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THE GUARDIAN Saturday May 28 1994 SPORTS NEWS 21 Soccer Rugby Union United seal May signature English down to last hrow plaints about match officials Russell Thomas Robert Arm strong In Pretoria NGLAND undertake a dry run for next Satur-day's Test against South Alrica in Pre toria with a match of far-reaching significance against the Currie Cup holders Transvaal at Ellis Park today. Dick Best, the England coach, believes his players' performance against a provincial side containing 11 Springboks will have a strong psychological bearing on the outcome of the first Test at Loftus Vcrsfeld. A third defeat in four matches would leave the touring party in a state of disarray at the half-way point of their itinerary and by the same token give the South Africans every reason to believe they can win the Test series. Though a degree of confusion has permeated South Africa's Test build-up no fewer than 57 players attended a squad session last Monday England cannot afford to rely on opposition flaws to improve their own prospects. The Transvaal game has assumed quasi-Test status largely because the manager Jack Rowell has kept faith with England's Five Nations line-up, apart from the full-back position, where Paul Hull replaces the injured David Pears.

At the end of today's contest Rowell may not regard this XV as the best he can put on the field. Yet so far he has been anxious to maintain continuity and morale among the senior players through a difficult period. Rowell has made it clear that he regards his task as, in effect, "picking up another man's clothes" making the best of the Inheritance bequeathed by his predecessor Geoff Cooke. It can be safely assumed that by the end of the tour Rowell will have sorted out the sheep from the goats with his eye on next year's World Cup. Today's trip to Ellis Park will accelerate that process, perhaps painfully for some.

"We feel we can only get better, we're training well and the enthusiasm is there," said Rowell. "We gambled too much against Natal and, when teams do that, the score tends to mount up against them. We should have the fire power to play our way through this tour. Where we can stop giving away penalties we will do that." Rowcll's persistent com All on a play-off McFarland has served Derby County for 25 years. His future may be decided by Monday's result at Wembley photograph: michael steeue A word from Clough in McFarland's ear A LAST-DITCH improved offer from Blackburn was yesterday rebuffed by David May who has traded Premiership runners-up for champions in agreeing to join Manchester United.

The fresh deal failed to impress May, leaving the versatile defender to take up Alex Ferguson's offer and join the club he has supported since childhood. The Oldham-bom player, 24 next month, strengthens Ferguson's English contingent for the next European Cup campaign and gives United important cover at full-back and in central defence, where May could emerge as the successor to Steve Bruce. The clubs have yet to agree a fee for May, whose Ewood Park contract expires at the end of next month, it will be decided by tribunal unless there is a compromise over their current valuations. United are prepared to pay about 1.5 million, while Blackburn are seeking a minimum 2 million. Arsenal intensifed the competition with Chelsea for Charlton's Scott Minto, the England Under-21 international fullback who has rejected a new deal at The Valley.

Chelsea denied reports that they had already signed the 22-year-old defender, although Minto heads the list of players considered by Glenn Hoddle for the left-back position. Hoddle could lose out on Minto to Arsenal, who are also concerned with the final details in the 1.8 million deal bringing the Swedish midfielder Stefan Schwarz to Highbury from Ben-fica. An Arsenal spokesman said: "The deal is imminent. We hope to conclude it in the next 48 hours." At the same time the spokesman dismissed reports that Sergei Yuran. the Ukrainian-born striker, was following his Ben-fica cluh-mate Schwarz to Highbury.

Portuguese state TV claimed that Yuran would join Arsenal on a four-year contract on Monday. But Arsenal said: "There is no truth whatsoever in the story." Manchester City's chairman Francis Lee has forthrightly backed Brian Horton in his decision to make the 2.5 million Terry Phelan available for sale after a contract dispute. Phelan claims he was promised an extension to his four-year deal by Horton's predecessor Peter ReidrHortonrofused" to. renegotiate with' the fullback, given that his contract still had three years to run. Lee said: "If someone signs a big, lucrative four-year contract, he can't come back with his agent in six months and demand a pay rise and an extension.

But I promise Phelan a 50 per cent rise if he and his agent can convince me he has been a 50 per cent better player since he signed his last contract." Derby's Shane Nicholson has been dropped from their Wembley play-off squad after being arrested following an alleged city-centre brawl. PLAY-OFF PROFILE: Monday will be make or break for Derby and Leicester City. Russell Thomas meets the County manager Baseball Ground in February he has been a major influence in the run of 21 games that has featured only three defeats and has taken his new club to Wembley. The last, traumatic step saw Derby negotiate New Den mayhem, where the supremacy of the visitors ignited the anger of Millwall's thug element and McFarland was moved to substitute his two black players, Paul Williams and Gary Charles, three minutes from time for their own safety. He was not bowing to racist taunts but simply saying that they were in most danger of being attacked.

After -wards Millwall's chairman Reg Burr maintained that the play-offs "are a recipe for violence" by heightening 7 tensions to an unacceptable degree. He argued "they should be scrapped or else changed McFarland does not accept the former view but agrees partially with the latter. McFarland favours a system that coincidentally would have removed the need for Derby to visit Mill-wall last week. The third-placed club, Millwall in this case, would automatically go into the Wembley final, where they would meet the eventual winner of a two-stage play-off. The fourth-placed club would be granted a bye to the second stage.

"In this way says McFarland, "there is a reward for where you will finish after a long League season." Whatever the format, the play-offs will offer a second chance. McFarland is determined to seize it and is reminded of the shortest and truest advice about life as a manager. It came suitably; in the briefest of brief phone calls from Clough when McFarland began an 18-month spell as Bradford City's player-manager in 1981. "Son," said a gruff voice, "it's all about winning." him? "That's not for me to decide," says McFarland. "Whatever they decide I'll respect.

My chairman Brian Fearn has been magnificent, very supportive, since I took over the job." Given the vice-chairman and backer Lionel Pickering's 12 million investment in the club in recent years, Derby will be again branded expensive failures if they lose on Monday. Cox spent most of the money but it could be argued that McFarland as his No. 2 for nine years must take a share of any blame. Since taking charge McFarland has spent only 75,000 to acquire the craft and experience of Gordon Cowans. The 35-year-old midfielder, as a Blackburn player, contributed to Derby's play-off downfall two seasons ago.

Since Cowans moved to the setbacks and the special pressures of managing a club haunted by the Brian Clough-inspired feats of the 1970s and the expensive pursuit of recapturing top-flight status. Reaching the Premiership is simply the bottom line. "The brief I had when I got the job in October was to get promotion this season," says McFarland. "Now, on Monday, we're playing effectively an FA Cup final but one with greater reward." And greater punishment namely, dismissal? "I don't know that but it's a possibil-TtyTThat's life, that's football. Managers live and die by results and always will do." Derby were 11th when he succeeded Arthur Cox; McFarland's team have reached the play-off final.

Would that record protect ROY McFARLAND starkly assesses the significance of Monday's summit meeting. The Wembley outcome, says Derby County's manager, will shape the club's future "over the next five or six He also knows it might have more immediate personal consequences. His rival Bryan Little enjoys a safer Wembley seat, even if a third successive failure in the final will raise questions not least by the Leicester manager himself about his career. Defeat for Derby may well decide McFarland's future for him. McFarland has served Derby for 25 years, most of them as a classic footballing centre-half.

He has been manager barring a brief caretakership back in 1984 for only seven months. The 46-year-old Merseysider also has 12 months of his contract to run. Those unacquainted with the game's harshnesses could justifiably ask how things can come down to just one game. What price loyalty? McFarland's response is not so much pessimistic as realistic I a view shaped by previous Injury rules Walker out of Wales tour have in tact been given short shrift by the leader of the South African referees' association, Piet Robberste. "If England start doing some homework and adapt to local interpreta tions, as every touring team is forced to, their own perfor mances will improve," he said.

"They England are continually jumping across the line and closing the gap before the ball is thrown in." As it happens, the South African squad and their coach Ian Mcintosh are the focus of pressure too, albeit of a different kind. Louis Luyt, the president of the South African RFU. has called a special general meeting for June 7 to discuss the future of the seven-man national selectors' panel and its relationship with the coach because he is angry over what he regards as an incoherent policy at national squad level. This week Luyt lashed the selectors for their alleged incompetence. "By now we should have had a squad of 21 or 22 but it seems as if the selector don't know what they're doing.

I don't care if they pick 15 Western Province boys for the Test but I want so see some planning and some consistency. "We are being held up to ridicule and I am willing to take action immediately and constitutionally. I don't care if some people are going to dislike me. It's for South Africa and I don't intend to do things by half measures." Luyt would like to see the introduction of a streamlined system similar to that used by the majority of South Africa's senior unions, which allow the coach, his assistant and one other selector to choose teams without committee interference. At the moment the seven-man national panel appears to be telling Mcintosh whom to select.

Stand by for heads to roll at Dr Luyt's behest. Will Carting, who dislocated his thumb on Wednesday, was passed fit yesterday. "I trained okay," he said. "I'm happy to be in action for the third time in eight days." Ireland will field an injury-weakened team against a formidable Queensland line-up in Brisbane tomorrow. They have picked Five uncapped players Jonathan Belt, Niall Woods, Keith Wood, Gabriel Fulcher and David Corkery against a Queensland side that includes 10 internationals.

was first suspected," said the Wales team manager Robert Norster. "It is a blow for us and for Nigel who has established himself as one of the best finishers around." Walker's Test position will be assumed by Wayne Proctor, who took over when Walker missed the internationals last season against Canada and Ireland, only for Proctor to break his jaw in Dublin. The left-wing has become a jinxed position with Wales forced to make five changes in the last nine internationals. Walker has been replaced in the squad by the Wales A and Pontypridd wing David Man-ley; Bridgend's Gwilym Wilkins comes in for Jones while the Neath No. 8 Steve Williams takes over from Davies.

Wales leave a week today for Canada where they play two matches, the second one a full international. They then fly to the South Seas where they will play Western Samoa, Tonga and Fiji in the space of a week, a daunting programme and one which raises the prospect of more injuries to come. Scotland's full-back Michael Dods has failed to recover from a back injury and will miss the second game of the Argentinian tour today against Cuyo In Mendoza. He is replaced by Ken Logan. 0 60.

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(0 Bronnan) Tolo: 3 40; 1.10. 4 00. 1.90. Dual 42.50. CSF: 31 38 Trip.

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TOULON UNDIR.21 TOURNAMENT! Eng. land RusaiB (5 0, Bandol). Rugby League BNFL NATIONAL CUPr Ftnato Saddlovrorth I Thatto Heath (3.30. Wlgan). International: Holland 3, Scotland 1 Dutch treat tricks Scots DERBY DREAMS i it li ii 111 Rock meets Michael Kinanc, the Irish jockey bidding lor lvpsom glory, and assesses the lirld for Wednesday's big race.

fill if TRANSVAAL. TENSIONS Mick Clear)' watches maki-or-break match for Ktiglatid's smiirsrlinj; rugby iniiuii side, and meets the architects of Africa's resurgence. Germans wary of Ireland's Autobahn Ein Cynthia Bateman in Hanover DAS kick und rush, as the German press call the Republic of Ireland's style, was causing some apprehension as the World Cup holders prepared to take on the Irish here tomorrow. One German paper described the Republic untlatteringly as "a troop of battle-tested But Jack Charlton was treating the Germans with the respect befitting three-times World Cup winners. His German counterpart Berti Vogts left Dublin on Tuesday after the Republic's 1-0 win over Bolivia, whom the Germans play in the opening match of the finals, saying he was "unimpressed by either Charlton was unsure yesterday of how the Germans would approach the game: "They are a good side.

They may play it cagey or they may decide: 'We are better than this lot' and go out and prove it." Charlton will use Phil Babb and Alan Kcrnaghan at centre-back but expects Paul McGrath to be fit enough to play 30 minutes of the game, after training hard following a long lay off with an injured shoulder. Tony Cascarino could start up front. The German press and public, if not the manager, are wary of the Irish, particularly after Germany's unconvincing win against United Arab Emirates. However, there is enough experience in the squad to settle any nerves. Rudi Vdller, of Marseille, who has scored 44 goals in 86 internationals, has been recalled after an absence of two years but is not expected to start.

Jiirgen Klinsmann, of Monaco, will join Karl-Heinz Riedlo, of Dortmund, upfront. Lothar Matthaus will captain the side on his 110th international appearance and Vogts has decided to keep the experienced Bodo nigner (Cologne) as his No. 1 goalkeeper for the World Cup. The Republic have put the goalkeeper Gary Kelly, the older brother of their reserve goalkeeper Alan Kelly, on World Cup stand-by. OERMANV (probable): lllgnar (FC Cologne): MatthHua (Monaco), Kohler (Juvenilis), Ducnwahf, Blruiv (both VfS Stuttgart), Baalar (Bremen), Irfenberg (Floronlina).

Wagner (Kalaorslautorn). Mollar (Juventus), Kllnamann (Monaco), Rtactra (Qonimmd). David Plummer NIGEL WALKER, the Wales wing, has been ruled out of next month's four-Test tour of Canada and the South Seas after having a shoulder operation this week. Wales have been forced to make three changes to their 29-strong party because the full-back Ian Jones and the No. 8 Stuart Davies have also been ruled out, victims of ankle and knee injuries respectively.

Jones and Davies have long been struggling to make the trip and it was something of a surprise when the whig forwards Emyr Lewis, who popped a rib against Spain last week, and Hemi Taylor, who damaged knee ligaments against Portugal four days before, were declared fit. But Walker was not expected to be a casualty, despite an injury-haunted season when he tore a hamstring, suffered concussion and damaged ribs in a car accident. The 29-year-old former international hurdler scored four tries in Wales's two World Cup matches last week but aggravated a long-standing shoulder complaint against Spain. "He went for a check-up this week and the problem was found to be more serious than oslo 1.05: 5. Belli (It) Lampro 1.26.

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1 20, 1.80. Dual 1.40. CSF: 429. NR: Eileen's Oarllno PLACBPOTi 535 80 TOWCIBTIR 0.30 (3m Of Hdl.Ji 1, lABTBRN PLIA-SURE, Williamson (5-1 lav); 3, What II (12-1). 3, Mistress Ross (16-1).

4, Ivy-ohuroh 114-1) 20 ran. 5, 5. (W Clay) Tote: Overmars. The young Ajax forward's low drive was blocked by Hendry but the ball bounced knee-high to Roy who, from 15 yards, sent a fierce volley with his left foot into Leighton's top right-hand corner. In their last home game before heading for Canada to prepare for the World Cup finals Holland looked serious about their work, with Gullit, playing as the principal striker, noticeably keen to impose himself.

The Scots' most difficult problem for most of the time was gaining possession of the ball, although Clarke, McAllister, McCall and McKinlay frequently appeared likely to use it properly whenever they were given the chance. As expected, Gunn took the place of Loighton in the second half but the towering Norwich goalkeeper, like his predecessor, bad to retrieve the ball from his net after 17 minutes. It was Jonk who crossed deep from the right to Witschge, who headed the ball back into the penalty area. Van Vossen, who Lomas; King. Canlzaros (Sp); Evans; Lovonson (SA): A Gtllnor (Swe); Sunos-son (SweJ: Mouland.

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A Coetzer (SA) bl Koehta (Gor) 6-0. 6-3; I Majelf (Cro) bt Kschwondl (Gor) 3-6. 0-3. 6-2; Ptarc (Fr) bl McNeil (US) 6-0, 6-0. OraBontlr (Rom) bl Rlchtorova (Cz) 6-3.

6-4; Oral Ger) bt Kruger (SA) 6-0. 4-6. 6-2. Sailing WHITBRBAD ROUND-THE-WORLD RACE) Helnakan Trophy (at 14.00 GMT): Whit, bread OO'ai 1, Broeksllold (G Maiato, II) 2,143 miles to go; 2, Qolicla 83 Peacanova (J had replaced Gullit at the interval, was completely unchallenged and slid the ball under the diving Gunn. The loss of that second goal was an unfortunate setback, for the Scots themselves had created a golden opportunity to equalise only a few seconds earlier.

Jess, who had replaced Durie for the second half, delivered a beautiful short pass to McAllister, who had sneaked in behind the Dutch defence. Taking the ball on the run as he made his way across the six-yard box from left to right, the Leeds midfielder struck it on the turn into the side netting. It was an outstanding chance lost. HOLLAND! Da Oooy (Feyonoord)t Valcki (Sperling), da Boer (Ajax), Jonk (Inter), Rob Wltsehae IFovenoord). Wouler IPSV1.

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Ludins ovaralu 1, Berzln (Rus) Gewlss Ballan 27hr 45min 3soc; 2. (Fi) Castorama 1.00; 4, Induraln (Sp) Ban- Patrick Glenn in Utrecht HOLLAND showed last night that they could be serious contenders in the United States this summer with a demolition job on a makeshift Scotland defence that was cool and ruthless. Roy and Van Vossen had already scored a goal in each half and Jonk had missed a penalty by the time Irvine scored an own goal from Numan's cross from the left. But Shearer, having replaced McGinlay, headed his first international goal from Jess's cross on the right eight minutes from the end. Roy, the Foggia forward, must wish ho could play Scotland every week.

Having undone the same opponents with a phenomenal goal at Hampden Park last month, he gave Holland the lead after 17 minutes with a similar strike. It was Gullit who began the move, ghosting past Irvine on the right and cutting the ball back with utter precision to Results Soccer FRIENDLY INTERNATIONALS Holland (1) 3 Roy 17. Van Vosson 61 Irvine 71 (on) Scotland (0) 1 Shearer 01 17,500 tai uirocnu Bail: Switzerland 2, Loiehlonslein 0 FRIENDLV (Parma): Italy 2. Finland 0 TRANSFER! David May. defender.

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