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Join me now on bbc two to find out more about him. Here, on bbc one, its time for the news where you are. Bye bye. Hello and welcome to sportsday, im john watson. Coming up. High fives for city who stun monaco in their last sixteen Champions League tie and why uk sport have promised to protect Athlete Welfare and why the Sutton United fa cup dream has all turned a little sour. Hello and welcome. Manchester city manager Pep Guardiola said the clubs critics would kill them if they didnt make the quarterfinals. Well he should sleep easy tonight as his side took a huge stride towards the next round with a thrilling 5 3 victory over monaco at the etihad. Andy swiss is live there tonight. And andy, a hugely entertaining contest in the first leg . One of the most extraordinary games you are ever likely to see, we expected gold, monaco top scorers gcioss expected gold, monaco top scorers across european football at the moment, i dont think weeks baited eight goals and seemingly endless drama. Expected gold. Began well for Manchester City, took an early lead, monaco led 2 1, then 3 2, but three late goals for Manchester City have given them the initiative. Expected goals. Voiceover Pep Guardiola has spent the last few days muttering Sweet Nothings about monaco, the complete team, he says, but not infallible, he send Manchester City looking for a weakness, sadio mane, raheem sterling, Manchester City forgot to lock at the back, now for the famed attack led by Radamel Falcao but not reliant upon him, a french teenager sensing freedom and ruthlessly it. The it. T had a sergio iii had ft sergio iii had his ,,,, de falcao, he de falcao, he had missed the spot but ;;§i here ,,. Frofififieepcotfraiiziiweizm lfgn . efe irv~~~ goals all of away goals conceded. All thoughtsof , 58. 51. 559 . Away goals conceded. All thoughtsof , w sergio away goals conceded; all thoughtsof , w Sergio Aguerol caution gone, 3 3, sergio aguero, john stones, four, and then in a light blue blur, it was five, incredible game, simple finish. Night of quite ridiculous drama, not one for the defensive purists at massively entertaining for the neutrals. Sane. Manchester city have some work to do in the second leg, because a 2 0 win would be enough for monaco. They have the three away goals, who knows, that could turn out to be crucial. The fa ns could turn out to be crucial. The fans here, as they leave the etihad stadium, in the rain, they will not be worrying about that, they can celebrate what has been an unforgettable night for them and for Manchester City. Not even the rain can dull that. There were plenty of goals in tonights other game aswell as Atletico Madrid won 4 2 away at bayer leveurkusen. Last years beaten finallists were two up inside 25 minutes, antoine grieezman grabbing the second. Bayer fought back to 3 2 but Fernando Torres header has given atletico a strong advantage going into the second leg in the spanish capital. A day after one of the biggest games in the history of National Side Sutton United, their moment in the spotlight looks to be overshadowed by the resignation of their Reserve Goalkeeper. An investigation is underway into whether he broke betting rules after he ate a pie on the sidelines of their fa cup tie with arsenal. With the details heresjoe wilson. Voiceover wayne shaw eating a pasty, he says, seems like fun, hes big, clearly, in probably he is the Reserve Goalkeeper for Sutton United, but this settled a bed, the company sponsoring Sutton United par shirts had offered odds that he would eat a pie, speaking on the bbc he said that he did not infringe fa ruled by betting on it himself, just claims he was pleasing the crowd, and was hungry. Were told that were not allowed to gamble, either in no way put anyone in jeopardy of that. That is not the case here. This is a bit of fun, with me being hungry. The Reserve Goalkeeper, part groundsman, part volunteer cheerleader at sutton, he became a focal point of the joyous fa cup run, a celebrity, but this afternoon it got serious, the uk gambling commission, concerned about novelty bets, said the Football Association equally unamused in light of all this, sutton asked when sure to resign, and he did. The invitations of it are wide reaching. He didnt realised it had been staged for a bet. Wayne has made a bad error ofjudgment. Manager reckons 2000 people bet and won on the pie being eaten, if any of them we re the pie being eaten, if any of them were on Sutton Uniteds staff, they are in trouble. Indigestion has really begun. Studio there has also been a high profile departure in the championship this afternoon. Blackburn rovers manager owen coyle has left the club by mutual consent. He has been in charge for eight months and his side have only won 11 of their 37 games. Blackburn are second from bottom in the table, three points from safety and they say the search for a new manager is already underway. The england womens head coach mark sampson has made seven changes to his squad for the she believes cup in america next month. Liverpool defender casey stoney is named in the squad of 28. England recently lost to norway and drew to sweden in two friendlies. They will play the three top ranked teams in the world, the usa, germany and france, in the tournament, starting with the french on march ist in pennsylvania. Sport chief executive liz nicholl has warned there is no excuse forfailures to look after Athlete Welfare. This comes ahead of a report into British Cycling investigating whether or not there was a culture of bullying, favouritism and sexism within the organisation. Nicholl has also revealed that they were never given the full details of a 2012 internal review into the sport that may have highlighted some of the Current Issues being investigated. We were given to believe that actually, we had a very light touch version of it fed to us at uk sport, so we version of it fed to us at uk sport, so we had no indication of the significance of that report. It has only now come to light through a very well managed Independent Review Led by anne marie phelps. The six nations returns this weekend with the third round of matches. England have received a boost with the news Mako Vunipola is available for selection for their match with italy at twickenham. The Saracens Prop has yet to feature this year due to injury. The Loosehead Prop is short of Match Fitness and is therefore likely to start on the bench for the match. Joe marler is set to continue in the front row. He has always had the ability to ball carry, you have seen his work rate, massively increased recently, the strong guy. Saracens and england, operating with the lew said. All round, one of the best. Johnny sexton and rob kearney are set to play in irelands six nations game against france on saturday after taking a full part in training on tuesday. Sexton missed the games against scotland and italy with a calf strain but is now available for selection. The leinster fly half is expected to be named ahead of ulsters paddy jackson, who started both those matches. Laura muir will go for double gold medal at next months European Indoor Championships in belgrade as part of a 31 strong british athletics team. Muir has been in great form this year, setting a new british indoor record in the 1000m in birmingham on saturday where she took a second of Dame Kelly Holmes previous record. The 23 year old scott will race in the i,500m and 3,000m. Cheltenham gold cup Favourite Thistlecrack has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a slight tendon tear. His trainer Colin Tizzard said the injury was discovered this morning when he was scanned. Hed won his first four races over fences, including a three length victory over cue card in the king george 6th chase on boxing day. It means hell miss the Cheltenham Festival next month. And in the meeting of two of the new teams

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