Uefa will take no action over an astonishing request by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to be expelled over the Luis Rubiales crisis, as the federation president now faces an investigation from Spanish prosecutors for sexual assault.
In other developments of a story that even Uefa officials were describing as “absurd” and “stranger by the moment”, Rubiales’s mother Angeles Bejar locked herself in a church to go on hunger strike, before police and doctors eventually intervened. Such details have stunned even the most experienced people in football, but it is the request to the European body that is being seen as the most significant, given it sums up how surreal the story has become.
