The French club has attacked the sports newspaper in the light of their investigations. Various French newspapers have released a statement supporting L'Equipe.

'Athletic, Athletic, club de limpia tradición...' That was the first anthem I knew of the old and beloved Athletic Club, 'world football's unique case', as L'Équipe once wrote.

The ten year duopoly on the Ballon d'Or has been broken by Modric, which is praise indeed for a model player who conducts the team from midfield.

Handel's "Zadok The Priest" will be heard all over the world as the group stage of the Champions League gets underway.

A. Relaño analyses the impact of the European Cup, started in 1955 before the Treaty of Rome was signed, to bring a broken Europe together