PAUL STEWART SET TO JOIN SUNDERLAND

Football

Paul Stewart, the Liverpool player, is set to join Sunderland on a month's loan.

The Croatian side Hajduk Split will play their European Cup preliminary round home leg against Panathinaikos of Greece, on 23 August, in Rijeka near the Italian border, for security reasons.

NORTHERN IRELAND'S SQUAD (v Portugal, European Championship Group six, Oporto, 3 Sept): Fettis (Hull), Wood (Walsall), Patterson (Crystal Palace), Hill (Leicester), Taggart (Bolton), Gillespie (Newcastle), Lomas (Man City), Worthington (Leeds), Lennon (Crewe), Magilton (Southampton), Hughes (Strasbourg), Dowie (Crystal Palace), McGibbon (Man Utd), McMahon (Tottenham), Gray (Sunderland), Rowland (West Ham), Masters (Wolverhampton), Wilson (Walsall).

INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY (Caragena, Sp): Deportivo La Coruna (Sp) 7 Bayern Munich (Ger) 0.