Police will step up their crackdown on tragedy chanting at football matches

Police are stepping up their crackdown on tragedy chanting. A Manchester United fan was fined and banned for mocking the Hillsborough disaster after his club’s FA Cup win over Liverpool, and officers made another arrest at Old Trafford on Saturday.

This time it was a Burnley fan, with 44-year-old Nathan Rawlinson arrested in the away end for allegedly chanting about the Munich air disaster. Rawlinson, of Bacup, was charged under the Public Order Act and bailed.

In a considerable blow to Sky Sports, the highly rated Adam Craig is to leave — and join Gary Neville’s production company Buzz 16.

Craig has been at the network for 23 years and is their main point of contact with clubs. He is well regarded by officials at top-flight sides, with whom he liaises closely to improve Sky’s access before, during and after matches.

In a memo to staff, Sky hailed Craig’s influence and his ‘reworking of Section K’ — the media rights section of the Premier League rulebook.

‘He leaves behind a contacts book second to none,’ it added. Agenda understands Craig’s successor has yet to be chosen.

A stunning season has made Phil Foden one of the favourites for the Footballer of the Year award but the Manchester City forward is not about to abandon his roots.

The 23-year-old England playmaker shunned swanky venues to host a recent baby shower in a venue close to Edgeley Park, in his home town of Stockport.

Foden, a certainty to be on the plane to Germany for the Euros, is expecting a third child with girlfriend Rebecca Cooke.

It was interesting to hear Premier League chief executive Richard Masters condemn the increasingly congested fixture schedule, which he said had left the game and player welfare at a ‘tipping point’.

Masters was justified in