In last week’s Community Shield victory over Chelsea, Manchester City continued from where they left off last season.

Pep Guardiola and Maurizio Sarri’s teams last season played out two of the Champions League’s most entertaining matches when Manchester City and Italian side Napoli met in the group stages of the competition.

The World Cup means football’s traditional summer recess seems barely to have happened, and it is just a matter of days before the new Premier League season gets underway.

Manchester City are closing in on the signings of Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez and Jorginho of Napoli.

More than 25% of the cost of policing Manchester City in the 2017/18 season came from just two games, Mancunian Matters can reveal.

Last year, Manchester City swept the board of domestic honours, only to have all three trophies ripped from their grasp this time around.

A team from West Africa have played under the name Medina Burnley for the last few decades.

Gareth Southgate’s 23-man squad to travel to Russia to play in the 2018 World Cup is now decided, but for the game against Tunisia on June 18 the England boss can only pick 11 men.

With Manchester City having strolled to the Premier League title and Liverpool through to the Champions League final, Manchester United’s season could end in disaster – unless they beat Chelsea in tomorrow’s FA Cup final.

Pep Guardiola’s men were in triumphant mood as they showed off their silverware haul from this season, including the Premier League trophy.

He has scored 53 goals in an England shirt and appeared for the Three Lions on more than 100 occasions but Everton’s Wayne Rooney insists his appearance at the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the launchpad for his career.