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In Manchester City on-field news, Erling Haaland is back fit to face Aston Villa at Villa Park tomorrow, PA reports. The Norway striker was not risked in City’s Champions League victory over AEK Athens in midweek after a blow to the foot in the previous game against Ipswich.
City will continue to assess Nico O’Reilly, Mateo Kovacic and Matheus Nunes, who also suffered knocks in the same game. The manager, Enzo Maresca, said: “They could all be available or not. There are still doubts. Erling is the only one who is 100 per cent available and for the other three we need to wait.”
We hear a lot about football’s power to unite a nation. Perhaps we underestimate the extent to which it can also divide; the way it can reflect the very worst of ourselves, our greed and vindictiveness, our lust for feuds and, petty entertainment. There is a Women’s World Cup being hosted in Brazil next summer and while Lula has sought to fast-track the professionalisation of women’s football, Bolsonaro’s only public utterances in the field of women’s sport have been to assert his opposition to trans athletes playing it.
