"Operation Overkill", local demonstrators dubbed the response. In the event, lorries carrying sheep and calves entered the port through a side entrance.Mrs Baskerville was there, she explained, because she had seen a Compassion in World Farming video about a pig which had its legs broken and paralysed in transit. "A man just stood there and was kicking and kicking it," she said. Several trucks were damaged. On Wednesday, a thousand police, mostly in riot gear, were deployed along the port's main entrance. It was not what might have been expected from accounts of the violence the night before at the West Sussex port.
They were typical of the 300 protesters who turned up on Wednesday night for what had been billed as the Battle of Shoreham. However, Bowyer will return to his old stamping ground at Nottingham Forest for tomorrow's FA Cup third-round tie."He's going to be there on Saturday and then he wants some time to think about what he will do," said McCall.The Scottish FA is to carry out an investigation into an alleged head-butting incident during Monday's First Division match between Airdrie and Hamilton. Airdrie's Jimmy Sandison and Gary Clark of Hamilton were the players involved.FA Cup Countdown, page 39. They did not look as advertised. Clad in tweed jackets and wrapped in Laura Ashley shawls against the chill seaside air, Ann Baskerville, a 56- year-old antiques dealer from Petworth, near Chichester, and her friend Beryl Ferres-Guy, an accountant from Brighton, stood holding a placard made from a flattened cardboard box. They've worked tremendously well together, so why rock the boat? We have had a string of very reasonable results recently and with the whole squad rallying together, I think these guys can gain in stature from here on in.The position of Ian Bowyer, the Plymouth assistant manager, is uncertain after Peter Shilton's suspension and the appointment of Steve McCall as temporary player-manager of the Second Division strugglers.
The pair have been appointed joint player-managers after a successful run since they took overas caretakers after McGhee's departure.John Madejski, the Reading chairman, said: "Mick and Jim did take up the gauntlet and they have clearly had the respect of the other players They have taken to management like a duck to water. The two men eating breakfast in Barnsley's Alhambra Shopping Centre yesterday morning were rueing a missed opportunity "The lad couldn't quite do it, could he?" one said. The two clubs have agreed the fee and now it is up to Shipperley, who has just returned to Stamford Bridge after a month's loan to Watford, to finalise terms.Mark McGhee, the Leicester manager, yesterday made his first foray into the transfer market since taking over at at Filbert Street, offering Doncaster £200,000 for the winger James Lawrence. Doncaster need the cash to pay off a £140,000 tax debt to averta winding-up order, which is due to come to court again in a fortnight.Meanwhile McGhee's former club, Reading, yesterday confirmed the appointment of veteran players Jimmy Quinn and Mick Gooding as the club's new management team. After four balls, Atherton considered that the chances of May being stumped off a wide, and Tufnell then completing a hat-trick, were somewhat improbable, and he himself took off the bails to concede the draw.This was an oddball Test right from the start, as it either involved bowlers looking as though they would next take a wicket sometime in April, or batsmen being dismissed so quickly that it was a surprise that no one actually rushed out without a pair ofpads on.Australia's second innings involved an opening partnership of 208 between Mark Taylor and Michael Slater, but they otherwise lost 17 wickets for 200 in the match, and 7 for 84 in the second innings before Warne and May held out for the final one hour and16 minutes.It is one of the perversities of Test cricket that you can normally expect a final-day crowd to arrive in the same taxi, but yesterday there were close on 26,000 people inside the SCG (not far short of the Lord's capacity) to witness Australia's attemptto make more runs to win a Test than any other team in 118 years of Test cricket.From 139 for 0 overnight, Taylor and Slater made only 67 more runs from 31 overs by lunch, largely because England's only tactic from Tufnell was to bowl negatively into the rough in the hope that Slater's low boredom threshold would get him out, and also because the ball failed to swing, despite an oppressively humid atmosphere.It would have had more chance to swing had England's bowlers not consistently dug it in short of a length, and while Atherton complained that it was one of those rogue balls that would not have swung inside a Turkish bath, there was the distinct feeling that England were taking no chances of getting stuffed by a record fourth-innings total.The Tufnell plan for Slater would have worked had John Crawley not dropped a straightforward catch at mid-off when he had made 74, but Slater had secured his fifth Test century by lunch, and England's only other chance was an appeal for a run out againstTaylor.
Yeboah, a Ghanaian international, was in Leeds yesterday to discuss personal terms with the club's managing director, Bill Fotherby, and chairman, Leslie Silver. He was accompanied by Bernd Holzenbein, the former West German international, who is generalmanager of Yeboah's club of the last four and a half years, Eintracht Frankfurt. Eintracht are anxious to sell abroad rather than to Bayern Munich, whose interest is reported to have prompted the player's unrest. FOOTBALL Leeds United's search for a striker yesterday led them to Anthony Yeboah, the joint top scorer in the German Bundesliga for the past two seasons, whom they hope to unveil today in a club-record £3.5m deal. On the television, Charles Colville dug out the Axel Rose impression he reprises at the fall of each wicket for more or less every ball, while on the radio Geoffrey Boycott even stopped saying "I" for a while.Too good to last - but quite, quite wonderful while it did.. If the endless re-runs didn't make the duvet an overwhelming attraction, the subsequent pokings of David Boon very nearly did.But, then, along with the dawn, came gorgeous, irresistible Gussie to drag us from one dreamland into another. And then it was off to lunch, or rather an old Max Boyce interview on the radio or a ludicrous fisherman calling himself the Piking Pirate racing around Loch Lomond in a little boat with a skull and cross-bones on Sky.The rain which followed was a frustration for the players and televisers, but it was far worse for the sleepless over here. The other morning victim of the cameras was the umpire, Darrell Hair, who was guilty of declining the use of technology on a run-out decision, and was promptly hung, drawn and quartered by that which he had spurned.The only hint of the glories ahead came from David Gower, who pointed out in his John Majorish way that wickets could fall quite quickly sometimes.
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