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The two sons of a police officer killed in a crash on Teesside will lead out the Manchester United team as mascots for Sunday’s Premier League match against Ipswich at Old Trafford.
PC Matthew Blades, described as a “proud Red” by United, was a regular at Old Trafford. The club have paid tribute to him in Sunday’s match programme. His widow will attend the game with their children.
PC Blades
Villa have agreed a deal for Jackson and are trying to ensure the Senegal striker is registered for Monday’s visit of Arsenal.
Watkins is the latest experienced player to leave Villa this summer and Emery urged supporters to back the club’s strategy despite the loss of several key figures in their successful 2025-26 season.
“We took decisions because it’s good for the club,” Emery said.
“Of course, we don’t
Newcastle‘s men’s, women’s and under-21 sides will wear black armbands during their pre-season matches to honour Keegan, who guided the club to Premier League promotion in 1992-93 and second place in the 1995-96 top flight.
A minute’s silence will be observed before Eddie Howe’s side play Gateshead in an away friendly this Saturday.
Keegan’s photo will be displayed on screens at St James’ Park in the seventh minute –
So that is time on another season – and my 650th Derby County commentary for BBC Radio Derby – which came to a poignant end against Sheffield United.
That match also marked the final broadcast for a much‑loved colleague as Eric Steele hung up his microphone at the end of the campaign.
Eric and I have worked hundreds of games together since he returned to Radio Derby in 2018, beginning
Tony’s Rovers story began in 1970, when he was plucked from non-league Buxton Town for a trial.
A striker turned midfielder, he became a constant presence – part of the 1974–75 promotion side under Gordon Lee, and again influential in the team that rose back to the second tier under Howard Kendall in 1980. A broken leg in 1981 ended his playing days but opened the door to a remarkable
The family of a lifelong Norwich City supporter who died on Sunday after a match at Carrow Road has said his “love of football and the club has passed on through the generations”, and would continue to do so.
Jim Davies, 80, died after collapsing shortly after the final whistle in the third round FA Cup tie against Walsall.
In a statement released through the club, they said: “Jim began
The club provided a fitting, heartfelt tribute to ‘Headphones Norm’ who was a familiar face for all of us who have followed Charlton up and down the country.
Every away coach I have ever taken, he was there.
He was our Rudyard Kipling – meeting triumph and disaster and treating those two impostors just the same. While others ranted after a defeat, Norm would simply shrug and say it was
Manchester United and Manchester City will pay tribute to the victims of the Manchester synagogue attack before their Premier League fixtures this weekend.
But tributes will not be routinely held across the Premier League or English Football League over Thursday’s incident in which two people died and three others were injured.
United players will wear black armbands and hold a minute’s silence before their match against Sunderland at Old
Jota played for Wolves before joining Liverpool in 2020 and tributes for him and his brother have also been placed outside the Molineux stadium of the Midlands club.
“With heavy rain and thunderstorms forecast in the coming days, staff have begun carefully removing and preserving items from the tribute area to protect them from damage,” said a Wolves statement., external
“All non-perishable items will be carefully stored and will
Tributes have been paid to Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva at Liverpool’s first match since their death.
Portugal and Liverpool forward Jota and Silva, also a professional footballer, died in a car crash on 3 July in the Spanish province of Zamora.
Prior to the Reds’ first pre-season friendly at Preston North End, there were emotional renditions of Elvis Presley’s Can’t Help Falling in Love and Liverpool club