hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm sarah monica. liverpool fire four past lask to book their place in the knockout stages of the europa league a crunch game to come at wembley...and there could be a 50th cap for lauren hemp, as england look to keep their olympic hopes alive on behalf of team gb. and �*it�*s a crazy game�* for ronnie o'sullivan who says he "can't be bothered any more" with snooker despite making the last eight at the uk championship.

liverpool cruised into the europa league knock—out stages with a match to spare as a 4—0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2—0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot, before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn't to beat union st—gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it's a "historic day" for brighton, as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history, and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game, from the penalty spot to give them the victory. if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid

the knockout play—offs stage. elsewhere, tomas soucek scored a late winner as west ham secured their place in the knockout stage at serbian side batka topola, they only need another point now to avoid the playoff phase. group c leaders real betis lost at sparta prague, that had opened up the door for rangers to secure their spot in the next round if they could beat aris limassol, but that ended in a draw. aston villa have condemned the violence that left three police officers injured after legia warsaw fans were involved in clashes before their europa conference league game in birmingham. flares and missiles were thrown at police as the legia fans were held in a coach park near villa's stadium and not let in to the game. on the pitch alex moreno returned from a six—month out with injury to score the winner for already qualified villa, who have now moved ahead of legia warsaw at the top of group e.

full results of all the games are on the bbc sport website. looking to international football now, where's there's two rounds of games remaining in the women's nations league group stage. scotland are away to belgium and wales are at home to iceland, both looking to avoid relagation into league b. northern ireland are in albania, and could still secure promotion to league a via playoffs. for england, there's a crucial game against the netherlands at wembley. jo currie has more from st georges park. the lionesses find themselves in a bit of a sticky situation, their third in their women's nations league group with two games still to play qualification for next summer's olympic games is currently out of their own hands. they need to beat the dutch at wembley tomorrow, win away at scotland on tuesday and hope other results go their way. if they're to top the group and give team gb any hope of qualifying for next summer's olympic games in paris.

however, england boss serena wiegman says england know exactly what they need to do over this next couple of games. the game is growing. teams are getting better. and while i think before teams wanted to beat england, i think that is even more. now we have done so well and if you look at the games, i don't think we play really, really poor and just in moments, yeah, we didn't get get it over the line and then we got some, some losses, which is not good. we want to do better in football, just as in life you have ups and downs. so what we want to do is to get straight forward, go, go to the high again. and that's what we're going to try and do tomorrow. while england will be without usual skipper millie bright, who's withdrawn from the squad with a knee injury, it means goalkeeper mary earps will wear the captain's armband, whereas lauren hemp is in line to make her 50th england cap. now, this is the first time england have played at wembley since winning the final this summer there in april. now, obviously no trophy on the line this time around,

but arguably olympic qualification is more important. "fifa must deliver the legacy on human rights they promised, following the world cup in qatar." that's according to one of the tournament's critics, lise klaveness, president of the norwegian football federation. klaveness was vocal about the issues a year ago when the world cup was taking place and has been speaking to the bbc from doha after returning to qatar to see if progress has been made. we think fifa has a much bigger responsibility now to deliver on the legacy that they said they would. and we expect that they really lean into these issues when they are supposed to deliver a report, which they said they would deliver. and the fifa said they would come within the end of the year and that fifa in that report really addresses and leans into this, these issues going ahead. uganda have qualified for the men's t20 world cup for the first time after a nine—wicket victory over rwanda.

the win in african qualifying meant they came second in the six—team tournament. uganda join namibia at the finals in the united states and the west indies. ronnie o'sullivan says he "just can't be bothered any more" with snooker, despite reaching the quarterfinals of the uk championship. he beat robert milkins 6—5 to stay on course for a record—extending eighth title but afterwards he said "it's a crazy game, it still torments me after 30 years, i wasjust all over the show. i haven't got a clue any more, i don't understand how this game works. "i stunk it out today and i'll probably stink it out tomorrow." well his next match is against zhou yuelong, who beatjohn higgins 6—3. higgins failed to get going in the match and zhou won it with a break of 63. zhang anda continues his remarkable season as he defeats

world champion luca brecel 6—4 to make it into the last eight. and he'll meet hossein vafaei has made it to his first uk championship quarterfinal after a 6—1 victory over matthew selt. now, in football, you often see the transition from player to manager — but not really, from player to referee. vance warner played in the top flight of english football and roomed with david beckham as a youth team player. but for the last 13 years, he has dedicated his time to refereering youth games and has just won an award for it. angela rafferty has been to meet him. sunday morning nine am. a frosty, foggy, non—league pitch, not the place you'd expect to find a former premier league player. i was asked if i wanted to become a referee to help my son's team when he was about eight years old.

and of course, i said no. i mean, who wants to be a referee. nobody wants to. no one grows up wanting to be a referee, as far as i'm aware. and then i thought, "you know what? "this is a perfect opportunity where i can give back to my son's club. and because i've played football, maybe i've got a little more credit or credibility when they ask me, "well, you know, what do you know about football, ref"? ican go. "oh, i could tell you a few stories, but this vance is our referee today. so he makes a decision. if you don't agree with it, what don't we do? don't argue. vance warner has quite a few stories to tell, he played top flight football with nottingham forest in the 90s, shared a room with david beckham as an england international.

but these days he's happiest here refereeing grassroots games. presentation is immensely important. i've seen it with a predominantly diverse team and they've seen that there's a black referee and it's like, wow, somebody who looks like me, somebody who may understand, brought up in the meadows as a child once bbrought up in the meadows as a child once could see the city ground from his modest home when he made his debut. it was a boyhood dream come true. every single footballer has a club story. some will tell them, some won't. but you know, it's a privileged existence to be around that man at that time where you could hear his golden retriever come down through the corridor. and then we all used to scatter like cockroaches just in case we got to his garden or something. humble beginnings have helped shape him an england youth player, little did he know that he roomed with a player who would become a global superstar. the england team, when we went to france would have been robbie fowler, david beckham, gary neville, sol campbell, kev gordon, robbie fowler. you know, these are household names that happen to be in the set up. so it's just extraordinary to see what he became. and a lot of players that we played with became and made of their careers.

a knee injury put paid to his footballing career, but he was always destined to give something back to the game that he loves. he's one of a handful of former professionals refereeing at this level. he's hoping to help change perceptions. when the kids come down, you don't know what's happening at home. this could be the first part of encouragement that they've had mejust saying, "well done. that's a great shot". once the parents tell them that i had played in a premiership or that i had rumours of beckham, because that's somebody that they will recognise. they sort of look at me a little bit different and go, all right, "ref, ok, you have them something. maybe i will listen to you". he's been named match official of the year this season, but it's not about awards for vans. but it's not about awards for vance. the premier league seems a lifetime away. giving back at grassroots is what he loves best. love that story. vance warner there. remember, you can stay right up to date with all the latest sports news on the bbc sport website and the bbc sport app.

but for me and the rest of the team, have a lovely day. bye bye. hello. this cold snap has brought some of the coldest november nights for 13 years and some unusual snow for devon and cornwall. now, that's all clearing out the way, but there are wintry showers elsewhere, and where the surface has been left damp with that rain, sleet and snow, very icy, poor visibility is going to add to the hazard as well. so a few snow showers will continue as we go through the rest of the night. icy conditions where we've got those showers, northern ireland as well. and if anything, it's going to be colder than it was last night. and more widely misty, murky with some freezing fault potentially through the central belt, which could linger all day and some fog elsewhere. it'll be slow to clear. so quite a gloomy start, a bitterly cold start, and temperatures really struggling, even with the sunshine, to rise much above three or four degrees. perhaps a few more showers for northern ireland, more sunshine for the south

and west compared with what we had on thursday, but that's not going to help the temperatures either. and there'll still be a few showers even running down into kent and essex as well as other eastern parts of england and scotland as well. now, it looks as if as we go through friday night and saturday, we could see a few more showers gathering on this weather system just out towards the west. so more around our irish sea coast, further east, drier and clear, but a colder night again, temperatures down to minus four, minus five in rural parts, quite widely, and some more mist and fog, because, again, we've got a ridge of high pressure close by in the winds of very light friday night into saturday. so, it is going to be slow to clear away. a gloomy start again on saturday morning. but it does look as if we'll see fewer showers for eastern parts on saturday, more so across the western side of england, wales, south west scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well. but a colder day, if anything, because that low cloud, that fog, will really take its time to clear. a colder start today of as well, so we've only got so much strength in the sunshine. and then the fly in the ointment, we think, saturday night.

it could be that that weather front in the west gets its act together, pushes eastwards, comes across that colder air, and turns readily to snow. so potentially disruptive snow through the night saturday into sunday. but there's a lot of uncertainty about the forecast for the weekend. one thing we know is it's set to stay cold, and we could have some more wintry conditions overnight, sunday into monday. but the outlook, really, just to show you that that cold air is with us for a while, just taking nottingham here as an example — by night, that widespread frost perhaps lifting into the middle part of next week. the warnings are online.

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