Hall call for Fash
JUSTIN FASHANU was yesterday inducted into the National Football Museum’s Hall of Fame.
The award was received on the late striker’s behalf by his niece Amal (inset).
Fashanu was the first English pro to come out as gay while still playing, back in 1990. He took his own life in 1998 and would have been 59 yesterday. Amal campaigns against homophobia in sport and is a cofounder of The Justin Fashanu Foundation.
She said: “It’s unfortunate that we are still discussing discrimination in football in 2020.” (right)
THE only consolation for Jose Mourinho is it could – and probably should – have been all over.
His Tottenham side were outplayed, outfought and outclassed and the only wonder is how Red Bull Leipzig did not win more comfortably.
Instead, this result is not the end of the world and not the end of the tie with the second leg to come in the Red Bull Arena on March 10.
But what is certain is that Mourinho will have to roll back the years, produce one of his old school Champions League masterclasses to outwit Julian Nagelsmann.
This was the managerial great against the young upstart and it was Nagelsmann who came out on top because, but for some brilliant saves from Hugo Lloris and wasteful finishing, it could have been three or four and game over.
But do injury-hit Spurs have the firepower to score away from home? Mourinho from JOHN CROSS had warned that Tottenham’s mounting injury crisis has left them dangling from a balcony – and now their Champions League hopes are hanging by a thread.
Red Bull Leipzig were so fast out of the blocks you wondered if their energy drink sponsor had given the players a few cans.
For a team making their first appearance in the knockout stages, the last thing they looked was intimidated.
Mourinho was taking charge of his 150th Champions League game, he has won it twice. His rival boss Nagelsmann, at 32, became the youngest manager to take charge of a knockout game. His Leipzig