FOOTBALL SHORTS

A SECTION of Anne Frank’s diary will be read aloud before all Italian matches this week after recent episodes of antisemitism. The move comes after Lazio fans left stickers around the Stadio Olimpico depicting Anne — a German-born Jew killed in the Holocaust — wearing a Roma shirt after a match on Sunday. The readings will take place in the centre circle before all midweek Serie A, Serie B and Serie C matches, and before amateur and youth matches at the weekend. An image of Anne will be put on Lazio shirts for tonight’s game at Bologna. Lazio will organise an annual trip to Auschwitz concentration camp for 200 young Lazio fans to ‘educate them not to forget’.

LEICESTER have decided against going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a bid to get Adrien Silva playing for them before January. Leicester and the FA failed to persuade FIFA to ratify Silva’s £22m deadline day move from Sporting Lisbon after paperwork was submitted 14 seconds late.

SPORTSMAIL reporter Ian Herbert’s biography of Liverpool manager Bob Paisley has been shortlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British Football’s Greatest Manager is among seven books up for the award, announced on November 28.