United Kingdom

George Graham has been sacked by Tottenham after just over two years at the club.

Old Trafford will host England's World Cup qualifier with Greece on October 6, the Football Association announced on Friday.

The BBC is understood to have paid around #3m ($4.3m) for exclusive live TV and radio rights to England's World Cup soccer qualifier against Greece in June.

Supporters of Premier League soccer club Charlton Athletic are prepared to pay #25,000 ($36,000) each to help finance the redevelopment of the club?s North Stand. The club wrote to around 300 of its wealthiest supporters for help in raising the #9m ($13m) needed to expand capacity at the Valley from 20,000 to 34,000. Around 100 fans have agreed to pay the #25,000 and will receive a seat in the stand for life.

England's Football Association is in talks with British Airways in attempt to avoid travel chaos for the FA Cup semi-final between Arsenal and Tottenham at Old Trafford on April 8th.

Australia's world champion Wallabies are planning an extensive end-of-season tour of Canada and Europe to prepare their defence of the World Cup in 2003.

London based licensing consultants Giraffe Entertainment have signed a deal with Italian soccer giants Juventus to license the club?s products in the Far East. The deal will be announced in Tokyo on Monday at a press conference, which will also be attended by Juve?s owner, and Fiat magnate Umberto Agnelli, and club vice president and former star Roberto Bettega.

The UK?s Cheltenham racing festival, due to start this week but postponed because of the foot-and-mouth outbreak, will now be staged on April 17-19.

Setanta.com, the Irish sports content provider, has signed two contracts worth #1million ($1.45m) with mobile phone companies in Norway.

Malaysia has a raw deal in being forced to stage two Formula One races in six months, triple world champion Jackie Stewart has said.

Hollywood film star Vinnie Jones is lining up to become the new owner of England Second Division soccer side Brentford.

The English Rugby Football Union said it expected profits and cash reserves to double by 2007-2008, as it outlined an eight-year strategic plan to increase investment in the game.

English rugby officials will put forward plans for a Six Nations Championship with 12 teams with emerging European nations forming a second division.

i-Cable, Hong Kong?s dominant cable operator, expect its subscribers to grow from 520,000 to 548,000 by the end of 2001 on the back of its acquisition of World Cup 2002 and the recently secured English FA Cup soccer.

Greece has named a London-trained technocrat as deputy chief for the 2004 Olympics, three months after his predecessor resigned from the troubled Games.

Wembley National Stadium intends offloading a third of its anticipated #400 million ($600 million) debt by bringing forward part of the revenue streams, according to The Times newspaper, London. Sir Rodney Walker, project chairman in charge of the English soccer stadium?s reconstruction, says the group is negotiating with third parties to secure payments in exchange for rights to revenue sources, the paper reports. The move is intended to ease pressure on Wembley National Stadium when it returns to the City, London?s financial centre, for a second round of fundraising after its first attempt failed.