Football

Middlesbrough will today complete the pounds 1.5m signing of the Bradford City goalkeeper, Mark Schwarzer, and will sell their keeper, Alan Miller, to West Bromwich for pounds 500,000 next week.

Brighton's Third Division match against Barnet, scheduled for 31 March, has been put back a day on police advice.

Mark Lillis, Scunthorpe United's first-team coach, has been appointed the club's caretaker manager following this week's departure of Mick Buxton.

Swansea City, Cardiff City, Bournemouth, Bristol Rovers and Bristol City have been excluded from the Avon Insurance Combination League's First Division for next season. They will be invited to re-form the Combination's Second Division next season.

Ray Clemence, the former England goalkeeper, has become part-time goalkeeping coach at Southampton.

Birmingham's Paul Devlin has been banned for four matches following his second sending-off of the season.

Newcastle United have agreed to put their Czech goalkeeper, Pavel Srnicek, on the transfer list.

The former Wales striker Malcolm Allen has joined the GM Vauxhall Conference champions, Stevenage Borough.