Sporting Digest: Football

BILLY McEWAN last night resigned as manager of Darlington, two days after the team went to the bottom of the Third Division after losing 1-0 at Northampton.

NORTHERN IRELAND SQUAD (for World Cup qualifier against Denmark, Copenhagen, 13 October): Wright (Nottm Forest), Fettis (Hull), Fleming (Barnsley), Taggart (Barnsley), Donaghy (Chelsea), McDonald (QPR), Worthington (Sheff Wed), Rowland (West Ham), Wilson (Notts County), Quinn (Reading), Magil=ton (Oxford), Hughes (Strasbourg), Dowie (Southampton), Gray (Sunderland), Black (Nottm Forest), O'Neill (Hibs), McGibbon (Man Utd).

TRANSFER: Kerry Dixon, striker, Southampton to Luton, free.

FA VASE First-round draw: Whickham v Billingham Town; Harrogate Railway v Pickering; Penrith v Eppleton CW; Esh Winning v South Shields; Willington v Prudhoe East End; Ponteland v Seaton Delaval Amateurs; Crook v Evenwood; Eccleshill v Belper; Prescot v Hallam; Rossendale v Bootle; Vauxhall v Denaby; Salford City v RES Parkgate; Liversedge v North Ferriby; Thackley v Stocksbridge Park Steels; Pontefract Collieries v Malbty MW; Merseyside Police v Louth; Osset Albion v Sheffield Bacup; Borough v Clitheroe; Lincoln Utd v Darwen; Kimberley v Nantwich; Yorkshire Amateur v Armthorpe Welfare; Newcastle Town v Glossop NE; Radcliffe Borough v North Trafford; Garforth Town or Maghull v Ilkeston; Friar Lane OB v Cogenhoe; Northampton Spencer v Gedling or Walsall Wood; Arnold v Boldmere St Michaels; Bridgnorth v Lye; Westfields v Racing Club Warwick; Armitage v Chatteris or Stamford; Raunds v Stapenhill; Chasetown v Long Buckby; Daventry or Dunkirk v Rushall Olympic; Rocester v West Bromwich Town; Hinckley Town v Blakenall or Oadby; Holwell Sports v Paget; Oldbury v Alvechurch; March Town v Witham; Spalding or Holbeach v Sawbridgeworth or Bury Town; Lowestoft v Brantham; Harwich & Parkeston v Newmarket; Fakenham or Boston v Mirrlees Blackstone or Sudbury Wand; Haverhill v Tilbury; King's Lynn v Great Yarmouth; Stowmarket v Soham Town; Halstead v Histon; Great Wakering v Cornard or Felixstowe; Edgware Town v Feltham & Hounslow; Tring v Wingate & Finchley or Hatfield; Leverstock Green v Brimsdown; Southall or Burnham v Hemel Hempstead; Concord v Letchworth GC; Ware v Arlesey; Cheshunt v Royston; Hornchurch v Leighton; Harefield v Aveley; Shillington v Burnham Ramblers; Clapton or Dunstable v Barton Rovers; Northwood v Stotfold; Hampton or Collier

Row v Rayners Lane; Hillingdon Borough or Potton v Ford; Epsom and and Ewell or Ashford Town (Middx) v Bedfont; Burgess Hill v Chatham or Southwick; Newhaven or Furness v Tonbridge; Croydon Athletic v Littlehampton; Merstham or Arundel v Lewes; Sheppey or Langney Sports v Corinthian Casuals or Broadbridge Heath; Portfield or Ramsgate v Oakwood or Deal; Alma Swanley v Tunbridge Wells; Crowborough v Slade Green or Ringmer; Rainham or Hanwell v Lancing; Farleigh or Corinthian v Leatherhead or Whitehawk; Wick v Hailsham; Redhill or Godalming & Guildford v Chipstead or Chichester City; Bracknell or Steyning v Thamesmead or Folkestone Invicta; Herne Bay v Three Bridges or Horsham YMCA; Cove v Eastleigh; Newbury v Sandhurst; Lymington v Thame; Hungerford v Melksham; North Leigh v Christchurch; Peppard v Oxford City; Ryde Sports v Andover; Milton v Calne; First Tower v Sherborne or Horndean; Thatcham or Brockenhurst v Aldershot; St Blazey v Chard Town; Odd Down or Chippenham v Torpoint; Yate v Cirencester; Saltash v Barnstaple; Mangotsfield v Minehead; Larkhall v Frome; Bishop Sutton v Bideford; Elmore v Torrington; Taunton v Keynsham; Bridport v Glastonbury or Falmouth. (Matches to be played on 31 October).