Sporting Digest: Football

Alex Totten, the Falkirk manager, has signed a new three-year contract. Totten has been at the club since December 1996 during which time they have reached the final of the Scottish Cup and won the Challenge Cup.

Nationwide have named Steve Braddock of Arsenal as the Premier League groundsman of the year award for the 1998-99 season. Mick Moore of Oxford United won the First Division award. Bryan Horner of York and Ian Darler of Cambridge United collected the awards for the Second and Third Divisions respectively.