Key events<\/p>\n
\u2026 and finally the Scottish Premiership \u2026<\/p>\n
Simon McMahon, our pal on the nippy sweeties, reports: \u201cDundee United seeing it out as comfortably as my Macallan High Commissioner and Cherry Pepsi is going down. One other score of note from the Scottish Championship: Marvin Bartley\u2019s Stenhousemuir beat Arbroath 1-0 and are currently five points clear at the top, ahead of the more fancied Partick, Raith Rovers, Dunfermline and Livingston.\u201d<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 and in the Championship \u2026<\/p>\n Birmingham City 2-2 Middlesbrough<\/p>\n Burnley 1-1 Derby County<\/p>\n Cardiff City 3-1 Charlton Athletic<\/p>\n Lincoln City 1-2 Swansea City<\/p>\n Millwall 2-2 West Ham United<\/p>\n Portsmouth 2-2 Blackburn Rovers<\/p>\n Queens Park Rangers 2-2 Preston North End<\/p>\n Stoke City 2-1 Sheffield United<\/p>\n Wrexham 2-1 Southampton<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Premier League full-times<\/p>\n Brighton and Hove Albion 3-0 Arsenal<\/p>\n Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town<\/p>\n Newcastle United 2-1 Hull City<\/p>\n Tottenham Hotspur 2-3 Aston Villa<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: Everton 1-0 Hull City<\/p>\n \u2026 as do the Toffees.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: Newcastle United 2-1 Hull City<\/p>\n The Magpies hold on \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: Brighton 3-0 Arsenal<\/p>\n There\u2019s just enough time for Declan Rice to lash out petulantly at Malick Yalcouye. He\u2019s lucky just to get a yellow. And then the whistle goes. Brighton can get their 125th birthday party started in earnest now! A result for the ages against the usually parsimonious champions.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n \u2026 and there\u2019s more Championship drama at Turf Moor. Burnley were so close to their first win of the season, leading Derby going into injury time thanks to Zeki Amdouni\u2019s first-half goal. But Mohammed Fuseini equalises deep into injury time, the whistle goes, and the boos ring out. Head coach Nicky Hayen\u2019s coat on a shoogly peg.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Seems it might be a banner day for QPR after all. You\u2019ll remember them going two goals and a man down early on at home against Preston? Well, Kwame Poku halved the deficit on 66 minutes, and now Paul Smyth has salvaged a point for the Rs on the 90! It\u2019s 2-2 at Loftus Road.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n In the Championship, Wrexham have scored a late, late winner against Southampton, surely. Or more accurately, they\u2019ve had it scored for them. Keven Schlotterbeck turns into his own net with a minute of normal time to go.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 3-0 Arsenal. Now Matt O\u2019Riley\u2019s clean through, but he can\u2019t slot past David Raya. Arsenal, and their famous defence, could have been on the end of a proper thrashing this afternoon. This scoreline seriously flatters the champions.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 3-0 Arsenal. Gabriel nearly puts a tin lid on it for Arsenal, miscuing a clearance straight into Matt O\u2019Riley\u2019s startled face, the ball nearly rebounding into the net. David Raya in the right place at the right time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town. Everton have a two-on-one to seal the deal \u2026 but Harrison Armstrong takes the shot on himself, missing the target. Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, all alone, fumes theatrically.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 3-0 Arsenal. Mikel Arteta sends Max Dowman on \u2026 while plenty of the Arsenal fans slope off. The champions have been utterly outplayed on the south coast.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Newcastle United 2-1 Hull City. Newcastle would have been three goals to the good had Yoane Wissa buried his penalty. But now the hosts are hanging on a bit. Mohamed Belloumi shoots; Lukas Hornicek saves. St James\u2019 Park pensive as one.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 3-0 Arsenal. Kai Havertz is sent clean through \u2026 only to send a weak shot straight at Bart Verbruggen. It\u2019s simply not Arsenal\u2019s day. \u201cIf Arsenal hadn\u2019t concentrated so much on manoeuvring players out of the way at that corner, there\u2019d have been more of a challenge on Chema Andr\u00e9s,\u201d argues Andy (not that one) Flintoff. \u201cJust sayin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Newcastle United 2-1 Hull City (Cho 67)<\/p>\n Mohamed-Ali Cho comes on for Sorba Thomas, and moments later he\u2019s curling home to slash Newcastle\u2019s lead in half. The Toon\u2019s proud half-time record \u2013 see 4.10pm<\/a> \u2013 isn\u2019t safe yet!<\/p>\n Mohamed-Ali Cho pulls one back for the Tigers. Photograph: Richard Lee\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.39 EDT<\/p>\n Brighton 3-0 Arsenal. The Seagulls flying, and after more. Charalampos Kostoulas goes over in the environs of Ezri Konsa but isn\u2019t getting a penalty; Pascal Struijk, on his full debut for Brighton, sends a header inches wide. \u201cThat Brighton strip does indeed cut a Bella figura, as they say in Italy,\u201d agrees Justin Kavanagh. \u201cAnd Giovanni Cafagna\u2019s comparison (3.35pm<\/a>) got me thinking that there are now a lot of 12-year-olds in the world who have never seen an Italian team in a World Cup finals. That\u2019s awful sad! I actually got a beautiful Italian shirt in Sorrento earlier this year, and when I asked the guy how much, he laughed and said \u2018It\u2019s Italy 2026\u2026 we pay YOU to take it away!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n As for our offer of a nip of the 1926 Macallan to Simon McMahon \u2026 \u201cPerfect. Make it a Cherry Pepsi though please. Dundee United\u2019s Cameron and Tait running the show in midfield like a prime Eamonn Bannon and Billy Kirkwood. Haven\u2019t felt this good since we beat Morton 4-0 in 1983.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n RED CARD: Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town. Abdul Fatawu is sent off. Two yellows, the second for a dive. He doesn\u2019t argue the toss, and simply slinks off in disgrace.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 3-0 Arsenal. No response so far from the Gunners. On this subject, here\u2019s Rick Harris: \u201cManchester United got pelters for losing to the Seagulls on Wednesday but they are showing that they are actually a serious top-four contender and making Arsenal look as poor as Carrick\u2019s team did at Old Trafford.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town. Thierno Barry heads home from Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall\u2019s corner. The goal\u2019s initially given, but VAR calls the ref over to the screen. Brennan Johnson is adjudged to have been standing in an offside position and interfering with goalkeeper Christian Walton. There will be debates, online and on-air, but after the brouhaha over Manchester City\u2019s winner in the derby, the officials were never going to allow that one through in the current climate. Rightly or wrongly.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Brighton 3-0 Arsenal (Chema Andr\u00e9s 57)<\/p>\n Arsenal are hoist by their own petard, as Chema Andr\u00e9s crashes one home from a corner. Brighton en f\u00eate x 3 + 125.<\/p>\n Chema Andr\u00e9s heads a third for the Seagulls! Photograph: Glyn Kirk\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.20 EDT<\/p>\n Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town. Jordan Pickford is staking his claim for player of the match award. He\u2019s already made a couple of big saves, and here\u2019s another, from Abdoul Ouattara\u2019s long-range rake. Everton are still holding onto their lead, but they\u2019re making hard work of it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Not a great deal happening in the Premier League at the start of the second half. James Ward-Prowse meanwhile has levelled up for Southampton at Wrexham on 50 minutes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Here\u2019s a statistic for you, courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation: Newcastle have never lost a Premier League game at home having been two or more goals ahead at the break (W68 D4). So Hull are in a spot of bother here. But then look what happened to Manchester United during the week: until Brighton rocked up to Old Trafford on Wednesday night, United hadn\u2019t lost at home after leading at half-time since Ipswich pulled it off in 1984 \u2026 and they\u2019d not shipped a two-goal lead at home since doing so against Spurs in 1976. Both records gone in a puff of smoke. Over to you, Hull.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 2-0 Arsenal. Up until now, Arsenal had only conceded three goals in their first seven games in all competitions: one when they were caught cold very early doors against Chelsea, the other two when their second string were already four to the good in the League Cup at Ipswich. So this is kind of new ground for them this season, though they did ship a couple of big chances on the counter against Napoli, and Brighton seem to have done a similar number on them today. Seven straight wins to date; number eight is tantalisingly out of reach right now. \u201cYes, granted that the Brighton kit is absolutely gorgeous,\u201d admits Gunners fan Charles Antaki. \u201cMaybe its purity and splendour is mesmerising the Arsenal players? Certainly they\u2019re giving every indication of being in some sort of daze. Full marks to them for aesthetic appreciation, but nil for actual football-playing. Arteta\u2019s team talk will be something along those lines.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Ooh la la la, he\u2019s Simon McMahon, and he\u2019s got stories from the north. \u201cDundee United 3-0 up at St Mirren at half time. Those two early goals were followed by a St Mirren penalty and a United red card both overturned on review by VAR, then a third for United on the stroke of half time. What a tonic for returning United manager Jimmy Goodwin, and indeed Arabs everywhere. Mine\u2019s a Macallan. Aberdeen and Dundee lead Hibs and Motherwell respectively.\u201d<\/p>\n A nip of this OK, Simon? A 1926 Macallan expression that sold at Sotheby\u2019s for nearly \u00a32.2m in 2023. Ice with it? Splash of Pepsi? Photograph: Kin Cheung\/APShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.01 EDT<\/p>\n Premier League half-times<\/p>\n \u2026 and so as things stand, here\u2019s how the Premier League table looks midway through phase three of six of matchday five. (This isn\u2019t going to catch on, is it?)<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Newcastle United 2-0 Hull City. Sorba Thomas tap-tackles Jacob Murphy on the ankle \u2026 and it\u2019s a penalty for the Toon! But Yoane Wissa\u2019s effort is weak, allowing Konstantinos Tzolakis to become the hero. Hull not quite out of it yet!<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Brighton 2-0 Arsenal (Kostoulas 45)<\/p>\n Another long-range belter, this time by Charalampos Kostoulas, and Arsenal\u2019s perfect start to the season is in serious jeopardy now.<\/p>\n Charalampos Kostoulas fires in Brighton\u2019s second! Photograph: Peter Cziborra\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.49 EDT<\/p>\n Our man Dominic Booth is at Turf Moor, and here\u2019s his dispatch with the home side 1-0 up against Derby.<\/p>\n double quotation markBurnley are in front of Turf Moor \u2013 and deservedly so, albeit this game has clearly shown two teams short of confidence. Zeki Amdouni\u2019s header from a Lucas Pires corner has secured the lead for Nicky Hayen\u2019s side. If they can hold onto this lead, it would represent Burnley\u2019s first home win (in 90 minutes) since October last year \u2013 and their first league victory of any description since February. It would also lift them off the bottom of the Championship, where they would be replaced by their opponents, Derby. It\u2019s been a grim old time for the Clarets lately, and off-field issues still plague the club, but perhaps there will be some respite today.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Wrexham have taken the lead at home against Southampton. Kieffer Moore from a corner on 35 minutes. While Brighton are celebrating their 125th anniversary, Wrexham are marking one of their own \u2026 but it\u2019s a much more solemn, poignant affair. Today is the 92nd anniversary of a disaster at nearby Gresford Colliery that claimed 266 lives. Every one is named in today\u2019s matchday programme, and there was a minute of silent remembrance before kick-off.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town. Emersonn heads a Jack Clarke cross wide of the target. On the touchline, David Moyes wears the exasperated look of a man who wishes he could be anywhere else. Sunderland, Old Trafford, Real Sociedad, perhaps? The San Sebastian film festival is on, so there\u2019s that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 1-0 Arsenal. Brighton\u2019s 125th-anniversary kit is lovely, isn\u2019t it? \u201cI\u2019ve just turned the telly on to watch Brighton v Arsenal and for a moment I thought it\u2019s the Azzurri wearing the 1970s World Cup kit,\u201d writes Giovanni Cafagna. \u201cHave I just said Italy playing at the World Cup? Surely not.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Arsenal (Gross 31)<\/p>\n So much for Arsenal getting back into the game at the Amex! Pascal Gross whips a curler off the post and in, and Brighton\u2019s 125th anniversary celebrations are going along swimmingly. Party time at Sussex by the sea.<\/p>\n Pascal Gross fires in the opener! Photograph: Clive Rose\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.36 EDT<\/p>\n It\u2019s not shaping up to be a banner day for Queens Park Rangers. Preston\u2019s Johnny Kenny has scored two goals \u2013 the first after just 20 seconds \u2013 while QPR\u2019s Dennis Cirkin has been given a straight red for a high lunge on Leo Leroy. Just the 26 minutes gone at Loftus Road.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Everton 1-0 Ipswich Town. Another chance for Ipswich, the lively Abdul Fatawu snaffling a loose Jarrad Branthwaite pass and attempting to embarrass Jordan Pickford from long distance. Pickford scampers back and puts a stop to that nonsense, tipping wide. Everton threatening to undo all of their good early work.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Brighton 0-0 Arsenal. A penalty shout from the Arsenal support \u2026 but Bukayo Saka stumbled over his own feet, and doesn\u2019t make any claim himself. The in-form champs beginning to work their way into the game after a sluggish start.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n As for St Mirren versus Dundee United \u2026 well, let Simon McMahon take the floor. \u201cA dream start for United, goals inside the opening 12 minutes from Randall and Cameron putting the Tangerines two up. United fans en f\u00eate already.\u201d<\/p>\n