventry City: Sky Blues go eight points clear
7 March 2026 Off

Bristol City 0-2 Coventry City: Sky Blues go eight points clear

By Total Football News

Bristol City looked the more dangerous side during an uninspiring first half-hour, with the bustling Sinclair Armstrong twice firing wide and Riis denied by a timely block from ex-Robins full-back Jay Dasilva.

But the leaders struck when the influential Ephron Mason-Clark released Dasilva on the left and he weaved his way into a crossing position, supplying Sakamoto for a header that Radek Vitek failed to keep out.

However, Mason-Clark was

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Charlton Athletic 1-0 Birmingham City: Addicks move further clear of relegation trouble after beating Blues
7 March 2026 Off

Charlton Athletic 1-0 Birmingham City: Addicks move further clear of relegation trouble after beating Blues

By Total Football News

Charlie Kelman’s winner was enough to give Charlton a 1-0 victory over Birmingham City at The Valley and an important three points in their bid to move further clear of the relegation zone in the Championship.

The forward’s fifth goal of the campaign came moments after coming off the bench, and settled a game of few clear-cut chances.

Prior to the winner, Tyrese Campbell had the best opening for the

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Leicester City 0-2 Norwich City: Canaries pull clear of danger but Foxes remain in trouble
28 February 2026 Off

Leicester City 0-2 Norwich City: Canaries pull clear of danger but Foxes remain in trouble

By Total Football News

The Foxes had the first real attempt on goal as Harry Winks’s 25-yard strike almost took Vladan Kovacevic by surprise, but Leicester’s persistent defensive frailties were clearly evident as the game progressed.

Mathias Kvistgaarden was left unmarked to head into the side netting and then the Foxes centre-backs parted invitingly for Paris Maghoma to stride down the centre of the field and bring a fine save from Stolarczyk.

The keeper

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Philippe Clement: Norwich City showing ‘clear signal’ of progress
18 December 2025 Off

Philippe Clement: Norwich City showing ‘clear signal’ of progress

By Total Football News

Clement said his team had been tactically aware in defence and also showed their ability going forwards.

“They played a really great game with a lot of energy, desire and doing the right things together, the composure to play between lines, to create spaces for ourselves and create more chances than the two goals,” he added.

“He [Makama] is a really interesting player. He never played at this level [before]

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Alan Shearer: ‘Arsenal deserve to be clear – but who’s best placed to challenge?’
1 December 2025 Off

Alan Shearer: ‘Arsenal deserve to be clear – but who’s best placed to challenge?’

By Total Football News

What hasn’t changed this weekend is that Arsenal are still the team to beat.

You could argue they could have done more against Chelsea’s 10 men, and they might be disappointed not to create more chances after the red card, and to only get a draw.

But, looking at the bigger picture, they have come out of a very difficult week in the Champions League and Premier League with impressive

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Coventry City 3-1 Charlton Athletic: Sky Blues go 12 points clear of third in Championship
29 November 2025 Off

Coventry City 3-1 Charlton Athletic: Sky Blues go 12 points clear of third in Championship

By Total Football News

Frank Lampard celebrated a year in charge of Coventry on Friday and his side are dominating the second tier like few have done before them.

The Sky Blues have now won all five of their matches in November following their only league loss of the season at Wrexham on 31 October.

Their goalscoring is also unrivalled in the top four divisions of English football.

In 10 of their 18

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