The waiting is over. Tonight the Premier League gets back underway and the action will continue over the weekend. 

As if that was not enough, the Women's World Cup has reached the quarter-final stage, with the Lionesses facing Colombia on Saturday morning. 

Ahead of an exciting few days of football, we pick out the LiveScore highlights from the past week. 

Fara Williams gives Lionesses verdict

Our exclusive columnist Fara Williams has pulled no punches in her assessment of England's World Cup campaign. 

The Lionesses legend claimed that Sarina Weigman's team are lucky to be through to the quarter-finals and called for changes in tactics and personnel. 

Williams has also given her thoughts on her new favourites to win the tournament. 

EXCLUSIVE: Fara Williams column - England lucky to still be in the World Cup 

Win a bumper £1million jackpot with LiveScore 6

The Premier League is back this weekend — and that means our free-to-play game LiveScore 6 also makes a triumphant return. 

From now until the end of the season, your top-flight knowledge will be put to the test as we task you with predicting the correct scores of all six of our chosen fixtures. 

To celebrate LiveScore's 25th anniversary, the jackpot prize for the first round has been boosted to a cool £1MILLION. 

As long as you are 18 or over and living in the UK or Ireland, you have a chance of winning this life-changing sum of money, which will be split if more than one entrant gets all six predictions correct.

Read it here: LiveScore 6 predictions - All eyes on our bumper £1m jackpot 

Former Manchester United coach calls for consistency

We spoke exclusively to Sir Alex Ferguson's former Manchester United head coach Rene Meulensteen this week. 

The Dutchman has praised his compatriot Erik ten Hag for the job that he is doing at Old Trafford. 

Yet the ex-Fulham manager has also called for more consistency from the Red Devils, following a number of heavy defeats in big matches last season. 

EXCLUSIVE: Meulensteen — United are on the right track with Ten Hag 

Every Premier League game previewed

With the Premier League starting on Friday night and continuing all through the weekend, we have previewed every one of the fixtures.

The action starts with defending champions Manchester City visiting newly promoted Burnley and concludes with a heavyweight clash between Chelsea and Liverpool on Sunday afternoon. 

Packed with stats, this one article contains everything that you need to know about the first round of Premier League fixtures. 

Read it here: Premier League Matchday 1: The top flight is back with a bang 

Tottenham podcaster blasts Levy amidst Kane mutiny

The big transfer story of the week has been the saga involving Harry Kane's proposed move to Bayern Munich. 

As part of our Fan Talk series, in which we interviewed prominent supporters of every Premier League club, we spoke to Tottenham podcaster Ricky Sacks. 

He gave his thoughts on the Kane deal, ENIC's deteriorating relationship with the fans, fresh signings and new manager Ange Postecoglou. 

Read it here: Fan Talk with Ricky Sacks — Spurs must get their identity back