Manchester City host Arsenal on Sunday (16:30 BST) in a mouth-watering match in the Premier League.

But, with fully-fit squads, which Man City and Arsenal players make your combined XI? Ederson or Raya? Rodri or Rice? Saka or Foden? Have a go and share with your friends.

England’s Matt Baldwin will take a two-shot lead into the third round of the BMW PGA Championship after equalling the tournament record over the first two rounds at Wentworth in Surrey.

He shot 66 after his opening 65 for 13 under par, matching the halfway record set by Ireland’s Paul McGinley in 2008.

Baldwin, 38, was working as a delivery driver only three years ago and says he had been close to quitting the sport on multiple occasions.

“I had three or four months working at Amazon driving a van, just to see me through the winter before the Challenge Tour started in 2022,” said Baldwin.

“I learned a lot from that. I learned that there are other things that I could do in life, but I also learned that I really wanted to play golf.”

Denmark’s Niklas Norgaard is second on 11 under par, with France’s Antoine Rozner a shot further back.

Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy is tied-fourth on nine under after adding a round of 68 to his opening-day 67.

Play was suspended for 77 minutes because of the threat of lightning earlier in the day, with Baldwin having just holed from 25 feet for par on the 16th before the siren sounded.

Baldwin played junior golf with fellow Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, who is six shots behind on seven under.

“I don’t think we ever lost. We played a lot of golf growing up, graduated the same year from Challenge Tour and obviously played a little bit out here,” said Baldwin.

“Our paths have gone slightly different but hopefully I can catch him up.”

McIlroy, meanwhile, came into the week on the back of a heartbreaking loss in the Irish Open, where he narrowly missed out on a first professional win on home soil to Rasmus Hojgaard.

“It’s really important [to play well] but also it’s nice. I wouldn’t have liked the week off to just wallow in self-pity if I hadn’t played,” said McIlroy.

“To come back out and get straight back on the golf course, and play a couple of solid rounds to give myself a chance at another really big tournament, means a lot to me, I thought it was important to do that and thankfully I have.”

Everton boss Dyche is the only current Premier League manager with a direct link to Clough, having been an apprentice and young professional on the books at Forest between 1987 and 1990.

When Dyche reflects on time spent around a man who is often regarded as the greatest manager England never had, he speaks of recognising “genius” in the way Clough dealt with players, approached matches and set sides up tactically.

“When I became a manager I started reflecting back,” said Dyche. “As a person and footballer I learned so much during that period of my life.

“When the boss spoke, you were listening. He had this amazing thing that when he told you that you did well, you just felt 10ft tall and couldn’t fit through the door, but if he told you that you didn’t, you could go under the door with a top hat on.”

Clough did more than just try to mould Dyche as a footballer of the future, with a list of odd jobs also handed out to emerging players.

Running a bath for Clough was a regular occurrence – with Dyche admitting he stressed about never knowing how hot to make it – while tending to the garden at the manager’s house was also part of “silly, mad stuff” he would get up to.

Not that it always went to plan for Dyche, who was almost always referred to as “young ginger” by Clough.

“He once asked me to get rid of five bags of leaves, green leaves,” Dyche said. “When I was a kid, I’m from Kettering, I used to love a fire in the woods and I know green leaves are not going to burn very well.

“I’m at the bottom of his garden and he says ‘young ginger, get rid of these leaves for me darling, I’ll help you start a fire and you can get rid of them for me’.

“He starts it off and goes back up, and he used to make us food – more food than you could imagine – so I’m putting these leaves on and thinking it isn’t going to work. Then the wind starts blowing towards the kitchen and I’m going, ‘oh no’.

“He comes out and says ‘young ginger, get that smoke out my kitchen or I’m going to throw you on the fire’.

“I’m now putting one leaf on at a time and I have five bags, and I’m thinking this is going to be a long afternoon. And I hear him again and I say, ‘but boss I can’t help it, they are green leaves’. Then he went ‘you are right, well done’ and just went back in.

“One minute I’m shaking, then I’m thinking he is all right now.

“As a character, he most certainly broke the mould.”

Jake Paul is willing to let Dana White off the hook – with one condition.

Ever since Paul made the transition from YouTube influencer to professional boxer, he has argued for better fighter pay in both boxing and MMA, the latter of which has drawn the attention and ire of UFC CEO White. Paul and White have engaged in a public war of words over the topic, with the feud becoming increasingly personal.

On his BS podcast, Paul laid out the conditions under which he would back off from the conversation, with his withdrawal contingent on White increasing pay for the lesser known fighters on the UFC roster.

“The only thing I’ve really asked for is for the minimum fighter pay which is $12,500 to be changed to $50,000,” Paul said. “So that if fighters who have to work multiple jobs, if they fight once a year even, they would still be able to live off of that and if it was twice a year, they’d make a hundred grand, which is great.

“But now, if they’re fighting once a year, it’s $12,500, or twice a year would be $25,000. So that’s been my only ask to Dana to change, and that would only cost the UFC $20 million annually. So it seems like you made three, four billion dollars, why not just give a little bit more to the fighters? It’s only $20 million. That’s been my biggest thing. Make that change and I’ll shut the f*ck up.”

White’s name came up when guest Steve-O claimed that he and White actually watched Paul’s August 2023 bout against former UFC star Nate Diaz together. That story would contradict White’s claim that he “stopped paying attention” to Paul’s fighting career after “The Problem Child” lost to Tommy Fury seven months prior to the Diaz fight.

In Paul’s eyes, the only reason there’s beef between them at all is because White doesn’t want to hear what he has to say when it comes to boosting fighter compensation.

“I could talk about all the intricate details about this shit all day long, but it’s definitely when I started talking about this, that’s when Dana White was like, ‘Jake Paul does steroids. Jake Paul’s fights are rigged. Jake Paul this, Jake Paul that,’” Paul said. “So he’s the one that started all the personal rumors. ‘Jake Paul doesn’t sell. Jake Paul won’t fight Anderson Silva.’

“He’s been the biggest voice of oppression to me because I’m the only one, literally in the whole entire fight business, who can talk back to him. There’s probably four people who can, but I’m the only one who has the balls to do it.”

Longtime MMA veteran Josh Barnett discussed his issues with Paul’s plan on X.

Just goes to show that you can be given a mic but that doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about.

There is ZERO problems with “minimum pay” in the UFC.

-Contract structure and clauses? You’ve got an argument there.

-Pay and Incentives for main event and those whose IP is used to promote the fight? 100%

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-Pay for the lower and mid tier fighters? Nope. As themselves, they usually cost the UFC more than they bring in.