Sporting Digest: Football
DAVID SMITH, the Birmingham City winger, has joined West Bromwich Albion for pounds 90,000. Also leaving St Andrews is another forward, Louie Donowa, who has moved to Shrewsbury Town on a month's loan with a view to a permanent pounds 50,000 transfer.
THE Bulgarian club Botev Plovdiv was yesterday suspended by Uefa for one season in European competition after an alleged attempt to bribe a member of its appeals jury before a hearing on the possibility of reducing a five-season suspension on the Botev player, Georgi Donkov, who was sent off for spitting in a linesman's face during a European Cup match in Athens against Olympiakos Piraeus on 29 September.
ENDSLEIGH LEAGUE SECOND DIVISION
Swansea City (0)1 Hartlepool Utd (0)1
Jenkins 88 Thompson 832,573
BEAZER HOMES LEAGUE Premier Division: Hednesford 3 Gresley Rovers 1.
FRENCH LEAGUE: Marseille 2 Monaco 1.
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