Leicester given green light to dismiss Wise

Dennis Wise had his contract terminated by Leicester City yesterday after the First Division club won an appeal to the Football League.

The Foxes had wanted to scrap Wise's contract following an incident involving Callum Davidson during the club's pre-season tour of Finland. The former England midfielder took the matter to the League's Football Disciplinary Commission, which told Leicester that they could only fine the player. The club went to the League's Appeals Committee, which found in their favour after a six-hour hearing.

Richard Dunne, who turned up for training in a dishevelled state at the weekend, has been fined two weeks' wages by Manchester City and put on a strict training programme, starting at 8am every day.

The Republic of Ireland defender was given a reprieve after a meeting with club officials and Gordon Taylor, the Professional Footballers' Association chief executive, yesterday. The club's manager, Kevin Keegan, had wanted to fire Dunne but instead he was told that a two-week fine was the maximum punishment City could impose because Dunne had not received sufficient written warnings.

Wimbledon have been granted planning permission to proceed with the development of the National Bowl in Milton Keynes as a temporary football stadium. Milton Keynes Council's Development Control Committee made the decision last night.

The Dons hope to move in for the Boxing Day First Division fixture against Watford. Their chairman, Charles Koppel, said: "We are delighted with the news."

England have dropped two places in the latest world rankings issued by the game's world ruling body, Fifa. They played only one match – the friendly draw with Portugal – in the past month and have fallen to ninth, with both Turkey and the United States overhauling them.

Mauro, the captain of the Brazil team who won the 1962 World Cup in Chile and a member of the renowned Santos team of the early 1960s, died yesterday at the age of 72.

The former central defender, famous for his elegant style of play, passed away in Pocos de Caldas, the town where he was born, in the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais after a battle against cancer, his family told local media.

His death came one day after that of another Brazilian World Cup winner, the striker Dida, who was a member of the victorious 1958 squad in Sweden and kept his place four years later. Mauro was a reserve at both the 1954 and 1958 tournaments.