Updates from the 8pm GMT kick-off in ParisLive scores | Sign up for Football Daily | Email MichaelFor clarity, PSG’s big-money €70m signing Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, is not cup tied. Napoli are not in any European competitions this season, which might be a factor in why they are currently top of Serie A. However, Kvaratskhelia is ineligible for PSG tonight because he wasn’t registered for the league phase back in September (because he was only bought this month). The Georgian can, however, be registered for the knock-out stage of the Champions League, should PSG make it.Our clockwatch is live, covering the following matches that also kick-off at 8pm GMT: Continue reading...

Updates from Wednesday’s big European gamesLive scoreboard | Sign up for Football Daily | Email SimonInto the last 10 minutes of the two early games, and the home sides have both scored two and lead. Sporting equalised at Leipzig in the 75th minute and fell behind again in the 78th:RB Leipzig 2-1 Sporting Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 BrestMusic is very much part of our culture. We have music in a lot of different places, and I think music has the capacity to change your mood, to change your energy to a certain place. And I think it happens in all of us. You play a song and immediately you feel different, and we have certain songs that trigger something in our team because they have some history as well with us, and I will use it when we believe it’s the right way to do it. I have a lot, depending on the day, that’s what I’m saying. It’s not about my energy, and sometimes I play a song many, many times. I don’t know, it’s a feeling.That is something that we’ve done for many years now and it is part of training. We use music as another element of our training sessions to build the energy and change certain purposes that we want in the training session, and I think the players enjoy it. Depending on the day, sometimes certain players pick certain songs - the first song, the first two songs, the last song - it’s the same as in the dressing room really. Continue reading...

British former world champion runs out at foggy Fiorano‘I couldn’t be happier to realise dream of racing in red’Lewis Hamilton described his maiden drive in a Ferrari car as one of the best feelings of his life after he realised a childhood dream by completing his first laps for the Italian team. Hamilton, who turned 40 earlier this month, left his garage at Ferrari’s private test circuit in Fiorano in foggy conditions before posting 30 laps.The seven-time world champion, who will earn in excess of £100m across his new two-year deal with the Italian giants, tested a 2023 Ferrari – the latest model he is allowed to use. Continue reading...

Félix ‘the Cat’ Bingui due to appear in Marseille court on multiple charges including money launderingOne of France’s most wanted suspected drug traffickers was due in court in Marseille after his extradition from Morocco.Félix Bingui, known as “the Cat” and reportedly head of the notorious Yoda clan, was arrested in Casablanca last March. Continue reading...

Top 32 clubs vote in favour of ending use of VARNorway may join Sweden in resisting use of technologyNorway is on the verge of abolishing VAR from its domestic league after clubs in the country’s top two divisions formally recommended that it should be discontinued.The decision by clubs in Norsk Topfotball, which represents the 32 sides in Norway’s Eliteserien and first division, marks the most significant step yet in a fierce debate over VAR’s future in the country. Now Norway is one step from joining Sweden, which has resisted introducing the deeply controversial technology so far, in staging games without its intervention. Continue reading...