Sporting Digest: Football

Huddersfield Town have transferred the defender Sam Collins and the striker Ian Lawson to Bury.

Derby will play their only pre-season game at Pride Park against CSKA Moscow on Friday, 30 July.

A deal, thought to be for the next six years, has been struck between the Welsh Rugby Union and the FA of Wales for all Welsh football internationals to be played at the new Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Kilmarnock's Uefa Cup game against KR Reykjavik has been switched to the national stadium in Iceland because of the interest in the qualifying round tie. KR's ground only holds 2,500 spectators. The first leg is on 12 August with the return at Rugby Park two weeks later.

Uefa has amended the result of a European Under-21 match to 3-0 to the Republic of Ireland because their opponents, Macedonia, fielded an ineligible player. The Group Eight qualifier in Galway on 8 June had ended in a goalless draw, but Macedonia's Ilir Elmazovski had sat out only one game of a three- match ban and was therefore ineligible to play.

Hristo Stoichkov has left the Japanese side Kashiwa Reysol. The 33-year- old Bulgarian told the club that his motivation to play has declined.

The Arsenal teenager, Jermaine Pennant, was the man of the match as England Under-16s were held to a 1-1 draw by France last night. Pennant was a constant threat to France throughout at Northwich Victoria, in the opening game of the Nationwide three-team mini-tournament. Newcastle's Michael Chopra opened the scoring for England after 55 minutes. France equalised five minutes from time through Briou Bergougnoux. England play Argentina in the final game of the tournament at Wembley on Sunday.