to leaving the eu — it was defeated by 45 votes. the government and can't keep on ignoring parliament or ploughing on to was the 29th of march without a coherent plan. it's the tenth time the government has been defeated in parliament on brexit — downing street had earlier warned that a defeat could damage the prime minister's negotiating position. the prime minister has been dance yet another body blow. this is really serious stuff. if we leave with an agreement, it keeps our economy going and keeps their economy going and keeps their economy is going, they are fragile at the moment. economic growth is wobbling in the eurozone. the last thing we want is a bump in the road, so thing we want is a bump in the road, so let's not do it. let's get a deal. a labour amendment which called on the government to allow the commons to vote on a new brexit plan by wednesday 27th february has been rejected.

mps have also rejected an snp amendment which called for the uk's departure from the eu to be delayed by 3 months. hello and welcome to sportsday. the headlines this evening: the return of european football continues with arsenal, the first of three british clubs, in the europa league last 32 tonight. the man who gave forth to a generation of talent... eric harrison, the coach behind manchester united's famous class of 92... passes away... it's been phenomenal. i would love to sit down with someone one—day and

how much he saved the club is the clu b how much he saved the club is the club over the years. the keeper over the years. keeps the prize... england's maddie hinch is named goalkeeper of the year for the third time in a row... relationships are never easy. not a message for valentine's day maybe... but imagine if your partner... was also your rival... i think it will be a good game. hello again. welcome to the programme. the return of european football takes us to the last 32 of the europa league... and with it a big night for these three british clubs. for chelsea... a respite from a troubled few weeks... and for a manager under pressure. celtic face a huge name... but one that's not currently

at the top of their game... while arsenal... well, they're one of the favourites to win the competition... and they're involved in one of the early kick offs in belarus against bate borisov. no goals yet — but arsenal have had their chances — including a great opportunity for henrikh mkhitaryan who saw his shot saved. now celtic‘s 2019 so far has been exemplary. but it's in europe where the scottish champions have more than met their match of late. for them tonight, valencia — a spanish giant. although one that's fallen from its traditional heights. alisdair lamment is at celtic park. yes, it's another one of those huge european nights here in the east end of glasgow. celtic look to take their fantastic domestic form into their fantastic domestic form into the europa league. since the winter break, they have swept all before them winning their seven matches and scoring 21 goals. but tonight's

opposition, valencia, eighth in spain's league. they might be behind the leaders, barcelona, but they are still expected to provide a stiff test as celtic have had here all season. test as celtic have had here all season. celtic are still missing some important players. they are also getting some back. as well as the january additions, they do look in pretty good shape ahead of this tie. the only match they've lost at celtic park this season came in the last europa league tie against ellsberg. they are looking to avoid a repeat of that i had of next week's return. the whole match you can have coverage of at the bbc sport website. thank you very much. chelsea's last three results... 4—0 defeat... 5—0 win... and 6—0 thrashing by manchester city. maurizio sarri sez he doesn't know if it'll affect his chances of being sacked.

but they remain the bookies favourites to win the europa league. they're in sweden to play malmo. they play well. we want to when. we know that it will be not easy because we have to play against a very good team, they are solid. they have, usually a very good defence. it will not be easy. but we want to win. now, football coaches always say it's a players game. but when some of the most successful players in recent years put that success down to a coach... you know they must be special. eric harrison, the man who helped build more than a decade of dominance for manchester united by producing the famous class of 92... died today at the age of 81. and the players whose careers he created were some of those to pay tribute. richard askam reports. special presentation here to eric

harrison, the man in charge of the manchester united youth team that developed so many players. he was much more than a coach. at the heart of manchester united's winning dna for two and a half decades, he shaped the talent and model of the personalities of some of english football's finest young players including the famous class of 92. he is the one who taught us how to play football, the manchester united way, taught us how to handle ourselves on and off the pitch. he was special. before moving to manchester united, eric harrison spent several years at everton. the last three as assistant manager. it was at united where he really made his mark, demanding the same standards of his young players as sir alex ferguson date of the first team. this was the alex talking about him in 2001.m

first team. this was the alex talking about him in 2001. it wasn't just a technical development he gave these young players, it was the mental toughness. to survive it. eric harris and were certainly tough, all those who played under him have said so, but he was also bighearted and respect. you have to be genius and they can be the right person to last for 20 years in the biggest football club in the world and be humble. the work ethic and respect and not get carried away with yourself, that the biggest thing he wasn't. he was an unbelievable maker of man. he was clearly a n unbelievable maker of man. he was clearly an inspiration to other coaches. he went on to become so alex ferguson's first team coach. what he has achieved has not only just by bringing those plays into the first team but showing all those yea rs the first team but showing all those years after that and the success

those plays want to manchester united for so many years. they have been lots of heartfelt tributes from the football world today, among them, this from david beckham who said he taught us how to play, how to never give up, how important it was two when your individual battles. it's clear that to the class of 92, and to the players he worked with, he was in a class of his own. let's talk to a member of the class of 92. you scored in that fa youth cup final against crystal palace, but during that time, did you have any inkling about the lessons eric harrison teach you at that time?|j think harrison teach you at that time?” think you did. you very quickly learns what his beliefs were, he made them known straightaway as much as we knew that he recognised talent, it was hard work is going to

pay off in the end. so, in the short time between us arriving at old trafford and us winning the youth cup, we know exactly what eric harrison was all about and what he expected from us. and was quite interesting about the monkey left on you guys, it was indelible, because you guys, it was indelible, because you kind of got... he taught you simply because he told you how things were they will both cut from the same cloth. i think if you were, if you did your best and did well for eric, it would filter back to the manager and that stood us in good stead for obviously moving up through the reserves and into the first—team fold. he had exactly the same beliefs, they were both very old school and they believed in hard work that would get you your awards in the end and the legacy that he leaves behind, is one that'll

probably never ever be bettered. thank you very much. this is a sad day for manchester united. meanwhile it's been revealed that manchester united paid jose mourinho and his staff £19.6 million in compensation following his sacking in december. united revealed the figures in their second quarter financial results. mourinho was sacked after a run of poor results which left them 11 points off fourth place in the premier league. he had a contract until 2020 with the option of an extra year. you're watching sportsday. let's have a look at some of the other stories we've been covering today at the bbc sport centre. there's been a surprise defeat for four time champion ronnie 0'sullivan at snooker‘s welsh 0pen. he was knocked out by world number 71 alexander ursenbacher in the third round. the swiss made three breaks over 50 for one of the biggest wins of his career. meanwhile thailand's noppon saengkham won just a frame in his defeat to world number one mark selby. but what a frame it was. a maximum 147 break.

it's saengkham's first as a professional. england's jodi ewart—shadoff has a share of the lead at the women's australian open golf. a bogey—free round of 65 leaves her 7 under par, along with taiwan's hsu wei—lling. england's bronte law is two adrift with british open champion georgia hall three under. and the melbourne stars are one match away from their first big bash title in australia. they're through to the final after beating the hobart hurricanes by six wickets... and they'll play the melbourne renegades or the sydney sixers in the final. west indies fast bowler shannon gabriel has revealed exactly what he said to england captainjoe root... which led to him being banned for the first 4 one day internationals. gabriel has admitted asking root, if he likes boys, and says he's ‘deeply sorry‘ for his comments. this comes after root was heard on a microphone telling gabriel, ‘there's nothing wrong with being gay‘, and not to use it as an insult.

in a statement, gabriel says i extend an unreserved apology for a comment, which in the context of, on—the—field rivalry, i assumed was in—offensive... i recognise now, that i was attempting to break, through my own tension, when i said tojoe root, "why are you smiling at me? do you like boys?" joe root and i have since spoken, and i am comforted by the fact that, there are no hard feelings, between us. i embrace this as a learning experience, and as an opportuity for myself, and all athletes to recognise the need for sensitivity. the landmark case of caster semenya will face a crucial moment next week when the court of arbitration for sport hears the south african athlete's challenge to a proposed iaaf rule that aims to restrict the levels of testosterone in female runners. the iaaf issued a statement last night denying one media report that it wanted to call semenya a ‘biological male'... even though she'd still be classified as a female. 0ur sports editor dan roan explains. it was back in 2015 that the iaaf

which required athletes with dsd or differences of sexual development undergo medication, to bring elevated testosterone levels down, because they felt it gave an unfair advantage to those athletes was effectively defeated. they tried again, they said they were going to reintroduce those regulations for ties and events, between the 400 metres and the mail, which of course applies to curses the mania which it 110w applies to curses the mania which it now twice olympic champion of the 800 metres. that has now been challenged by her, which will be crunch time, because that is when the iaaf will try to win the argument, that as i said, it does prevent to represent an unfair advantage. they say if something is not done and those women who are in that dsd category don't have those testosterone levels brought down,

it'll mean the same people, the same competitors dominate the podiums and the prize money and women who don't have abnormal testosterone levels never have a chance. certainly, that's been echoed by athletes like britain's runner who after the rio 201600 metre final said there was effectively two races being conducted, but there is of course counter arguments. it is a very emotive subject. they have to make a determination but at the same time, it's one of those on this athlete's side, if there is to be a determination, they should bear in mind a female athlete's human rights. yes, there is a human rights and privacy issue. where do you draw the line? is what quick dilemma critics say. are you meant to ban tall people from playing basketball because they have a genetic advantage because? you can see it set a precedent and it goes into very interesting and complex territory from a moral point of view and from a human right‘s expected.

her lawyers have brought out a statement saying she just want to be able to run free, that she is absolutely a woman and that is an entirely unfair to question that. in fa ct, entirely unfair to question that. in fact, the south african government say they want all of the people to get behind her in this case and they have been suggestions that this may be born out of some kind of racism 01’ be born out of some kind of racism or imperialism and is deliberately designed to try and disadvantage her at the fact that the iaaf have chosen events which are in her category. it said, why haven't they chose to apply these to other events for example. it is emotive and controversial. their arguments on both sides of the debate. at one thing is for sure, this decision will be among the significant and will be among the significant and will have significant ramifications going. now the rights of athletes have been much discussed over the last year or so in particular... and a new global body has been set up to try and fight for them. global athlete plans to be an athlete—led movement for change in olympic and paralympic sports...

and british track cycling olympic champion callum skinner is one of the key figures behind it. we can talk to him now... i suppose reports of bullying and british sports, the us gymnastics sex abuse scandal, all the context in which you decided to try and make this change. yes, i think it's quite overdue. i think even if we are not successful, history is on our side here. it will be an independent athlete movement in olympic and paralympic sport at some point in the future. we hope it's us. we hope we have come in at the right time. we have british sports will be in a good place when it comes to ethnic mobilisation. we kind of galvanised under the scandal which related to the russian anti—doping scandal we wrote a letter and it was signed by the uk anti—doping athletes

commission. british cycling, individuals such as chris hoy. we had really good mobilisation and some of the best we have seen in british olympic history. although we did not get the result we wanted, we have a silver lining of this outcome would be that it we should be building that athletes voice and go after other issues that are important to athlete out there. there have been criticism from the ioc that gives them an inkling into why you have set it up, because if the ioc hasn't represented your voice up until this point adequately. absolutely. we are not there to step on the toes of the ioc athletes committee, we are there,, i spoken up to a few members of the panel and may they have jumped the gun slightly and coming out with their statements. we are there to embrace the athlete voice, enhance what they do, but they have to realise they have limitations under the structure in which they operate. for instance, we are looking to

represent athletes that have necessarily competed at paralympic 01’ necessarily competed at paralympic or olympic games. we are looking to represent athletes that are just competing in paralympic and olympic sports. we think we are different, we are independent hopefully we can implement row change. thank you. glasgow warriors centre hquones is likely to miss the rest of scotland's six nations campaign... while team mate stuart hogg is also struggling to be involved in the tournament again after damaging shoulder ligaments against ireland. jones suffered knee ligament damage in saturday's loss to ireland at murrayfield. both have had scans with scotland hopeful that hogg is still able to play a further part. england have concerns too. prop mako vunipola's already out of the rest of the tournament with ankle injury... and his potential replacement ellis genge has got a similar problem. forwards coach steve borthwick sez vunipola's absence will be significant it is exceptional. he's been playing

really well. i think it says also the leadership he gets and the presents he has. he has, that incredible significant. so, it's a big loss. mclaren a big loss. mclaren are the latest team to unveil their new car, ahead of the upcoming formula one season. . . the mcl34 was presented at the mclaren headquarters in woking today. the car will debut on the track at next week's preseason testing in barcelona. mclaren have an all—new driver line—up for the new season, with carlos sainz, who joined them by renault, being partnered by lando norris — who aged 19, will become the youngest—ever british formula one driver... being the youngest ever british driver in formula 1 is quite a saying. but i don't thing is going to put any pressure on me to be honest. it's not something i actually knew to begin with. so, it's not something i think about and i think we'll hinder me in anyway. i

think it's more of opportunity to think it's more of opportunity to think of, hopefully having a long future ahead of me with mclaren. se third time a row maddie has won at the hockey trophy. she really made a name for herself back in 2016 at the rio olympics. it was thanks to her and her brilliant saves, that meant gb, team gb ended up as olympic gold medallist and her wonderful performance has really continued since 2016. this is the third time she has won it, she has won it every year since then. 2018, isa won it every year since then. 2018, is a bright yet again. it started but on the gold coast of australia, the common wealth games as she helped england get a bronze medal. but later on, it was a huge moment for team england again as they hosted the women's world cup in london. no medals for england, they went out in