Ian Herbert

Manchester City manager Enzo Maresca brushed off his club's conviction on 114 Premier League charges on Sunday night and insisted: 'We have to make our own noise.'

IAN HERBERT AT ANFIELD: The local planning had been meticulous of course. Flags bearing the words 'Cheats' and images of Pep Guardiola and players as convicts.

The planning had been meticulous, of course. Flags bearing the word ‘cheats' and images of Pep Guardiola and Manchester City 's players as convicts were going for a fiver from stalls next to The Park pub.

IAN HERBERT: It's hard to avoid the sense that those arriving with PSG for the Champions League tie at Man City will consider City's guilty conviction to be anything less than comeuppance.

IAN HERBERT: A conversation between Sir Alex Ferguson and Rio Ferdinand nearly 20 years ago helps explain the former Manchester United's manager's longevity and success.

IAN HERBERT AT THE SHAY STADIUM: We're here in Halifax, west Yorkshire, with South Shields, on the sixth instalment of our journey to Wembley told through all 13 rounds.

Take a walk through the gallery space in Brighton's Royal Pavilion and you encounter a vivid sense of the extraordinary creative energy behind the fight for the local football club's survival, 30 years ago.

Well intentioned though they may have been, there was a horrible familiarity about Harry Maguire's soundbites after the latest United collapse, amplifying a sense of the club being stuck in a failure loop.

Were the reputation of one of our great clubs and one of its great servants not being traduced, then you might say the dither of the geniuses running Manchester United is laughable.

The notion that Arteta was at fault for scowling at a young, dismissed player is, to coin an expression, woke punditry gone mad. If Dowman wants to play senior football, then he will be need to grow up fast.