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Later at 10 a0pm and half past 11 just as number we will be taking a look at tomorrows front pages with reviewers this evening charles cutting and my good fellow. That is all had on bbc news but right now, it is time for sportsday. Hello. Youre watching sportsday with me ben croucher. Your top stories. The final bell for nicola adams career. The double olympic champion retires from boxing at the age of 37. Atalanta and Red Star Belgrade lie in store for Manchester City and spurs in the Champions League. Well assess their ambitions to reach the knockout stages. And the waltzing matildas. Australias womens Football Team are celebrating after securing equal pay with their male counterparts. Thanks for your company. For the best part of a decade, nicola adams has been one of the faces of womens boxing both in Great Britain and around the world. A two time olympic champion and three months ago, a World Champion in the professional ranks. Now shes stepped out of the ring for the last time. Citing fears over losing her vision, shes called time on a boxing career. Michael redford reflects on one of boxings true pioneers. Commentator nicola adams of Great Britain has made sporting history she is the first Olympic Boxing champion. It would have been easy to relax, career and ambition achieved, history made, yet this was just the beginning for nicola adams. Her glittering career began by accident. With no one to look after adams while her mum was at the gym, 12 year old nicola was signed up to a boxing class. She did not look back. Natural ability mixed with raw determination saw adams accelerate. Every amateaur title won, 2012 in london, where she captured the heart of a nation. She has brought womens boxing into a new era. She was the first definite female boxer and amateur boxer that captured peoples hearts. They wanted to see her progression into what she had done and that was because she spoke well and she broke down a lot of the barriers and stereotypes that people have. Adams was far from finished. Golds at the commonwealth and european games. And the World Championships followed before more history in rio. Commentator nicola adams lets out a triumphant roar having been crowned an olympic champion for the second successive time adams becoming the first british boxer for 92 years to retain to retain an olympic title. Her unprecedented achievements led her to buckingham palace. An mbe followed by an obe. Still, she would not rest. With everything won at amateur level, she turned professional, five fights, five wins and a world flyweight title. Her latest bout was a draw against Maria Salinas earlier this year. It would be her last as her health took priority. I got the injury in the first round of my last fight. I saw the doctors and did not think it was going to be anything too serious, but i could take the chance and risk of and keep on boxing and nothing else happens to my eye or it could be an unlucky punch and i could lose my sight. Ive achieved a lot in boxing. Its time to hang up the gloves, and keep my sight. Her promoter frank warren added. Adams grew up idolising the likes of muhammad ali and sugar ray leonard. She now retires with a generation of girls idolising nicola adams. Michael redford, bbc news. Well, adams isnt the only british boxer to have hung up the gloves this week. Former lightweight World Champion Anthony Crolla fought for the last time at the weekend, ending a 13 year professional career. Hes been reflecting on his time in the ring with me but started by paying tribute to adams. Its unbelievable what she has done for womens boxing, the amount of young girls who have watched nicola adams on tele certainly in the olympics twice, the first having one and of the big boxing champion. She wouldve inspired then to go into the gym. She has inspired a generation and is one of the most influential figures generation and is one of the most influentialfigures in generation and is one of the most influential figures in womens boxing for sure and what shes achieved is unreal. People forget as achieved is unreal. People forget as a professional, you won a world title as well. But she will be remembered for the two olympic gold medals. Well done to the girl and its right, the reasons why she is retiring, shes putting health first and thats right, she has achieved so and thats right, she has achieved so much. She will always be remembered. Two of britains best boxers over the last ten years or so calling it a day in the space of a week with your self with your last fight at the weekend. What kind of a moment was that for you . It was a very emotional moment, a very emotional week and night to be honest. I knew that coming up to it it would be. I did best to block it out and i thought i would have it under control much more than i did and it was. It was tough, it was so and it was. It was tough, it was so tough. In i am now thankful its all over. I did not put in the best performance, i got the win but i made hard work of it. But its nice to go out with a wind and the sendoff that they give me in that arena was very special. And you fought some of the best fighters there are in the business. Didnt a lwa ys there are in the business. Didnt always come out on top but are you proud that you had the courage and strength to be able to take on these guys . I think thats what you get in the sport, you will back on the top two names, one of them who is an all time great. One of the great fighters in the past decade or so. I was in the ring with those, i did not win a competition but i earned my shot. And i can walk away from a career with no regrets. I boxed at that arena so many times which is the most special venue in the world to me. Being a manchester lad being brought up going to that Manchester Arena watching the greats, its such arena watching the greats, its such a special place but going into America Fighting in las vegas and being part of undercard, fighting in los angeles top of the bill against a future hall of fame or, there is a lot of things, very little more for me to do. So im happy with how my career has gone and what ive achieved. I know theres going to be tough times ahead, i know that. Once you are able fighter and a professional title, you have been for 13 years, there is always going to be in you. We seen it recent with nigel been trying to make a comeback. And there is a time i might want to make a comeback myself but i cant allow that to happen. Ive got a little boxing gym myself ibe ive got a little boxing gym myself i be coping coaching again so i can help with amateurs was up of great i can help with amateurs was up of great i will get great. That helps feed the hunger. That hunger will never really go away. I will feed at the best you can. I will miss most the ring work, the love you get from the fans, people singing your name. That is not in an ego way but it makes you feel very special. Those big nights on fight night and the adrenaline, i will miss that forever. Anthony crolla speaking to me a little earlier hes a big Manchester United fan and they re earlier hes a big Manchester United fan and theyre playing in the Europa League tomorrow night. Arsenal considered await. Ahead of tonights Champions League matches, theres been one Group Stage Game in the Europa League and arsenal conceded a late equaliser to portuguese side vittoria guimaraes. Arsenal looked to have scored the goal which would have put them on the brink of qualification for the next stage when Shkodran Mustafi headed in but they couldnt keep vittoria out and bruno duarte acrobatically levelled in stoppage time in portugal. Wednesday normally means Champions League in your with arsenals oddly timed picture tonight is no different. Manchester city are in the land. There at atalanta city, they won the reverse fixture 5 12 weeks ago and it is less than top of the group with three wins for three down at the bottom there so much. Victory tonight would guarantee pep guardiolas side safe passage into the last 16 with two group games still the play. Im not thinking to win games. Im thinking for better competition, i go game by game, try to win tomorrow. For the fact to be already there, along the year that will be incredible. But not shocked at all. We will see. Tottenhams League Champions Campaign Start up early with a goal against libya arcos and a humbling loss to buyer munich. They beat them 5 0 by some, some of the chat in the build up in serbia has been undressing. Some fa ns serbia has been undressing. Some fans have red starfans serbia has been undressing. Some fans have red star fans have serbia has been undressing. Some fans have red starfans have been banned from tottenham games. Harry kane necessity sas press, stop it but hopefully it doesnt happen and we play a football match that michael mack we focus on that to try to get the win and put herself in a great position. If there is a protocol in place as there wasnt sophia, and as players we follow that. As there was in sophia. Australias womens Football Team will receive equal pay with their male counterparts in a deal agreed with the Australian Football Federation australia follows new zealand and norway in placing male and female players on the same pay scale. Sarah mulkerrins has been across this story for us and sarah this comes after a long battle for equality for the matildas as theyre known. Certainly. If you rewind to 2015 and the last world cup before france after that, austria actually staged after that, austria actually staged a strike. We have these things in football called collective Bargaining Agreement which is how they get paid and the windows be negotiated then, they were not happy with. They had a strike, they pulled off again because the usa so they we re off again because the usa so they were committed to this and this has been ongoing ever since. The one its been announced overnight for us is pretty significant in the world of womens football in terms of the pay them at the top female players will be paid the same as the top players of the soccer roots. On the commercial side of things they will get the same percentage split on National Team revenues coming in from advertising and theyre going to be things they will be looking at pa rental leave to be things they will be looking at parental leave as well as fly business class, train on the same pages, that is important in terms is being treated equally. They will have the same percentage prize money. The percentages are the same but then when you look at where the prime prize money comes from,. 400 million for the man. So while the percentages are the same in this agreement, those numbers will vary quite significantly for some it is interesting on this one that the socceroos captain Mark Milligan he was one of the key pushers of it. And if you look around the word, a lot of it is about male allies putting the working. He went to see them in france and wanted to push for this. It seems like it is a step in the right direction. What about other countries around the world . You have the World Champion usa, inc. And is well, any movement from them quids at this has been rumbling on. In 2017 we had no way with the first deal of its kind. And we have seen first deal of its kind. And we have seen finland and new zealand and australia. But it is quite significant and one of the big talking points around the last world cup was that the World Champions us womens National Team are suing theirfederation womens National Team are suing their federation because they dont feel that they are being equally reported and also the conditions they work in. That lawsuit does not look like it is going be clearing up anytime soon. It is still a big thing. There are hopes that these kinds of deals will start to follow on andi kinds of deals will start to follow on and i know some of the england prayers today have been talking about it. Lets hearfrom bethany england with her thoughts on it. Any woman footballer wants to be respected and equal to their male counterparts and i think it is showing more and more in the game and australia has taken the first up and australia has taken the first up andl and australia has taken the first up and i hope many more teams willjoin with that. And i think if that would happen for england as well, it would be amazing because we still train and do the hard work the same as the men. Its become a lot more equal and as you say the game is going so lam sure and as you say the game is going so i am sure eventually we should get to that point. And it is interesting listening to that there. Players are so listening to that there. Players are so much more confident of vocalising these things. That has been the biggest thing in the womens National Team in the us when they watch that first run