Sporting Digest: Football

Brian Borrows, the 36-year-old former Bolton and Everton defender, has joined Swindon from Coventry on a free transfer.

Swansea City have made eight players available for transfer: Steve Watkin, Dave O'Gorman, Kwame Ampadu, Joao Moreira, Linton Brown, Gary Jones, Lee Jones and Roger Freestone.

The Italian Serie A club Sampdoria have hired Vujadin Boskov for his second spell as coach.

Ukraine's football federation has banned the midfielder Sergei Nahornyak from all football for two years for failing a drugs test after the first leg of the World Cup play-off against Croatia. The Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk player has also been given a lifetime ban from the Ukrainian League.