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THE GUARDIAN Wednesday December 14 1988 14 SPORTS NEWS Soccer Tones LbireaEc irairoCcs oweir odleirDttotfy catrdls Michael Smith Political Correspondent from John Stalker, the former; Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester who now advises Millwall on security. Stalker, writing in the club's publication, Millwall in the Community, published yesterday, outlines the club's efforts to integrate itself in the area and erase its bad image. The club draws many fans from Moynihan's consituency. "The police have probably gone about as far as they can in controlling grounds. The real, hard core recognise that," writes Stalker.

"But equally, you do occasionally get people who see that as a challenge. "Identity cards are no solu-. tion in big cities and other places here groups of fans could come across each other outside the ground, it is a positively dangerous idea. "The violence will shift to the streets, or perhaps to another sport. It will go somewhere." there is a largish measure of disagreement." Sir Rhodes Boyson, a former Conservative minister, said he opposed the plans on two counts.

"First, I want to see a national identity card scheme and this will confuse the issue, and second, the scheme is impractical and won't work. "I am afraid that it will also irritate hundreds of thousands of Tory working class voters." The Football Supporters' Bill is being introduced to the House of Lords next month and there is much speculation in Whitehall that peers will seek substantial changes. "The problem is that the Prime Minister looks at the transfer fees and believes that there is a lot of money sloshing around in football," another backbencher said last night. "Another problem is that the Tory party simply does not understand football." Further opposition comes THE MINISTER for Sport, Colin Moynihan, meets Conservative backbench MPs tonight in an attempt to defuse a growing row over Government plans to introduce compulsory identity cards for supporters. There is unrest among Tories, believed to extend to the Cabinet, over the plans, and Moynihan will be under pressure to make some modifications to the outline proposals.

Tory MPs are concerned that plans to introduce the scheme at all 92 League clubs will prove impractical, cause more disruption away from grounds and place further strains on the finances of clubs. David Knox, the Tory member for Staffordshire Moorlands, said yesterday: "Some people feel very strongly and Shreeves shrugs aside the shadow of Francis Single-handed well, not quite. Viv Richards managed only 12 runs this time but his West Australia West Indies, World Series.Cup one-day match One-run win keeps West Indies side still beat Australia in Sydney Indies on top the tourists' way. The Australian captain was far from forlorn about it afterwards, however. "I was very happy," said Border, "except for one run." Russell Thomas PETER SHREEVES was unmoved yesterday by speculation that his acting managership of Queen's Park Rangers might end within the next 24 hours with the untried Trevor Francis elevated to the permanent position.

The 34-year-old former England forward is being tipped to take over at Loftus Road after expressing interest in the job. It is understood that he has already spoken to the club's chairman, Richard Thompson, about the post vacated by Jim Smith a week last Monday. Francis, who joined Rangers last spring, and Thompson would not comment last night, while Shreeves made cautious noises about the possibility of one of his players abruptly overtaking him in the competition for the permanent post. Shreeves had been assured last Thursday of temporary charge until January 7, and said yesterday: "I cannot be held responsible for press Francis will be in Shreeves's full 50 overs in an all-out score of 220. On the Sydney strip it seemed a reasonable score, and the home side's cautious start meant they were always struggling to meet the required run-rate, despite a belligerent 71 from the opener David Boon.

Marsh and Jones went early, and the only substantial partnership was the 87 compiled by Boon and Steve Waugh (40). West Indies took the initiative when Boon and Waugh went in successive overs, Boon playing all around one from Malcolm Marshall and Waugh run out by a bad call from his twin brother, Mark, who was playing his first innings for Australia. With 10 overs left the Australians needed 71 to win, buta games in the triangular tournament, with Pakistan bringing up the rear after two straight defeats. Batting first on a dry wicket where shot-making was always going to be hard, West Indies set a target of 221. Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge put on 90 for the first wicket in only 20 overs.

There followed a mid-order collapse, triggered by the unlikely figure of Allan Border and his occasional left-arm orthodox spin. The home skipper introduced himself to the attack as a stop-gap measure, but ended up bowling his 10-over complement to collect two for 32, including a marvellous one-handed return catch off Gus Lo-gie. In the event, the West Indians even failed to use up their Martin Blake in Sydney EVEN in the game's great leveller, the limited-overs format, West Indies continue to pile on the misery for their hosts this summer. The tourists, fresh from making it 2-0 in the Test series in Perth last week, pipped Australia by one run on the last ball of a match watched by one of the tour's biggest crowds yet, some 35,000, at the SCG last night. Victory came when a sheepish-looking Craig McDermott spooned Curtly Ambrose's last ball a knee-high full toss he needed to take two off straight to Viv Richards at mid-wicket.

West Indies now head the limited-overs series table after winning their first two Boxing couple of lively competitors in Peter Taylor and the wicket-keeper, Ian Healy, made it seem very possible. Six off the last over seemed even more possible, but the match finally went WEST INDIES Greenidge Waugh Taylor. Haynes and Hughes Richardson Taylor Richards st Healy Taylor Hooper Healy Hughes A Logie and Border Dujon Boon Border Marshall (sub) Wood 52 78 12 12 20 8 17 8 1 2 12 Mcuermolt- Benjamin Hughes- Ambrose not out Walsh McDermott-Extras (Ib8. nb4) Tolal 220 Fall of wickets: 90. 1.14.

144. 182. 189, 190. 199. 217.

217 Bowling: Alderman 7-0-30-0; Hughes 10-0-48-3: Waugh 4-0-15-0: McDermoll 7-0-37-2: Taylor 10-0-50-3: 10-0-32-2. the Las Vegas Hilton hotel, whose executives want to promote the fight themselves. Lawless, who has bruised ribs after a recent fall at his home, may not travel with Bruno but he is as keen as Astaire for his man to sign. Bruno may not be the world's best heavyweight but he is certainly the most patient. Meanwhile Herol Graham, whose dispute with his manager, Barney Eastwood, comes under arbitration by British Boxing Board stewards tomorrow, has been withdrawn by Eastwood from a world middleweight title bill.

Edwards and Ferguson escape public roasting Bruno flies to Tyson in new quest for signature lack Massarik FRANK BRUNO and the Wembley promoter Jarvis Astaire fly from London to Los Angeles today on a last-minute Christmas shopping expedition. It is a long way to dash but they are hoping to bag the world heavyweight title fight that should have come Bruno's way last summer. "I feel more optimistic than I have for months," says Astaire, whose aim is to meet Mike Tyson face to face and to come away from the negotiating table with a contract sealed, signed Athletics Cynthia Bateman 7 'HE expected crisis for Manchester United's chairman, Martin Edwards, and manager, Alex Ferguson failed to materialise at the club's AGM yesterday, which went off with not so much a bang as a whimper. Or rather, wimp. Instead of the club's officials being berated by shareholders over United's lowly position they are tenth in the First Division and have huge debts and falling gates the only person to take stick was the Minister for Sport, Colin Moynihan, referred to as a wimp by one shareholder protesting at the plan for compulsory membership for fans.

The majority of shareholders supported the chairman, who privately expressed relief that the rough ride he had anticipated had not materialised. Publicly, Edwards was called on to justify his own position rather than the Luton are prepared to stage any FA Cup third-round replay with Millwall at Kenilworth Road, despite memories of the riot at their 1985 quarter-final with the London club that was followed by their away-fan ban. After talks with Millwall, police and the FA, Luton will stage any replay next month with a maximum 2,500 visiting fans confined to a terrace enclosure. Under FA Cup regulations Millwall are entitled to 1,000 seats, but the FA waived that requirement. After the 1985 disturbances Luton vowed never to entertain Millwall in a cup tie again.

But Luton's secre tary, Bill Tomlins, says: They are a different club now." Sutton United will stage their third-round tie with Coventry at Gander Green Lane and hope to raise the capacity by 2,000 to 8,000 for the game. Brian Kilcline has been stripped of the Coventry captaincy after failing a breath test early yesterday. If convicted of drink-driving, he will also be fined a fortnight's wages by the club. David Speedie is captain for the next three matches. ries have held us back." Ferguson has spent 5 million on players and recouped 2 million in sales during his two years at Old Trafford.

Quizzed by one shareholder about a cantilever roof for the Stretford End, Edwards referred the question to Ferguson. But the chairman did say: "When he gets his team right, then we'll start that." Instead of calls for Ferguson's head there was sympathy for the manager whose team have won only four of 16 League games this season, reducing the average home League attendance to 39,151. "No one at this club is enjoying the position we are in," Ferguson said. "I think we have done reasonably well. The players are trying their very best." Afterwards Ferguson said: "We are a better team than last year.

I feel we are getting nearer to the standard I want. Half the time I have not been able to field the players I want because of injuries." Sport in brief Motor Racing The Brabham team are expected to announce that Martin Brundle, the British world sports car champion, will return to Formula One with them next season. Athletics Lisa Martin of Australia, runner-up in the Olympic marathon, confirmed yesterday that she will enter next year's ADT London Marathon. Cricket David Allen, the former England spinner, has refused to resign as chairman of Gloucestershire's cricket committee after the controversial sacking of David Graveney. Eighteen members are threatening to call a special meeting over the way Graveney heard he was no longer wanted as captain after holding the job for eight years.

He was told in the middle of the final home match. Skiing Michela Figini, Switzerland's defending overall World Cup champion, set the fastest final practice time yesterday for today's downhill at Altenmarkt in Austria. Figini clocked lmin 33.20sec down the Gams-kogel course. side in the fourth-round Littlewoods Cup replay at Plough Lane. Mark Dennis, having had his two-week club suspension lifted, "is available for selection," said the acting manager.

Jim Gregory, the Portsmouth chairman, denied yesterday that the club owed money to the former chairman John Deacon. He said the liability to Deacon was paid on June 1. The source for the reports had been Portsmouth's annual balance sheets, dated May 31, 1988, the day before Deacon sold his majority interest to Gregory. Two Leyton Orient directors have resigned from the Fourth Division club's board after what they describe as a "disagreement over Neville Ovenden, the club's vice-chairman, and his son Michael were said by the managing director and manager, Frank Clark, to have left over a "misunderstanding" about sponsorship. But Ovenden Snr said: "It's not tied with sponsorship I just disagree with certain things that have happened." team's the 4,000 increase which brought his salary to 87,000 a year was in line with the percentage rises to other members of staff, he assured a packed meeting.

As shareholders' meetings go, he could consider himself let off lightly. Earlier he announced that United had a bank overdraft of 2,071,000, and an operating loss last year of 1.29 million, but emphasised that the deficit could be reduced since United's commercial enterprises meant the club could stand lower attendances and still break even. Afterwards Edwards said: "We have always backed our managers with money but United are not a bottomless well. We are in the red because we always plough our money back into buying players or developing the ground to improve facilities and make even more money to buy players. "The manager has brought good players to this club.

Of course, we would like to be higher up the table but inju scored for the home team, Paul Davis scored the winning goal on his first game since his lengthy suspension. In the night's other FA Cup tie, Bristol City and Aldershot hardly contrived a chance between them. They will try for a third time to settle their differences at Aldershot. Extra time proved more fruitful for Blackburn Rovers and especially for their striker, Andy Kennedy. He hit two goals in 10 minutes to knock Manchester City out of the Si-mod Cup.

Paul Wilkinson struck his 13th goal of the season four minutes from time to put Watford into the quarter-finals with a 2-1 win over Newcastle. Rob McDonald had equalised in the 63rd minute with his first goal for the club. The two defecting Czechoslovak internationals, Lubos Ku-bic and Ivo Knoflicek, were reported last night to have signed for Derby County. Ian Andrews, Celtic's 300,000 goalkeeper from Leicester City, is to join Leeds United on a month's loan. The Elland Road club are desperate for a replacement for Mervyn Day, who played in the 3-2 home defeat by Shrewsbury on Saturday despite being injured.

Rowing Henley puts check on Thames Gateshead erase Jenkins AUSTRALIA Boon Marshall Marsh Ambrose Walsh- Jones Ibw Walsh Waugh run out Waugh Benjamin A Border run out 71 19 1 40 18 8 23 16 I Healy not out- Taylor Hooper Benjamin- McDermott Richards Ambrose 6 Extras b6. Ib6. nb1. w4) 17 Total (lor 8, 50 overs) 219 Fall of wickets: 50. 54.

141. 144. 158. 177. 207.

219. Did not bat: Hughes. Alderman. Bowling: Walsh 10-0-36-2: Marshall 10-1-40-1: Richards 10-0-46-0: Benjamin 10-1-44-2: Ambrose 10-1-41-1. West Indies won by ona run.

The American promoter Bob Arum proposes to top the bill with Sumbu Kalambay and Michael Nunn meeting to unify the WBA and IBF titles, but Eastwood insists that Graham, the WBA's No. 1 contender, should fight Kalambay first. Kirkland Laing, the erratic but brilliant welterweight who once outpointed Roberto Duran, could become European champion on January 25. The dreadlocked 34-year-old British champion from Nottingham' will meet Nino La Rocca at Montecatini in Italy for the title vacated by Switzerland's Mauro Martelli. from 16 to 24.

The Special Race for Schools is to be restricted to crews actually taking examinations during the regatta, so increasing entries in the Princess Elizabeth Cup. Despite the rain Henley made a profit of 338,669 from an income of 1,174,812 this year. This was after covenanting 53,000 to rowing projects, spending 48,000 on renovating Temple Island the lease of which was given to the Stewards by one of their number and putting 17,000 towards the 150th anniversary. In five years the regatta has funded the whole cost about 1.2 million of its new headquarters. BCQ SCOTTISH LEAGUE Second Division: Stirling Albion Stranraer.

AC DELCO CUP Third round: Farnbor-ough Wokingham HFS LOANS LEAGUE. President's Cup: First Round, second leg (first leg score in brackets) Caernarfon (1) Bangor (0). WESTGATE INSURANCE CUP Third round, lirst leg: Salisbury Gloucester BASS NORTH-WEST COUNTIES First Division: Rossendale lint Burscough. CENTRAL LEAGUE. First Division: Aston Villa Barnsley (7.0): Leeds Newcastle (7 0)- Man Utd Blackburn (7 0); West Brom Nollm Forest (7.0).

Second Division: Notts County Port Vale. Preston York (7.0): Rotherham Grimsby (7.0): Scunthorpe Bollon (70): Stoke Doncasler (7.0) OVENDEN PAPERS COMBINATION. Brighton Norwich (7 t5); Oxtord Utd Chelsea. Rugby Union REPRESENTATIVE MATCH Royal Navy Hampshire (2.30. Burnaby Rd) Rugby League STONES BITTER CHAMPIONSHIP Widnes Wakelield Trinity Basketball NATIONAL CUP Second round: Leicos-terv Olympic Cily (8.0) CARLSBERG LEAGUE Bracknell Hemel Hempstead (8.0) Table Tennis EUROPEAN DIVISION ONE England Italy (7 0, Armitage Centre Manchester) Vale leave the door wide open when it comes to caging Bull and delivered for Bruno to challenge the accident-prone American on February 25.

Normally this would be a formality. Tyson is the undisputed world champion and he agreed to fight Bruno, the official No. 1 contender, last June. But there is nothing normal about this match, which has been postponed five times. The 22-year-old champion's excuses so far have included a cracked hand (unpaid street-fighting), severe concussion (uneasy motoring), a managerial split (unresolved differences) and a broken marriage (ditto).

At present he is refusing to an international steroid smuggling ring. "We have agreed to expunge his name and achievements from all records held by the club," Anderson said. Jenkins moved to Gateshead from Edinburgh where he ran as a member of the Vmiver-sity after winning a gold medal in the 1971 European Championships 400 metres at Helsinki and a silver in the 1972 Olympic 400 metres relay in Munich. He was still a Gateshead Harrier in 1975 when he won the US title at Eugene, Oregon in 44.93sec, a British 400 metres Rochdale (0) Wlgan (0) 2 1,134 GriHths Entwistle Rotherham (0) 2 Doncaster (0) 1 Hazel Dobson Haycock 1.790 Sheffield United (1)2 Chester (1)2 Dullield Benjamin Bryson Dale 2.981 Southern Section Wolverhampton (2) 3 Port Vale (1)1 Bull 4 Ford Mutch 9.734 BAQ SCOTTISH LEAGUE Second Division Dumbarton (0) Brechin (2) 2 Paterson 2 CLUBCALL CUP. Second round: Weymouth 0.

Leyton-Wlngate 1. QM VAUXHALL CONFERENCE. Chorley 3, Northwich 1: Runcorn 4, Slallord Tellord 0. Kettering t. HFS LOANS LEAGUE.

Premier Division: Fleetwood 1. Rhyl Frickley 3. Shepshed 1: Harrogate 3, Irlam 0: Morecambe 2, Liverpool Willon 1, Buxton 1. AC DELCO CUP. Third round: Bishop's Slortlord 1, Hampton Carshalton 2, Woking 0: Dorking 2, Klngslonian 1 (aet): Worthing 0, Barking 2.

BEAZER HOMES LEAGUE Midland Division: Spalding 4. Rushden 0. WESTQATE INSURANCE CUP. Third round, first leg: Dartlord 3, Wealdstone 0: Gravesend 2, Dover 1: Hedneslord 1. Burton 4: Moor Green 1, Bedworth 1: Tamwotth 2, Atherstone 1.

GREAT MILLS LEAQUE. Prstnter Division: Swanage 3, Paulton Rvrs 3. speak directly to his manager, Bill Cayton, is facing a multimillion-dollar libel suit from his estranged wife, Robin Gi-vens, has just sacked his long-serving trainer, Kevin Rooney, and is reported to be two stone overweight. Two months ago Astaire, Bruno and his manager Terry Lawless flew to New York on a similar mission of urgency, only to find that Tyson had gone to Venezuela with his new adviser, Don King. This time, though, Cayton has promised that Tyson and his lawyer will be ready to agree to the new date.

The likely venue will be record which stood for 10 years. Jenkins also clocked the Harriers' fastest 100 and 200 metres, but those records, too, will no longer be acknowledged by the club, Anderson said. But there seems no question that the Amateur Athletic Association will take similar action over Jenkins's athletic record. The AAA spokesman, Tony Ward, said last night: "Other international athletes have gone to prison for various offences and their records have not been expunged. There has never been any mention of wiping David's times from the book." CENTRAL LEAGUE.

First Division: Sheffield Wed 3, Coventry 3: Sunderland 0, Liverpool 2. Second Division: Hull 4, Bradlord 1. OVENDEN PAPERS COMBINATION Charlton 2, Southampton 2: Fulham 1, Crystal Palace Ipswich 3. QPR 2: Portsmouth 0. Millwall 6: Reading 1.

Wimbledon West Ham 3, Wallord 4. FA YOUTH CUP Second round: Burnley 1, Leeds 2. Rugby Union CLUB MATCHES Moseley 19, Nuneaton 10: Nottingham 26, RAF 16. Rugby League STONES BITTER CHAMPIONSHIP Hull 21. St Helens 12.

Hull: Tries: Sharp, Welham. Goals: Pearce (6). Drop Goal: Pearce. St Helens: Tries: Dwyer. Carring-ton.

Goals: Loughlin (2). Basketball NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONUtah Jazz 110, Miami Heat 94. Cricket SHEFFIELD SHIELD Melbourne: Tasmania 428-9 dec and 94-0. Victoria 397. Match drawn.

Brisbane: Queensland 351. South Australia 201 and 141-2 (P Nobes 81no). Match drawn. TOUR MATCH (Adelaide). Two-day match! Pakistan 366-9 (Salim Yousul 102: Javed Miandad 57) Australian Cricket Academy.

American Football NATIONAL LEAGUE. Miami 38. Cleveland 31. Christopher Dodd THE HENLEY Royal Regatta is to restrict entries in the most popular event for eights, the Thames Cup, to one per club next year, its 150th. The event was oversubscribed by 37 crews this year.

No "flag of convenience" crews will be allowed (to get in a second crew from one club) and individuals will be barred from participating in more than two events. The Britannia Cup for club-level coxed fours has had its entry increased from 24 to 32 and opened to overseas crews; the Visitors', for student cox-less fours, have been increased Squash AMERICAN EXPRESS PREMIER LEAGUE Carter bt Gregory 9-7, 9-2, 9-10: 9-6; DHtmar (Aus) bt Harris 9-5. 9-2. 9-1. Ice Hockey NATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal 3.

Boston 1: LA Kings 5, NY Rangers 2: Calgary 4, Toronto 4 (ael). Bowls COCKNEY CLASS (Desborough) Quarter-finals: Pickford (Barking) bt A Mason (Tye Green) 7-S. 3-7. 7-3: Cotus (Whitek-nighls, Readino) bt Rogers (Cambridge Pk, Twickenham) 7-4, 7-5. Fixtures (7.30 unless stated) Soccer FA CUP.

Second-round replays: Brentford Peterborough (7.45): Maidstone Reading (7.45): Torquay Yeovil: Welling Bath. LITTLEWOODS CUP Fourth round: Bradlord Everton. Fourth-round raplaya: Noltm Forest Leicester (7.45); Wimbledon QPR (7.45). SIMOD CUP First round: Middlesbrough Oldham. SHERPA VAN TROPHY.

Preliminary round. Northern section: Scarborough Darlington. Southern section: Exeter Bristol Rvrs, Mike Rowbottom DAVID JENKINS, jailed for seven years in San Diego for drug smuggling, has had his name wiped from the record books of his former club, Gateshead Harriers. Bill Anderson, the Harriers' vice-chairman, said the club had decided to disown Jenkins at a monthly meeting held hours after the Olympic relay medallist was sentenced on Monday. Jenkins was also fined $75,000 (40,000) and given five years' probation for his role in Results Soccer FA CUP Second-round replays Bristol Clry (0) Aldershot (0) 7.299 (ael; winners away to Hartlepool) Swansea (0) 1 Colchester (2) 3 Wade Hedman 4.045 Walsh (Colchester away to Shrewsbury) Wilkins SIMOD CUP First round Blackburn (1)3 Manchester City (1)2 Atkins Hendry (og) Kennedy 2 (t pen) Gleghorn 5.763 (ael: 1-1 alter 90minl Second round Southampton (0) 1 Crystal Palace (1) 2 Rodney Wallace Wriohl 4.419 Oyer (Crystal Palace homo to Luton) Third round Watford (0) 2 Nowcaatla (0) 1 Holden McDonald Wilkinson 6,186 SHERPA VAN TROPHY Northern Section Crawe (1) 1 Tranmere (1) 1 Muir (pen) York (1) 2 Dixon 2 Scunthorpe (0) 2,216 Bury (0) 2,900 Murphy 1.460 HarUapool (0) 396 HuddersfleM (t) 1 Byrne Preston (t) 4 Patterson.

Mooney Brazil. Joyce Robert Pryce An unpromising night proved glorious for the League's highest scorer and its lowest-placed team. Steve Bull scored four goals in Wolves' 5-1 Sherpa Van Trophy win over Port Vale and Colchester United advanced to the third round of the FA Cup with a 3-1 win at Swansea. Bull brought his season's total to 22 with goals in the 10th, 22nd, 66th and 74th minutes before his striking partner, Andy Mutch, reminded us that the Wolves are not a one-man team with a goal just before the end. Bull's eye for the target is such that four goals in a game is almost routine: he also scored that many in his last home game.

Richard Wilkins hit the target from 25 yards in the 65th minute to clinch Colchester's victory. The Fourth Division stragglers earned a visit to Shrewsbury in the third round of the FA Cup. The occasion is unlikely to be as festive as last night's, when in a testimonial match for Bernard McNally a visiting Arsenal team made merry at the Gay Meadow. After 40-year-old Frank Worthington had.