Fans riot over Cruyff

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A group of Barcelona fans angered by the dismissal of Johan Cruyff as coach tried to attack the club's vice-president Joan Gaspart before Barca's Spanish league game with Celta Vigo yesterday.

Cruyff's son, Jordi, was given a standing ovation as dozens of banners criticising the board were waved around the stadium. Barcelona, who are out of the title race, came from 2-0 down to win an exciting game 3-2, with two goals by Oscar Garcia and another by Angel Cuellar.

The former England manager Bobby Robson, who has won club championships in the Netherlands and Portugal, is expected to sign a two-year contract to take over as coach this week. In explaining his decision to leave Porto, Robson told a Portugues enewspaper this weekend: "It was the professional challenge that attracted me. Barcelona hasn't won the title for two seasons and so it's a good time to go there."

Valencia kept the Spanish title race alive when they beat Espanol 1-0 with a goal by Carlos Arroyo. The leaders, Atletico Madrid, need only draw their last match, at home to Albacete, to take the title after earning a point at Tenerife on Saturday.

Rudi Voller's final game in German league football ended in drama on Saturday when his Bayer Leverkusen side snatched a late equaliser to relegate the 1991 champions, Kaiserslautern, who had been in the Bundesliga since it was set up in 1963.