The athletics issue is not an attitude of mind but about practicalities. What everyone forgets in the emotion of it is that there are a number of practical issues with hosting athletics that have to be looked at."These are thought to include the need for an indoor warm-up track nearby and, if Wembley was to be the centre-piece of an Olympic bid, a significantly larger capacity than is likely to be possible within the original plans. These are based on providing 80,000-90,000 seats for football events. If a running track was included under retractable seating that figure would be substantially reduced for athletics.Crozier confirmed that the redesign would cost less than the £660m estimate for the previous scheme. This is expected to come through dispensing with some of the peripheral ideas such as a hotel and office space. Crozier admitted this would reduce profits in the long term, but said in the short term it would make the money easier to raise and and reduce the debt burden.

The new WNSL is expected to make its recommendation next month, with the final decision being made by the FA which wholly owns WNSL.Involving athletics would probably mean further Government investment, especially if it led to the abandonment of the planned Picketts Lock athletics stadium. Wembley was originally given £120m from Lottery funds, which was reduced by £20m after it rejected athletics. The cash went towards the £106m purchase of the site.The FA still hopes to have the stadium ready for the FA Cup final in 2004. Though the bulldozers are yet to move in they have ruled out staging any further events there in the hope and expectation that work will have started by 7 May, the date for this season's final. An agreement to stage that, and the 2002 and 2003 finals, at Cardiff's Millennium stadium is expected to be signed next month. Part of the deal involves Cardiff agreeing to lay a new, differently structured, pitch from the current one. That has proved unsatisfactory for Welsh football internationals..

Leyton Orient earned the supreme prize of a home FA Cup third-round tie with Tottenham Hotspur last night by way of a lucky deflection off their winger Scott Houghton, who began his career at White Hart Lane, near the end of extra time. Leyton Orient earned the supreme prize of a home FA Cup third-round tie with Tottenham Hotspur last night by way of a lucky deflection off their winger Scott Houghton, who began his career at White Hart Lane, near the end of extra time. It was cruel on the plucky Nationwide Conference outfit, who had established a two-goal lead after the opening 12 minutes of this second-round replay. They created the better chances in the final 30 minutes, only to be undone as goalkeeper Lance Key drove an attempted clearance straight at Houghton.The underdog is invariably infused with brio and adventure at the outset of these encounters, but even so the start Northwich enjoyed was little short of sensational. They put three men up front and conveyed clear instruction to supply them at every opportunity and it paid handsome dividends.First, though, the visitors had good reason to thank the referee's vigilance and then the cool head of Key, who parried well as David McGhee faced him one-on-one. This followed shortly after Dean Smith's header had found the net from a corner only for the whistle to interrupt his celebration.Northwich's first attack gave a clue as to what would swiftly come, the ball worked neatly to Mark Bailey whose low cross was curled inches wide by Adie Mike. The next surge forward should have been no more than a piece of routine defending for Simon Downer, a youngster attracting a great deal of interest from higher clubs, but he made a mess of his attempt to find Ashley Bayes and presented Ian Cooke with his chance to score.Downer was still living that nightmare when the next lofted ball found him hesitating and seeking assistance from his keeper. It did not come and, after his striking partners had made two bites at the cherry, Mike nudged the ball over the line.Northwich were now forced to demonstrate their defensive qualities as Orient applied relentless pressure with Matthew Lockwood joining the attack, imparting accuracy and threat with a series of floated balls down the left.

Key expertly denied McGhee a second time, from a header on the stroke of half time, but two minutes into the second period he was beaten when a Houghton cross eventually fell to Carl Griffiths.The introduction of Chad Manley at half-time had added strength to the home side's attack and it was no surprise when Orient equalised in the 69th minute, Simpson turning the ball into his own net with Griffiths threatening after Wim Walschaerts had escaped down the right flank.Leyton Orient (4-4-2): Bayes; Joseph (Manley, 46), Smith, Downer, Lockwood; Walschaerts, Harris, McGhee, Houghton; Griffiths, Watts (Brkovic, 83). Substitutes not used: Barrett (gk), Beall, Shorey.Northwich Victoria (5-2-3): Key; Bailey, Robertson, Simpson, Burke, Barnard; Norris, Devlin; Mike, Cooke (Walsh, 74), Fletcher. Substitutes not used: Holcroft, Rigby (gk), Poland, Bates.Referee: G Laws (Whitley Bay).. After losing his place on the Liverpool starting lineup, striker Titi Camara moved to West Ham for a reported £2.2 million. After losing his place on the Liverpool starting lineup, striker Titi Camara moved to West Ham for a reported £2.2 million. The striker, from Guinea, scored 10 goals in 37 appearances for Liverpool after signing from Olympique Marseille in June 1999.But the arrival of England striker Emile Heskey from Leicester and the return to fitness of Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen, restricted his chances of playing and the 28-year-old forward has signed a three-and-a-half year contract with the Hammers."I've come to West Ham to play, play, play - and score, score, score," Camara said."If it was a question of money, I could have stayed at Liverpool and picked it up.