Friday on Sky Sports is Di Canio’s Premier Special: "The title head-to-head"
Appointment on Sky and streaming on NOW with the third season-long episode of the Di Canio Premer Special: “The title head-to-heads,” the tale of the challenge between Arsenal and Manchester City for the 2025-26 Premier League title and a journey through the greatest rivalries to the throne of England’s champion in recent history. The new installment of the original Sky Sports signed production will be aired on Friday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. on Sky Sports Football, at 8 and 10:30 p.m. on Sky Sports One, and available on demand.
“The title head-to-heads” is also a review of the many occasions when two teams have faced each other from a distance, trying to capture weaknesses and strengths of their opponents. This is nothing new for Manchester City, which has dominated the last 15 years of the English league, winning the Premier eight times between 2012 and 2024. But there has always been a worthy opponent capable of challenging to the last the team coached in the years of success by Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini, before the beginning of the Pep Guardiola era: such as, for example, Arsenal itself in the 2023-24 season or Liverpool, which in 2019 lost the January 3 direct clash after John Stones’ famous save on the line, which then kicked off the comeback over the Reds by the Citizens, capable of ending that ‘incredible year with 14 consecutive victories.
In Paolo Di Canio’s account there are also two memorable head-to-head matches from the 1990s, starring Manchester United, once winners and once losers against Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers, respectively. And it also happened that the title was awarded by taking other factors into consideration, as in the period from the origins and up to 1975-76, when it was not the goal difference that counted, but the goal quotient: goals scored divided by goals conceded. And the outcomes could be truly surprising.
The final and decisive stage of the Premier League 2025-26 will be all to experience on Sky starting with Chelsea-Manchester City on Sunday, April 12 at 5:30 p.m., and continuing right on with the showdown between Manchester City and Arsenal on Sunday, April 19 at 5 p.m.30; and then again the Gunners versus Sandro Tonali’s Magpies in Arsenal-Newcastle on Saturday, April 25, at 6:30 p.m., Everton-Manchester City on the monday night of May 4, at 9 p.m., and many other exciting crossroads that will decide the winning team in the league.
