Holland’s black players were allegedly subjected to monkey chants during an open training session in Krakow last night, with captain Mark van Bommel branding the abuse “a real disgrace” on the eve of Euro 2012.

Thierry Henry is on the bench for the final game of his loan spell at Arsenal, tonight's Champions League last-16 first leg tie against AC Milan at the San Siro.

AC Milan 2 Barcelona 3

Andrea Pirlo has announced he is leaving AC Milan after 10 years at the club.

Mark van Bommel will wait until the end of the season before deciding his next move, according to his agent.

Bayern Munich have confirmed the transfer of their captain Mark van Bommel to AC Milan with immediate effect.

Wolfsburg are reportedly lining up a bid for Bayern Munich midfielder Mark van Bommel to plug a gap in their midfield.

REFEREE Howard Webb has admitted he should have shown the Netherlands’ Nigel de Jong a red card in the World Cup final for the Manchester City player’s x-rated challenge on Xabi Alonso.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter yesterday insisted under-fire English referee Howard Webb had a “very hard task” in Sunday night’s fiery World Cup final.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter today insisted under-fire English referee Howard Webb had had a “very hard task” in last night’s fiery World Cup final.

ANDRES INIESTA won the World Cup for Spain, and for football, as he scored the most dramatic of extra-time winners to deny a Holland team who abandoned the beautiful game and had one man sent off and eight booked in a bruising final in Johannesburg.

Holland 0 Spain 1

ARJEN ROBBEN would be delighted to win ugly in the World Cup final tomorrow night.

Diego Forlan has been handed the captaincy for Uruguay after defender Diego Lugano failed to make a full recovery from a knee injury for tonight’s World Cup semi-final against Holland.

THE NETHERLANDS made it three wins from as many Group E matches with victory in their dead rubber against Cameroon in Cape Town.

MATCH-winner Wesley Sneijder believes Holland could not be in a better position as they head into their final Group E match with qualification for the knock-out stages already in the bag.

IT looks like we are relying on Brazil’s Samba stars to put some pizzazz into this World Cup after the Netherlands, the team tipped by many to provide the most entertaining football in the tournament, needed an own goal to edge Denmark in their opening game and failed to reach the heights expected of them.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL: Bayern Munich v Inter Milan (Bernabeu, 7.45pm)

Inter Milan striker Samuel Eto’o pointed to combative midfielder Mark van Bommel as Bayern Munich’s “decisive weapon” ahead of tomorrow night’s Champions League final in Madrid.

LYON against Bayern is a semi-final clash no one expected, and so far it has lived down to expectations.

Wayne Rooney has sensationally been named in Manchester United’s starting line-up to face Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-finals at Old Trafford tonight.

BAYERN Munich coach Louis van Gaal insists Manchester United are still the favourites to progress from their Champions League quarter-final despite the German side going into tonight’s second leg with a 2-1 lead.

HE WAS one of the heroes in red in the Camp Nou in Barcelona on the unforgettable night of May 24, 1999 when Manchester United staged football’s most famous late, late show to lift the European Cup.

Fiorentina 3 Bayern Munich 2 (aggregate 4-4; Bayern progress on away goals)

BAYERN MUNICH clinched a controversial win over 10-man Fiorentina at the Allianz Arena last night to give them a slender advantage going into the second leg of their Champions League tie in Italy in a fortnight’s time.

Bayern Munich 1 Barcelona 1

BARCELONA captain Carlos Puyol insists his team have no excuse not to triumph in the first leg of their Champions League clash against Bayern Munich tonight.

BAYERN MUNICH put one foot in the last eight, putting five goals past Sporting Lisbon in the Portuguese capital.

HOLLAND maintained their 100% record in World Cup qualifying group nine thanks to a 1-0 win over Norway in Oslo.

BAYERN MUNICH defender Lucio headed into his own net to give Zenit St Petersburg a crucial away goal ahead of next week’s return match in Russia after last night’s UEFA Cup semi-final, first leg ended in 1-1 draw.

RANGERS boss Walter Smith maintained he never felt his team were out of the running in their UEFA Cup tie despite relying on Nacho Novo’s dramatic 81st-minute equaliser to secure an away goals victory over Panathinaikos in Athens last night.

Bayern Munich 5 Aberdeen 1

Bayern Munich 0 AC Milan 2 (Milan win 4-2 on aggregate)

AC MILAN coach Carlo Ancelotti has warned Bayern Munich that his team is coming into form at just the right moment before tonight’s Champions League quarter-final at the San Siro.

BAYERN MUNICH took their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League thanks in part to the quickest goal in the tournament’s history.

Madrid put their recent troubles aside to hold the advantage going into the second leg although Bayern snatched two vital away goals.

SCOTLAND will need to fire on all cylinders to get a positive result in their qualifier against World Cup runners-up France, coach Walter Smith said yesterday.

Captain Edwin van der Sar disagrees with the decision to drop Ruud van Nistelrooy and Mark van Bommel from the Holland squad..

COACH Marco van Basten claimed his decision to omit Ruud van Nistelrooy and Mark van Bommel from the Holland squad to face the Republic of Ireland in a friendly next Wednesday in Dublin was because he had more trust in other players.

Portugal face an anxious wait to see if they will have Cristiano Ronaldo and Luis Figo available to face England in Gelsenkirchen on Saturday.

Portugal 1 Holland 0

HOLLAND coach Marco van Basten is keen to prove there is more than one potential World Cup winner in Group C.

Ruud van Nistelrooy’s 27th international goal was not enough to see Holland to victory in a bad-tempered clash with 10-man Australia.