to step away before spraying champagne. essex put out a statement earlier phone short of apologising but they have said... all week on bbc news, we are highlighting racism in football through the stories of people working in the game. today, we will be hearing from emile heskey, the former england and liverpool striker. heskey, who recently accepted a role with leicester city's women's team, experienced racial abuse at club and national level.

it was kind of excepted to throw things and to abuse people. it is also late starting to creep back into football where it is not accepted into football where it is not a cce pted by into football where it is not accepted by people feel that they can actually still say... we were playing slovakia away. i remember kicking off and playing the ball to back him, putting it back through ashley, cold and then a blue, and boo up to me, boo, then to another black player and then you understand the boeing were monkey chance. you need to take it with a pinch of salt because we have grown up in that era where we had no real voice in that sense of power. to do anything, so it would stay on the pitch, and winning the game and that was the thing. —— that booing. i think there isa thing. —— that booing. i think there is a lot of my generation that did not go to football and have the

experience that they really felt they should have done. i had an incident where i was about 13, got chased from a football match back to the town centre. i don't know what the town centre. i don't know what the guys going to do, he's calling a black this and that, he was not going to hug me. when you watch upon the television and see the fans getting together and you see the euphoria, love, and passion for the game and then you go and your experience is totally different to what you saw, and it is only because of your skin colour, you are not going to go back. i played for the national team and went to ireland and got spat at and called a name. one of my fellow players not to people out because of the same thing. since we come on the pitch, black this come about that, kick him, kick that n, he wasn't having it, he got to the point where we have gotte n it, he got to the point where we have gotten 15 minutes into the game someone have gotten 15 minutes into the game someone has been racially abused and two people have been knocked down and that is when you are dealing

with it. it wasn't big enough of an issue to deal with it to say no take those to offer we are walking off. —— or those to offer we are walking off. —— 01’ we are those to offer we are walking off. —— or we are walking off. we have different platforms to deal with it and in the way we wanted to address it, raheem sterling was a prime example of that showing certain ways of presenting sort of things. some people don't notice what they're doing at times until you pull them up doing at times until you pull them up on it, it will carry on doing it but he has pulled them up but he has millions of people on a platform that he can show and the people can't actually deny it. thanks to emile heskey there. with a lot of talk around the future of some lower division clu bs. news of macclesfield's demise. bury last season. what happens to players who are suddenly left without a job? former watford and bolton forward martin sordell has launched a business helping players transition into life after football. alex howell has been finding out more.

with clubs around the country starting to survive and warn us that the football league structure is under threat there has never been a worse time to be a free agent. marfana worse time to be a free agent. marfan a out played for watford, in the, and great britain before he chose to retire at the age of 28. he has set up an online platform called transition fc which will aim to help us transition fc which will aim to help us deal with life after football. the website is not for football players only and there is private sections for players, but there is also the ability for business professionals and companies to also access the network. so it's bringing two worlds together in that sense. for example myself when i set up a profile i would be interested in sports, media, entertainment, may be law, health care, whatever, and i can go directly onto the site search area and find other players who are interested in media whether current 01’ interested in media whether current orformer, interested in media whether current or former, someone may

interested in media whether current orformer, someone may be in media already, it will be directly or indirect. the former striker has been vocal about football or strange things trying to be a pg and getting his pilots licence before running a production company. football players are experts in the football industry and it is a multi—billion pound industry and for players to be able to use the expertise to leverage that into new careers, the sort of prayers that should be doing this should be understanding how they can go from one place to the next place and football is the medium that can carry them into the end result. even if that was they want to be a lawyer, they understand how football works. that is the starting point and then they can carry on. your idea came —— that you came up for this after he set up a instagram page and a whatsapp ribbon had 300 footballers in contact with them in just one week. being able to put

even some tiny seeds in the ground to potentially see something is a lwa ys to potentially see something is always worthwhile and every time i have a conversation with a player who is retired, they say the same thing when it comes to the subject, it is thing when it comes to the subject, itisi thing when it comes to the subject, it is i wish i started earlier. we spent ten years at least preparing for our job spent ten years at least preparing for ourjob as a football player and often spend no years and in another industry, it doesn't work like that. with so many players out of work and so with so many players out of work and so many requesting marvin's help, this might be the busiest period of his career. alex howell, bbc news. since england and harlequins centre rachael burford first picked up a rugby ball at the age of six.. women's rugby has certainly changed slowly but for the better. —— at the tender age of six, women's by... with over 80 caps for her country, burford's using her vast experience to create a new initiative called the girls rugby club. the aim to open doors within the sport and cement a pathway for the future.

earlier i caught up with her, to find out more about it. we have a girls rugby club where any girl playing in any level can be a pa rt girl playing in any level can be a part of something globally, notjust locally. we really want this to be something globally that we can come together, share knowledge and support one another and tackle some of the issues that we are finding in women and girls rugby. no better to woman to share your experiences. based on your experience within by based on your experience within rugby as a woman in sport, what has that been like over the years? how has that progress and change?” recall my first ever england international game, no one knew it was on, no real investment into it, nobody knew when i would play rugby and even when i was growing up in the over grassroots level, i did not know about women's rugby. i certainly had noise yet there was an opportunity to play for him and if you were turned off and was good enough. and if you look now, there

are some nero models that young girls know about now, and there is d eftly m o re girls know about now, and there is deftly more coverage and opportunities and ever were before. —— there are some role models now. there are still various in sport and even people dining what you do for a living. there is plenty to do, we need more disability and need to be seen as need more disability and need to be seen as normalised, it should not be like oh you play rugby do you? it is oh great where did you play? not do you get hurt or you are too pretty to play rugby, those types of comments. more like where did you pick upa comments. more like where did you pick up a rugby ball, did you do it at school? that is the kind of common language we want in our game. watching something at this in the middle of a pandemic online on his zoom, how are you coping with that? what this allows us to do is reach the near and far. even though it has its challenges, as a sport we want to be out in the pitch running

around and playing together but there is so much we can do online and we can't wait to roll the sight of it out as well and connect with the global community of the rugby. we are looking to grow the whole community, not just the we are looking to grow the whole community, notjust the playing aspect was thanks to rachel there. before we go, plenty of you might remember the italian football francesca toddy. he won the world cup with italy back in 2006 and paid more than 600 times for roma before retiring in 2017. earlier this year, he recorded a message for teenage footballer —— shane —— he recorded a message for a teen footballer who was ina message for a teen footballer who was in a coma. after more than nine months, he has been in rome to pay her a visit in her hospital. and as you can see it made her day. that is all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. but for the team here, good night.

hello. there are clear trends in our weather for the week ahead. things are going to be very unsettled. it will also be on the chilly side. for wednesday, we are confident that it will be wet and windy, and the detail? well, we see the rain moving and is now becoming tighter and the longer—term outlook, you'll see we have some struggles. wednesday's rain will come in courtesy of an area of low pressure with its centre to the north, these fronts approaching the west of the uk through the course of the night pushing rain across scotland into northern england and wales in the south west through the first half of the day pushing for the eastwards come the afternoon — perhaps in brightness following behind ourfront for wednesday afternoon but another band of rain will swing across northern ireland and into scotland. but behind that is some late brightness i think for parts of northern ireland and the north—west of scotland.

it will be a windy day on wednesday as well. and feel cooler as a consequence of all of the rain around. overnight wednesday into thursday, we can see things do tend to clear. the wind will become lighter as well. it could get a little bit misty and murky in a few spots with a hangback of rain across north and scotland. but the reason it gets quieter, and a little hill here if you like to the south of this big area of low pressure which is a ridge of high pressure, just a transient ridge though. it's going to be fairly short—lived but for thursday, it does calm things down quite nicely in what is going to be the winds will be lighter for thursday, there should be a reasonable amount of dry weather as the sunshine is on the chillier side and then some heavier showers approach northern ireland, wales, and the south west later in the day. thursday into friday though, ourfirst forecasting headache. low pressure dominating that clear on. just how deep this feature is to the south of the uk though is open to question, and exactly where it sits as well. it could turn out to be a very deep area of low pressure running

through the channel making for gale force winds, even severe gales across southern britain and also quite an extensive spell of heavy rain. further north, you may just escape with some showers but there is, as i said, some question about the exact positioning of that low at the moment but it definitely has the uk in its sights. and then once that low pressure hones in on us, it looks like it will stay with us on into the weekend as quite a deep feature. for saturday, another windy day. at the moment, the trend has the heaviest rain coming into eastern reaches early on and then tracking its way westwards again. just take that detail with a little bit of a pinch of salt because it is very hard with this area of low pressure for us to pinpoint the exact development. here's sunday's picture, you can see it on to the south right across the uk and those two will interplay. so, the depth of this one across the uk on sunday could be subject to some question. it may turn out to be shallower or deeper, and that will mean the winds could be lighter or stronger

but there is at the moment the potential for a spell of very strong winds, gales or severe gales again to the south of the uk and some fairly relentless rain whereas further north, it looks like it will be scattered showers. now, after all of that, you may think, "well, things should start to quieten down." but early on, into next week still, you keep a fairly strong jet stream near us. we sit to the north of the jet stream on the cooler side and as the jet stream runs close to the uk to the early part of next week monday, tuesday, wednesday, it looks like we will again see a succession of areas of low pressure working their way across southern reaches of the uk. so, there's a good chance that things in the south will be quite wet at times. it could be windyjust about everywhere. driest and brightest, i think, the further north you are next week.

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