Sporting digest: Football

CHARLTON are to receive a 70 per cent grant of pounds 1.4m from the Football Trust towards the building of a 6,000-seat stand on the east terrace at The Valley. But a separate application for the additional pounds 500,000 over budget costs of returning to the ground has been turned down.

THE French League has decided to take legal action against Marseille in response to last month's bribery allegations. Marseille have been accused of illegally approaching an opposition player prior to the First Division match against Valenciennes on 20 May.

JESUS GIL, the president of Atletico Madrid, has been banned from attending six matches in European competition by Uefa. Five players have also received European suspensions following incidents during the 2-1 defeat by Parma in the first leg of the Cup-Winners' Cup semi-final when three Atletico players were sent off.