David Silva has claimed that Manchester City's rivalry with Manchester United has changed ahead of the latest meeting between the two sides. Silva believes that United, who previously dominated English football, now have a greater amount of respect for City given their recent successes. The sides do battle at Old Trafford on Wednesday night, with City aiming to take a step closer to winning the Premier League, while United are looking to get into the top four. 

Manchester United fans have been reminded of the good old days after the club posted a throwback video of Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney linking up to score against Manchester City. However, supporters on Twitter have hit back at the club after remembering their fall from grace ahead of the huge Manchester derby on Wednesday. United's top four hopes will be put on the line when they face rivals City at Old Trafford and it seems the club were keen to remind their followers of past success ahead of the encounter.

Manchester City and Liverpool kept up their Premier League title charge over the weekend to ensure the race will go straight down to the wire. But nearly just as intense and exciting is the hunt for the remaining two places in the top four, with Tottenham, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United separated by just three points and all still in with a shout of claiming a Champions League spot. However, it appears that none of them can hold their nerve, with Spurs, Arsenal and United all losing this weekend and Chelsea dropping points. Here, Sportsmail takes a look at the Premier League standings and how the tightest top-four race in memory has got to this stage...

Arsenal's hopes of finishing in the Premier League's top four and qualifying for the Champions League are still in their own hands despite losing ground over the weekend, manager Unai Emery said on Tuesday. The Gunners, who were looking to move up to third over the weekend, now find themselves fifth in the table after Crystal Palace's 3-2 win at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. With four games to go this season, Emery's side are a point behind third-placed Tottenham Hotspur and fourth-placed Chelsea, although the latter have played a game more.

Former Celtic captain Billy McNeill - the first British man to lift the European Cup - has died at the age of 79. McNeil, who made over 800 appearances for the Scottish giants and also managed the club across two spells, had been suffering dementia for a number of years. The news was confirmed by Celtic on Tuesday morning, accompanied by a statement from McNeill's family in which they urged supporters to 'tell his stories, sing his songs and help us celebrate his life'. 

Kelly Cates exacted some sweet revenge over Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville by walking away from the pair during live television coverage. Viewers had widely mocked her punditry colleagues for abruptly turning their backs on the presenter and comically marching away from her after Sky's featured game of Southampton vs Liverpool on April 5. And as a nod to the taunts online, the team concocted a plan for Cates to get her own back following Leicester's defeat by Newcastle on April 12. Cates retweeted the footage on Tuesday and the exchange went as follows. 

Some Chelsea fans have offered to fly Maurizio Sarri back to Italy after Napoli supporters unfurled a banner calling on their former manager to return to the club. The Italian boss was popular during his three-year spell at the Serie A club, during which he turned Napoli into one of Italy's most fearsome sides. He left in the summer to join Chelsea, where he has faced backlash from supporters during an inconsistent first season in the Premier League.

Manchester City were the shortest-priced favourites for any game in Premier League history (1/20) when they beat Cardiff City 2-0 in April – and Liverpool won't be far behind when they meet Huddersfield on Friday night. It not only signifies the yawning chasm between the top and bottom teams but also how the Premier League has become five clearly defined leagues within it this season. Liverpool and Manchester City are the unstoppable title-chasers, lagging well behind 19 points adrift are the top-four contenders Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United.

He may not have an opponent lined up for his upcoming bout but that hasn't stopped Anthony Joshua from keeping busy. The IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight champion is currently looking for a new challenger after Jarrell Miller failed a drugs test and was denied a licence after an 'adverse finding' from a sample taken on 20 March. And in the meantime, the 29-year-old has demonstrated his acting skills in a new TV advert for William Hill.

PAOK have paid homage to their injured captain Vierinha by subbing him on in the 89th minute to celebrate the club's title-winning match on Sunday. It was the first time in 34 years that PAOK have won the Super Greece League title and they did it in style by thrashing Levadiakos 5-0. The emphatic victory was capped off with a cameo appearance from their crocked Portuguese skipper who suffered an ACL injury just the week before.

Xavi has sent fans online into a frenzy after the 39-year-old scored a wonderful free kick to give Qatari side Al Sadd the lead against Pakhtakor on Monday. The former Barcelona midfielder joined Al Sadd in 2015 after enjoying a trophy laden 17-year period with the Catalan giants. Since then, he has gone on to win several titles with the Asian club while continuing to impress spectators with his technical ability and undiminished hunger to succeed having scrapped plans to retire in 2018.

Sri Lankan cricketer Dasun Shanaka has told the harrowing story of how he found his mother and grandmother in the wreckage of a church following the Easter Sunday bombings. The death toll from Sunday's tragedy has now risen to 321, with a further 500 injured, and police have arrested 40 suspects after a series of coordinated attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. Eight blasts were reported, one of which was at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Shanaka's home town, during Easter service. 

Bring up Manchester United's Treble in 1999 and thoughts spring towards the crowning glory of it all with that one Champions League night inside the Nou Camp. No, not the 3-3 draw with Barcelona in the group stage, but the final itself. More specifically those crazy last few seconds against Bayern Munich that saw Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer turn a heartbreaking defeat into one of the all-time dramatic wins and climaxes to any football match. But you need to go back to the previous match in the competition to see why United were the greatest team in the world at the time, with what is also arguably their best ever performance in Europe.