A total of 120 current and recently retired players have expressed interest in a Premier League-backed scheme to become the next generation of referees.
Vinicius Junior welcomed the eight-month prison sentences handed down on Monday to three Valencia fans for racially abusing him during a La Liga match last year. Spain's La Liga hailed the ruling as "the first sentence handed down for racist insults in a Spanish football stadium".Â
It is only four years since Charlie Dobson ran his first competitive 400m race and barely 12 months since he was departing university with a first-class degree in aeronautical engineering. Now he is leaving Rome with a European Championship silver medal and, form and injuries permitting, is set for a first Olympic Games in Paris next month where he could yet contend for medals.