An awful mark on a solemn day for all of English football.

Manchester City has apologised after "vile" and offensive chants mocking the death of England and Manchester United legend, Sir Bobby Charlton, were heard being sung by some of their fans during their Premier League home game on Saturday.

Issuing a statement apologising to Man United and Bobby Charlton's family, the club condemned the behaviour and have confirmed they are opening an internal investigation into the incident which took place hours after the footballing icon was confirmed to have passed away, aged 86.

Captured in since-deleted clips on social media, a "small number" of Blues were heard chanting "Bobby's in a box" during the 2-1 win against Brighton - the same fixture in which they paid tribute to a former international and club legend of their own, Franny Lee, who died earlier this month.

Speaking to The Times, a club source called those involved "idiots who represent neither our club nor our fans", with City also issuing an appeal urging their own supporters to come forward with information.

Manchester City have apologized to Manchester United and the family of Sir Bobby Charlton after some of their supporters were filmed celebrating his death.

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"On this day of all days, when the stadium stood to pay tribute to our own legend in Francis Lee, Manchester City supporters should understand and appreciate as keenly as anyone the need for respect in our game.

Meanwhile, Man United players, staff and fans were welcomed to Old Trafford on Sunday to pay their respects to the prolific goalscorer, World Cup winner and club hero, with thousands writing tributes in person and online, as well countless people continuing to lay flowers and scarves outside his likeness on the iconic Trinity Statue.

Rest in peace to one of the greatest to ever do it.

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'We are so truly heartbroken' - Rebecca Adlington reveals miscarriage and stillbirth of baby daughter Emily Sergeant Rebecca Adlington says she's "truly heartbroken" as she reveals the miscarriage and stillbirth of her baby daughter at 20 weeks.

The former Olympic swimmer took to social media to share the devastating news yesterday.

The Mansfield-born 34-year-old - who competed for Team GB in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and has two Olympic gold medals to her name - is already a mother of two, sharing a daughter born in 2015 named Summer with her former husband Harry Needs, and a son born in 2021 with her current husband Andy Parsons.

Adlington and Parsons announced they were expecting their second child together in 2022, however she sadly suffered a miscarriage at 12 weeks, which required her to have to undergo emergency surgery that left her fighting sepsis.

At the start of last month, just a year after the miscarriage, the couple announced they were once again expecting their second child.

But last night, "truly heartbroken" Adlington took to social media to share the awful news that she had suffered another miscarriage, and had given birth to their stillborn daughter - who they chose to name Harper - at 20 weeks.

She wrote on Instagram in a statement: "I don't really have the words right now but unfortunately we went for our 20 week scan this week and they found no heartbeat. I gave birth to our angel, Harper, on Friday at 7pm.

"We held her, and had time with her. We will forever love her and remember her always."

Adlington took the time to thank everyone at Wythenshawe Hospital here in Manchester, particularly name-checking staff members Olivia, Rachel, Emma, and Keeley, who she said showed kindness and care throughout that was "simply incredible".

She also thanked husband Andy for his "selfless support, love, and help".

"I don't have the strength or words right now," Adlington continued in her statement on Instagram, "And don't feel ready to share this news, however, I can't pretend to be ok or fake a smile. I can't have people ask me how pregnancy is or when I am due as I still look pregnant. I don't have the strength to tell this news individually."

Rebecca Adlington and husband Andy announced they were expecting their second child together last month / Credit: Rebecca Adlington (via Instagram) The statement closed out with Adlington saying the family have been left "so truly heartbroken" by the news.

"Our beautiful girl. Rest in peace," she concluded.

Since Adlington shared the news last night, the comments section of her Instagram post has been flooded with thousands of well-wishes and messages of support from both peers and famous names, as well as fans and members of the public.

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Eric Cantona is performing his debut EP at The Stoller Hall in Manchester next week Danny Jones In case you weren't already aware, former footballer, actor, artist and all-round virtuoso Eric Cantona started dabbling in the world of music and after releasing his first few songs this Friday, he is already playing a sell-out Manchester show next week.

As it happens, all four of the shows on Cantona's first-ever live music tour - one of which was a second date in London that had to be added due to "phenomenal demand" - have already sold out and after giving his debut EP, I'll Make My Own Heaven, a listen, we have to say it is not bad at all...

In fact, we'd even go so far as to say it's pretty cool; it has almost Nick Cave and late Leonard Cohen-esque deep, raspy vocals with plenty of the bassy gravitas you would expect from that familiar French voice.

All that being said, don't be too gutted: you still can enter a competition to win a set of tickets to see him at The Stoller Hall in Manchester or the venue of your choice.

The Manchester United legend and Looking For Eric star began his music journey this year after diving head-first into all things creative.

He also helped curate a sports-based exhibition at the National Football Museum back in January which ended in June after great reviews from both football and art fans in equal measure.

Telling Virgin Radio UK earlier this week that regardless of the discipline, he "need[s] to express [himself]" and suggesting to the BBC, "The Rolling Stones should support me", the 57-year-old summed up his approach to all walks of life rather simply: "I can be everything but humble".

We'll tell you one thing we've always known he could do and that's come up with a memorable quote.

We hazard to guess Reds will be more inclined to give it a go than Blues but, honestly, it's nothing if not interesting at the very least.

Cantona is set to play the beautiful Stoller Hall on Thursday, 26 October 2023 to roughly 500 people in what remains one of Manchester's most beloved intimate venues.

If you are lucky enough to be going along to watch him though, we'd avoid sitting in the front row just in case - you know, kung-fu kick range and all that...

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