18 seasons, and what promotion in 18 seasons, and what they did against tend to them a week ago was extraordinary, 2 0 down from their own home to come back and score three goals and win convincingly really sets this up for a fascinating evening. We will look forward to that one later. Meanwhile, burnley are away to Crystal Palace in the premier league tonight. Theyre safely in mid table, but theres speculation about sean dyches future as burnley manager. Next season will be their seventh in the premier league but dyche says its all been done on a very tight budget and that now needs to change this club, as a collective, has built a really good way of working, a very Solid Foundation and a very good club so of course i wouldnt fit that up, no way, but can we stretch it . Yes, i think we can. Does it need stretching . Yes, i think it does. Covid may be made a difference but after we took that out of the market is telling you that you cannot forever just work on an expenditure of 19 million a year. It is not impossible that it is improbable that that is going to work over a longer period. You can listen to Live Commentary of that match on bbc radio 5live from 8 oclock, and dont forget the League Two Playoff finals. Kick off at 7 30 with live updates on the bbc sport website. While russia remains ostracised from world sport and banned from hosting major events, there is one global competition which will be going there. Special olympics is the third part of the olympic movement, representing competitors with an intellectual disability and sanctions dont apply. Our sports correspondentjoe wilson has this report. Special olympics sport is for the 200 Million People in the world with an intellectual disability. It is often about joy. An intellectual disability. It is often aboutjoy. There are no world records, medals are shared across ability, the World Anti Doping Agency doesnt operate here. It has never yet needed to. When sweden
withdrew from hosting the next winter games there was a sudden gap. In stepped kazan, russia, so tarnished by doping, band pending appealfrom tarnished by doping, band pending appeal from hosting global competitions but Special Olympics can go there. Are you not lending credibility and integrity to a sporting a gene that seems to the world to be toxic . We are lending credibility and legitimacy to a sporting regime that wants to welcome the athletes of the Special Olympics, full stop. If you are in the world people with intellectual disabilities are treated in equitably, often oppressively infrequently brutally. If we waited for countries, for people, for individuals, for communities to be perfect in order to go, we would have had no progress in this field. Special olympics exists for people likejenny lee. Special olympics exists for people like jenny lee. The Special Olympics exists for people likejenny lee. The confidence she took income for competing for britain at the last winter game
still glowed when i spoke tojenny her mum. It is my dream to do something to you, you know, show other people who have the stability and have never done spot like this depending on what theyre doing because i feel like if i put myself out there i canjust show them because i feel like if i put myself out there i can just show them that you can do it, no matter what sport your doing, put yourself out there. It is about being the best you can, isnt it . Yeah. To understand the point of Special Olympics is to appreciate a different sense of winning. Perhaps that is the big message for russia and for everyone. Joe wilson, bbc news. Thats all from sportsday. There is now on the scheme to get more bame coaches into football on the bbc sport website but for me and the bbc sport website but for me and the rest of the team good night for
now. Leicester is facing the prospect of remaining under the current lockdown restrictions for a further two weeks after an increase in cases of coronavirus in the city. The Health Secretary matt hancock is due to update mps this evening after talks with local officials. The mayor of leicester, sir peter soulsby, says the number of cases has gone up because of higher levels of testing but is concerned that keeping restrictions in place for longer wont do much to slow the spread of the virus. Lets talk to the shadow Health Secretaryjon ashworth, who is the mp for leicester south. Thank you very much for being with us. Thank you very much for being with us. Are you any clearer as to what the government is planning for leicester . Is the lockdown going to be continued for a couple of weeks . We are expecting matt hancock to be making a statement about now is
actually in the house of commons. It has been delayed until nine 15 pm this evening. Given that matt hancock announced 11 days ago that leicester had an outbreak, i had expected that they might have got this statement a bit earlier than where we have at the but i
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