SPORTING DIGEST: FOOTBALL

SPORTING DIGEST: FOOTBALL

The Huddersfield captain, Barry Horne, has been ruled out for the rest of the season after undergoing an operation on knee ligament damage sustained in November.

John Harding has resigned as the manager of the Nationwide Conference club Farnborough Town after three weeks in charge. He left after learning that his salary would not be paid, following the arrest on charges of conspiracy to import cocaine of John Gurney, who was the head of a consortium that was set to take over the Hampshire club.

The Gillingham striker Carl Asaba has had his appeal against a dismissal upheld by a Football Association disciplinary committee. Asaba was sent off for allegedly head-butting David Greene of Colchester last month.