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• Fifa to follow English FA's lead with universal sanction• Points deductions for clubs whose fans are serial offendersFifa is set to follow England's lead and bring in a mandatory five-match ban for players found guilty of racism, while also introducing points deductions for clubs where fans are serial offenders.The five-match ban is being proposed by Fifa's new task force on racism and, if agreed by the governing body of world football's congress next week, all 209 member countries will have to adopt the rule.The proposals have not been published but sources have confirmed they include a five-game ban for on-pitch racism.That is not as stringent as the 10-match sanction for European competitions agreed by Uefa's congress on Friday, but rules punishing racist abuse by fans will be stricter and include points deductions.Asked about the five-match ban, Fifa's task force chairman, Jeffrey Webb, said: "I can't speak about that yet. We're looking at making sure that is spread across the 209 member associations and, regardless of what Uefa does or Concacaf [the North American confederation] does, from a global standpoint, there must be certain minimum standards."It's time to make people accountable. It's points deduction, it's relegation, it's expulsion from competitions. Finally, we're having some action on this. This is something that's long overdue."Fifa must set the minimum standard and say: 'These are the sanctions', and if you infringe on this, these are the consequences. Our resolution will outline to them what we expect there to be from a minimum standpoint."Uefa's member associations agreed on sanctions for European matches at its congress in London. As well as a 10-match ban for players and officials, racism by fans will be punished by partial stadium closure for a first offence, with a full stadium closure for a second offence.Uefa's president, Michel Platini, said: "This is a great moment in our struggle against racism."FifaFootball politicsRace issuesguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

The 27-year-old has handed in his second transfer request in three seasons and is desperate to leave Old Trafford, but the former club official does not expect the striker to go Outgoing Manchester United chief executive David Gill expects Wayne Rooney to stay at the club. Rooney asked to leave United before Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement at the start of May and the striker is still determined to leave following the arrival of David Moyes. Some United fans booed Rooney when he collected his Premier League winner’s medal, and also when he boarded the bus for the club’s trophy parade around Manchester. But Sir Alex had insisted before his departure that Rooney would not be sold. And Gill, who has ended his 16-year professional association with the club in pursuit of other roles, expects the 27-year-old to stay put, despite interest from Chelsea and Arsenal. “I think as Alex said at his last press conference, that’s an issue for David Moyes and the new team to do, but look – I’m confident he’ll be there next season,” he told Sky Sports. “I think he’s a great great player, it’s a great great club and the club doesn’t want to lose its star players. “So I’m sure every bit of work is being taken with Wayne, his advisors and David and Ed [Woodward, Gill's replacement] etc to ensure that happens. “I’m not a betting man, but I’m confident when I sit in Old Trafford next season I’ll be seeing Wayne Rooney running out.”

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The 27-year-old says that his team-mates are looking forward to the imminent homecoming of the Portuguese coach, describing him as “one of the best” in the world Chelsea forward Demba Ba says that he and his team-mates are already excited about the prospect of Jose Mourinho returning to the club as successor to Rafa Benitez. The 50-year-old is on the verge of rejoining the Blues after sealing his departure from Real Madrid. Speaking after the club’s 4-3 friendly defeat to Manchester City, in which he scored the opener, Ba remarked that the Portuguese is a man who “wants to win”. “You see what he has won, what he has brought to his teams and to his players individually – and of course he is one of the best,” he told Sky Sports News. “He knows everything about Chelsea, having already managed the team for three or four years. He knows everybody here and he knows the club. “Everybody is thinking about it and everybody is happy. They know that he is a person that wants to win.”

Victory for the German champions would set the bar high for Pep Guardiola after the veteran coach felt he was forced outJupp Heynckes was irritated and who could blame him? Midway through the season, Bayern Munich had announced the manager's time would be up in the summer; that he would be replaced by the younger, better-looking and more talented Pep Guardiola, the very mention of whose name these days feels as though it needs to be prefaced by a drumroll. It certainly did on 16 January, when Bayern basked in their stunning coup.Heynckes's time in the game at large would also be up. After 50 years as a world-class, World Cup-winning West Germany striker and a pretty successful manager, the club said he would be retiring, which has become the thing to do in football this year.The 68-year-old was not cool about that aspect of the announcement. Bayern wanted to show he was not being pushed aside for Guardiola, the previously all-conquering Barcelona coach; that he was departing on his terms and at the end of his two-year contract. It was natural and organic. Heynckes, though, did not think it was Bayern's place to confirm officially what had been percolating in his thoughts for several months.What has happened since has given rise to two clear impressions. First, Heynckes is determined to bow out in a blaze of unprecedented glory. And second, he wants to make it fiendishly difficult for anybody, even Guardiola, to follow him. The Catalan may yet be primed to step into the impossible job.The notion will gather momentum if Heynckes can lead Bayern to victory in Saturday's all-German Champions League final against Borussia Dortmund at Wembley and then beat Stuttgart in the domestic cup final next Saturday. The Bundesliga title has long been secured; Bayern finished 25 points ahead of Dortmund in second. Bayern have never done the treble.It has been a breathtaking season for the club, in which they have rolled over opponents with the force of a juggernaut. Their league record bears printing in full and it demands a moment of awed reflection: P34 W29 D4 L1 GF98 GA18 PTS 91. Since the Guardiola announcement, they have been practically flawless.In 25 matches in all competitions, the only blots have been the 2-0 home defeat to Arsenal in the Champions League last 16 second-leg (they progressed on the away goals rule) and the 1-1 league draw at Dortmund on 4 May.Heynckes's finest hour, or hours, came in the 7-0 aggregate battering of Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final and the related shattering of the Guardiola-inspired mystique. His focus is now trained on Dortmund but the chance to shout his last hurrah in one or two faces makes for an intriguing sub-plot.From the outside looking in, it would appear that Heynckes has the ability to make life wonderful and a little awkward for Bayern.Heynckes wonders whether he has had the credit that he deserves this season and he has sought, on a couple of occasions, to talk himself up, which is out of character but motivated, perhaps, by an element of frustration.He said recently that none of the club's higher-ups knew who Javi Martínez was when the midfielder signed last summer for €37m. "Franz Beckenbauer [the honorary president] thought we were talking about a coffee brand," Heynckes said, while there has been friction with the club president, Uli Hoeness, and the sporting director, Matthias Sammer, who was appointed above him last summer.There has been so much to like about Heynckes this season, particularly the even-handed treatment and rotation of a squad containing huge personalities and which has the capacity to be difficult. If there is not wholesale devotion towards him in the dressing-room, there is admiration and respect.Heynckes has made tactical tweaks from last season, promoting greater organisation and more aggressive pressing, and they have helped the club to recover from what was a disastrous period. Runners-up in the league, cup and Champions League added up to failure.It