Well, here's a cautionary tale, should Umbro ever take it upon themselves to follow through the increasing amounts of red on England shirts to its logical conclusion. A Turkish lawyer is planning on suing Internazionale for wearing a shirt with a red cross on the front of it. It seems pretty straightforward to me that the man is either desperately seeking publicity or is mad. Let it go, man! The Crusades were 900 years ago! Still, on a relatively slow news day, it gives the likes of me something to talk about.

Elsewhere, if you actually did want to see something that could be deemed as offensive, you could do a lot worse than check out Watford manager Adrian Boothroyd's comments over the apparently imminent deportation of Alhassan Bangura back to Sierra Leone. The young striker was The Hornet's Young Player Of The Year last season and, at nineteen years old, had (or, with a bit of luck, may still have) a bright future ahead of him before the Immigration Service stepped in. I can only say that Mr Boothroyd may wish to dwell upon the fact that it is precisely this sort of thing:

"This country, great as it once was, seems to allow anybody in to send benefits wherever they fancy and we have one young man here who pays his taxes, has a fiancee and a newborn son and somebody somewhere thinks it's a good decision to send him back to Sierra Leone. It's ridiculous."

That is the reason behind Britain's absurdly cruel laws on immigration. I wish Bangura all the luck in the world with his application, but at least the system can't be accused of "political correctness gone mad". This is a case of "Daily Mail politics seen through to its logical conclusion".

This week's FA Cup Second Round replays, meanwhile, threw up a couple of interesting results in the week. It's all over for Horsham, though the Ryman League Premier Division side did take the lead twice before losing 6-2 to Swansea City, The Swans, who lead League One, are at home against Conference South side Havant & Waterlooville in the Third Round. Luton Town, who recently plummeted to the bottom of the League One table after going into administration, might just have been handed a lifeline to secure their short-term future. They beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 at Kenilworth Road on Tuesday night, and are now at home to Liverpool in a Third Round that will be televised live. The money that this match will bring in should help to ensure that they survive at least until the end of the season. Two years ago, you may remember, Luton and Liverpool played out one of the most memorable FA Cup matches of recent times when Liverpool came from 3-0 down to beat Luton 5-3 in the Third Round. It's probably asking too much to expect such excitement again. Finally, congratulations to Chasetown, of the (deep breath) British Gas Business League Division One Midlands, who beat Port Vale 1-0 in their replay to set up a Third Round tie against Cardiff City.

Last but not least, the FIFA Club World Cup has its two finalists - Milan beat Urawa Red Diamonds 1-0 today, with Kaka setting up the only goal of the match for Clarence Seedorf, of all people. Milan play Boca Juniors on Sunday, with Urawa Red Diamonds playing Etoile Sportive Du Sahel in the Bronze Medal match just before them. Here are some brief highlights.

They might not be the most famous club in the world - that dubious honour probably lies with Real Madrid, Barcelona or Manchester United - but they are one of the most successful club sides in the history of the game. They are a football juggernaut, with a hint of controversy about them and a record both at home and in Europe and at home that is second to none. Now, for the first time, they have touched down in Japan for the FIFA Club World Cup. Can Milan become the world champions? I'll come on to that in a minute, but first of all, a quick history lesson.

The one curio about Milan that every schoolboy knows is the one about their name. Founded by an Englishman, they chose to keep the English spelling of their name, rather than changing it to the Italian spelling of "Milano". In spite of this, the club' name is pronounced differently in Italian as "Mee-lan", rather than simply knocking the 'o' off the end of "Milano", which would leave it pronounced the same as it is in English. Traditionally they are the working class Milan team, with Internazionale (who, as every schoolboy knows, should always just be known as "Inter" - there's no such club as "Inter Milan" in Italian) drawing their support from the city's more affluent areas, though this distinction has become more blurred in modern times.

On the pitch, they've won seventeen Serie A titles and seven European Cups, but the club have been tainted by the stench of corruption as well. In 1980, Milan and Lazio were found guilty of match-fixing in the "Totonero" scandal, which saw over fifty people receiving bans from the game, the most famous of which, Paolo Rossi, had his three year ban commuted by a year and then went on to score six goals in the 1982 World Cup. In 2006, they were found guilty of involvement in the Serie A match-fixing scandal which saw big clubs selecting favourable referees for matches. Initially docked fifteen points and banned from Europe for a year, they had this commuted to an eight point deduction and were allowed into Europe for the 2006-07 season. Making a complete mockery of their involvement, they went on to win the competition.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was more controversy in their run to last year's European Cup final. They won through their group stage relatively comfortably, but were taken to extra-time in the Round Of Sixteen by Celtic, scoring an extra-time goal to set up a quarter-final against Bayern Munich. They looked done for after a mediocre performance in getting a 2-2 draw at home in the first leg, but the Germans froze in the return leg at the Allianz Arena, and Milan won 2-0 to set up a semi-final against Manchester United. Starting as underdogs, they lost 3-2 in the first leg at Old Trafford, but strolled to a Kaka-inspired 3-0 win in return leg to set up a final against Liverpool in Athens, and sparing us all from a Manchester United vs Liverpool at the same time. Two goals from Filippo Inzaghi gave them a 2-1 win against Liverpool.

This season has been a disaster so far for Milan. They won an easy Champions League group with ease, but they are currently sitting in tenth place in Serie A, their lowest position for years, and are without a home win in the league all season. There have been persistent rumours about Ronaldo's fitness and their failings on the pitch have been magnified by Inter having won the last two Serie A titles and being five points clear again this season. It's not an overstatement to say that winning the FIFA Club World Cup would be papering over the cracks of what has been a poor season for them so far.

After my hagiography about them last night, Boca Juniors made a dog's dinner of beating Etoile Sportive De Sahel. You can see brief highlights here. 

On the pitch, since the formation of the J-League, they have had mixed fortunes. They were founder members of the league in 1993, but finished bottom of it for its first two seasons. As recently as 1999, they were relegated from the J-League, though they made a swift return to it the following season. They won the J-League for the first time in 2006. It was in 2006 that they held Manchester United to a draw, and they also beat Bayern Munich (with whom they have one of those "partnership" deals that look suspiciously like some sort of commercial imperialism to me) 1-0 in the same pre-season tournament. Last season, they were involved in an extraordinary finish to the J-League. With four matches to play, Urawa were seven points clear at the top of the table, but they failed to win any of their remaining matches of the season. On the penultimate day of the season, they lost 1-0 to Kashima Antlers, who won in spite of having two players sent off. This still meant that they would hang onto the 2007 title by their fingernails if they beat bottom of the table, already relegated, worst team in the history of the J-League, Yokohama FC on the last day of the season. Amazingly, they lost 1-0 and were overhauled by Kashima Antlers.

Consolation came in the form of the AFC Champions League (and it's important to distinguish here that the Asian version of this competition doesn't manage to arouse the same levels of interest in the media or amongst the fans as its European cousin does), as Urawa beat Sepahan 3-1 over two legs to become the first Japanese club to win the competition. Ironically, their domestic form fell to pieces after this win. It will be interesting to see which Urawa Red Diamonds team turns up for this tournament, but we can be more or less certain of one thing - if or when they score this morning, it might just lift the roof off the stadium.

Meanwhile, here are the highlights of the first two matches so far: