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The Fenerbahce manager was accused by Galatasaray of making racist statements after Monday’s Istanbul derby and, on Tuesday, the Portuguese’s Turkish club released a statement saying his comments had been taken “completely taken out of context”.

On Friday, Fenerbahce said Mourinho was filing a 1,907,000 Turkish Lira lawsuit, through the club’s lawyers, against Galatasaray “due to the attack on the personal rights” of the Portuguese coach. rewrite this story for me to be good and a sensational headline.

The amount – which is worth around £41,000 – is symbolic as 1907 is the year Fenerbahce Sports Club was founded.

Speaking in the news conference after Monday’s 0-0 draw, Mourinho said the home bench had been “jumping like monkeys” and also repeated his criticism of Turkish referees, saying it would have been a “disaster” to use an official from the country. The match was refereed by Slovenian Slavko Vincic after both clubs requested a foreign official take charge of the fixture

On Thursday, Mourinho was banned for four games and fined a total of £35,194 by the Turkish Football Federation for two separate disciplinary matters.

The TFF said it was penalizing him for “his derogatory and offensive statements towards the Turkish referee” and because he “accused Turkish football of chaos and disorder with insulting and offensive statements towards both the Turkish football community and all Turkish referees”. His comments included him saying that “after the big dive in the first minute and their bench jumping like monkeys on the top of the kid… with a Turkish referee you would have a yellow card after one minute and after five minutes I would have to change [substitute] him”.

The TFF said “the statements used towards the members of the opposing team were contrary to the ethics of sports and the concept of fair play, contained expressions that could encourage violence and disorder in sports, were divisive and separatist in society and could cause fan incidents”.

Ballon d’Or winner Rodri has returned to training at Manchester City.

The midfielder completed an individual on-pitch workout at the club’s Etihad Campus on Friday.

Spain international Rodri, 28, has been out of action since September after suffering a serious knee injury, a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

In his absence, last season’s champions have slipped 20 points behind leaders Liverpool in the Premier League and been knocked out of the Champions League.

The club released footage on Friday that showed Rodri completing a series of drills on the first team’s training pitches.

Manager Pep Guardiola has tried to play down hopes that Rodri could be set for a return to action soon.

Speaking recently, Guardiola said: “[The] most important [thing] for Rodri now is to recover well. “It’s going really well and he feels really good, but step by step we will see.” Rodri was included in City’s Champions League squad in early February, although City were subsequently eliminated by Real Madrid in the play-off stage.

With Celtics fans in a frenzy throughout TD Garden after the Boston Celtics blitzed to a 25-3 lead over the Cavaliers in the final matchup of Eastern Conference frontrunners, Cleveland star Donovan Mitchell didn’t panic.

He actually was in a calm place.

“Everything that could have possibly went wrong, went wrong. At that point, you could only go up from there,” Mitchell said after posting his first 40-point game this season. “That’s been our challenge all year. How do you respond? And we did.”

What followed was three quarters of frenetic basketball that concluded with 41 points by Mitchell and a breakout night by teammate Evan Mobley that added up to a 123-116 win and a ninth straight victory by the Cavs team that earned a season split with a Celtics team they could very well see in the playoffs. The Celtics led throughout before the Cavaliers settled in and took their first lead of the game, 104-101 in the fourth quarter. Cleveland stretched its lead to 114-110 when the Celtics got back-to-back stops, each followed by buckets by Jaylen Brown to tie the game. Mitchell scored on a floater to put the Cavaliers back in front. Then, following a miss by Brown on Boston’s next possession, Mitchell hit a driving layup and was fouled. He completed the three-point play to put the Cavs in front 119-114 with 1:57 remaining.