Manchester City's fly-on-the-wall Amazon Prime show to enrage Sky

The launch this week of Amazon Prime's behind-the-scenes documentary series covering title-winners Manchester City last season is likely to cause major ructions.

The access given to the Amazon cameras was unprecedented in English football and included frequent trips to the dressing room to film Pep Guardiola speaking to the City players.

Indeed, the £10million series opens with Guardiola giving an emotional address to his players at half-time of the 3-0 Carabao Cup final victory over Arsenal at Wembley.

Premier League broadcasters pay billions for live rights, but are not allowed inside the dressing rooms on match days.

And Sky, who have bankrolled the Premier League since the start and made their views clear about Amazon's privileges frequently last season, are going to be raging when they see the Amazon series.

City say Amazon were helped by their Spanish production team Media Pro coming from Barcelona and winning the trust of Catalan legend Guardiola, who had worked with them before.

Amazon are looking to do another Premier League project, but they are unlikely to find a club as accommodating as City again.

It can't help the atmosphere in the India cricket dressing room as they go to Trent Bridge 2-0 down in the Test series that two of the players despise each other.

This follows wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik divorcing his wife and childhood sweetheart Nikita  in 2012 after she left him for opening batsman Murali Vijay. Nikita and Vijay are now married and have three children together.

Arsenal fans will not be impressed that head of recruitment Sven Mislintat, who joined from Borussia Dortmund in December, was not at the Emirates for the home defeat by Manchester City last Sunday and is on holiday this week.

The transfer window may have closed but continental markets are still open and Arsenal have a number of players they need to move on.

Arsenal say Mislintat is in touch during his time away and the club did all their recruitment early on, bringing in five players. Also, they add, it is not Mislintat's responsibility to shift players on.

The RFU, beset by problems off the pitch, are losing HR director Lucinda Pullinger, who has completed a redundancy process that will see 62 employees lose their jobs.

Pullinger, who has decided four years is enough at the RFU, was the Twickenham executive who urged RFU councillors last February to stamp out their sexist behaviour, which included calling female members of staff 'sweetheart, love and gorgeous'. She is joining property solutions provider The Instant Group, run by former England forward Tim Rodber.

United fans forced out

Ten Manchester United season-ticket holders with prime seats behind the dug-out - some for more than 50 years - have been moved this season.

The club informed them there were UEFA requirements to increase the touchline-personnel area as well as a need for more disabled seating. So, the affected United fans were furious to find their former seats at Old Trafford were being used by competition winners and sponsors.

A United spokeswoman said: 'Unfortunately the club had no choice but to move 10 season-ticket holders. The club have consulted and communicated with those affected in order to ensure the best possible solution for everybody.'

The Football League, whose frequent Carabao Cup draw mishaps have made them a laughing stock, are staging the second-round draw live at 7pm on Sky Sports at the Stadium of Light on Thursday, ahead of Sunderland vs Sheffield Wednesday. What can possibly go wrong? At least the EFL have no plans to take the draw abroad again.