The English FA is investigating an incident during Sunday's FA Cup match between Nottingham Forest and Leicester City when a supporter came on to the pitch and appeared to throw punches at players. Nottinghamshire Police Chief Inspector Neil Williams confirmed that a man had been arrested (LONDON TIMES, 2/7).
After months of reported complaints by senior players over his "rigid coaching style" and an apparently "uncompromising" Cricket Australia board of directors, Justin Langer resigned as coach of the Australian men's cricket team on Saturday (AP, 2/5).
Chelsea has agreed to "pay six-figure sums" to four former youth players who had brought a legal claim for experiencing "racial abuse and bullying at the hands of coaches during the 1980s and 1990s" (LONDON TIMES, 2/7).
Ligue 1 side Bordeaux fired coach Vladimir Petkovic on Monday, the day after a 5-0 defeat at Reims "kept the six-time French champions anchored in the relegation places" (AFP, 2/7).
