Tottenham Hotspur took the "unprecedented step" on Thursday of warning its fans "not to wear club colours when travelling to Moscow for the first meeting between teams from England and Russia since the brutal violence that marred the countries’ European Championship match." Spurs and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office both "issued formal travel advice to supporters ahead of the club’s Champions League trip to face CSKA Moscow on Tuesday." The secretary of the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust also urged fans attending the match to be “more vigilant” in light of the “awful” scenes in Marseille and Lille (London TELEGRAPH, 9/22).
NO RESPECT: Mercedes F1 Motorsport Dir Toto Wolff is "the latest F1 figure to lash out at the driving of Haas F1 Team's Esteban Gutierrez." Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton "infamously gave Gutierrez the middle-finger salute earlier this year, and Daniel Ricciardo has also criticized Gutierrez after trying to lap him." Wolff is "bashing the way the backmarker behaved when Nico Rosberg and Daniel Ricciardo were battling for the win in Singapore." He said, "Felipe (Massa) immediately got out of the way. But Esteban, who is a nice guy, just kept going and was happy that his gap to Felipe was increasing. I think Gutierrez always behaves like this when someone is trying to pass him" (AUTOWEEK, 9/21).
PRICEY TICKETS: The A-League match against Central Coast Mariners in Nelson on Saturday "will be the Wellington Phoenix's most expensive home game of the season but an organiser of the event has defended the pricier tickets." The most expensive adult ticket, a covered seat in the west stand at Trafalgar Park, costs A$45 ($34), which is A$14 ($10.50) "more than the most expensive ticket for a regular season A-League game at Westpac Stadium in Wellington." Trafalgar Events Dir Aldo Miccio said, "It's just purely to try to cover as much of the costs as possible" (STUFF, 9/22).
