If Jorge Jesus ends up being remembered as the man that ended Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal career, that would do him a colossal disservice. For all the scrutiny after Ronaldo's walkout on his national team, their head coach has built his reputation on refusing to bend for anyone. A small part of him might even be enjoying the chaos. @jacklang profiles the veteran manager that once called himself "the best coach in the world". 🔗 nyti.ms/46YBrLW

It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything. Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report. The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took. It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems. This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday. 📝 @jwhitey98: nyti.ms/4z5sgoL