IT WAS a case of out but not down for Italy yesterday, when the already-relegated Mediterraneans won the €200,000 nations cup at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show.

Celtic 1 Parma 0

A British gambling executive convicted in a bribery plot is being transferred from a US prison to serve the remainder of his sentence in England, his lawyer said.

Parma have made an appeal to Europe’s top football governing body after their goalkeeper Luca Bucci was hit by a firework during Thursday’s UEFA Cup semi-final second-leg at CSKA Moscow.

Crowd trouble reared its ugly head yet again in European competition as Parma goalkeeper Luca Bucci was hit by a flare in the club’s UEFA Cup semi-final second leg clash with CSKA Moscow.