Sporting Digest: Football
JOHN DOCHERTY, the former Bradford City, Millwall, Brentford and Cambridge United manager, is to take charge at the GM Vauxhall Conference club, Slough Town, in succession to David Kemp, who has become first-team coach at Crystal Palace.
PSV EINDHOVEN dismissed their coach, Hans Westerhof, yesterday, after a season in which the Dutch club lost their league title to Feyenoord, were knocked out of the Dutch Cup at an early stage, and finished last in their Champions' League group.
ARCHIE MacAULAY, a former Scottish international who played for Arsenal, West Ham, Fulham and Brentford, has died at the age of 77. He was the manager of Norwich City, then in the Third Division, when they reached the FA Cup semi-finals in 1959.
TOULON UNDER-21 TOURNAMENT Group B (Draguignan): England 0 Brazil 0. (Berre): Portugal 2 Czech Republic 1. Final standings: 1 England (P 3, Pts 4); 2 Portugal (3-4); 3 Czech Republic (3-3); 4 Brazil (3-1). (England and Portugal qualify for semi-finals).
WORLD CUP Asian Zone first round Group D (Seoul): Lebanon 2 (Ayoub 41, Joulfagi 79) India 1 (Thakur 34); Bahrain 3 (Marzooq 1, Mubarak 46, Thani 49) Hong Kong 0.
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