London Broncos are to test the water away from their Twickenham base in effort to boost worrying attendances.

Football fans will be allowed to attend a League Two match after a row over policing costs was resolved.

This compilation of Michael Palin and Terry Jones's absurd half-hour adventure parodies from the Seventies is worth it alone for the stupendous send-up of British public schools in Tomkinson's Schooldays, in which pupils wrestle grizzly bears, beat their headmaster and are nailed to the school walls on St Tadger's Day.

Gillingham 1 Stoke City 3

Gillingham 1 Stoke City 3: Gulf in class is plain to see for chairman Scally as Gills are eventually put in their place by Stoke

Gillingham 1 Stoke 3

The revelation that the BBC is likely to drop its Saturday-night coverage of the Football League in order to preserve its dwindling sports budget for Match of the Day's pundits was another blow for players in the vibrant, but increasingly sidelined world beyond the Premier League.

Gillingham's FA Cup third-round match with Stoke tomorrow could be postponed on police advice, according to Medway Council.

Excitement in Manchester as arch-rivals drawn to meet in FA Cup third round

Blue Square Conference leaders Wrexham led the giantkilling in yesterday's FA Cup Second Round, Jamie Tolley's goal just after the half-hour enough to beat League One Brentford 1-0 at Griffin Park and earn the Red Dragons a place in this afternoon's Third Round draw, with its tantalising potential for a tie at Old Trafford, Anfield or the Emirates.

Stourbridge heaped more misery on impoverished Plymouth Argyle last night, embarrassing the south coast side 2-0 in their FA Cup first-round replay to reach the second round for the first time in their history.

Fleetwood Town pulled off one of the shocks of the FA Cup first round as they beat League One side Wycombe Wanderers 2-0 on Saturday, despite playing half the game with 10 men.

The Football League Column: The annual wage bill doubled this season (players are now paid 52 weeks a year, not 44) but remains less than Carlos Tevez receives in a month

It is hardly unknown for a new season to begin with zealous match officials engaged on some "clampdown" or other, after which managers protest furiously about the need to show some common sense and everything returns to normal.