Sporting Digest: Football

BRISTOL CITY were yesterday fined pounds 40,000 by the FA for breaking Football Trust rules in applying for ground improvement grants. Leslie Kew, the City chairman and an FA councillor, was banned from football for nine months and ordered to pay pounds 2,000 in costs. Of the fine, pounds 30,000 is suspended for two years and the club eventually may have to hand over just pounds 10,000. City were also ordered to pay pounds 8,000 costs.

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BORD GAIS LEAGUE OF IRELAND Premier Division: Bohemians 3 Cork City 4; Drogheda Utd 1 Monaghan Utd 4.

NEVILLE OVENDEN COMBINATION First Division: Norwich 1 Crystal Palace 1.

UNIJET SUSSEX COUNTY LEAGUE First Division: Newhaven 5 Bexhill Town 4.

GERMAN LEAGUE: Kaiserslautern 3 Cologne 0; Dynamo Dresden 1 Leipzig 0; Schalke 4 Wattenscheid 1. Leading positions: 1 Eintracht Frankfurt (P 17, Pts 24); 2 Kaiserslautern (18-23); 3 Bayern Munich (17-22); 4 Duisburg (17-22).