Manchester City v Ipswich, Brentford v Liverpool, and more: Football clockwatch - live

Key events5m agoPremier League team news13m agoPreambleWill UnwinThe sun is shining at the Etihad Stadium where stalls are eagerly selling inflated bananas at an inflated price. The plastic fruit offers a jovial element amid the crisis swirling around East Manchester. For the fans in attendance, football is the distraction they need, where they can air support for the team and offer their backing to a hierarchy that has brought them unimagined joy in recent times.Inflatable bananas for sale outside the Etihad Stadium before Manchester City’s game against Ipswich. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images/ReutersThere is, however, concern about the predicament they find themselves in, desperately wanting to believe what the executives have told them over the years – but the ruling was damning from the independent commission and at this point the club’s historic name is being dragged through the mud based on a win-at-all-costs model. City are top of the league with a 100% record but the focus will not solely be on results for a very long time until the entire process has concluded, and no one knows when that will be.Premier League team newsTeam news has landed, and here are the lineups in the three 3pm kick-offs in the English top flight:Brentford v LiverpoolBrentford: Kelleher, Kayode, Ajer, van den Berg, Lewis-Potter, Yarmolyuk, Janelt, Ouattara, Jensen, Anthony, Thiago. Subs: Valdimarsson, Hickey, Schade, Wilson, Carvalho, Sangare, Collins, Damsgaard, Diouf. Liverpool: Alisson, Araujo, Jacquet, van Dijk, Kerkez, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Munoz, Wirtz, Barcola, Isak. Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Gakpo, Tsimikas, Frimpong, Nyoni, Koumas, Ngumoha. Referee: John Brooks.Fulham v HullFulham: Leno, Castagne, Affengruber, Bassey, Robinson, Berge, Charles, Bobb, King, Iwobi, Garcia. Subs: Lecomte, Tete, Andersen, Palacios, Rodrigo Muniz, Cairney, Kevin, Angel, Sessegnon. Hull: Tzolakis, Coyle, Ajayi, Egan, Herrington, Norton-Cuffy, Belloumi, Crooks, Slater, Thomas, McBurnie. Subs: Phillips, Giles, Morita, Gelhardt, Hjerto-Dahl, McNair, Stroud, Iroegbunam, Vaz. Referee: Chris Kavanagh.Man City v IpswichMan City: Donnarumma, Matheus Luiz, Dias, Guehi, O’Reilly, Kovacic, Bouaddi, Ndiaye, Foden, Doku, Haaland. Subs: Rulli, Anderson, Cherki, Fernandez, Ait Nouri, Gvardiol, Allan, Semenyo, Khusanov. Ipswich: Walton, O’Shea, Diop, Greaves, Davis, Florentino, Palacios, Ouattara, Enciso, Maeda, Emersonn. Subs: Scherpen, Furlong, Kipre, Matusiwa, Fatawu, Flemming, Philogene-Bidace, Akpom, Clarke. Referee: Farai Hallam.PreambleHello world! Big day today, is it not? Yes, yes it is. Partly because Watford, West Brom, Wrexham, Wigan and Wycombe are all at home, leaving us just just a Walsall away from every-W-team-at-home-at-once full house (if you classify AFC Wimbledon as an A). But also because the 3pm kick-offs include the teams at the top of the Premier League and at the bottom, plus a Liverpool team approaching a semblance of what you might call form visiting a Brentford side that is yet to lose a game all season. Meanwhile in the Championship it’s first against third as Swansea host West Ham, and fourth against fifth as Birmingham host QPR. League One has first (Plymouth) hosting fourth (Huddersfield) while in League Two it’s top (Salford) against bottom (Crawley).So, without further procrastination, today’s fixtures (3pm unless stated):Premier League Brentford v Liverpool Everton v Chelsea (12.30pm) Fulham v Hull Man City v Ipswich Newcastle v Aston Villa (5.30pm)Championship Birmingham v QPR Bristol City v Sheff Utd Derby v Stoke Middlesbrough v Cardiff (12.30pm) Millwall v Lincoln (12.30pm) Norwich v Portsmouth Southampton v Bolton Swansea v West Ham Watford v Charlton (12.30pm) West Brom v Blackburn Wrexham v PrestonLeague One Barnsley v Cambridge Bradford v Stevenage Leicester v Doncaster Leyton Orient v Blackpool MK Dons v Luton (12.30pm) Peterborough v Burton (12.30pm) Plymouth v Huddersfield Sheff Wed v AFC Wimbledon Stockport v Bromley Wigan v Reading Wycombe v Notts CountyLeague Two Accrington v Gillingham Colchester v Exeter Crewe v Rochdale Fleetwood v Rotherham (12.30pm) Grimsby v Northampton Newport v York Oldham v Cheltenham Port Vale v Chesterfield Salford v Crawley Shrewsbury v Bristol Rovers (12.30pm) Swindon v Walsall Tranmere v BarnetNational League Aldershot v Wealdstone Barrow v Forest Green Boreham Wood v AFC Fylde Eastleigh v Boston Utd (12.30pm) Harrogate Town v Sutton Utd (12.30pm) Hartlepool v Hornchurch Kidderminster v Worthing (5.30pm) Scunthorpe v Woking Solihull Moors v Carlisle Southend v Halifax Yeovil v AltrinchamScottish Premiership Aberdeen v St Mirren Dundee v Rangers (8pm) Hibernian v Falkirk Kilmarnock v Motherwell St Johnstone v Dundee Utd