Premier League 2025-26 season review: our predictions v reality
We picked Liverpool as champions, Chelsea as challengers and tipped Brentford and Sunderland to go down. Oh dear What we predicted: Mikel Arteta vowed this would be a “big summer” after finishing as runners-up in the Premier League for a third season in succession and the new sporting director, Andrea Berta, has del…
Read full article on Guardian — Football →Opens in a new tab. Original reporting belongs to Guardian — Football.
Upcoming fixtures
More coverage
- Guardian — Football5 days ago
Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour there | Jonathan Wilson
The spaces can stand both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice At half-time in the 2014 League Cup final, Sunderland led Manchester City 1-0. Yaya Touré equalised with a casually brilliant 30-yard clip 10 minutes after the break, and City went on to win 3-1. City…
- MCI
- SUN
- Guardian — FootballMon, 21 Sept · 13:46
Granit Xhaka admits to receiving fake Covid vaccination certificate in 2022
Sunderland captain withdrawn from Switzerland squad He will be questioned by prosecutor’s office in Lucerne Granit Xhaka has been withdrawn from Switzerland’s squad after he admitted receiving a fake Covid vaccination certificate in 2022. The Sunderland and Switzerland captain – who was an Arsenal player at the time…
- SWI
- SUN
- ARS
- BBC Sport — FootballMon, 21 Sept · 11:05
How many times has a player scored a hat-trick in a Premier League loss?
Sunderland's Brian Brobbey scored the first hat-trick by a player on a losing side in the Premier League for 19 years - but how many others have done so?
- SUN
- BBC Sport — FootballMon, 21 Sept · 01:09
'I think he's a genius' - Hart hails Cherki strike
Match of the Day pundit Joe Hart hails Manchester City's Rayan Cherki as a "genius" after the forward scored in his side's 5-3 Premier League win over Sunderland.
- MCI
- SUN
- BBC Sport — FootballMon, 21 Sept · 00:42
Match of the Day
With Man City v Sunderland and Andoni Iraola’s return to Bournemouth with Liverpool
- MCI
- BOU
- SUN
- LIV
- BBC Sport — FootballSun, 20 Sept · 21:00
Man City beat Sunderland in eight-goal thriller to go three points clear
Manchester City beat Sunderland 5-3 in a thrilling Etihad encounter, to go three points clear at the top of the Premier League table.
- MCI
- SUN