While Luis Rubiales was found guilty of kissing Spain player Jenni Hermoso without her consent during the awards ceremony following the 2023 Women's World Cup final, Spain's High Court found him not guilty of coercion, Spanish and international media are reporting.

As Spain's players received their medals after defeating England in Sydney to win the final, Rubiales grabbed Hermoso by the head and kissed her on the lips.

The incident triggered protests and calls for Rubiales's resignation.

Rubiales was handing out medals as part of his role as the former chief of Spanish football.

Spain's former football federation boss Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of kissing player Jenni Hermoso without her consent and ordered to pay a fine of more than €10,000 (£8,275), Spain's High Court has ruled.

More to follow.

England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on England players being vocal: “I am absolutely very proud. It shows a lot about the togetherness that you are not alone and sharing these experiences within the team and then the wider world you can see people resonate with you. It’s really powerful.

"We have that platform because we are performing at the highest level. That is what I always say. If you perform at the highest level so much can come from that. We want to play football, the talent brings the team here but we want to enjoy it too.”

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Thanks Mo. An injury crisis meant Jurgen Klopp once started Lucas Leiva at centre-back in a League Cup final.

England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on selling out Wembley stadium: "We talk about development a lot of course and we have taken a lot of steps forward but we also need to take a lot more steps forward. I think that countries are all in different stages of their development but I think we're lucky we're still taking those steps.

"Portugal are in another stage of their development with finding out the stadiums. A good thing is that we sold out the stadium quite quickly, which is going to be full tomorrow and hopefully, that helps this country too when we play a good game and they can move forward, which is exciting as a whole for women's football."

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I have a theory. If all of Lukaku's moves had been free (or even just slightly cheaper) transfers, we'd be calling him one of the best in the business.

England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on who to expect to play in midfield: "We have been puzzling all of the time, over the last four friendly games of course, we wanted to see lots of players and combinations because we always think in scenarios of who's available and who's not available and who's performing at club level. We're watching games a lot, so we know what the next step could be, which we're trying out."

Ashley Young. A Premier League winner, Serie A winner, former PFA Young Player of the Year.

He's won the FA Cup and League Cup, too, and been relegated.

England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on calling up Lucy Parker: "We think she is a really talented player who has been unlucky with injuries. Despite those injuries with what we have seen we think she's one of the best ones to bring in."

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Fair play to him.

He must be getting so much flak right now.

And I'm glad Anon brought up Kai Havertz. Another player who has received a huge amount of criticism which, this season, has sadly often crossed the line.

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Darwin Nunez has posted on social media in the past half an hour.

"I wasn't the best three weeks ago, and I'm not the worst now. If I fall, I get up," the striker has written on X. , external

"You'll never see me give up. I'm going to give it my all until the last day I'm here in Liverpool.

"Resilience!"

England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on Chloe Kelly returning to the squad: "She impressed in her half an hour but she needed more game time but at the end of the day it's about the quality, which is what I should of probably expressed last week. Of course we know she brings quality and she's fit. And now with that injury [Beth Mead and [Lotte Wubben-Moy], I thought it would be good for the team, and of course her, to bring her in."

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England

England manager Sarina Wiegman on the the squad settling in: "It's really nice here. The pitch is very nice, and it's on-site, which makes it very close. There are a lot of different generations in the team but that isn't a new thing. I think that we had that last season too."

That's the last post on Arne Slot.

England manager Sarina Wiegman has been speaking to the media. We'll hear from her next. And afterwards, as promised, we'll focus on Villa for a bit.

Liverpool

Liverpool boss Arne Slot on substituting Trent Alexander-Arnold after the right-back had just scored: "We already spoke about this a week ago. With these five games he already knows how many minutes he would make. That was in a situation where Conor [Bradley] was available as well; now, maybe, we have to adjust our plan. But I said to him you know why I take you out don't you? And he said 'yeah, we spoke about it'.

"But of course, a player has adrenaline - and he'd just scored. It was a better moment than against Wolves when he lost the ball before I took him off, so he's improving!"