O'Farrell led a First Division title charge at United during the 1971/72 season, losing just once in his first 14 league matches in charge but they eventually fell away from the race and finished eighth.
And it's no formality, with the biggest sticking point likely to be around the time of day the event happens.
There are some clubs who suffer a lot - we suffer very much - and that's why maybe it would have been better for us to have a short break.
Having won a silver medal at the European Open Water Championships only a month earlier, he found it hard to come to terms with his Rio disappointment and struggled with depression for a time.
Dani Alves scored and was sent off and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang made his debut as Barcelona beat Atletico Madrid in an action-packed game.
That being said, the Dutch coach has centred most of her previous teams around a nucleus of 26 players so there will be heartache for some.
There have been no plans made for animal welfare courses to be undertaken. West Ham are continuing to support an RSPCA investigation.
Everton sit third-bottom for average possession (39.2%). They have the joint-second-most unsuccessful touches (17.4 per game), just ahead of Newcastle United. They hit the fourth-most inaccurate long balls (35.7 per game). They have the third-highest PPDA (15.36), behind Newcastle and Norwich City.
Dispassionate analysis might lead one to conclude this was one of those nights. A little bit of luck, as the interim boss put it.
The Hornets' run without a Premier League clean sheet now runs to 29 games - they need one in the next few weeks to avoid surpassing West Brom's all-time Premier League record of 34 games without a clean sheet, set in 2010/11.
Following the positive cases, training was adjusted on Sunday to individual and non-contact outdoor sessions for those who returned negative tests.
The 18-year-old netted for the club's youngsters against Sunderland in the EFL Trophy last month, and followed that up by scoring United's opener in their 4-2 UEFA Youth League win against Italian side Atalanta.
“I really loved how the whole stadium responded to the game and how we were really in the game as a unit. I couldn’t be more thankful for the support of the people because so many things happen only because of them.”
“To be successful you have to be passionate about something and want to represent a club of this size, with its history. That is the minimum standard you have to bring. I am not going to ask anybody to put the ball in the top corner every time they hit it, but I will ask them to do the right things every single day for this club.”
It was a case of déjà vu for the Blues four days later when Abramovich put Chelsea up for sale just hours before they were due to face Luton, while the government's decision to sanction the Russian billionaire - and therefore place strict limits on Chelsea's activity - came on the day of their trip to Norwich.
Overall, it was poor. This was a very difficult game, but there are ways to lose football matches, and this wasn't it.
The deadly frontman has scored more goals against Leicester in the Premier League (16) than any other club in his career, with 12 in his last eight starts.
Paris St-Germain striker Lionel Messi, playing his first game since late October because of injury, drew a decent save from Liverpool keeper Alisson in the final moments in San Juan.
It threatened to be another exasperating day for the Italian and his team, as Watford defended resolutely during a first half in which Spurs had 73% possession and 26 touches in the Watford box compared with three for the hosts.
He [Dyche] has built the club but built a culture, an identity, and that is really difficult to do in football sometimes, Jackson said.
They didn't speak much English so we were aware they could have been taken advantage of by other clubs but they were really good at seeing what was best for him in the long-term, says Cruttwell.
Spurs' tentative approach came back to haunt them eight minutes into the second half when, against the run of play, Kous sent a stunning volley past the rooted Pierluigi Gollini after a cleared corner fell to him on the edge of the area.
The brilliant Steven Davis, earning his 131st cap, combined well with Stuart Dallas and McCann in a sweeping move which saw McCann square the ball for Conor Washington, but his first-time shot was well saved by the Lithuania goalkeeper.
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He said: My heart had given me a warning before that game. Ten days before, I had a very quick heartbeat.
After the Jamaica international's introduction, the Hammers were much more threatening. But they couldn't stay level for long enough on both occasions after they equalised, constantly making life difficult for themselves on a frenetic Boxing Day afternoon.
Spurs host Rennes in the Europa Conference League on Thursday, with UEFA regulations meaning the match cannot be postponed unless a club has fewer than 13 players or no registered goalkeeper available.
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Forwards Ellen White is clearly the starting striker as she bares down on Wayne Rooney's all-time England goalscoring record.
Russia were due to take part in the World Cup play-offs but were thrown out of the tournament as a sanction for its actions in Ukraine.
The former West Bromwich Albion star now becomes the Egyptian player to pick up an injury in Cameroon after Mohamed El-Shennawy, Mohamed Abou-Gabal, Mahmoud Hamdy El-Wensh, Akram Tawfik, Ahmed Fetouh, and Hamdi Fathi.
Norwich made an appeal to the Premier League on Thursday afternoon to have the game called off as an outbreak of coronavirus coupled with injuries left them short of players.
Even if we play in a dominant game, an offensive game because he is very strong in arriving in the opponents' box.
Stewart's goal changed that plan and forced them to attack more readily, but their chief creator Barry Bannan was anonymous for large parts as Wednesday failed to bring him into play. When he did touch the ball, he was immediately smothered by Sunderland markers.
We are a really good side, but you look at it and think 'he has taken off Keinan Davis and Brennan Johnson - a £20m forward - and brought Sam Surridge and Lewis Grabban on.
“The problem is the next match on Saturday because we will lose time to sleep, arrive back very early on Thursday, and then we face an intense team in Leeds who have prepared to face this match.”
They played good, they played differently, but they are really good and that's why it is half-time, 2-0.
Blackstenius told Arsenal's club website it felt amazing to be at such a big and great club like Arsenal.
United Football League has a deal in place with FIFPro, just like FIFA does, meaning that many household names will figure prominently in the game.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has not played for Arsenal since a 2-1 defeat at Everton on 6 December He has returned to London
Because the foul continues into the penalty area, they can then give a penalty. He's then seen it on the monitor and felt it was a penalty, which it was.
Indeed, the Liverpool forward is now one of the game's global stars, a role model to Arabs and Africans who want to replicate his career, and his return to the biggest stage in African football is a reminder of how improbable his journey to the top has been.
For some reason, this fixture between two of England's historically big names consistently produces memorable events, talking points, excitement and drama.
Rice, too, started all of England's Euro 2020 fixtures and Phillips believes the West Ham man can be the Gennaro Gattuso to his Yorkshire Pirlo.
In the second half, we were much better I think because the intensity of Aston Villa was slower. In this moment you start to feel the blood.
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Anthony Gordon boosted Everton's chances of Premier League survival as his first-half strike proved the difference in a scrappy affair against United.