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Wolfsburg have apologised after a flare thrown by their fans hit the Hannover bench before a Bundesliga match last night.

Bild, external reported that a team doctor, physio and reserve goalkeeper were on the bench but escaped injury.

Kick-off was briefly delayed before visitors Wolfsburg won 4-0 with Andre Schurrle scoring a hat-trick

"We condemn the scenes before kick-off," said, external Wolfsburg sports director Klaus Allofs. "I apologise to the Hanoverians that they have been put at risk."

Some early comments on our talking point. We want to know when your club hit rock bottom.

Benjamin Lawrence:, external Leeds seem to keep redefining rock bottom. Every time we think we're there, it then gets worse with no happy ending in sight.

Matt:, external Hereford Utd died in the High Court on the 19th Dec 2014. That is rock bottom.

Rachel Armitage:, external May 4th 2013. Wolves became the first club to suffer a double dip relegation, twice. That was a dark dark day. 

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Fabio Borini struck a stunning late leveller against Crystal Palace to lift Sunderland out of the bottom three.

Dame N'Doye's deflected first-half effort had put the hosts in front.

Connor Wickham scored twice in six second-half minutes against his former club to put Palace on course for a first league win in 11 games.

But substitute Borini's injury-time effort from an almost impossible angle rescued a point for Sam Allardyce's side and moved them up to 17th.

Sussex have signed rising star Mustafizur Rahman for this summer's limited-overs competitions.

Bangladeshi left-arm seamer Rahman will be available for the whole of the Sharks' NatWest T20 Blast campaign, following his Indian Premier League stint with Sunrisers Hyderabad.

2004: Ken Bates stood down as Chelsea chairman after 22 years at the club.

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A decision is set to made about double Olympic cycling champion Victoria Pendleton riding at jump-racing's Cheltenham Festival in two week's time after she competes at Wincanton today.

Pendleton, who'll partner Pacha Du Polder this afternoon, fell from the horse in a race at Fakenham last month, and her possible participation in the Cheltenham Foxhunters Chase has split opinion within the sport.

It's a Tottenham-themed day for birthdays

Mauricio Pochettino - Current manager of Tottenham and former Argentina international, born in 1972.

Toby Alderweireld - Tottenham and Belgium defender, born in 1989.

Harry Redknapp - Former QPR, Tottenham, Portsmouth and West Ham manager, born in 1947.

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Aston Villa boss Remi Garde says he is "concentrating on my job" after supporters walked out during the 3-1 home loss to Everton.

Aston Villa fan Mark Bricknell - organisers of last night's protest at Villa Park - has told BBC Radio 5 live why fans took the action they did

“We can't say we're happy to be having to do this," he said.

"This has been coming for six years. The club have failed to halt what supporters have seen coming and it's down to total incompetence from the owner.

"The one constant has been the owner over the last six years.”

So Pat Murphy did not mince his words when describing Aston Villa.

And that got us thinking for our talking point for today. So we want to know...

When and how did your club hit rock bottom? What has been your club's worst moment?

Was it back-to-back relegations, selling your star striker, or getting hammered by your nearest rivals?

Tweet us using #bbcsportsday or write on the Match of the Day Facebook page, external and we will post the best message on this page throughout the day.

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The mood is turning ugly. The crowd were chanting 'from European nights to relegation fights - we want Lerner out'. A few fans were pointing fingers at chief executive Tom Fox in the directors' box.

There were hundreds of fans streaming out of Villa Park. There were a lot of people who have paid a lot of money walking out. The Villa fans voted with their feet. I haven't seen anything like this before at Villa.

I remember the demonstrations against Doug Ellis, but he must seem a great chairman in retrospect. This is the worst team I've seen in 41 years of reporting on Villa, simple as that.

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Bottom club Aston Villa were well beaten by Everton as home supporters walked out in protest at American owner Randy Lerner.

Fans headed for the exits in the 74th minute - Villa were formed in 1874 - with their side trailing 3-0.

Ramiro Funes Mori gave Everton the lead by meeting Kevin Mirallas' corner before Aaron Lennon's close-range finish doubled their lead.

Romelu Lukaku made it 3-0 before Rudy Gestede headed a consolation for Villa. The result leaves the home side eight points from safety with 10 games left. Match report here.  

A statement released by the Court of Arbitration in the last few minutes read: "In appealing to the CAS, Michel Platini seeks to annul the decisions taken by the Adjudicatory Chamber of the Fifa Ethics Committee and by the Fifa Appeal Committee which lead to him being declared ineligible to take part in football-related activity at national and international level for six years.

"A CAS arbitration procedure is (now) in progress."

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Michel Platini has announced he will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his ban from football.

Suspended Uefa boss Michel Platini - and outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter - had their bans from all football-related activities upheld at a hearing last week.

But the suspensions were reduced from eight to six years by Fifa's appeals committee.

Both were found guilty of breaches surrounding a £1.3m ($2m) "disloyal payment" to Platini.

Some early morning listening for you..

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West Brom manager Tony Pulis: "Leicester are a good side. They ask questions of you.

"It's another point on the way for us. It's important for us to get to 40 points and we are happy with the way things are going. We need the hunger and desire to get to 40 points. We should have kept the ball better tonight. I'm really pleased with the players though.

"I'd love to see Leicester win the title."

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Claudio Ranieri: "I am very pleased with our performance. They played so well - there was no panic after the first goal. We played much better than against Norwich.

"I am satisfied with the performance. Just sometimes you can do everything but the ball doesn't want to go in.

"We tried to do everything and well done to my players. We never, never give up. We always try the best in every situation.

"Every team plays football and we have to find the solution and try to win. It is important not to lose the match too as they could have counter-attacked."