Manchester City's guilty verdict has set the stage for a press conference featuring Enzo Maresca, because nothing says "let's talk football" like a legal earthquake. The club's immediate future is now a live topic, and the press will have questions. Many, many questions.

Meanwhile, Coventry manager Frank Lampard - who spent one season at Manchester City in 2014-15 - offered a philosophical take during his own press conference yesterday. "I have titles but I don't have them hanging on my wall. I have them in my head," Lampard said. He then elaborated: "Most players that have played and competed against the best players have worked very hard to win. I think it would be very hard to take someone's title away as a player individually as I think they should be in your head as opposed to in this beautiful glass cabinet or whatever." Wise words, though one suspects the glass cabinet industry may disagree.

Over at FC Bayern, someone - presumably a manager or player - kept things refreshingly myopic. "I'm only thinking about my work at FC Bayern. We have important games coming up, and that takes a lot of time. There's not much time to think about other stuff." A novel approach: ignoring the giant Premier League scandal in the room.

The same source added: "For me it's simple, I played 11 years for the club, and I've loved my time there. I'm proud of everything we've achieved as a team. Everything else is currently not in my reality, because I'm here at FC Bayern." Eleven years of memories, now potentially asterisked by events elsewhere.

For those still eager for actual football news, there's a full slate heading into the weekend: ten things to look out for, Football Daily, and a mailbag with Billy. Because even when the sport is engulfed in legal drama, someone still has to preview the fixtures.