Sporting Digest: Football

KEITH CURLE is to sign a contract with Manchester City that will keep him at the club until 1998.

DON HUTCHISON, the Liverpool midfielder, requires cartilage surgery and will be out for six weeks.

THE FA Cup second-round tie between Lincoln City and Bolton Wanderers will be played on the evening of Saturday 4 December and televised live by Sky Sports.

SWINDON TOWN, the Premiership strugglers, will sign Keith Scott, the Wycombe Wanderers striker who has scored 15 goals so far this season, today for pounds 300,000.

TRANSFER: Mark Robson, winger, West Ham to Charlton ( pounds 125,000).

J LEAGUE: Verdy Kawasaki 3 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1; Shimizu S-Pulse 2 Nagoya Grampus Eight 0; Kashima Antlers 3 Yokohama Flugels 2 (aet); Yokohama Marinos 4 Gamba Osaka 0; Urawa Red Diamonds 3 JEF United Ichihara 2. Leading positions: 1 Verdy Kawasaki (P 13, Pts 22); 2 Shimizu S- Pulse (13-22); 3 Kashima Antlers (13-14); 4 Yokohama Flugels (13-14).