is normal in la liga. the competition thinks it s normal, the federation does too and the opponents encourage it . the game was paused in the second half as he tried to point out the supporters who were abusing him to match officials. we understand that two people have been identified and are expected to be given permanent stadium bans by valencia. the la liga presidentjavier tebas defended their record tackling racism and responded to viniciusjunior saying before you criticise and slander la liga you need to inform yourself properly, spanishjournalist juan castro was at the game. it s probably true that they are not doing enough. it s the tenth or ninth against him in terms of racist behaviour and that s because la liga is not doing enough things. probably the next step is to suspend him for one match because the match wasn t stopped but suspended. maybe if the match had been suspended, may be that would make another effect in this racist people. there were huge celebrat
Own goalfrom joel matip. Not as a manager of liverpool, so much more as a football person, i think the only outcome should be a replay. That is how it is. It would happen again. I think a replay would be the right thing to do or the referee has the opportunity to bring both coaches together and say, sorry, we made a mistake, but we can sort it. And we start from there. Champions League Football will return to St James Park for the first time in 20 years later, as eddie howe s newcastle take on paris st germain. Newcastle drew their first game on their return to the competition against ac milan and will now face the french champions, who won their first game against borussia dortmund. Howe believes the Clubs Progress has been rapid since the saudi led takeover two years ago this week and both he and former captain alan shearer are hoping it can continue. I think initially nothing like this was in our thoughts at the speed at which it has happened. The only thing in our thoughts were sta
Will combine to welcome 48 nations for the tournament. The six counties who will stage the matches are argentina, morocco, paraguay, portugal, spain and uruguay and they will all qualify automatically. Our sports news editor dan roan has more on this. Dan, how can this Work Logistically . It is an amazing deal that has been struck by fifa today along with a number of configurations that represent the different continents of the football landscape. If fans thought the idea Of A Winter World Cup was a novel proposition, they will be just as amazed perhaps is the announcement today. For the First Time Ever at the world cup will be staged across three continents. It will be staged in three countries in 2026 in the us, canada and mexico. Fifa have gone one better it seems with this. Six Different Countries over three continents. Spain, portugal, morocco are effectively the co hosts of this tournament, but in a move that is meant to honour and mark the centenary of the inaugural world cup in
Park here are the thoughts of Newcastle Legend and Match Of The Day analyst alan shearer who played the last time the magpies payed in the Champins League against barcelona back in 2003. Iam i am excited and i cant wait for tonight, like everyone else in newcastle, the stadium will be rocking tonight. These were the nights at stjamess park we were thinking of, 20 years, such a long time and the fans have had some real ups and downs over the years. Bear in mind two years ago we were still thinking is the takeover going to happen . To be this far ahead already and having nights like this already is an incredible achievement and that tells you how well eddie and the players have done. I have been lucky enough to travel all over and i have never seen anywhere like newcastle than in terms of the mums or dad and the nanas boyfriends or girlfriends with the newcastle tops on. Stjamess park on girlfriends with the newcastle tops on. St jamess park on saturday whether newcastle win or not, it m