“I am here because there has been injustice with Luis Rubiales,” Juan Tamayo tells The Athletic.

“This is very strong. It cannot be that a person is being called an abuser for a little peck, a kiss. When we all know that he is not. It is despicable. There are many worse things that have happened — a woman died last week and there was not all this brouhaha. It is a double standard.”

Tamayo is a resident of Motril, the Andalusian home town of Spanish federation president Luis Rubiales, who has been suspended by FIFA for his behaviour after Spain won the Women’s World Cup on August 20.

The 46-year-old was filmed kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips as Spain collected their medals.

Rubiales has been heavily criticised by many in Spain, including the country’s acting president Pedro Sanchez, who called his actions unacceptable and called on him to consider his position. Acting minister for equality Irene Montero tweeted that his kiss was “sexual abuse”.

However, these sentiments were not shared by all of those who gathered outside Motril’s Church of the Divine Shepherdess on Monday. Or all of those inside.

Angeles Bejar, Rubiales’ mother, had entered the church on Monday morning to begin a hunger strike. Some protesters held up banners including ‘Stop Rubiales being…

Paris Saint-Germain have cancelled a fundraising gala event due to the ongoing medical situation regarding goalkeeper Sergio Rico.

Rico, 29, sustained serious injuries after being hit by a mule cart and a runaway horse at a pilgrimage in his native Spain on Sunday. El Rocio, which takes place in Almonte, Huelva, in the province of Andalucia, involves a procession that includes people walking, riders on horseback and carts.

PSG’s gala, the seventh annual event of its kind, had been scheduled for Tuesday night and was to raise funds to finance goodwill projects in the French capital. Players from the men’s and women’s football teams — as well as PSG’s other sports — and club president Nasser Al-Khelaifi were due to attend.

Following Sunday’s accident, Rico was taken to the Virgen del Rocio Hospital in Seville by helicopter.

A statement from the hospital at Tuesday lunchtime read: “There have been no significant changes in Sergio Rico’s state of health over the last 24 hours.

“The patient remains in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio, after suffering a cranioencephalic traumatism. He is being treated by specialists in Intensive Care Medicine and continues to be under sedation.

“His general condition is stable, despite the…