McAllister the injured Scotland captain could also leave Highfield Road to become Strachan’s assistant at Leeds

McAllister, the injured Scotland captain, could also leave Highfield Road to become Strachan’s assistant at Leeds.McAllister is just recovering from a knee ligament operation but could be tempted by a player-coach role at Leeds, as he has long-term managerial ambitions.Although Strachan is Ridsdale’s choice, there are other names being mentioned at Leeds. But we now have to anticipate that we will go into Saturday’s game [at home to Leicester] without him. “It has taken us a long time just to get to this position, and hopefully we can sort out a deal.”Ridsdale said: “I can confirm that we have come to an arrangement with Tottenham Hotspur whereby they have agreed to pay compensation in line with the contract that George Graham signed last December.”I have spoken to George and he has asked for permission to talk to Tottenham, therefore we have given George that permission to speak with them.”At the moment George is still our manager until somebody tells me otherwise. It is believed that Leeds are looking for around pounds 2.5m compensation for losing the former Arsenal manager.”I am obviously delighted that we have been given permission to speak to George,” Sugar said. The Leeds chairman, Peter Ridsdale, had given Tottenham permission to speak to Graham yesterday after talking to Sugar by telephone from Leeds’ hotel on the island of Madeira, following the Uefa Cup victory over Maritimo on Tuesday.
The Leeds chairman was first approached two weeks ago by his Spurs counterpart. Substitute not used: Del Rio.Bury: Kiely; Woodward, Barrick, Daws, Lucketti, Redmond, Swailes, Matthews (Baldry, 67), D’Jaffo (Preece, 37), Johnrose (Avdiv, 75), Billy.Referee: J Brandwood (Lichfield)..

GEORGE GRAHAM could today become the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur. Two further goals midway through the second half then finished off the Shakers.Warhurst, with space on the left, crossed for Clinton Morrison to shoot past Kiely from 15 yards after 64 minutes.Two minutes later the Italian international Attilio Lombardo converted a penalty after Andy Woodward had tripped Dyer.Palace could have scored more goals as Bury were run ragged and they must have been pleased to hear the final whistle.Crystal Palace: Digby; Burton, Thomson (Curcic, 59), Rizzo, Tuttle, Linighan, Lombardo, Warhurst, Morrison (Svensson, 75), Dyer, Fan Zhiyi. But they had no answer to a rampant Palace display this time, despite taking the lead through a Nicky Daws goal after just nine minutes.
Daws netted from close range after good approach work from Robert Matthews, although their jubilation did not last long as Palace roared back to level the scores four minutes later.Nicky Rizzo played a neat ball to Paul Warhurst and the former Blackburn man made no mistake with a right-foot shot past Dean Kiely.From that moment Palace dominated the game and Bury were forced to rely on sporadic counter-attacks to make progress.But just before the break Bury caught out the hosts as Matthews again whipped over a low cross, which the former Palace striker Andy Preece met at the far post to tap over the line.After the interval Palace took over completely and within three minutes were on level terms again as Bruce Dyer headed in at the far post. Someone wants to throw mud at our team.”The Italian football federation said it knew nothing about “a presumed case of positive testing”. It rejected the paper’s assertion it was party to “a system aimed at making anti-doping controls carried out [by its laboratory] inefficient”.The federation said it had instructed its lawyers to take legal action against the journalist who wrote the story and the editor of the newspaper if no wrong-doing was discovered.. The chemist alleged that his superior had ordered him to alter the test results.The Udinese players that underwent the post-game tests were Francesco Statuto and Alessandro Calori Udinese won the game 2-1.

Bury had already met the Eagles on two occasions in the last fortnight and got the better of them over two legs to make progress in the Worthington Cup. CRYSTAL PALACE overcame an early setback to inflict Bury’s heaviest First Division defeat of the season at Selhurst Park last night. It is on the outskirts of Rome.There have been a series of doping investigations this year into Italian athletes. One investigation, done for the Olympic Committee’s doping commission, ended in August without finding evidence of illegal drug use, but did find that the use of legal muscle-builders is widespread.Udinese’s general manager, Pierpaolo Marino, said yesterday: “To say we are astounded would be putting it mildly. “This all seems strange to me; the situation is absurd,” Statuto said yesterday. “My conscience is clear.”The urine tests were performed at laboratory designated by the Italian Olympic Committee, which oversees Italy’s anti-doping program.

Another officer was taken to hospital with a broken arm after a rock was thrown at him Mobs of fans smashed car and shop windows. Eighteen people were arrested.A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “There was no problem with the City fans, they behaved very well.”Chief Inspector Miles added: “We kept the City fans back in the ground for their own protection. I would say there were up to 300 fans involved – almost all Millwall supporters.”Royle said: “I cannot believe what I saw. It was a disgrace, if we had scored another goal in that atmosphere, I don’t think we would have got out alive.”They must have changed the rules down in London.