Panathinaikos secured a place in next season's Champions League by beating PAOK 2-0 in a Greek league playoff game Sunday.
Haris Mavrias and Nikos Karelis scored in the first half for Panathinaikos, which had another goal disallowed in the second half and was never seriously threatened.
In the other playoff game, Asteras beat Atromitos 1-0.
After four playoff rounds, Panathinaikos has 14 points, Asteras six, PAOK four and Atromitos two. Two more rounds remain, to be played next Wednesday and Sunday.
Panathinaikos will play in the Champions League qualifying round, while league Champion Olympiakos will start at the Group stage. The other three playoff participants will play in the Europa League.
Leicester City budding stars, including boss Nigel Pearson's son, were filmed taking part in a vile orgy in which a local girl was racially abused in Bangkok
It was supposed to be a Premier League club’s end-of-season tour to promote goodwill in the homeland of its proud Thai billionaire owners.
But three of Leicester City’s budding stars blew that apart with a vile orgy in which a local girl was racially abused soon after the team arrived in Bangkok.
As team boss Nigel Pearson prepared for a week of helping to cement relationships between the UK and Thailand and boosting his club’s growing Far East fan base, his defender son James, 21, and pals Tom Hopper, a striker, and goalkeeper Adam Smith, 22, had other ideas.
They were busy filming three Thai girls committing depraved sex acts with them in a hotel room.
The swaggering trio then shared the explicit videos with friends back in the UK in which one of the players can be heard calling a woman a “slit eye” while his mates snigger at the racist jibe.
The girls taking part in the orgy were also taunted as “minging” while the naked players – all on the fringe of Leicester’s first team – make other sickening comments about them too explicit to be printed here.
Concerned officials at Leicester City were made aware of the scandal.
It is bound to infuriate and embarrass father and son owners Vichai and Aiyawatt Srivaddhanaprabha who have ploughed millions into establishing the Midlands side as a Premier League outfit after taking over the club five years ago.
And it will shock fans still celebrating their team’s miracle survival in a nail-biting relegation battle.
One video begins with the three players stripped naked and cheering as they carry out sex acts with the women.
Hopper then appears to use a mobile phone to film them having group sex together. Laughing and doing a running commentary over the footage, he is heard saying: “Go on that love” before pouring out a string of abuse.
Afterwards the three watch the women indulging in lesbian sex acts.
Filming them amid laughter, one of the men is heard off-camera saying: “Come on ... you slit-eye.”
In another clip Hopper, 21, cruelly tells one of the women she is “f***ing minging… an absolute one out of 10”.
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Thai owner: Leicester City owner Vichai Raksriaksorn
Pearson or Smith is then heard off-camera shouting: “Oi Hops, I’ll swap you.” The video ends with Hopper and Pearson high-fiving each other as if celebrating a goal while romping with two of the women.
Days later, the video clips were shared by at least one of the players with friends in the UK who then passed them on.
The footage heaps shame on a club which has tried to take a strong stance against racism.
The players’ appalling antics with the Thai women could also damage the club’s “strategic, international partnership” with the Tourism Authority of Thailand which had been renewed for a third season.
Its Amazing Thailand branding has appeared on the back of team shirts for the last two years.
The club’s CEO Susan Whelan has said of the partnership: “We’re absolutely thrilled to continue to work with the Tourism Authority of Thailand.
“Their support in the last two years has been vital in helping us promote Leicester City to a Thai audience and in reaching our goals closer to home.
Shamed: Tom Hopper Leicester City Adam Smith (rear left)
“It is important to us that we are able to build on existing relationships we have developed with key sponsors.”
The Governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand, Thawatchai Arunyik, heaped glowing praise on the club at the time, saying: “The last two years working with Leicester City have been an amazing adventure, filled with aspiration, incredible people and some wonderful memories.
“We are very proud to be working with Leicester City and its supporters, who have embraced the Club’s increasingly strong association with Thailand and given the nation a Premier League club its people can take to their hearts.”
Since then, players, management and backroom staff have enjoyed adulation from the Thai public on official end-of-season visits designed to raise the club’s profile there.
Shamed: Leicester City's James Pearson
At the end of the Premier League season last week squad players shared a £5million bonus for avoiding the drop into the Championship.
Boss Pearson praised the team, saying: “I think the key thing for us, even in our darkest moments, and there have been a few, is that the players have continued to support each other and believe in their own ability.
“That’s difficult when people are questioning your integrity.”
Now the integrity of his son and pals Hopper and Smith – who have all been loaned to other clubs for some of last season – is under the microscope for other very different reasons.
A spokesman for Leicester City said the club would not be making any comment.
Holders Arsenal won the FA Cup for a record 12th time on Saturday, outclassing Aston Villa 4-0 at Wembley with stunning goals from Theo Walcott and Alexis Sanchez setting up their one-sided victory.
Per Mertesacker and Olivier Giroud were also on target, once the match was effectively over as a contest, as the Londoners sealed their biggest winning margin in a final of the world's oldest knockout competition.
Arsene Wenger also became the most successful FA Cup manager of modern times, guiding his side to a sixth triumph in their 19th final, another record.
Arsenal, who came from two goals down to beat Hull City 3-2 a year ago, were never in trouble against Villa and should have been ahead even before Walcott put them in front with a sizzling left-foot volley after 40 minutes.
Sanchez made it 2-0 against a hugely disappointing Villa, who hardly had a serious effort on goal, five minutes into the second half with a glorious dipping shot.
Mertesacker then converted a close-range header when he was left unmarked at a set-piece and Giroud, who came on as a late substitute, side-footed the ball home with the last kick of the game.
Arsenal's victory was cheered by Southampton fans as it means they will now take the last remaining place in next season's Europa League after finishing seventh in the Premier League.
Seven-times FA Cup winners Villa would have qualified for the Europa League with another victory.
REBUILDING JOB
However, all they have to look forward to now is a rebuilding job under new manager Tim Sherwood who saved them from relegation but could not mastermind their first FA Cup triumph since 1957.
Arsenal dominated the match as Villa fan Prince William looked on from the Royal Box.
The Gunners almost took the lead after 14 minutes but Villa's 39-year-old keeper Shay Given, who also played in the final for Newcastle United 17 years ago, made a brilliant save from a Laurent Koscielny header.
They went close again through Aaron Ramsey, last season's Wembley match-winner, and the midfielder had another chance to put Arsenal ahead with a shot that flew over the bar.
Walcott, preferred in the starting lineup to Giroud, justified Wenger's faith with the opening goal, an effort that gave Given no chance.
The keeper could also do little about Sanchez's superb strike as Arsenal retained the FA Cup for the second time in their history, after achieving back-to-back wins in 2002 and 2003.
They rounded off the season with a 12-0 goal advantage over Villa after beating them 3-0 and 5-0 in this season's Premier League matches.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic raised his game Saturday to overcome the challenge of rising Greek-Australian teenager Thanasi Kokkinakis, beating the 19 year old 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the Roland Garros fourth round.
Sydney FC discovered why England's just wild about Harry when Tottenham golden boy Harry Kane put the Sky Blues to the sword before a bumper crowd of over 71,500 at Sydney's ANZ Stadium on Saturday night.
Kane just can't seem to stop scoring, and the 21-year-old striker delivered the goods yet again with the only goal as Spurs downed Sydney FC 1-0 in front of a gate twice as big as they are used to at their White Hart Lane home in London.
Sydney FC saw for themselves why Kane, still fresh after a 31-goal season, is England's young player of the year and looms as his country's great white hope in front of goal.
After a procession of chances went begging and halftime approached, Kane made no mistake when prompted into the clear by teammate Erik Lamela.
It was one touch and bang as Kane fired a rasping, low drive past the outstretched hand of Ivan Necevski, ruining the Sydney FC goalkeeper and stand-in captain's farewell match after a club record eight-year stint.
Kane had also scored both goals in Tottenham's win in Malaysia on the way to Australia.
He came close to making it another double when fancy footwork won him the space for a shot that was cleared off the line by Sebastian Ryall.
Kane played almost the entire game before manager Mauricio Pochinetto substituted him after 84 minutes.
Until Kane struck the decisive blow, Spurs had promised plenty but delivered precious little.
Chance after chance went awry as Tottenham's big names misfired in front of goal.
Argentine midfielder Lamela headed over the bar, then failed with a fancy chip that looked more like a party trick.
Danish playmaker Christian Eriksen spurned a clear-cut chance when he ballooned the ball over the bar.
Kane himself tried an early drive that failed to test Necevski, then found his first touch missing when he got on the end of a through ball, and later fluffed his lines when he failed to connect cleanly with a low, hard cross.
But despite all the dominance, the best chance of the first half fell to Sydney FC striker Alex Brosque when a defensive mix-up gifted him an open run to goal.
He danced past goalkeeper Hugo Lloris but with the goal at his mercy fired a tame shot which allowed Belgian defender Jan Vertonghen to stick out his left leg and clear off the line.
The beaten A-League grand finalists face an even sterner test on Tuesday night when they take on newly crowned EPL champion Chelsea.
The 2022 World Cup will remain a 32 team competition with no change to the share between the regional confederations, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said Saturday after talks between football chiefs.
Europe and South America had feared an attempt to cut their places, but Blatter said: "there is no change."
The decision taken by FIFA's executive committee means that Europe will still have 13 places at the Qatar tournament and Africa five.
Asia and South America each get four places and a chance at a playoff. North and Central America get three places and a playoff chance while the Oceania winner enters a playoff.
Qatar will qualify automatically as the hosts.
UEFA chief Michel Platini had said ahead of the meeting that remaining at 13 places was a "red line" for the European confederation.
Prince Ali bin al Hussein, who challenged Blatter for the FIFA presidency, had proposed increasing the number of teams.
But Blatter said on Friday that the World Cup should "not be touched."
The FIFA executive also "confirmed" that the same continent cannot hold the World Cup twice in a row, which definitively ruled out a Chinese bid for 2026.
"In accordance with the FIFA Statutes ... member associations from the Asian Football Confederation would not be able to bid for 2026," said a FIFA statement.
China had expressed an interest in 2026 but its football leaders said the rule made a bid unlikely as Qatar will host the 2022 edition.
Wang Jianlin, one of China's richest men, who has a stake in Atletico Madrid and also owns the Infront sports promotion agency met with Blatter at the FIFA congress in Zurich this week.
World No. 3 Andy Murray was too good for rising Greek- Australian star Nick Kyrgios on Saturday, beating the 20-year-old Australian 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 to reach the Roland Garrosfourth round.
Murray showed his experience and guile in the much-billed third-round contest, taking advantage of an ailing Kyrgios – struggling with a right forearm injury – to prevail in just under two hours.
The 28-year-old Murray came into Roland Garros in the form of his life on clay, having won back-to-back titles in Munich – his first ATP title on the dirt – and Madrid, where he beat Rafael Nadal in the final.
The Scot has not lost a match since wedding long-time girlfriend Kim Sears on 11 April in Dunblane, compiling a 12-0 mark. Murray withdrew from his Rome third-round contest against David Goffin, citing fatigue.
Murray matched his best Roland Garros showing last year, when he reached the semi-finals (l. to Nadal). The right-hander is a winner of two Grand Slam championships, triumphing at the 2012 US Open and making history at Wimbledon 2013.
Kyrgios came into his first Roland Garros third-round match having not played a singles match since Monday. The Canberra native was given a walkover into the third round when Kyle Edmund withdrew ahead of their match on Thursday.
Last month, Kyrgios reached his first ATP World Tour final on the clay in Estoril, finishing runner-up to Richard Gasquet. The right-hander played his second Grand Slam quarter-final at the start of the year in Melbourne, losing to Murray.
A devastating second half from South Melbourne Hellas has led it to a 7-1 thrashing of cellar dweller North Geelong on Friday night.
Despite the absence of talismanic striker Milos Lujic, Hellas suffered no problems as it thrashed the hapless Warriors to move top of the ladder.
The hosts managed the best possible start as within three minutes the ball was in the Warriors' net after a Nicholas Epifano shot took a wicked deflection off Michael Grgic to wrongfoot Daniel Zilic in goals.
South Melbourne nearly doubled its lead just a minute later after Leigh Minopoulos' cross found Andy Brennan in the box, whose shot was kept out by Zilic.
Hellas controlled the possession and opportunities throughout the rest of the first half, but Zilic made a number of imperious saves to keeper the visitors in the match going into the break.
The flood gates were well and truly opened in the second half, as Minopoulos began the rout with a tap-in after an Epifano run and cross across goal.
Epifano once again proved the playmaker for the hosts as not long after setting up Minopoulos he put Brennan through clear on goal, with the attacker calmly finishing past the onrushing Zilic.
Two assists in 10 minutes wasn't enough for Epifano as once again his passing split the Warriors' backs, allowing for Andy Kecojevic to round the onrushing keeper and score in an empty net.
Epifano nearly had a goal himself after a quick break led to he and Minopoulos two-on-one with Zilic, but he somehow found himself offside after Minopoulos unselfishly passed him the ball inside the box which would have led to a tap-in into an open net.
However it wasn't long until South Melbourne righted that mistake as this time Minopoulos turned creator, playing Chris Irwin into the box who duly slid the ball for Hellas fifth and his first for the club.
The goals still did not abate as Minopoulos doubled his tally for the evening with just minutes left in the regular time as a cross from the right flank found him with an acre of space on the far post, with the striker bundling the ball into the back of the net.
Even North Geelong had its chance to get on the scoresheet after Gareth Richards was bundled over in the box and the penalty was given.
Matthew Townley duly stepped up to the spot and gave the visitors a consolation goal as his shot ricocheted off the inside of the post and into the net.
The final kick of the night was appropriately another goal to South Melbourne Hellas , as Iqbal Jawadi picked up the ball on the edge of the area with his left-footed shot blindsighting Zilic and creeping into the far corner to rapturous applause from the crowd.
