Atlético fined for racist abuse

Club Atlético de Madrid

Norwich City FC midfield player David Bentley faces a lengthy lay-off after the 20-year-old sustained a knee injury during the FA Cup third-round defeat by West Ham United FC last weekend. Norwich manager Nigel Worthington said: "It's a severe tear of his medial knee ligament. He'll see a specialist today when the picture will become clearer, but it could be anything up to three months." Bentley is on a season-long loan from Arsenal FC.

Schalke 04's executive board - chairman Gerhard Rehberg, vice-chairman Josef Schnusenberg, manager Rudi Assauer, business manager Peter Panders and sporting director Andreas Müller - will remain in charge until September 2008 after the German club's supervisory board handed the officials new three-year contracts. "We are very pleased with the job they are doing and saw no reason to make changes," said chairman of the supervisory board, Clemens Tönnies.