🚨⚽️ | NEW: Barcelona are now 11 points clear at the top of the 2025/26 La Liga after a 2-0 win over Getafe.

1. Barcelona - 85 points
2. Real Madrid - 74 points

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Manchester City have become the first-ever team in history to reach four consecutive FA Cup finals after a 2-1 win over Southampton.

✅ 2022/23 (Beat Manchester United 2-1)
✅ 2023/24 (Lost 2-1 to Manchester United)
✅ 2024/25 (Lost 1-0 to Crystal Palace)
✅ 2025/26 (Will face Chelsea or Leeds United)

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Levi Colwill played a competitive game of football for the first time in nine months as he featured for the full 90 minutes against Middlesbrough in a Premier League 2 play-off game at Kingsmeadow Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

➡️ Colwill suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury sustained in August of last year

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Everton are to contact referees’ chiefs to raise concerns about the consistency of officiating in the Premier League after they were denied a penalty in Saturday’s defeat to West Ham United. 

👀 Mateus Fernandes pushed the ball away with his hand while he was grappling with the Everton striker Thierno Barry in the second half of the 2-1 loss

➡️ The referee, Stuart Attwell, did not act and the VAR, Michael Salisbury, said the incident was checked and deemed to be accidental

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Chelsea have now reached the third-most FA Cup finals in the competition’s history.

🥇 Manchester United - 22
🥈 Arsenal - 21
🥉 Chelsea - 17

➡️ This season will be the Blues’ first FA Cup final since 2021/22

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Xavi Simons has announced that he will miss the remainder of the season and the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

➡️ Simons suffered a knee injury in Tottenham’s 1-0 win over Wolves on Saturday.

🚨⚽️ | NEW: FIFA has agreed in principle to increase 2026 World Cup prize money and participation fees, with details of the enhanced funding to be approved at a meeting of the FIFA Council in Vancouver this week.

🤝 World football’s governing body has responded to concerns raised by several national associations that the high costs of travel, operations and tax in the U.S. in particular this summer will result in them losing money, even if their side has a successful tournament and reaches the later stages

➡️ FIFA announced a record World Cup prize fund of $727M last December, with each of the 48 competing teams receiving a minimum of $10.5M and the winners getting $50M, but after discussions with a number of national football associations in recent weeks, it will be increased further

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Andoni Iraola, Marco Silva and Xabi Alonso are among the managers Chelsea will make checks on as they work to identify a preferred candidate to permanently replace Liam Rosenior as head coach.

◽️ Iraola has confirmed that he will leave AFC Bournemouth at the end of the campaign
◽️ Silva is yet to sign a new contract with Fulham
◽️ Alonso is out of work after being sacked by Real Madrid

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Arsenal expect Kai Havertz to play a part in their Premier League title run-in despite the forward suffering a muscular injury against Newcastle United on Saturday.

💪 Arsenal are not placing a definitive timescale on his recovery but expect Havertz to play some part in their final four Premier League games as they chase a first title since 2004 and a potential UEFA Champions League final

➡️ Havertz was substituted during the first half of Arsenal’s 1-0 win, appearing to be suffering from a groin injury

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Manchester City are in negotiations with the Premier League over a delicate fixture congestion in the week running up to the final day.

📆 City’s matches against AFC Bournemouth and Crystal Palace need to be rearranged, and those will come either side of the FA Cup final on May 16

➡️ Palace would usually be staged before City’s trip to Bournemouth, but City are hoping to switch the fixtures, which would in theory take them to three matches across eight days rather than seven

🚨⚽️ | NEW: With an assist in Manchester United’s 2-0 win over Brentford, Bruno Fernandes equaled Cristiano Ronaldo’s Premier League goal involvements for Manchester United.

Bruno Fernandes
📊 140 goal involvements
⚽️ 70 goals
🅰️ 70 assists

Cristiano Ronaldo
📊 140 goal involvements
⚽️ 103 goals
🅰️ 37 assists

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Manchester have announced that John Stones will leave the club in the summer, bringing an end to a hugely successful 10-year stay at the Etihad.

🔵 293 appearances
⚽️ 19 goals
🅰️ 9 assists
🏆 6x Premier League
🏆 5x Carabao Cup
🏆 3x Community Shield
🏆 2x FA Cup
🏆 1x UEFA Champions League
🏆 1x FIFA Club World Cup
🏆 1x UEFA Super Cup

➡️ Stones joined City in 2016, where he became Pep Guardiola’s second signing

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Manchester City are frustrated with changes to the Premier League fixture schedule that will see them play three matches in seven days during their title run-in.

📆 The Premier League has confirmed that City will host Crystal Palace on Wednesday, May 13 at 8pm BST, with their visit to AFC Bournemouth scheduled for Tuesday, May 19 at 7.30pm BST, coming either side of the FA Cup final against Chelsea on Sunday, May 16

➡️ Two of City’s remaining five Premier League fixtures, against Bournemouth and Palace, needed rescheduling after Pep Guardiola’s side reached both domestic cup finals, leaving them with a packed schedule in May

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Brighton have released their plans for Europe’s first purpose-built women’s football stadium, which will cost £75-80M.

🏟️ The club say that the new stadium will “provide a permanent home and identity for the women’s team” in an attempt to drive long-term fan growth, with the hope to officially open the stadium for the start of the 2030/31 season

➡️ Located at Bennett’s Field, a site adjacent to Brighton’s Amex Stadium, it will hold a minimum capacity of 10,000 and will be connected to the Amex via a bridge walkway

🚨⚽️ | NEW: FIFA is expected to introduce new rules that could see red cards issued to players who cover their mouths in situations of confrontation with an opponent at this summer’s World Cup.

👋 World football’s governing body is also set to instruct the tournament’s match officials to send off anyone who leaves the pitch in protest at a decision they have made

➡️ This development follows a special meeting of IFAB, the game’s lawmakers, in Vancouver ahead of the FIFA Congress in the same city on Thursday and, as it stands, will not be implemented in any other competitions

🚨⚽️ | NEW: Luis Enrique has become the fastest manager in history to reach 50 wins in the UEFA Champions League, surpassing Pep Guardiola.

🥇 Luis Enrique - 50 wins in 77 games
🥈 Pep Guardiola - 50 wins in 80 games

➡️ Enrique’s PSG beat Bayern 5-4 in the first leg of their 2025/26 UEFA Champions League semi-final tie