FOOTBALL: THAT WAS THE WEEKEND THAT WAS - NET MINDER

"Neither George Graham nor myself have had any contact with Villa about Stan Collymore. We have a target, not in this country, who is recovering from a minor foot injury."

David Pleat, denying on Tottenham's website that they are to sign Collymore. However, reports linking Spurs with Fabrizio Ravanelli, who does not have a foot injury, have not been quashed. http://www.spurs.co.uk