Modern sport, and football in particular, looks to have developed an ever increasing reliance on statistics.

Thirty years since Manchester City’s women’s side made their debut in Oldham, the team now share the same training facilities, corporate links and resources as the men’s team and feature in the same marketing material.

Manchester City’s fortunes have turned around dramatically since a takeover in late summer 2008 by the Abu Dhabi United Group, whose owner Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a member of the country’s royal family. In light of the Matthew Hedges espionage saga, MM look at other moral quandaries in football.

Manchester City Women are facing their biggest game of the season so far as they host table-topping Arsenal on Sunday, but goalkeeper Ellie Roebuck is unfazed by the challenge.

Rather than being banned it seems the ‘p’ word is very much in vogue at Manchester United Women, with keeper Siobhan Chamberlain bursting with hunger for promotion.

The new season is almost upon us, and for both Manchester clubs the target is simple – win the Premier League.

In last week’s Community Shield victory over Chelsea, Manchester City continued from where they left off last season.

Pep Guardiola and Maurizio Sarri’s teams last season played out two of the Champions League’s most entertaining matches when Manchester City and Italian side Napoli met in the group stages of the competition.

The World Cup means football’s traditional summer recess seems barely to have happened, and it is just a matter of days before the new Premier League season gets underway.

After progressing to the semi-finals of the World Cup, Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions have a golden opportunity to make the final in Moscow on Sunday.

Manchester City are closing in on the signings of Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez and Jorginho of Napoli.