TOM FARMERY AT GRIFFIN PARK: Brentford manager Thomas Frank will wonder how his side didn't score at least three times in their opening day defeat to Birmingham.

TOM FARMERY AT GRIFFIN PARK: Maupay didn't feature in pre-season and his imminent £20million move to Brighton meant the 22-year-old was nowhere to be seen on Saturday.

Jota insists Aston Villa are a big club as they look to fix their wretched home record. Villa have won just 22 of their previous 95 home Premier League games over the last five seasons.

Bez Lubala at Crawley Town is drawing attention from Championship and Premier League scouts after his impressive start to the season.

Birmingham have been fined £42,500 after a supporter ran on to the pitch and punched Aston Villa captain Jack Grealish during the derby match at St Andrew's in March.

ADAM SHERGOLD AT ST ANDREW'S: Teenager Odin Bailey picked the perfect moment to score his first senior goal and earn Birmingham a thoroughly deserved victory.

ADAM LANIGAN AT ELLAND ROAD: Leeds United celebrated turning 100 years old in a fitting manner by moving back into the Championship's automatic promotion spots.

Clarke-Salter has made just five league starts this term but is set for an extended run in the side, with Marc Roberts likely to be out until January after suffering an ankle injury against Millwall.

At Villa Park, the legacy of Ron Saunders is there for all to see, in large letters across the North Stand. The football world has poured in tributes following his passing, with Tony Morley leading the charge.

TIM NASH AT ST ANDREWS: Charlie Austin was the hero as he bagged a brace to help West Brom beat Birmingham City and return them to the top of the Championship.

Birmingham will be the away team at their own stadium when they face Coventry in the FA Cup fourth round after the Sky Blues' third round replay win against Bristol Rovers.

MATT HUGHES - AHEAD OF THE GAME: Joe Gomez was asked by the Football Association if he wanted to report Raheem Sterling to the police following their infamous clash last November.

Women's teams at three of the Premier League's wealthiest clubs are being denied the use of top facilities used by the men's sides, a Sportsmail investigation has found.

Manchester United have been joined in the race for Birmingham City starlet Jude Bellingham's signature by rivals Manchester City.

ADAM SHERGOLD AT ASHTON GATE: Andreas Weimann spent eight years with Aston Villa so it would have stung to help gift bitter rivals Birmingham City three points in this manner.

Chelsea are willing to pull out all the stops to sign the teenager and will table a mammoth bid of £35m plus £15m in add-ons to secure his services, according to The Sun.

Odion Ighalo is likely to make his Manchester United debut when they play Chelsea on Monday and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will be hoping the striker makes as much impact as these loan stars.

The Sky Bet Championship club were deducted nine points last season and had a business plan imposed on them by the EFL.

Blues asked their top earners to consider the move for a period of four months - with the outstanding money to be paid back at a later date - to help ease the financial strain caused by Covid-19.

The Bundesliga club were competing with Manchester United to sign Bellingham, who does not turn 17 until June 29, at the end of the season, and were confident of winning the race.

North Korea said leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system today, seen as an attempt to build leverage ahead of negotiations with the United States.

The Coast Guard says the short-range projectiles did not reach Japanese waters or the  Exclusive Economic Zone.

The North Korean leader is reported to have personally overseen the test of the ballistic missiles. North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released photos of the test, Sunday.

Images of the Sinpo South Shipyard suggest circumstantial evidence of the construction of a new ballistic missile submarine, according to the report on Wednesday.

North Korea has been left begging for extra cash from Chinese backers after its missile test sight turned beach resort has been delayed again. The site was originally meant to be finished this April.

North Korean despot Kim Jong Un has blasted his own officials as 'helpless' as he 'urgently convened' a disaster prevention meeting about oncoming Typhoon Lingling.

Kim Jong-un will likely have 40 nukes by 2020, researchers from Sweden say, around a dozen more than this time last year - meaning he has continued to build them despite talks with the US.

FSB security service detained more than 160 North Korean fishermen at gunpoint and accused them of illegal fishing in Russian waters. After a gun battle four Russian guards were wounded.

The US President sacked his hawkish foreign policy adviser last week, revealing deep divisions on major foreign policy issues including nuclear talks with Pyongyang.

Stunning photos show Kim Jon-Un sat astride a magnificent white horse and riding amid snow fall in Mount Paektu, a mountain on the border between North Korea and China.

John Bolton ripped apart Donald Trump's efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula as ineffective, claiming it will get worse with time. 'North Korea isn't our friend and never will be,' Bolton said.

The Mount Kumgang resort was opened in 1998 to encourage cross-border tourism but the arrangement ended in acrimony when a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a soldier there.

Kim Jong-un reportedly isn't happy with the state of the Hotel Haegumgang - formally known as the Four Season Barrier Reef Resort, which used to float off the coast of Queensland.

A world first in 1988. the Four Seasons Barrier Reef, was decked out with 200 rooms, a nightclub, bars, a tennis court and was anchored around 40 miles off the coast of Australia.

Kim Jong-un turned up the heat on South Korea on Friday as he visited a newly-built spa in the North, while calling for a meeting with Seoul about tearing down a jointly-built resort, calling it 'shabby'.

Kim Jong Un visited the country's Myohyangsan Medical Appliances Factory just as North Korean official released a statement on tense US relations to secure nuclear negotiation, yesterday.

North Korea on Friday lashed out at former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, calling him a 'rabid dog' who was showing signs of 'the final stage of dementia'.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a flight demonstration of military aircraft at an airfield on the country's eastern coast where he instructed combat pilots to acquire 'great idea and tactics'.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the US has indefinitely postponed a joint military exercise with South Korea in an 'act of goodwill' toward North Korea at a press conference on Sunday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the women's company under Unit 5492 of the Korean People's Army stationed at the country's southwestern coast.

The FBI pinned the blame for the 2014 Sony hack on North Korea, but doubts have been raised over the evidence, while a former bureau informant claims to have evidence it actually came from Russia.

Pak Jong Chon, chief of staff for the Korean People's Army, said in a statement that Kim Jong Un was 'displeased' with what he called 'undesirable remarks' made by Trump in London.

The North Korean dictator cut the ribbon at the Yangdok County Hot Spring Cultural Recreation Centre in South Pyongan Province. It came as Hwang In-cheol demanded his father be released.

The defector wrote a letter to the President on Wednesday urging that the US should impose heavy sanctions to preempt any nuclear flexing by Kim and consider fomenting a coup in North Korea.

US special representative Stephen Biegun told reporters in Seoul that the US had heard the North's 'hostile, negative and unnecessary' demands but would not work to the arbitrary deadline.

'What I would expect is some type of long-range ballistic missile would be the gift.' USAF General Charles Brown said on Tuesday at a defense writers' breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Alex Meads, now 23, was excommunicated by the London-based Korean Friendship Association's 'paranoid' chairman, Dermot Hudson, earlier this year.

Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed aside threats of a Christmas surprise from North Korea, joking maybe he would get a 'beautiful vase' from Kim Jong Un instead of a missile test. 

A 'meteor' fell from the sky over the Mariana Islands in Oceania. Viewers say the fireball, which might have been debris from a Long March 5 rocket test in China, was a 'gift' from North Korea or China.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, pictured, has addressed a meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea according to official state media.