Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari walks off in protest over racial abuse in Serie A match

Pescara's Ghanaian midfielder Sulley Muntari walked off the pitch in protest during his side's Serie A match at Cagliari on Sunday after being booked for complaining to the referee about racist abuse from fans.

"They were chanting against me from the start," Muntari said.

"In the first half, I saw that there were some children in the group and so I turned to their parents and gave them my shirt, to set an example.

"The issue continued with another group of fans. I was reasoning with them, but the referee told me I had to let it go.

"That's when I got angry. Because instead of stopping the game, he decided to punish me."

Muntari told referee Daniele Minelli and his assistants several times about the chants from home fans in the final minute of Pescara's 1-0 defeat. The official then showed the former Ghana international midfielder a yellow card.

The 32-year-old Muntari was so angry with the booking that he walked off the pitch, leaving his side in 10 men for stoppage time.

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Mother and son lock horns in the battle for Bomet East Parliamentary seat In Kenya

 Since independence, the Bomet East parliamentary seat has alternated between the families of Kipkalya Kones and Isaac Salat. That cycle would be broken in 2013, with the entry of Bomet East MP Bernard Bett, who kicked the two families out into the political cold. But the coming August election has provided another chance for the family of former Cabinet minister Kones to revive its reign.

Two members of the family will be facing off in a competition that is turning out to be a family contest. Former Home Affairs assistant minister Beatrice Kones is locked in a heated race with her firstborn son, Kipng’etich Kalya. Beatrice, who won the Jubilee ticket on Tuesday, will now face off with Kipng’etich, who is vying on a Chama Cha Mashinani ticket. ALSO READ: Incumbent MPs lose out to newcomers and political greenhorns The seat has also attracted an independent candidate, Amos Rotich, but his quest has been overshadowed by the contest between mother and son. Political observers have proposed that the two family members negotiate and allow one of them to run against the independent candidate but the advice has proved futile.

 Mother and son are each determined to hold firm their quest to fight for the control of Kipkalya Kones’s reign and legacy in Bomet. Both are campaigning on the platform of being the former minister’s relative. “The two candidates, despite clinching their respective party tickets, are on the verge of committing political suicide,” said Robinson Tum, a political observer. 
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It had everything. Joshua showed us over those pulsating, thrilling rounds that there will be drama in his career, and that his powers of ­recovery are extraordinary. Heavyweight boxing is like no other sporting competition on earth. It is about knockouts, knockdowns and power. We got all three as two huge men, giant human beings and athletes, let their hands go. Neither man disappointed. 

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When the referee David Fields stepped in between them to rescue Klitschko at two minutes 25 seconds of the penultimate round, two judges had the London tyro ahead, the other Klitschko. It was headed to a close finish. Yet Joshua made it emphatic, after encountering demons himself. He will study those long and hard, and has said that a challenge like this would bring out the best in him. He was right. It did.

Felled in the sixth round himself by a long, long right hand through the middle from Klitschko which found its home and crumpled the Londoner – ­after he had downed the Ukrainian himself in the fifth – the 27-year-old came through almost nine horrid minutes when his body went missing, but when his head and his heart kept him in there.

You cannot teach that. This is the Joshua the public wanted to see.

Indeed, it is the Joshua that he wants to be. A fighter’s heart drove the Londoner on and on, and come the 11th round, with the vim back in his body and his head clear, Joshua did as he had promised and ‘‘unleashed hell’’, two left hooks poleaxing Klitschko as the young warrior, recovered, went hunting for the finish.