**David Tindall** and **John Brewin** have all the breaking news and more for your essential launchpad to the weekend’s football. There’s bound to be more fallout from the Manchester City furore, but they’ll be fully attuned to the tantalising Nations League feast on offer. First up is England’s next stop in their busy schedule: a meeting in Rijeka with familiar foes Croatia at 5pm.
Later, Scotland journey to Skopje for their League B Group 1 clash with North Macedonia, and they won’t be ignoring the other game in England’s group as Spain lock horns with Czechia in Oviedo. Plus Leagues One and Two fixtures. If the National League is your passion and you are travelling to a match, they would love to hear from you.
Send your thoughts and observations to [email protected]. F1 fans will be rising early to follow qualifying, with **Billy Munday** at the wheel of our live blog. The championship battle takes an intriguing twist as Mercedes teammates Kimi Antonelli and George Russell renew their rivalry at an unlikely venue.
Although Sepang remains a permanent fixture on the MotoGP calendar, it has not hosted a grand prix since 2017 after the Malaysian government said it could no longer justify the hosting costs given the declining returns. But the Mercedes duo will now be fighting for supremacy there after the original Bahrain race was relocated from Sakhir due to the Iran war and tensions elsewhere in the Middle East. England travel to Rijeka to take on Croatia before rounding off their four-match international splurge against Czechia at Wembley next Tuesday.
So far, a defeat by Spain, a 2-0 win over Czechia, and Harry Kane and Anthony Gordon the Three Lions’ standout players. That victory was England’s eighth straight away win in all competitions, so there’s the tantalising prospect of setting a national record. The last time England won nine away games in a row was back in the 1960s when the Beatles, the Bee Gees and Engelbert Humperdinck were topping the singles charts – between December 1965 and October 1967, under World Cup-winning manager Sir Alf Ramsey.
There’s a landmark beckoning for England’s No 1 goalscorer too: Kane could become just the fourth England player to score in six consecutive away games. James Windridge (six from March to June 1908), Tom Finney (seven from September 1946 to May 1948) and Stan Mortensen (six from May 1947 to October 1948). **Scott Murray** helms the blog. The Stadion HNK Rijeka, where Croatia will host England behind closed doors.
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