“a "at? easing off a during the day probably easing off a touch for england and wales. not as windy, but the stronger winds will push back into scotland and northern ireland. those temperatures will be dropping away as we lose that wetter weather and introduce the showers, introducing colder air, so scotland and northern ireland only six or 7 degrees. and here is we at the centre of storm dennis, we get closer to sunday evening and sunday night, we may well find a squeeze in the winds gusting 70 or 80 mph in the winds gusting 70 or 80 mph in the north of scotland. as we move into monday itself, the storm tend to head away. strong to gale forest to head away. strong to gale forest to west to south—westerly winds, that brings sunshine and showers, may be some longer spells of rain that will continue into tuesday as well.

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time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. the headlines this evening.... liverpool leave it late but extend their lead at the top of the premier league to 25 points with a 1—0 win over norwich and i'll reflect on a turbulant21i hours for manchester city. banned from europe for two seasons. but what happens next? also coming up in the programme... the race to the premier league takes another twist as cash earns forest a priceless point at west brom muir makes her mark in glasgow but misses out on a world record at the indoor grand prix. and we'll round up the day's rugby union news including leicester's third win of the season as the tigers try to claw their way back up the table.

hello and welcome to sportsday. 25 points. that is the lead that liverpool now have at the top of the premier league table...and it is still february — storm dennis means we can't forget it's still winter. liverpool were playing the team at the bottom of the table, nowrich, the gap between them, 55 points, is the biggest between top and bottom that the premire league has ever seen at this stage. the score was a narrow i—0 but there's an enormous chasm between liverpool and the rest of the premier league. craig templeton reports. this is what it looks like when you just had a mid—season holiday, this is what it looks like when you're 22 months clear —— 22 points clear.

there are 55 points clear of norwich, but apart from flashes of brilliance from firmino, that was ha rd to brilliance from firmino, that was hard to tell. it was norwich that the best chance of first half. liverpool started to push after the break, but the keeper was in the way not once, but twice, not bad with the national manager watching on. that pressure brought opportunities to counter. so many times this season to counter. so many times this season liverpool have found a way and so often sadio mane has been the reason why. another crucial goal. a touch of holiday rust, but the results and the smiles remain. burnley‘s hopes of qualifying for european football look brighter this evening after they beat southampton 2—1 at st mary's. the result lifts the clarets up to 10th — five points off that fifth europa league spot. rhia chohan reports. . ..

separated only by goal difference, both teams at st mary's were eyeing up a top half spot in the table. it got off to a bizarre start, barely a couple of minutes and ashley westwood sunk this towards the near post. wherever danny ings thought it was going, over the line was not it. he'd have to hold his hands up for this one, regardless of the conditions. southampton's star player did make amends with his 15th goal of the season. the saints seem to be doing a betterjob of mastering the weather in the first half, but it was all in vain. burnley substitute delivering the biggest blow, ending his goal drought of over 500 days. a moment of magic from the czech, giving those who brave the elements all the way to the south coast something to celebrate. there were moments that could have kept them in it. but the second half got away.

we tried to stick to the game plan and make the equaliser, it was ok but in the end not good enough. the second half, because not aggressive enough and we didn't find the right solutions for being under pressure. really tough game, we had to dig in again like we do. we forced a result today. from big moments when we needed them. it is very difficult winning premier league games away from home. we have done enough today in the fashion of tactical understanding and defensive understanding to take all three points. so a move to tenth place in the table for burnley and a boost to their hopes of playing in european competition again. manchester city have made the front and the back pages on saturday without even kicking a ball. it's all about the fallout from their two year european football ban for breaking financial fair play rules. ben has more details on it. karthi — this is one of the biggest football stories in europe —

for a while. if you haven't been following — let's bring you right up to speed with how they came to be banned from the champions league for the next two seasons.... in november 2018, a german newspaper published leaked documents alleging city had broken financial rules — and uefa began an investigation. last may, city were referred to uefa's financial watchdog for investigation. in november, city failed in a bid to halt the investigation.and yesterday, as we know, city were banned from european club competition for the next two seasons, and fined 25—million pounds. as soon as the verdict from uefa was announced — city issued a swift and strong response. they said they were disappointed but not surprised with the decision and said the investigator had already decided the result of the case before it was even investigated. the subsequent flawed and consistently leaked uefa process he oversaw has meant

that there was little doubt in the result that he would deliver. they called the process predjudicial and will seek an impartialjudgment as quickly as possible and will look to appeal to the court of arbitration for sport. city have broken financial rules. but what exactly have they done wrong? well, it all relates to sponsorship — mainly to do with the etihad stadium — with close links between the company and city's owners in the middle east. have they been totally honest or have they inflated the value of sponsorship deals to get around the rules? kieran maguire is a price of football expert. if you take a look at manchester city's commercial income, where i think the accusations have been made, that's increased from £65 million in 2011 to £218 million by by 2017, uefa are claiming that the the deal struck by manchester city

were artificial amounts and therefore it gave them a financial advantage. so what does this all mean on the pitch? in the future — can they keep hold of their best players now they're not in europe? de bruyne, aguero, ederson — and what about their rising young stars like phil foden? question marks aplenty about manager pep guardiola even before this verdict came out. what motivation do they now have? the premier league's out of reach — even if they win the champions league for the first time — it won't matter... it wouldn't make me want to run for the exit, it would make me very frustrated —— it would make me want to run for the exit. it would make me disappointed with the outcome of the decision. but i think you look at some of those young players at manchester city, i think they will be determined to try and win this competition. with manchester city. very fascinating to see if they can win the champions league this season. is this shaking up the order of english and european football?

and what about their future recruitment? you hear of players not wanting to join manchester united or arsenal because they're not playing champions league football. would city now be the same? has the brand been tarnished? the biggest problem, manchester city have is the bad name. once you become a bad name in football, a lot of players don't want to join that bad name. they want a healthy club, a club who's trying to do things the right way and that's something that manchester city will have to deal with. and more questions still — consider their premier league status. just like saracens broke financial rules in rugby‘s premiership — could city be found guility of breaking premier league as well as uefa rules? they work off pretty similar principles so question marks are now being raised as to the validity of city's recent title win. so is the premier league likely to swing the axe in city's direction too? here's simon stone... there is an argument for saying of the premier league don't do that,

they are not acting properly in terms of the governance of the game. there is an other argument to say that they should wait to see what happens with the uefa investigation, to see whether cas reach a different verdict, because the chances are if the premier league brought their own investigation and the uefa one was thrown out by cas or change by cas, that might happen to the premier league as well. these are very interesting discussions that have got to happen within the premier league, and it is certainly a subject that premier league chairmen have been discussing privately over the last few weeks. and just lastly — let's talk money. £25million fine is not to be sniffed at — but a club of city's size should be able to deal with it. the big cost is not playing in the champions league last season — liverpool won around £100 million for winning the champions league. our sports editor dan roan tells us that city earned around £86 million when factoring gate receipts and sponsorship bonuses — and they only made

the quarterfinals. so, in total — city could lose up to 300 million pounds if taking into account potential club world cup runs and wider global pr too. incomprehensible sums of money really. we started talking about the premier league and how much of a gap is there, it is a complete opposite in there, it is a complete opposite in the championship. west bromwich albion missed their chance to extend their lead in the championship this afternoon. they were held to a 2—2 draw by fellow promotion rivals nottingham forest. michael redford reports. if you are going to light up the championship, you have to cope with tough conditions. west brom have been the best that the season and are closing in on a return to the premier league after two seasons away. forest have been away for two decades, but have been flying high this campaign, thanks largely to their

defensive resolve. that was nowhere to be seen as january loan signing callum robinson scored his first goalfor west brom. the home side do normally concede, they did so eight minutes later, kyle ba rtley unable to defend this cross. west brom learned from the error. forest didn't. west brom back in front and seemingly on their way to a vital three points, until a minute into stoppage time, cash did this. a stunning strike and a priceless point rescued. or was it? in the final seconds, west brom thought they'd got a winner, only for the flag to be for offside. points eventually shared, the race for the premier league is farfrom over. second placed leeds beat bristol city 1—0 as they aim for automatic promotion to the pmerie legaue. bottom of the table barnsley shocked third placed fulham with a 3—0 win. both barnsley goals came from former

fulham player cauley woodrow. it was a 1—1 draw between birmgiham and promotion hopefuls, brentford. while millwall beat promotion—chasing preston north end 1—nil. relegation threatened wigan drew 2—2 with cardiff city. storm dennis was making its force felt in the match between southampton and burnley and the bad weather has caused a couple of postponements in the scottish premierhsip — motherwell — st mirren off due to a waterlogged pitch. and rangers against livingston has been moved to tomorrow. elsewhere bottom place hearts produced a two—goal comeback against 10—man hamilton to salvage 2—2 draw. hearts are still a point behind second from bottom hamilton. in the days‘s other match ross county scored a late equaliser at home to stjohnstone. so rangers and celtic are both due to play tomorrow. celtic currently 10 points ahead of rangers but they have played a game more. now many british athletes have been stepping up their winter preparations this weekend at the glasgow grand prix. this event saw two of scotland's big middle distance medal hopes

for the summer's 0lympics competing in separate events. both laura muir and jemma reekie won their respective races, but the day belonged to what could be one of athletics‘ newest stars, as young armand duplantis set a new pole vault world record for the second week in a row. joe lynskey reports. they are two women from the same nation and with the same coach, but in five months‘ time at lauren and jay marie kate could face each other for olympic gold. muir is already scotland‘s european champion, now she setting up for the greater state. she ran easily to victory in this race, but not the world record she hoped for. the foundation for what is comp. that is me for indoors, that has me done, training tomorrow back out the wind and tomorrow. reekie is five years muir‘sjunior, tomorrow. reekie is five years muir‘s junior, but she tomorrow. reekie is five years muir‘sjunior, but she is already broken if your records. her rise

came here in the 1500 metres. it is indoors in the winter the athletes set up for the summer. katarina johnson thompson used glasgow to make long jump preparations, and without you saying bold, there is a space in tokyo for a new global start. it could be this 20—year—old swede in the pole vault. unbelievable! a new world record, jumped nearly two metres clear of a double—decker bus. he is an athlete with an edge in the year when it matters most. after missing out on last year‘s world championships, jessie knight was a surprise winner in the 400 metres. the teacher came home in a personal best time of 51.57 seconds. i‘m quite lost for words. i sort of broke and i was winning, i felt so strong so i went with it.

i don‘t know. winter training has just gone so well in comparison to last year, so it was just believing that i had it in me. i‘ve got a great training group and theyjust me along. so over the moon. british success in the men‘s 60 metre hurdles too as andrew pozzi won in a time of 7.57 seconds — five hundredths slower than his world leading time set a couple of weeks ago in paris. stay with us on sportsday, still to come... it‘s fa cup weekend in the women‘s game — we meet the minnows set to take on the masters. and we hear about the bumpy ride of the first british rally driver to win the european championships in more than 50 years. my my main sponsor pulled out two—year contract and that really dropped me

in it. to rugby union‘s premiership where leicester, who are in the unusually low position of 11th, have gotjust their third win of the season. they beat wasps 18—9 at welford road — telusa veainu with the second of their two tries — and it was one to remember, with the full back running the length of the pitch to score. leicester stay second from bottom — with only saracens below, because of their points deduction. sale missed the chance to go second as they lost 36—22 at saracens. bath moved into the top four for the first time this season coming from behind to beat worcester by a point. london irish surprised harlequins 29—15 at the stoop. four games in the pro 1a today. champions leinster thrashed cheetahs 36—12. edinburgh have gone top of conference b after a 111—9 win at scarlets. matt scott broke clear for the second of their two tries before half—time. they couldn‘t add to the score in the second half but stood firm for the win.

0spreys caused a big shock as they beat ulster 26—24. 0spreys were trailing — but this penalty from luke price, five minutes from the end snatched victory for the home side. the win isn‘t enough to move 0spreys off the bottom of conference a, while ulster stay second. 0spreys picked up their first win since october by beating ulster 26—24 connacht against cardiff has just kicked off. it‘s currently 3—0 to connacht just the one game in super league today and israel folau made an instant impact as catalans dragons beat castleford tigers 36—18. he scored six minutes into his debut in perpignan — with sam tomkins scoring a hattrick. folau‘s move to the french side has been controversial — as 10 months ago he was sacked by rugby australia for homophobic remarks. there‘s more on this

story on our website... it‘s the fifth round of the women‘s fa cup this weekend. tomorrow sees five ties including second—tier lewes with a tough draw — away to the 14—time champions arsenal. lewes hope though, that such a high profile game will help highlight their campaign for equal prize money, asjuliette parkin reports. arsenal are used to lifting the trophy, having won at a record 1a times. you‘ll make in a weight is a good draw, we get to play against so many internationals and arsenal are a massive name in women‘s football, an amazing opportunity for us all. little lewis pulling arsenal two playing away, they have such a big following himself, it is a good opportunity for us to keep spreading

oui’ opportunity for us to keep spreading our message and getting your name heard. they play their male and female players the same and has the same approach to prize money the overall men‘s winners get 3.6 million, the woman 25,000. the total prize pot in the men‘s game is 30.25 million, 100 times more than the woman‘s. million, 100 times more than the woman's. if we were to have that kind of money between the men and women‘s clubs, that kind of money allows us to really change the game. it allows us to professionalise so much quicker. may last year manchester city lifted the fa cup in front of just over manchester city lifted the fa cup in front ofjust over 43,000 fans at wembley. the fa says it is investing over 83 million in growing the women‘s game. over 83 million in growing the women's game. these are no full-time

athletes that play really good attractive football that people want to come and watch. if that continues and it grows, then i think the prize money will align itself to that. why might the sea eagles travel to crystal palace on sunday hoping for a quarterfinal stop. lewes face a tough test against arsenal, but a strong platform to get their voices heard. last year chris ingham became the first british rally driver to win the european championships in more than 50 years. two weeks before the start of the season though, he had thought his dream was over when his sponsor pulled out. but, with a bit of help from his mum jo, who started a crowdfunding page, he managed to raise 20—thousand pounds to get back in the driving seat. a week before the rally they said my main sponsor pulled out will a two—year contract and that really drop me and it and

two—year contract and that really drop me and itand it two—year contract and that really drop me and it and it could have ended my whole career, but i wasn‘t going to let it. there is of us can win the championship and one of them isa win the championship and one of them is a russian driver, who was last year‘s champion. if he crashes his car, it doesn‘t matter, they will shipa car, it doesn‘t matter, they will ship a new one on. in rallying crashes happen, like a footballer missing a penalty. but i cannot afford to let that happen, because it isa afford to let that happen, because it is a £20,000 excess. i don‘t you can earn any money. to get to these last two rallies, my mum actually set upa last two rallies, my mum actually set up a crowdfunding page for rally fa ns to set up a crowdfunding page for rally fans to chip in and be a part of it, have their name on the car. 0ver fans to chip in and be a part of it, have their name on the car. over 300 people have contributed to the team. good luck, pal. come on. rallying has always been my escape from normal life. going to a rally was a lwa ys normal life. going to a rally was always living the dream, whereas at home, i was always stressed, a bit down. especially when i didn‘t know ifi down. especially when i didn‘t know if i could ever do the next rally and carry on with everything i‘d

sacrifice my life. it actually made me pretty depressed. even at times i have lost connection from my family and everyone in my whole life, because i‘ve dedicated everything to the sport. even if i wasn‘t to drive a rally car ever again, winning that title would be my life ambition and something i could wake up everyday and be proud of. he had a puncture. you have put your life into this. j. gray crossing has 142 points and the other has 131.

—— chris ingham. -- chris ingham. thank you so much. up -- chris ingham. thank you so much. up to this point, i‘ve always known deep down i can do whatever i want, as long as i put in the work and the dedication and don‘t lose my passion for this. i can achieve whatever i want. at the end of the day, despite all the incredible support, i had to manage it myself. ifeel quite proud of that. recap of our top story — liverpool are now 25 points clear at the top of the premier league after a 1—0 win over norwich. the formula e mexican grand prix on the red button — race starts at 10. that‘s all from sportsday.

it has been a one—day and blustery day nationwide. we have lots of heavy rain and it is the rain that is going to arguably because the bigger problems from storm dennis, certainly for the next 24 hours. we have already got lots of flood warnings in force, over 70 and it is actually rising error by error as all the floodwaters continue to roll down the catchments. we have got a met office amber warning in force, write their way through to sunday afternoon as well. with more heavy rain in the forecast. the real trouble maker as this, a couple thousand miles into the atlantic. along this front we are going to see pulses of heavy rain running in. the other problem is that the wind is

running parallel to the front. it is stock and overnight the rain will turn much heavier across wales, south—west england and the west midlands. these are already areas that are starting to see some river flooding, so extra heavy rain will be with us all night and into sunday morning. it is likely to make things much worse with a significant risk of flooding for these areas. to the north—west, it will stay blustery with the number of servers running... quite miles across england and wales. sunday is forecast and we have still got the rain coming down heavily. there in mind, this ring could be even slower to clear across southern and eastern areas of england. to the north—west we have got those blustery conditions which i was running on. among us of around 50—60 mph. the wind is getting stronger for a time, around the english channel area. that could cause issues in terms of transport affecting cross—channel

ferries. temperature on the face a bit around 6—7d and factoring those wins is going to feel really quite chilly. as we go through sunday night, it will get stronger winds working across scotland and perhaps the far north of england. when‘s the strong could cause some transport disruption, problems with the scottish berries and bridge speed restrictions are all likely due to those strong ones. monday, stays with further showers. there will be some spells of sunshine and those ones will gradually begin to calm down. it will stay blustery, around 8-10dc. down. it will stay blustery, around 8—10dc. 0vernight down. it will stay blustery, around 8—10dc. overnight at perth tomorrow morning, the major concern is that we are going to see flooding across wales, parts of northern england, the weather getting worse before it gets better.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 8: the love island presenter, caroline flack, has been found dead at her london flat. the 40—year—old had been due to stand trial next month for assault. a lawyer for her family has confirmed that she took her own life. tributes have flooded in. itv this morning presenter phillip schofield wrote, "you poor darling girl. "my heart is breaking." claudia winkleman tweeted, "such heartbreaking news." troops are deployed to west yorkshire as heavy rain and strong winds batter parts of the uk. forecasters predict a month‘s worth of rain in some places. dozens of flood warnings are in place across britain. the first death from coronavirus in europe is recorded in france. people returning to beijing risk punishment if they don‘t go into quarantine for 14 days.