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The Fiver, the FA have moved to avert a potential flashpoint before Sunday's lunchtime kick-off between QPR and Chelsea by "suspending" the pointless but ritualistic pre-match handshake between the two teams.
In other very important news, as predicted in yesterday's super soaraway edition of our tea-timely newsletterWith Chelsea skipper John Terry set to appear in the dock in July to defend charges of using racist language against QPR centre-half Anton Ferdinand, any handshake (or snub) between the two men could have prejudiced the trial anyway, so this was the obvious course of action for the FA to take.
More on that Barcelona story: reports suggests that Pep Guardiola is set to announce his plan to step down as manager of Barcelona at a press conference scheduled for after training this morning, but apparently Barcelona suits are hopeful of persuading him to change his mind between now and then.
Despite having stated in the past that, in the event of leaving Camp Nou, he'll take a well-earned 12-month sabbatical from football, it is expected that Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will attempt to make the 41-year-old an offer he can't refuse in the hope of luring him to Stamford Bridge.
If Guardiola does vacate the managerial hotseat at Camp Nou, Athletic Bilbao's eccentric manager Marcelo Bielsa, the former Argentina and Chile boss who's masterminded Athletic Bilbao's massively entertaining romp to the Europa League final this season, is being tipped as his successor in some quarters.
BIG NEWS!!! Pepe Guardiola has announced that he will be stepping down as manager of Barcelona at the end of the season.
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