Wimbledon 1 Blackburn Rovers 1 Earle 76 Sutton pen 47 Half- time: 0-0 Attendance: 12,526

CHRIS SUTTON fired Blackburn Rovers into the fourth round of the Worthington Cup last night with the only goal of a tricky tie away to Crewe Alexandra.

GEORGE GRAHAM will have to pay up to pounds 8m if he wants to sign the Blackburn striker Chris Sutton, and the new Tottenham manager may feel it is too high a price to pay to unsettle Chris Armstrong, Les Ferdinand and Steffen Iversen.

DION DUBLIN'S move to Blackburn Rovers ran into trouble last night with Newcastle United joining the chase.

ARSeNE WENGER , the Arsenal manager, has criticised Chris Sutton for his two-footed lunge on the Gunners' midfielder Patrick Vieira - a challenge that earned the Blackburn striker a red card at Ewood Park on Sunday.

Sutton sent off as Blackburn's Premiership struggles continue while referee shows 13 cards at Elland Road; Blackburn Rovers 1 Arsenal 2

ASTON VILLA are on fire, to use the vernacular, and John Gregory has pounds 20m burning a hole in his pocket. These two facts ought to be sufficient for the Premiership pacesetters to land the top-class finisher they want, yet Chris Sutton has joined the burgeoning list of strikers the Villa manager has tried and failed to sign.

By Alan Nixon

THE NORWEGIANS Kjell Inge Rokke and Bjorn Rune Gjeltsen are looking to buy Manchester City and may drop their interest in Wimbledon.

Blackburn Rovers 0 Lyons 1

GLENN HODDLE, the England coach, was asked yesterday to give Chris Sutton a personal hearing - and an international recall - by the Blackburn Rovers manager, Roy Hodgson.

GLENN HODDLE was last night seeking to avoid the build-up to next month's European Championship double-header being disrupted by the fall- out from Paul Ince's reaction to his sending-off in Stockholm last Saturday.

Tottenham Hotspur 2 Blackburn Rovers 1

TOTTENHAM, WHO have had an offer of pounds 3.5m for Tim Sherwood rejected by Blackburn, intend to pursue their interest not only in the midfielder but also in the striker Chris Sutton, who is valued by Rovers at pounds 9m.