(Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur should be the club feeling the most reassured by Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson's promise on Friday that the Premier League champions will not be putting their feet up for the rest of the season. Over the next two weekends, United face Arsenal and Chelsea, the two clubs locked in a tight battle with Spurs for Champions League berths.

LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal will keep with tradition and form a guard of honour for new Premier League champions Manchester United when the sides meet at The Emirates on Sunday. "That is part of the tradition of English football and I want that, of course, to be respected," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told a news conference on Friday. "I'm French, I work in England and the English tradition should be respected. When you work somewhere abroad you have to respect the culture of the country," he added.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has slammed the Football Association for prejudicing the hearing that resulted in a 10-match ban for Luis Suarez. Reds striker Suarez was hit with the suspension on Wednesday after biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic during Sunday's 2-2 draw at Anfield. The Uruguay international will miss the rest of this season and the first six games of next season and it has been reported that Suarez is now considering whether to quit English football in protest at the severity of the punishment.

Saint-Etienne remained firmly in the hunt for a place in next season's Champions League after coming from behind to defeat visiting Ajaccio 4-2 on Wednesday. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang netted twice to take his season's tally to 19, while Mathieu Bodmer and Renaud Cohade were also on target after Adrian Mutu had struck the opener for Ajaccio with the Romanian then adding a late consolation for the Corsican club.