Manchester City news, via the Manchester Evening News’ Simon Bajkowski. “Manchester City freeze season ticket and matchday prices for the 2026/27 season. The club have also changed the unpopular ticket transfer system and will have a new category for some midweek games (£25 adult tickets).“

“After listening to feedback, from next season supporters will be able to send their ticket to Blues without memberships and while it has to be within a list of 18 friends and family this list can now be added to all through the season.”

A few other sets of fans would appreciate similar from their clubs.

There’s a huge game in the National League on Saturday, Rochdale v York. The highest of stakes. Here’s a guide to what else is going on beyond the 92. The answer is plenty.

Read Ben Fisher’s interview with Shea Charles, perhaps Southampton’s best hope of downing Manchester City on Saturday. And preventing another domestic treble. Charles is one of many City graduates making their way elsewhere.

When you first go up, as a City fan, I was a bit starstruck: ‘Woah!’ Suddenly I’m training with [Riyad] Mahrez. Fernandinho was there, someone I always tried to ask things. He helped me with little details – positioning, knowing when to drop at the right time. I tried to get bits of information from him. And Rodri as well. I ended up playing against Rodri in a friendly … it’s not fun to play against him, I’ll be honest.

Under-pressure Eddie Howe, as he is currently being termed, has been speaking ahead of Newcastle’s trip to Arsenal. There will be a couple of key absences.

Anthony Gordon, the centre of much speculation: “Anthony won’t make this game. He hasn’t trained this week. Again, not a serious injury but not in time for this game. Hopefully, the next one.”

Tino Livramento, a World Cup hopeful: “With Tino, he went for a scan initially. We don’t think it’s a bad injury. We will wait and see whether he will play again this season. He is due to have another scan at the weekend to determine the full extent of his time out.”

On Newcastle’s run, eight from 11 Premier League matches lost: “When you have had a difficult run it can seem like you’ve been in it a long period of time, probably with an international break, a big length of gap we had between games, it felt that way for us. We have to tap into games we performed really well in.

“We’re all feeling that pain at the moment, it has been a difficult period for us. I think we are very determined to try and put that right, we will try to win as many games as we can. Priding ourselves, historically, we lose a game, fighting to the end, giving everything to try and get a result.”

More Manchester United: Sebastian Coe, the chair of the Old Trafford Regeneration Task Force, has admitted that the timeline on the project is “slightly uncertain” but believes that the work to build Manchester United’s new stadium is ‘moving in the right direction.’

Speaking on The Sports Agents podcast, Lord Coe admits he was pleased to be brought into the Old Trafford regeneration project by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Andy Burnham. “Look, I love regeneration projects, and I was really pleased to be asked to get involved in that,”he says. “I do actually believe in good locally funded projects to make lives easier for local people. And I also saw from the London model that if you build it around sport, the multiplier impact of getting other stuff done is far quicker than it would have been.

“Land acquisition is always complicated. I know that from London. So, at this moment, it’s just putting the stuff together sequentially and incrementally and using a world class stadium to be a catalyst for so many other things, including inward investment,” he says. “So, it’s about jobs, it’s about housing, it’s about educational aspiration. And I’ve seen sport so often used properly, changing local landscapes, and this is an exciting project.

“It’s slightly uncertain at the moment. The stadium is being scoped and being improperly scaled. But again, that is also dependent on the purchasing and the acquisition of various other parcels of land in that space,” he says. “That’s all taking place at the moment, and I won’t maintain a running commentary on that. But we’re moving in the right direction.”

News from Manchester United: Matthijs de Ligt is back in training. He’s not played since November.

Why is Freddie Woodman likely to play for Liverpool against Crystal Palace? “No Giorgi [Mamardashvili] will definitely not be available tomorrow and not for the upcoming weeks. Ali [Alisson] is close to returning to play. Let’s see if tomorrow comes too early. That leaves Freddie [Woodman] as an option who is definitely fit.”

It was last season against Palace that Alisson suffered one of his many muscle injuries.

Here’s your quiz of the week, see if you can beat my 10/15.

Freddie Woodman’s dad, Andy, had to watch his Bromley team lose from the stands at Salford last night. A big home win for Gary Neville’s club, Paul Scholes was watching on, and automatic promotion might be on. Bromley have to wait and see if they win the League Two title. So much to play for in the EFL.

To on-field matters, where Arne Slot has been talking about Freddie Woodman, the third-choice keeper who has been thrown into action:

“There is a reason we have signed an experienced third goalkeeper. Usually you don’t need him that much, but there could be situations if one [goalkeeper] is injured and one gets suspended. That makes more sense than two goalkeepers being injured.

“Apart from him being a good goalkeeper, which he has shown. When he was young, he won the Euros with the under-17s and the under-20s he won the World Cup.”

There are more protests planned over the Liverpool ticket price rises this weekend and a van was parked outside the AXA Training Centre this morning for the press conference bearing the messages “caution: Anfield’s soul at risk” and “no to three years of price rises”.

Via the Spirit of Shankly website: “On Saturday we are asking every supporter to “Show FSG The Yellow Card” over the decision to make Liverpool FC the first club to lock in THREE YEARS of price rises.

“Not only is this a tone-deaf and worrying decision in terms of the price of tickets, it is also closing down the conversation with supporters, and ending yearly accountability and scrutiny through the Liverpool Supporters’ Board.

“We have already seen the withdrawal of flags and banners from The Kop and “Not A Pound In The Ground” – the successful drive to encourage supporters not to spend inside Anfield and instead support local businesses in the surrounding area.”

What’s at stake as the Premier League reaches its final straight? Both Wolves and Burnley are already relegated, of course. Here’s you handy guide.

We expect to hear from interim – for the second time – Chelsea head coach Calum McFarlane today. And there’s news of the first manager he stood in for back in January.

The regular weekend digest of what to expect here.