Sporting Digest: Football

STEVE BULL, the Wolverhampton Wanderers striker, will be out for at least two months with a ruptured medial ligament and a torn cartilage, sustained during Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round victory at Port Vale.

CARDIFF CITY'S FA Cup fifth-round tie, against Newcastle or Luton, will be at Ninian Park on Sunday 20 February to avoid a clash with the rugby union international between Wales and France the previous day.

DIEGO MARADONA has left his club, Newell's Old Boys, 'depressed and injured', the club president, Walter Cattaneo, said yesterday.

MONDAY'S LATE RESULT: Jewson Eastern League Premier Division: Histon 1 Newmarket 4.

TRANSFERS: Craig Napier, defender, Hamilton to Kilmarnock ( pounds 60,000); Martin McIntosh, defender, Clydebank to Hamilton ( pounds 30,000).