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Premier League will resist attempts to play Champions League at weekends

Richard Scudamore has insisted the Premier League will “pull out all the stops” to resist any attempt to play Champions League matches at weekends or introduce guaranteed places for bigger clubs. Both ideas have been floated by senior Uefa insiders as European football’s governing body considers how to revamp the competition from 2018-19 onwards and head off renewed talk of a breakaway competition among bigger clubs.

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Leicester City and the tactics of champions – video

Zonal Marking editor Michael Cox analyses the key points to Leicester City’s remarkable Premier League success this season and the key role that the players have played in executing Claudio Ranieri’s trend-bucking tactics

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Mauricio Pochettino drinks in wise words from his inspiration Alex Ferguson

As Mauricio Pochettino seeks to knock Arsenal off their perch, his choice of lunch companion on Tuesday was appropriate and enlightening. Sir Alex Ferguson rated the manner in which he wrested supremacy from Liverpool as one of his finest achievements at Manchester United.

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