Weekend, the outbursts of ray racism, and begin having to be stopped by the referee, it was actually affecting the whole of the netherlands. The reactions and politics, worldwide, in this country have been huge. The reactions of the players of the Dutch National team and the highest level of dutch professional football to take a strong stance against racism. But may be to make it so strong, it will never happen again. Lets take a look at the rest of the days sports news making the headlines. Tommy fleetwood has put himself in a good position to win the race to dubai. Hes fourth at the season ending world tour championship, and will be crowned europes top golfer if he finishes outright third and Bernd Wiesberger is outside the top two. The austrians currently 14th. Granit xhaka could return to the arsenal side this weekend, despite saying he wasnt sure if he would play for the club again. Xhaka was stripped of the captaincy after an angry confrontation with fans during a match against crystal palace. Manager unai emery says hell decide on friday. Great britains four man Bobsleigh Team will receive their bronze medal from the sochi 2014 olympic winter games later tonight. Jothackson, bruce tasker, Stuart Benson and joel fearon finished in fifth but have been promoted to third after two crews were disqualified. Most professional sportspeople have to put aside their international rivalries to play with their club team mates from countries all around the world, but how difficult is that when theyve won the highest honour in the sport and they did it by beating you . Well, thats whats happened at sale sharks because South African faf de klerk won gold at the Rugby World Cup after beating england in the final. A match that was heartbreaking for england and sale sharks tom curry. I asked what it was like when they saw each other for the first time after south africas win. Just getting ready for tuesday the Tuesday Morning meeting. To be fair, idid not Tuesday Morning meeting. To be fair, i did not think he was around. I thought he would be celebrating. Just got a little on my right shoulder, and i looked down, there isa shoulder, and i looked down, there is a gold medal. And a hello. At a hello. You walked in, did not say a word, first thing you did was put your gold medal on the shoulder stop loop i wanted to come in with it around my neck, but i felt that was around my neck, but i felt that was a bit cocky. I think the guys enjoyed it. Ithought a bit cocky. I think the guys enjoyed it. I thought that was my sort of showing my happiness towards it to done and got focusing on this week. We have to talk about the final because it was just so much hype around it and because england had played so well in the semifinal against new zealand, the book he said england as favourites. And then for south africa to come and play as magnificently as they did, it was such an incredible match. Obviously more so such an incredible match. Obviously more so for you. Can you talk me through your emotions leading up to that final . Like you said, england robison the favourites. It was good to bea robison the favourites. It was good to be a tough task for us. On the day, the guys were really focused on their task and we stuck to our plan and, yeah, i think we just played one of the perfect games on the day. At one point committed to a view squared up to each other. At one point, the two of you squared up to each other. Just a little push, and immediately, he smiled at me. Hes got under my skin now youve got a habit of doing that to bigger players, dont you . Any player, basically. A bit of fun. I think you get stuck into each other in its your blood pumping. Enjoy that part of it. You have enjoyed quite a lot of it. You have enjoyed quite a lot of it. You have enjoyed quite a lot of it. Some of your international collea g u es of it. Some of your International Colleagues are still celebrating. You have had to come back to play again. There is of intensive photograph of you celebrating in the cheney rooms afterwards. Do you want to talk me through that . What youre wearing . There is a lot of stuff going on and im not with the charade came from. There were two or three camera people, but i thought it wasjust for us, three camera people, but i thought it was just for us, and then the world cup. I was like, listen, we need to drink out of this thing. I think a few margins were shared out of it. What you were wearing at the time . Just this speedo i always wear when i play for the springboks. Most of us do. Notjust you . Just for comfort. But its personally very interesting because in south africa, is part Health Awareness for men. Health, and he got in touch with me and we wanted to do something for testicular cancer. To create something positive from it, its early special, and i think it is doing quite a lot with the challenge. I was going to say, may bea challenge. I was going to say, may be a slight difference in temperature. As we mentioned, you are both back. We had eddie jones not that long ago. He said he was very concerned with what happened with saracens, with their point reduction, because he felt there might be problems with relationships whenever one comes back into england camper. Do you see it being any difficulty . What has been your reaction . Not at all. I think that issue is at much higher stages than us as players. Everyone accepts the news on this with everyone. Everyone was honest. You just get on with it. At the end of the day, we are players, we have a common goal of winning and we just move on. Especially this england team, its really truly so together in tight, especially after this world cup, it was, yeah, you just move on. Its at stages higher than us. Nice to see their friends again well, staying with rugby and what does the sport and horses have in common . Yes, you heard me right horses. Well, according to harlequins joe marler, they are intrinsically linked. Have a listen to what he said when asked how quins are preparing for their match against bath this weekend, after losing to Clermont Auvergne last time out. We got another week to get back on the horse and take that horse to the. And you can ask that horse, do you want to have a drink or do you want to swim . Is up to that horse to then realise what he wants to do in his life. And that horse at the moment wants to go out on saturday, once to go to the stoop and wants to say hello to those fans, and he goes, im sorry about the result last week but im going to get a better performance here at home against bath he is a slightly irish horse were looking forward to, as irish horse were looking forward to, as i say, getting back on that horse. An area looking forward to getting back on that horse . horse. An area looking forward to getting back on that horse . I do like horses. I dont write. Right, harlequins have to get a talking irish horse ahead of that match now. American football is becoming more and more popular on this side of the atlantic so much so, the nfl has opened its First Academy in britain. Students can combine their education with intensive training in american football under full time, professional coaches as Miriam Walker khan reports. Three time super bowl winnerjerry rice, not exactly you might expect to bump into in north london. As an ambassadorfor the to bump into in north london. As an ambassador for the new nfl academy, he is settling injust ambassador for the new nfl academy, he is settling in just fine. It keeps me locked into football, feeling that energy of being able to pass that knowledge on. This is something that you are not used to, but with the right coach, maybe they can put them in a position where they can be successful. So is important to get these kids on board. And jerry is not the only ambassadorfor thejoins board. And jerry is not the only ambassador for the joins Odell Beckham jr, ambassador for the joins odell beckhaer, juju ambassador for the joins Odell Beckham jr, juju smith schuster, and harry kane. But its not all about the football for some the fl want to combine training on the field with education off its stability classes in everything from Financial Literacy to social media and even Domestic Violence awareness. We know that students can come in, get exit routes into university to study lawful stop if you can improve them as people, and citizens, and local residents, we are doing ourjob stopping over a thousand people applied to be in the academy and after a series of trials any summer, became just after a series of trials any summer, becamejust 90. After a series of trials any summer, became just 90. One of those. was running around screaming my head off. I was so happy. I had to decision to go to uni this year or the academy, and obvious that i picked the academy. Tony allen has coached and scouted for the nfl all over europe for decades. Is a tough environment. It really is. Theyve got to maintain the academics. If you do not maintain your academics oi you do not maintain your academics or urology classically dont practice. There is a handful hill that has got a good chance of making it. The aim is to get more players from the uk into the american couege from the uk into the American College system and eventually the nfl draft. They know it is big. And theyre looking for to being that stage. Hopefully one of these diamonds in the rough can make it to the nfl and i can look back on this and say, you know what . He was part of the nfl academy. And who knows . Maybe one of those kids can be the nextjerry rice. Miriam walker khan, bbc news. What a great opportunity. Thats all from sportsday. Well have more throughout the evening. Of course, theres more support on the bbc sport website. But for now, bye bye. Hello there. For many of us, thursday was a pretty cloudy day. There were some places that sought little bit of sunshine peeking through. We had a few brighter moments in the Scottish Borders for a time. But the picture shows the extent of todays cloud. This is thicker cloud has been bringing outbreaks of rain through the afternoon. But following that, we are seeing shower because being to move in. This evening and overnight and thats only to be pushing northwards. A band of rain moving across england and wales, into Northern Ireland by the end of the night. Following those shower clouds, the clouds heavy. A cloudy night, a frost free night for many of us, the exception if we have a lengthy clear spell. Tomorrow, another cloudy day. Showers will push northwards initially but then we will see a zone of rain develop across southern counties of england before swinging across into wales and southwest england. The rain becomes heavier, quite slow moving as we go through the afternoon. The winds are going to be a bit stronger tomorrow. I dont know if it is going to feel quite as cold. Through friday night, rain just continues to pour down. Saturday cloudy, wet, turning a bit milder. Sunday, a quieter weather day. Rain returns later in the day to wales and southwest england. The weekend in more detail. Saturday, rain. Northern scotland perhaps staying dry. It turns a little bit milder, temperatures reaching a high of ii celsius but, of course, rain is the last thing we need given the ground continues to be completely saturated. Saturday night, heavy rain extended to eastern areas of scotland. That will then slowly clearly. Otherwise, a lot of cloud takes us into sunday. A few passing showers. May be a bit of sunshine for a time. Later in the afternoon, a zone of rain returns to wales and southwest england. It does, however, turn at least a bit milderfor a time. Temperatures up to ii or 12 degrees. This is beyond 100 days. Another day of public hearings and the impeachment inquiry, president trump, former top adviser on a short one is that the gops fictional narrative on ukraine is wrong. Diplomat david holmes is that ukraines levels of pressure from russia today. Fiona hill says that the theory of ukraines election interference only helps the russians. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian Security services themselves. Mentor burnett is indicted on corruption charges, he has just burnett is indicted on corruption charges, he hasjust hit burnett is indicted on corruption charges, he has just hit back saying that they were not after the trip, they were after