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Sports › BREAKING!! Leo Messi Wins Laureus Sportsman Of The Year AWARD by Discovery4today(op): 9:55pm On Feb 17, 2020

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Sports › Porto's Moussa Marega Gives Vitoria Fans Finger After Apparent Racist Abuse by Discovery4today(op): 6:45pm On Feb 17, 2020

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Sports › Porto's Moussa Marega Gives Vitoria Fans Finger After Apparent Racist Abuse by Discovery4today(op): 12:47pm On Feb 17, 2020*

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Porto's Moussa Marega gives Vitoria fans finger after apparent racist abuse

Porto striker Moussa Marega had to be restrained by teammates as he tried to walk off the pitch after he was apparently racial abused during his side’s 2-1 win over Vitoria de Guimarães.

Marega scored what turned out to be the winner on the hour mark but felt unable to continue, his final act was to raise his two middle fingers to the home supporters.

After scoring Porto’s second, Marega celebrated his goal by pointing to his skin.

In response Vitoria fans aimed abuse and threw seats from the stand at Mali international.

Marega even celebrated with one of the discarded plastic seats but then made his way to the side of the pitch, with his thumbs down and seemingly booing the home supporters.

As Marega walked to the touchline, players from both teams attempted to calm down the striker and convince him to stay on the pitch but were unsuccessful.

Porto head coach Sérgio Conceição also spoke to Marega but ultimately decided to grant him his wish of leaving the pitch and brought on Wilson Manafá to replace the goalscorer.

After the match, Marega wrote on Instagram: “I would just like to tell these idiots who come to the stadium to make racist chants, go Bleep yourself.

I hope I never see you on a football field again. You are a disgrace!

“And I also thank the referees for not defending me and for giving me a yellow card because I defend my skin colour.”

Marega spent the 2016-17 season on loan at Vitoria, scoring 13 goals in 15 league appearances.

Head coach Conceição said: “We are a family regardless of nationality, skin colour, hair colour. We are human, we deserve respect. What happened here is unfortunate,.

“We are completely indignant with what happened. I know the passion that exists for Vitoria and I think that most of the fans do not see

themselves (as having the same) attitude of some people who insulted Moussa since the warm-up.”
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Sports › Man City Could Be Stripped Of The Premier League Title They Won In 2014. by Discovery4today(op): 6:55pm On Feb 16, 2020

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Sports › Barcelona Players Showed Support For Dembele Before Their Match Against Getafe by Discovery4today(op): 8:42am On Feb 16, 2020

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Sports › Revealed! When Liverpool Will Win The Premier League. by Discovery4today(op): 8:05am On Feb 16, 2020

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Sports › What I Learnt From Barcelona 2:1 Getafe Match by Discovery4today(op): 8:07pm On Feb 15, 2020

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Sports › REVEALED! When Liverpool Will Win The Premier League by Discovery4today(op): 6:40pm On Feb 15, 2020

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Sports › Why Man City Was Banned From Uefa Champions League For 2 Years by Discovery4today(op): 7:05am On Feb 15, 2020

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Sports › Why Man City Was Banned From Uefa Champions League For 2 Years by Discovery4today(op): 11:17pm On Feb 14, 2020

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Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons

Manchester City have been banned from the Champions League for the next two seasons by Uefa and fined €30million (£25million) after they were found to have seriously misled European football’s governing body and broken financial fair play rules.

The severity of the ban from both of Uefa’s elite club competitions, and the scale of the fine, reflects how seriously Uefa’s FFP compliance bodies consider the club to have breached the rules and code of conduct.

City were found guilty by Uefa’s club financial control body (CFCB) of having falsely inflated their sponsorship revenues, when they made submissions for the FFP compliance process.

The guilty finding follows an investigation sparked by the publication of “leaked” emails and documents by the German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2018.

The “leaked” emails and documents appeared to show that City’s owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, was mostly funding the huge, £67.5million

annual sponsorship of the City shirt, stadium and academy by his country’s airline, Etihad. One of the leaked emails suggested that only £8m of that sponsorship in 2015-16 was funded directly by Etihad,

and the rest was coming from Mansour’s own company vehicle for the ownership of City, the Abu Dhabi United Group.

Manchester City alleged in a statement that the outcome had been prejudged from the beginning, and that the process was “flawed and consistently leaked,

” saying the club was “disappointed but not surprised” by the decision. City said they will appeal the ban and fine “at the earliest opportunity” at the court of arbitration for sport (CAS).

“The club has always anticipated the ultimate need to seek out an independent body and process to impartially consider the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence in support of its position,” the statement read.

“Simply put, this is a case initiated by Uefa, prosecuted by Uefa and judged by Uefa. With this prejudicial process now over,

the club will pursue an impartial judgment as quickly as possible and will therefore, in the first instance, commence proceedings with the Court of Arbitration for Sport at the earliest opportunity.”

Uefa said in its statement: “The Adjudicatory Chamber, having considered all the evidence, has found that Manchester City committed serious breaches of the Uefa Financial Fair Play Regulations

by overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to Uefa between 2012 and 2016.

“The Adjudicatory Chamber has also found that in breach of the regulations the club failed to cooperate in the investigation of this case by the CFCB.”

FFP, introduced in 2011 with the aim of encouraging football clubs across Europe not to overspend on players’ wages, restricts the amount club owners can put in to cover losses.

Sponsorships boost revenues and therefore the amount that clubs have to spend under FFP, so the perception that Mansour himself was

in fact funding the Etihad deal led to the serious allegation that City had deceived Uefa’s CFCB, which is responsible for ensuring compliance with FFP.

City have vehemently denied wrongdoing throughout, and denounced the Spiegel coverage as based on “hacked or stolen” materials taken out of context.

Spiegel anonymised their source as “John”, who was quoted saying that he had not hacked computers to obtain the emails.

Shortly after their publication, he was identified as a Portuguese national, Rui Pinto, who has now been charged in Portugal with 147 criminal offences, including hacking and other cybercrimes, which he denies.

The charges relate only to Portuguese football clubs and other organisations, not to the “leaks” of City’s or Uefa’s emails.

When City were charged last May, the club vehemently denied any wrongdoing, saying that they had been subjected to a “hostile” process which ignored “a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence”.