"You're not like others, you are football, the real one, the pure one of children."

Prosecutors have opened a culpable homicide case over the death of Fiorentina captain Davide Astori.

Check out all the results from the European matches today.

A last-gasp Alberto Paloschi header saw Serie A strugglers SPAL force a 1-1 draw with Inter.

Kevin-Prince Boateng scored a late winner against his former side as Eintracht Frankfurt came from behind to win 2-1 at Hertha Berlin in the Bundesliga.

The president of Lazio football club has promised a new anti-Semitism campaign after fans plastered Rome's stadium with stickers of Anne Frank wearing city rivals Roma's team shirt.

Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona beat Las Palmas 3-0 in a game played behind closed doors after the Spanish league refused Barca’s plea to postpone the game on the day of the highly-charged Catalonia referendum.

Duvan Zapata won his family battle by inspiring Sampdoria to a 2-0 win over AC Milan in Serie A.

Gonzalo Higuain's stoppage-time equaliser saw Serie A leaders Juventus salvage a 1-1 draw against 10-man Torino in the Turin derby.

Sulley Muntari will serve a one-match ban after he protested against racial abuse from fans during a Serie A game on Sunday, Italian authorities have confirmed.

World footballers' union FIFPro has called on the Italian authorities to cancel Sulley Muntari's yellow card for complaining to a referee about alleged racial abuse from fans during a Serie A game on Sunday.

Sulley Muntari walked off the pitch in protest during Pescara's clash with Cagliari today having been booked after reporting racist abuse to the referee.

Mauro Icardi and Ever Banega scored hat-tricks as Inter Milan stunned fellow high-fliers Atalanta 7-1 in Serie A to maintain their hopes of Champions League qualification.

Roma closed the gap on Serie A leaders Juventus to seven points with a 3-1 win away to Inter Milan at San Siro.

Claudio Ranieri has always been a modest man, as well as a family man.

Italy 1 Ireland 0: Noel King last night hailed the courage of his Ireland U21 players after they succumbed to a second-half winner against 10-man Italy in Vicenza.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has called on his team to make history in tonight’s Champions League semi-final second leg at home to Juventus at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu.

Lionel Messi or Carlos Tevez, surely there is no comparison?

Relegation-threatened Cagliari have sacked coach Gianfranco Zola after less than three months in charge following a miserable run of results.

Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini wants his players fully focused from start to finish in Thursday’s Europa League return leg against Celtic at the San Siro.

Leeds president Massimo Cellino has confirmed he will comply with the Football League’s ruling to disqualify him as owner of the club.

Leeds great Johnny Giles has told club owner Massimo Cellino to put himself in charge of the team after the man known as the ’manager eater’ struck again.

Leeds have announced the double signing of midfielder Tommaso Bianchi and striker Souleymane Doukara.

Controversial Leeds owner Massimo Cellino wants Kenny gone, because his birthday is unlucky.

Giovanni Trapattoni has announced he is in talks to become the next Ivory Coast coach.

Fifa is investigating a remarkable bust-up at the World Cup after claims Chile striker Mauricio Pinilla was punched by Brazil’s communications director Rodrigo Paiva at half-time during Saturday’s match.

Leeds players have agreed to defer part of their wages for March after the club failed to pay them on time.

Prospective Leeds owner Massimo Cellino has vowed to “work together” with manager Brian McDermott and to buy back their Elland Road ground.

Leeds’ owners say they will contest a winding-up petition served by one of the club’s main sponsors and the man who is trying to buy the Elland Road outfit, as the messy takeover situation in West Yorkshire shows no signs of clearing up.

Leeds’ owners are understood to be poised to open talks with another consortium as Italian businessman Massimo Cellino’s takeover bid floundered.

At first sight, this winter’s transfer window was spectacularly boring, unless you happen to support Manchester United, Chelsea or possibly Newcastle; but appearances can be deceptive.

Brian McDermott revealed the Leeds team he had prepared on Friday for the match with Huddersfield was changed overnight following his apparent dismissal.

Leeds manager Brian McDermott will report for duties as normal at the club’s training ground this morning despite appearing to have been sacked on Friday.

Leeds performed an astonishing U-turn today by announcing that Brian McDermott had not been sacked and remained their first-team manager.

Brian McDermott is no longer the manager of Leeds.

ITALY:

Manchester United manager David Moyes has accepted a charge of misconduct following comments about match officials, the Football Association has confirmed.

Former Republic of Ireland coach Giovanni Trapattoni has dismissed reports that he is in line to replace Vladimir Petkovic at Lazio.

“Of course Trapattoni would never be sacked. He’s a furbo,” said the butcher in my village yesterday.

WORLD CUP QUALIFYING GROUP C:

Ezequiel Schelotto’s second-half equaliser salvaged a point for Inter last night in the Milan derby as AC had to settle for a 1-1 draw.