Ex-England footballer Adam Johnson has been found guilty of one count of sexual activity with a girl aged 15. The jury at Bradford Crown Court found Johnson guilty of a charge of sexual touching, but not guilty on a charge relating to another sexual act. The former Sunderland player had previously admitted grooming the girl and one charge of sexual activity. Judge Jonathan Rose has warned Johnson he faces jail and told him to “say goodbye to your daughter”. In a statement, Johnson’s victim said she had been through the “hardest year” of her life. She said meeting her hero felt “surreal” at first but she now feels “used and let down” by Johnson. She said: “I have had to face so much abuse after he claimed his innocence and I was made out to be a liar. “What happened in his car has turned my life upside down. “There are people who have made assumptions about me and this has been hard to deal with… Him being found guilty shows everyone I was telling the truth.”

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European soccer’s ruling body UEFA has banned Galatasaray from European competition for one year over its failure in following financial fair play regulations, UEFA said in January that the club had failed to comply with its rules governing the permitted level of financial losses, paving the way for a potential ban from its Club Financial Control Body (CFCB). The Turkish club has also been ordered to limit the overall aggregate cost of the employee benefits expenses of all of its players'” for the financial years 2016 and 2017, UEFA said. Galatasaray will be excluded from the Champions League or Europa League if it qualifies either this season or next. The club must also control its wage bill. Galatasaray say club directors are meeting and examining the text of the decision before issuing a statement later today.

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 $2m disloyal payment to Platini. 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.”

Tuesday 1 March, 2016:

Aston Villa 1 – 3 Everton

Bournemouth 2 – 0 Southampton

Leicester 2 – 2 West Brom

Norwich 1 – 2 Chelsea

Sunderland  2 – 2 Crystal Palace