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FOOTBALL: Premier League title deciders, Manchester is blue and more!

Man City travel to title rivals Liverpool, Manchester is Blue and more! Gary Lemke highlights a few talking points ahead of the weekend’s football.

Man City travel to title rivals Liverpool, Manchester is Blue and more! Gary Lemke highlights a few talking points ahead of the weekend’s football.

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IT’S ALL HAPPENING AT THE TOP

If you’re going to Planet Mars for the weekend you might return to find the entire landscape of the English Premier League has changed. Or not. There’s a blockbuster at Anfield where log leaders Liverpool take on second-placed Manchester City. Arsenal, realistically the only other side in with a title chance, actually have a chance to go top before Sunday’s showdown when they host 15th-placed Brentford.

Here are the scenarios. If Arsenal win they go top, at least for 24 hours. If that happens and Liverpool and City draw, when you come back from Mars there will be one point separating the trio with 10 games left. And in other words, any of Liverpool, City or Arsenal could be top come Sunday night.

CHAIRMAN’S ANGER MANAGEMENT ISSUES

There’s a golden rule that we should always follow. Never take to social media when you’re angry, and stay far away from WhatsApp until you’ve cooled down. Clearly, Accrington Stanley, who play in the English League fourth tier, and who are less than 50km down the road from Liverpool, didn’t get that memo. In a 1,105-word rant on the club’s website, chairman Andy Holt explained why he sacked manager John Coleman by WhatsApp.

The manager had been in charge of 1,098 matches across two spells, winning 436 of them at a winning average of 40%. Loyalty and longevity meant little to the chairman as he fired off his missive. Right at the end, as he signed off, he seemed to have cooled a bit. “Good morning, BTW”. And that was all he wrote.

GUNNERS FAN WON’T BE TOO KEANE NOW

A clip that went viral last September has led to an Arsenal fan having his day in court. A 43-year-old father of two and a technical director at a firm called Countrywide Partnerships was filmed in an altercation with Sky Sports pundit Roy Keane after the Gunners beat Man United 3-1. Scott Law, from Essex, broke his own in the alleged assault on Keane, and the pair had to be separated by Keane’s pundit colleague Micah Richards.

Of all the people you’re looking to pick a fight with, he chose Roy Keane.

CITY GIVING UNITED THE BLUES

The shift in power in Manchester over recent years is not only seen by the number of trophies in the respective United and City cabinets. One is gathering dust, and the other is buckling under the weight. It’s fair to say that Manchester is now blue, the noisy neighbours turning up the decibels. It looks like we’re in for the long haul. However, a stat that might prove more revealing than any other.

When City came from 1-0 down to beat United 3-1 in their League match last week, it was the first time in 144 EPL games that United had lost after going into the break ahead. It just had to be City. It was also the first time in 29 League derbies that City have come from behind to beat their rivals.

THE BILLIONAIRES’ TOP 10

What difference does a few billion pounds make here when you’re all in the same financial stratosphere? Clearly, it’s for bragging rights. On this score, Bloomberg revealed a list of EPL owners with the most money. Here is your top 10: Newcastle United (Saudi Public Investment Fund, RB Sports & Media, PCP Capital Partners) £489bn. Man United (Glazer Family, Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos) £22bn. Man City (Abu Dhabi United Group, Silver Lake) £17.2bn. Arsenal (Stan Kroenke) £13.87bn. Chelsea (Todd Boehly, Hansjorg Wyss, Mark Walter) £12.5bn. West Ham (Daniel Kretinsky, David Sullivan, Tripp Smith, Vanessa Gold) £10.36bn.

Aston Villa (Wes Edens, Nassef Sawiris) £9.4bn. Fulham (Shahid Khan) £9.3bn. Liverpool (John W Henry, Tom Werner) £5.5bn. Wolves Fosun International (Guo Guangchang, Liang Xinjun, Wang Qunbin) £5.4bn.

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