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Joshua Zirkzee scored, Brenden Aaronson answered and Noussair Mazraoui finished the shootout. More than 80,000 people turned a friendly into an event; the pitch invaders made sure the referee did not fancy an encore.
13 August 2026 · 8 min readRead story →Updated 13 August 2026 at 12:45
Manchester UnitedJoshua Zirkzee scored, Brenden Aaronson answered and Noussair Mazraoui finished the shootout. More than 80,000 people turned a friendly into an event; the pitch invaders made sure the referee did not fancy an encore.
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Premier LeagueArsenal and Coventry raise the curtain on Friday 21 August; Fulham and Chelsea close it on Monday. Between them sit promoted clubs, new managers and the annual national promise not to overreact before half-time.
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Women’s footballEvery home league match at the Bridge turns a big occasion into a routine. That is the real breakthrough: women’s football is no longer borrowing the main stage for a photograph, it is putting its name on the calendar.
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Transfer newsThe numbers are large, the midfielder is larger to City’s structure and the word ‘reported’ is doing essential defensive work. This is a live transfer story, not a completed deal wearing sunglasses.
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