Like a group of lads nervously assembling at an airport pub before jetting off on yet another bonfire of a stag do, Manchester United’s first-team players – well, at least some of them – this week shuffled back into whatever the training ground is called these days, with a few even attempting what was known in the 1990s and the 2000s at Carrington as a smile! New signings Matheus Cunha and teenage left-back Diego León were present and accounted for, while Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho were not, but there was plenty of performative back slapping and canteen handshakes in front of the club’s in-house Social Media Disgrace cameras, which rather fortunately, are going to be the only behind-closed-doors cameras present for United’s 2025-26 season.

That is because the club has reportedly canned the idea for an Amazon fly-on-the-wall documentary to follow the team’s every move, a visionary idea that could have been one of the hit comedy series of the year but is now consigned to the bin after some actual adults decided that a warts-and-all video record of another underwhelming campaign might not have been the right technique to retain all those legacy fans, blue-chip sponsorship deals and key performance indicators. Perhaps swayed by the way United’s bizarre decision to choose cash (around £8m) over common sense in sending the squad on a disastrous post-season tour of Asia mightily backfired, further damaging the club’s image and draining their players, United have now pulled the plug on the latest incarnation of the All or Nothing series, a sports documentary format originally made popular by the ‘Sunderland ‘Til I Die’ series.

Just how closely United’s 2025-26 campaign resembles the Black Cats’ 2017-18 season – in which Sunderland were relegated to League One after finishing dead last in the Championship – remains to be seen, but if the Amazon documentary had gone ahead in Manchester, it would have been fun to see what music Big Sir Jim Ratcliffe would like to be played on the PA system inside Old Trafford, and who (Casemiro?!) can do a good Jack Rodwell impression?

Join Sarah Rendell for piping hot Euro 2025 updates of Germany 3-1 Denmark at 5pm (all times BST), while Niall McVeigh will be on hand at 8pm for Poland 0-2 Sweden. And in the Copa Gianni, Scott Murray will helm our minute-by-minute report of Fluminense 2-1 Chelsea, with kick-off also at 8pm.

I didn’t feel respected or anything and I said to myself: ‘I need to put myself into places where I’ll be recognised for doing well.’ I think a lot of English players, they don’t realise … they would rather stay in the Championship their whole life if they could, whereas I don’t think like that” – London-born winger Tyler Burey speaks to Will Unwin about his journey from Carlisle United to Bosnia and Herzegovina champions Zrinjski Mostar, who start their Bigger Cup qualifying campaign on Tuesday against Virtus of San Marino.

Following Monday’s letter from Noble Francis, I looked back at the Mexican results to get through to the Concacaf Gold Cup final. I see that in the quarter-finals they beat that well known North American, Central American and Caribbean country, Saudi Arabia. Games without frontiers” – Peter Broadfoot.

Being once an Offaly native surely Barry Glendenning knows that the M1 becomes the A1 as soon as it passes the border north – of course the M1 in the north goes from Belfast to … Dungannon?” – Frankie Dodds.

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It’s David Squires with his latest cartoon on Euro 2025 and your regular reminder that football is just a game.

Annemarie Postma writes on why the Netherlands’ Euro 2025 campaign turned into the Andries Jonker show.

Roll up! Roll up! The CR7 LIFE Museum opened in Hong Kong on Monday, with fans queuing for hours to pose for pictures alongside the Portuguese’s trophies and jerseys. “Capture my passion for football, experience the journey through my career: the places, the people, the trophies, the memories. This is my life, inside and outside the field, and can only be seen at the Life Museum in Hong Kong,” blurbed a statement by CR7, who was apparently so excited for the opening that he didn’t turn up. Instead, among the attractions, immersive and interactive experiences, fans queued to meet … Ronaldo’s brother, Hugo dos Santos Aveiro. Let’s just hope that he and any other relatives or children of Ronaldo didn’t notice another headline quote from CR7 adorning the museum: “without football, my life is worth nothing”.

Spanish police believe the Liverpool player Diogo Jota was driving over the speed limit when he and his brother died in a car crash last week.

The Wales team coach has been involved in a road traffic accident en route to the Euro 2025 stadium in St Gallen where they play France on Wednesday. No one in the coach or the car is reported to be hurt, but Tuesday’s training was cancelled.

The Viktor Gyökeres transfer saga is, mercifully, coming towards its end.

Transfer roundup: Thomas Frank has made his first signing at Spurs: Kawasaki Frontale’s Kota Takai, obviously. And Crystal Palace have agreed a deal to sign Ajax reject Borna Sosa.

Milan have a Tijjani Reijnders-shaped hole in their midfield and have decided to fill it with Luka Modric, 78. The Croatian veteran will leave Real Madrid after the Copa Gianni.

And Fifa has opened an office in Trump Tower, taking their fawning relationship with the USA USA USA president to aa whole new level. “Thank you, Eric [Trump], thank you to everyone. Thanks, of course, to president Trump as well,” gushed Gianni Infantino.

Here’s Jonathan Liew on why playing loose with virtue leaves questions for Arsenal to answer over Thomas Partey.

Suzanne Wrack on why England wildcard Michelle Agyemang is in a hurry to make an impact at Euro 2025.

Suzy has also written this on why Sarina Wiegman must quickly find a way to make her midfield click – whether that’s with or without Lauren James.

Chelsea are favourites for the Copa Gianni final but they face a familiar foe in Fluminense’s Thiago Silva. Tom Sanderson has more.

Chelsea’s shiny new signing João Pedro will go full circle in facing Fluminense, where he started his career. The Brazilian has already made an impression on Enzo Maresca, writes Jacob Steinberg.

Meanwhile, Sid Lowe previews the other semi-final between Real Madrid and PSG, which throws together a certain French forward with his former employees amid a legal war and bitterness over last season’s Bigger Cup.

David Moyes has just 16 players currently registered to his Everton squad and Andy Hunter is concerned.

Premier League and EFL clubs were required this year to report details of their workforce diversity data for the first time. Matt Hughes explains why the new FA regulation is welcome but transparency seems to have limits.

Oh, and the Rumour Mill is flowing like Jack Grealish’s hair on an open-top bus tour: Napoli, Tottenham and Newcastle and reportedly fighting over the Manchester City winger.

Liverpool and soon-to-be Juventus striker Ian Rush poses with his ‘leaving presents’ from Chelsea at Stamford Bridge: a bunch of celery and a large bottle of Frascati. Celery was Chelsea’s unofficial symbol in the 1980s and reportedly became popularised among Blues supporters when a Chelsea fan Mickey Greenaway started singing Chas & Dave song ‘Ask Old Brown’ on the terraces, a song which includes celery in the lyrics. Over time, Chelsea supporters started throwing celery onto the pitch, but four fans were arrested for celery-throwing in 2002 and by 2007 it was banned officially by the club.