The Paris St-Germain striker has been a key factor in Liverpool's sustained title challenge since he joined the club in December, scoring three goals in 14 games, and the 22-year-old said: "Phil Thompson will soon sign me to the club It's been a long time since I enjoyed myself on the pitch Liverpool is a fantastic club. You can go out in the street and not be disturbed by people.". Martin O'Neill will keep the Scottish Football Association waiting until after Sunday's Old Firm game before giving them a decision on Tommy Burns. O'Neill said: "We have had an official approach from the Scottish FA and I am trying to digest that at the moment."The Swansea players, Roger Freestone and Nick Cusack, have been placed in charge of the first team for the match against Carlisle today. The move follows the announcement that the manager, Colin Addison, and his assistant, Peter Nicholas, would not be offered new deals at the end of this season.The away leg of Milan's Uefa Cup quarter-final against Hapoel Tel Aviv will be played in Nicosia, Cyprus.
The tie was switched from Israel by Uefa, the governing body of European football, because of security fears.. Darren Huckerby's 18th goal of the season and a Jon Macken debut strike sent Manchester City back to the top of the First Division and shattered Bradford's fragile confidence at Valley Parade last night. City are heading for an instant return to the Premiership after leapfrogging their title rivals Wolves with their third victory in six days.Bradford improved after recent poor displays, but City are irrepressible, with no sign of their momentum slowing as they march towards the top flight. Substitutes not used: Grant, Worsnop.Manchester City: Nash; Dunne, Wiekens, Pearce, Wright-Phillips, Jensen, Benarbia, Horlock, Tiatto, Huckerby, Goater (Macken, 80). Substitutes not used: Murphy, Jihai, Ritchie, Mettomo.Referee: P Dowd (Stoke-on-Trent)..
Charlie Wi upstaged the stars on the second day of the Dubai Desert Classic here yesterday, a small step in his long-term goal of achieving respect for men's golf in his home land of South Korea. As with soccer in America, it is the women who are the revered stars of golf in the Republic. After winning the US Open in 1998, Se Ri Pak was mobbed on her return to South Korea and is treated in the same way as Tiger Woods is in Thailand. Pak led a South Korean one-two at last year's British Open, when four more compatriots were high on the leaderboard. "This is really important for a Korean male player to do well because you don't get any respect from the media," Wi said "All the media attention goes to the ladies.