My old teammate Miroslav Klose is bucking a trend in German coaching

‘Miro’, now in charge at Nürnberg, knows the value of consistency and identity in an era of tinkering coaches who did not play professionally

Martínez has drawn back the curtain on Manchester United’s ruinous ownership

Defender may not be blameless in team’s struggles but his criticism goes to the heart of what has gone wrong at the club

A-League Women set for kick-off but invisibility is symptomatic of league’s current crisis

You wouldn’t know the league’s 19th season kicks off this weekend given the marketing has been almost completely swallowed up by men’s football

Manchester City are suddenly box-office in age of charge-rage and mega defiance

This is by far the most interesting this club have ever been and they faced PSG, a kind of twin entity in all this as oil state glove puppets

Enzo Maresca insists Manchester City are ‘close’ to PSG despite home defeat

Enzo Maresca said he enjoyed facing the Champions League holders and denied the Premier League charges had an impact on his players

Manchester United teammates widely share Martínez view that Wilcox is failing

Lisandro Martínez’s view that Jason Wilcox is failing as Manchester United’s director of football reflects the dressing room’s general frustration at recruitment and squad depth

Manchester City 2-4 Paris Saint-Germain: Champions League – as it happened

Minute-by-minute report: PSG led 3-0 at the break after a breathtaking first half and held on despite an improved City display. Scott Murray was watching

Quickfire Doué and Dembélé inspire PSG to thrilling win at Manchester City

Désiré Doué and Ousmane Dembélé struck early as Paris Saint-Germain ran out 4-2 winners against a stunned Manchester City despite Erling Haaland’s double

Millwall’s Alex Neil criticised for his comments on stoppage for alleged racism

The Millwall head coach, Alex Neil, has been criticised by Kick It Out after claiming the stoppage in Tuesday’s loss to Swansea ‘killed momentum’

Jackson and Barkley doubles sink feeble Fenerbahce in record Aston Villa win

Nicolas Jackson and Ross Barkley each scored twice in Aston Villa’s 6-0 thrashing of Fenerbahce in the Champions League for their biggest European win

Lask 3-6 Liverpool: Champions League – as it happened

Minute-by-minute report: Bradley Barcola scored his first Liverpool goals and a first career hat-trick during a frenetic win in Austria

‘I expect more’: the key questions from Martínez’s Manchester United broadside

From Jason Wilcox’s role to the views of the rest of the squad, we tackle the major talking points at Old Trafford after the defender’s outburst

Bradley Barcola’s clinical hat-trick inspires Liverpool to 6-3 rout of Lask

Bradley Barcola opened his account for Liverpool with a hat-trick in their 6-3 win against Lask of Austria in the Champions League

Manchester City staff invited on government trade trip to India

Exclusive: Greater Manchester mayor Bev Craig invited City representative on trade trip organised by business secretary

Removing political speech from MLS fans is untenable – just ask Austin FC

The protests around an anti-ICE T-shirt show that politics can never be separated from sports, especially now