Sporting Digest: Football

Clydebank's delayed Scottish Cup fourth-round tie against Dundee United scheduled for tonight has been postponed at the insistence of the Scottish Football Association. The decision caused surprise among Clydebank officials as Kenny Clark, the referee, had said after yesterday's lunchtime inspection that he was willing to look at the Boghead pitch again this morning. Gordon Chisholm, Clydebank's assistant manager, said: "We said that we would work on the pitch tomorrow in the hope that it would be playable, but it seems that Dundee United wanted a decision today. We all know the history of Boghead and that a number of games have been cancelled this season. The tie has been rescheduled for next Monday and there is no saying that the pitch will be any better then." A trip to Ayr United in the quarter-finals of the Cup awaits the eventual winners of the tie.

Goce Sedloski, the 25-year-old Macedonian international midfielder, who was released by Sheffield Wednesday before Christmas, has signed for Croatia Zagreb.

Steve Howard, the Hartlepool striker, has joined Northampton in a deal which could eventually be worth pounds 120,000. The 22-year-old is set to make his debut against Walsall in the Second Division tonight.

Dundee have signed Steven Boyack from Rangers for pounds 25,000, an increase of pounds 5,000 on the original offer that Jocky Scott, the Dens Park manager, made last week.

The Football League has appointed Terry Heilbron to referee the Worthington Cup final between Leicester and Tottenham at Wembley on 21 March. Heilbron, aged 46, is from Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. His two assistants for the game will be Trevor Pollard from Bury St Edmunds and Steve Tomlin from Lewes.