Sporting Digest: Football

The midfielder Andy Gregory, 21, and the striker Karl Rose, 19, have signed extended contracts with Barnsley.

Kevin Keegan, the Fulham manager, has failed with a pounds 250,000 attempt to sign Portsmouth's Swedish international striker Mathias Svensson.

The Concacaf Gold Cup, the North and Central America championship, will expand to 12 teams and be played in the United States in February 2000.