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Saturday Sunday Sunday Football 8am Matchday live Emillia Hawkins will be back after her Saturday morning stint to pick through that day’s events and look forward to an afternoon of action that includes the traditional Wembley curtain raiser. To the surprise of some, the Community Shield is taking place in Cardiff – not because the FA forgot to book Wembley but, it seems, because four nights of concerts from the Weeknd were more lucrative. Email [email protected] with your views on whether Arsenal v Manchester City in what is now a glorified friendly carries any real significance for the new season, and anything your spies can tell us about Watford v Southampton and Burnley v West Ham.
The champions take on the FA Cup winners as usual, but at the Principality Stadium for the first time since 2006, when Liverpool beat Chelsea 2-1. Twelve months ago the Reds were also taking part but went down on penalties to Crystal Palace after a 2-2 Wembley draw in which they led twice and a shootout in which Mohamed Salah disappointed with the opening kick, a set of circumstances that did, in fact, prove a harbinger of what was to come (albeit for a side who were very much still coming to terms with the death of Diogo Jota). This year Arsenal and post-Pep Manchester City lock horns, with Rob Smyth on minute-by-minute duty, while Ben Fisher and Ed Aarons report from the Welsh capital.
The Championship game of the weekend is deemed by Sky to be a claret-and-blue derby, and a first English league game for Burnley’s new manager, the Belgian Nicky Hayen, a much-travelled coach in his 12th role in 13 years. In the away dugout is Nuno Espírito Santo, who couldn’t quite keep West Ham up last season. After five years of Burnley yo-yoing between the top two divisions, Hayen will have his work cut out to engender much optimism in a support base that knows too much about false dawns, while the visitors are in turmoil over events in the boardroom as well as on the pitch. Tim de Lisle is on the blog, and Will Unwin reports from Lancashire.
It’s the last night of action in Birmingham and it could be a triumphant one for Britain, with a rack of relays. First up is the mixed 4x100m at 8.35pm, another chance for Britain’s individual champions to add to their earlier golds. In the men’s 4x4oom at 9.48pm, Britain has the individual champion in Matt Hudson-Smith, while Amber Anning should be the star of the women’s quartet 15 minutes earlier. Individually, Georgia Hunter Bell is in the women’s 1500m at 9.13pm, while Sweden’s pole vault showman Mondo Duplantis is in action from 7.30pm. Sean Ingle is report from Birmingham agains while Billy Munday has the live blog.
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