Nottingham Forest flying high after ending Brentford’s unbeaten home run

Goals from Ola Aina and Anthony Elanga secured a 2-0 victory for Nottingham Forest as they handed Brentford their first home defeat of the season

Ipswich 0-4 Newcastle, Brentford 0-2 Nottingham Forest, and more: football – as it happened

Alexander Isak scored his first Newcastle hat-trick while in-form Forest ended Brentford’s unbeaten run at home

Jobe Bellingham seals Sunderland comeback win over 10-man Norwich

Sunderland kept pace in the promotion race as Jobe Bellingham scored the winner in a 2-1 victory just after Norwich had José Córdoba sent off

Grealish’s maverick parts have been sanded off by Guardiola’s tactical void

Pep Guardiola appears to have no fix for Jack Grealish’s slump – or Manchester City’s as a whole

Kudus pegs back misfiring Brighton but West Ham desperate for Christmas lift

Mohammed Kudus equalised a goal from Brighton’s Mats Wieffer to salvage a 1-1 draw for West Ham at the London Stadium

Alexander Isak’s hat-trick fires Newcastle past outclassed Ipswich

Alexander Isak started the rout after only 26 seconds, with Jacob Murphy also getting on the scoresheet, in Newcastle’s 4-0 win at Ipswich

‘We still believe in him’: Haaland backs Guardiola to solve Manchester City crisis

City forward says his manager will ‘find the solutions’ to arrest their alarming form

Merry Crambo again for Fergal O’Brien after Long Walk repeat at Ascot

Crambo, 9-1 despite his win last year, rediscovered his form in impressive fashion as he celebrated the third Grade One win of his career

Aston Villa 2-1 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened

Minute-by-minute updates: Jhon Duran and Morgan Rogers got the goals as Villa put on a commanding performance to pile more misery on their visitors

Manchester City’s bleak midwinter rolls on as Rogers seals win for Aston Villa

Morgan Rogers’ second-half strike made sure Aston Villa beat Manchester City 2-1 to extend Pep Guardiola’s misery

Amad Diallo becomes jewel in crown for Amorim’s Manchester United

Winger has jumped to the top of the pecking order of wide men since Portuguese took the reins at Old Trafford

Friedkins arrive at Everton while facing flak at Roma after bright start

The American father and son began positively at the Stadio Olimpico but recent botched managerial decisions have soured the mood

Time for a reboot: 64-game Caldentey shows women’s football conundrum

A report from Fifpro has found that some players were playing too many games but most were not playing enough

‘I have a level of joy I had as a kid’: Sordell and Holt relish non-league life

Growing numbers of former top-flight footballers are prolonging their playing days down the pyramid. Two of them explain why

With Mudryk’s positive a rarity, is football tackling drugs issue the right way?

The game either lacks a big drugs problem or isn’t catching cheats – and has long struggled to bring prosecutions