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The 2016/17 Premier League season gets underway this weekend and Football Ticket Pad has picked out five players for fans and ticket holders to keep a close eye on when the season kicks off:

Can Pep Guardiola and Antonio Conte assert a title tilt in their first taste of English football? Who will win the battle for European places? and who will fall into the Championship? Football Ticket Pad reveals how we see the season going for each club.

Roy Hodgson has named his 23-man squad for France Euro 2016 as England stick with five strikers, with three midfielders failing to make the final cut.

Sevilla retained their Europa League crown for a third year in a row last night as they beat a lackluster Liverpool 3-1 in Basel.

The Europa League is one of the premier competitions in Europe, yet in England it is greeted with disgruntled clubs who see the competition as no more than a distraction to their domestic priorities, but now the tide is shifting.

Tens of thousands of fans both with and without tickets will travel to Switzerland for the final and there is plenty of useful information here to help you get the best out of your trip to Basel.

Jurgen Klopp has led Liverpool to their first European final since 2007 after another memorable night at Anfield. Liverpool beat Villarreal 3-0 to book their place in the final against Sevilla in Basle after overturning their one goal deficit from the first leg in Spain.

Liverpool were dealt a blow to their Europa League credentials after a 1-0 defeat to Villarreal at the El Madrigal in the first leg of their semi-final last night. A stoppage time Adrian Lopez strike was a cruel ending for Jurgen Klopp and his men who until the 91st minute appeared to be taking a goalless draw back to Anfield.

An inquest into the Hillsborough disaster has found that the 96 fans who were crushed to death were unlawfully killed. The jury at Warrington Crown Court yesterday concluded that failures by the police are what caused the disaster and that the Liverpool fans were not to blame in any way. The families of the victims were finally able to get justice after a 27 year battle since the tragedy at Hillsborough stadium in 1989.

As another season draws to a close, it is the time when many footballers call time on their careers. Some go into coaching, others into management and a handful into punditry. However, for every Alan Hansen there is a Arjan De Zeeuw, and for every Gary Neville there is a Faustino Asprilla. Football Ticket Pad have compiled a list of the Top 10 Ex-Premier League stars who’s careers took an unexpected turn once they hung up their boots.