Bad vibes at Burnley, particularly for Nicky Hayen.<\/p>\n
double quotation markBurnley Football Club has dismissed head coach Nicky Hayen with immediate effect. The board has taken the decision following a disappointing start to the Championship season.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Today\u2019s WSL action:<\/p>\n Crystal Palace v Chelsea (12pm)<\/p>\n Birmingham City v Charlton Athletic<\/p>\n Everton v Aston Villa (2pm) Sky Sports<\/p>\n Liverpool v London City Lionesses (2pm)<\/p>\n Man Utd v Man City (6pm) Sky Sports Football<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Joshua Keeling has been on: \u201cAs a United fan, all I can think is: here we go again. Will Carrick be brave enough to drop Fernandes? He probably should, as a point of principle, especially after his point about the values of the club – which Fernandes\u2019 outburst was definitely not in line with. At the same time, though, will he drop the man most likely to save his job? Who knows.\n <\/p>\n \u201dI can see another Bournemouth win at Old Trafford today, and Carrick to be gone before Chelsea away next week. I want Eddie Howe. Let\u2019s see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Dave Estherby gets in touch: \u201cYou could argue that after all he achieved at Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson can do as pleases. However, Roy Keane\u2019s \u201changing around like a bad smell\u201d comment, although a tad disrespectful, is looking increasingly close to the mark. Why is Carrick still leaning on him for advice? Ferguson is in his mid-eighties and sadly ailing; he really shouldn\u2019t be anywhere near the club these days. Moyes, Mourinho, Giggs and Solskjaer all made the same mistake, it really is time to move on.<\/p>\n \u201cLest we forget, it was SAF\u2019s fallout with the owners over a nag that started all of this, to say nothing of the fact he was already on the slide in his final season; Utd\u2019s midfield in 12\/13 consisting of such luminaries as Antonio Valencia, Anderson and Tom Cleverley.<\/p>\n \u201cA clean break is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Huge WSL win for Arsenal and Renee Slegers on Saturday.<\/p>\n double quotation markAt a rain-lashed Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Gunners were again their own worst enemy, forced to come from behind after Cathinka Tandberg\u2019s headed opener. Georgia Stanway levelled and Russo powered in the penalty that gave them the lead they protected defiantly.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a005.38 EDT<\/p>\n As attentions turn to Camp Nou later, a roundup of European action from Saturday.<\/p>\n In France, PSG v Lyon strikes as a big match, with no Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, on the long road back from a cruciate injury.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Aintree Racecourse has confirmed today\u2019s race meeting has been cancelled due to high winds. Will that mean Liverpool v Brighton is called off?<\/p>\n double quotation markThe Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for wind in Liverpool and Merseyside due to Storm Boelo, which remains active through today until 9:00 PM on Sunday, October 25, 2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Mikel Arteta did not take well to being booked in the defeat of Everton.<\/p>\n \u201cI do have to be careful. They should put sensors there\/ There are managers who have the record in the league, 36 times in 10 minutes [they] leave the touchline – no yellows.<\/p>\n \u201cI am clipping all of that so I have now a massive storage of images, so if somebody comes to me I can say, \u2018I am not in the record yet\u2019. Somebody else has the record so let\u2019s see. Then it\u2019s 36 yellow cards in 10 minutes for the managers. I don\u2019t know what we are going to do – let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Some post-match reaction for that rare Tottenham win at Chelsea.<\/p>\n double quotation markRoberto De Zerbi hopes that Spurs can use this victory as a springboard. \u201cWhy not?\u201d the Spurs manager said. \u201cThere is no reason why not. I can\u2019t understand why we have to ask this question. Because we won two games in a row. But we didn\u2019t win nothing. We want to improve, improve and improve, to be better game by game, week by week. I think we have suffered enough.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Anyone here seen Tom Finney play? He retired in 1960.<\/p>\n I\u2019m so ancient I actually saw Stanley Matthews play.<\/p>\n I was 8, he was about 48. Didn\u2019t run around much, but did a lot of dribbling..<\/p>\n It\u2019s Ballon D\u2019Or, Ballon D\u2019Or, Ballon D\u2019Or, Ballon D\u2019Or week, and Stanley Matthews week, too. Two wizards of the dribble in Ed Aarons and Jonathan Wilson on Sir Stan\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n double quotation markThe switch of venue to England from its usual home in Paris is a mark of respect to the man who became the first active player to receive a knighthood in 1965, a few months before retiring at the age of 50. It also provides an opportunity to recall an astonishing career that began with his local side Stoke in 1932 and made the \u201cWizard of Dribble\u201d the most famous player on the planet.<\/p>\n double quotation markStill, the choice of Stanley Matthews<\/a>, from today\u2019s perspective, looks odd. While it is true Blackpool had finished second in the First Division in 1956, but they were 11 points behind Manchester United and had gone out of the FA Cup in the third round. Was there not a case for Duncan Edwards or Tommy Taylor? Or for Bert Trautmann, the goalkeeper who won the Football Writers\u2019 player of the year in 1956 after playing on with a broken neck in the final as Manchester City lifted the Cup?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Ben Bloom took in a trip to Swindon.<\/p>\n double quotation markThis time last week, there was a thought that Saturday\u2019s M4 derby homecoming trip to Bristol Rovers<\/a> might hasten a possible end to Holloway\u2019s Swindon tenure. Winless in eight games in all competitions, the discontent was not expected to abate on the preceding midweek trip to high-flying Barnet. The 3-1 victory that followed \u2013 Barnet\u2019s first league defeat of the season \u2013 was a huge shock, thanks in no small part to the heroics of the goalkeeper, Connor Ripley, who recently declared the whole squad would \u201crun through a brick wall\u201d for Holloway.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s Premier League action, all our reports collected here.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>‘No, no’: Carrick denies Manchester United are unmanageable<\/p>\n When Michael Carrick was asked if he can trust the players to deliver against Bournemouth at Old Trafford given the last week, under-pressure Carrick said: \u201cI definitely trust them, yeah, 100 per cent I trust them. It wasn\u2019t a very good night at all for so many reasons. We all know that. I think that\u2019s pretty obvious. I definitely trust them, yeah. I trust them. We\u2019ll be a different team on Sunday. We have to be a different team on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he felt that the team and club are unmanageable, as some have suggested, Carrick retorted: \u201cNo, no\u201d.<\/p>\n He then spoke of his relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson and Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r, for whom he was key player and assistant coach. \u201cI speak to both of them quite regularly, to be honest. There\u2019s nothing in particular from that. I\u2019m close to both of them and we do have regular conversations, so it\u2019s nothing different this week.\u201d<\/p>\n On Bruno Fernandes: \u201cI think you\u2019ve got to be careful with just saying \u2018not running\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cAs I said, we\u2019ve won a lot of games over a period of time and this pressing thing, that suddenly everyone thinks about pressing.<\/p>\n \u201cPressing is one small part of football. There\u2019s all sorts of different ways of what people are classed as a press. What actually is it? What you\u2019re doing it for? Is it to your strength? Is it covering up other spaces? It\u2019s just thrown about as a bit of a word at the minute of pressing.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t necessarily need to press to win games of football. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n double quotation markSo then, Manchester United. Jamie Jackson considers the possible options for Michael Carrick. <\/p>\n Fernandes\u2019s open questioning of the tactics is a challenge to the head coach\u2019s authority and we wait to see how\/if Carrick will face it down. If Carrick acts and proves he is not a lame duck then even if he is removed a favour is done for his successor.<\/p>\n![\"avatar\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/105468025.png\")
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