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these actions bring back memories of eric cantona's is as kung fu kick at selhurst park in 1995.who had taunted him after he had been sent off. it led to a nine—month ban, still one of the longest in football. ca ntona would still one of the longest in football. cantona would return to play for united but a former team—mate of evra believes his future is uncertain. i think it is difficult to see him continue. he will most likely move on to a different club, different league, most likely i would say. evra can expect to receive an extended ban when the disciplinary body needs to decide his case next week. with a champions league medal and several league titles to his name, the 36—year—old has enjoyed plenty of success and will hope this is not the final chapter. the social media giant, twitter, was a little less busy last night as one of its biggest names fell silent. the account of president donaldj trump, who is famous for daily tweets lambasting opponents, was closed for 11 minutes. the company said it was deliberately shut down by an employee on their last day at the company. o

these actions bring back memories of eric cantona's infamous kung fu kick at selhurst park in 1995.er he had been sent off. it led to a nine—month ban, still one of the longest in football. cantona would return to play for united but a former team—mate of evra believes his future is uncertain. from the fans' standpoint, and the ownership's, i think it is difficult to see him continue. he will most likely move on to a different club, different league, most likely i would say. evra can expect to receive an extended ban when uefa's disciplinary body meets to decide his case next week. with a champions league medal and several league titles to his name, the 36—year—old has enjoyed plenty of success and will hope this is not the final chapter. manchester united bossjose mourinho has appeared in a spanish court today to face tax fraud allegations relating to his time as manager of the spanish giants real madrid. he has been accused of owing nearly £2.9 million of undeclared image rights revenue. he emerged after a brief hearing at a court in the spanish capital madrid today and afterwards

so if you remember in 1995, eric cantona comfy kicked a fan in one british football for the most outrageousr, patrice evra, seems to have done something very similar, only this time to his own fans. marseille supporters were unhappy. there it was. with patrice evra's recent performances, they had cheered him for around half an hour. hejumped the advertising hoardings and things escalated for could now be facing a ban. he was a substitute in that match but was sent off before kick—off. we'll hear more from uefa on that. the manager said, patrice evra must learn to keep his cool. is david unsworth keeping his cool at everton 7 david unsworth keeping his cool at everton? hard for him not to panic. they were beaten 3—0 in lyon last night to go out of the ropiha league. three of those games have come under caretaker manager unsworth. —— the europa league. he 110w unsworth. —— the europa league. he now says the premier match with watford on sunday will be crucial for him and the club. arsenal are through to the last 32 thanks to a goalless draw against red star belgrade. you see on a friday morni

i don't think enough has been made -- jim: you should get eric cantona in here.ould love it. tom: as well.o it with you the fact is we back to a weakness on sterling, we are back to a 1992 weakness on sterling. what does that signal to you? jim: obviously the markets have already priced in a big discount, what economists would call a decline in the equilibrium value of the pound, sort of negative volatility shop because of brexit. what is also interesting is the margin, most of that weakness of trade weighted sterling has shown in the past year or so was in the early part, and in the past few months was up and down, not doing a great deal of nothing. that foreresting whatever reason, the markets adjust the price of the pound and now decided let's wait and see what comes next. i find that fact, despite the apparent chaotic nature of our ongoing brexit discussions, the pound itself has been actually pretty stable. tom: we will talk about brexit, i believe, in our next session. this is a year and a half on pre-brexit. what do you see is the state of the city in lond