Key events
Sunday’s key fixtures
Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen v Hearts, 3pm
La Liga
Elche v Real Madrid, 8pm
Serie A
Inter v Milan, 7.45pm
The table, as it stands.
And the top scorers in the Premier League.
No Palmer, still party for Chelsea at Burnley.
Doom for Wolves on Rob Edwards’ first game in charge.
I was at Fulham where the match was almost as rotten as the weather though the best team won. Sunderland were a little disappointing.
Brighton made a fine comeback in the battle of the B-teams, while another B, Bournemouth, showed their fighting qualities.
Talking of fallen champions. Manchester City’s title charge faltered on Tyneside.
The story of the season is the fall of the champions. Just what is going on at Liverpool?
A historic day on Saturday, the new Nou Camp open for business. Sort of. Sid Lowe was on architectural duties.
Above all, for most there was a kind of comfort, familiarity, the sense that this could be both a way back to where they were and a new beginning. The Camp Nou rebuild is not done: only three sides of the lower two tiers are open, allowing for a maximum 45,401 of the 105,000 it will eventually hold, and at times, in truth, the day of fiesta was a little flat, quiet and underwhelming, but Flick said “it’s a really good feeling to be back here”, and back is the word.
Preamble
Good morning, football. A full day of football awaits, and there’s also a big day on Saturday to consider. The big one comes in north London but there’s plenty of other action, including in the Steel City.
Join us.
