NO RAY OF HOPE FOR HARFORD
Ray Harford is meeting the Queens Park Rangers board today to discuss plans for next season but 365 understands he'll be told that they don't include him. QPR chairman Chris Wright was stunned by the club's rapid decline under Tommy Cooper-lookalike Harford's management, and as we revealed exclusively four weeks ago, Vinny Jones is expected to move from his present player-coach role into the top job.
The west Londoners narrowly avoided relegation from the First Division at the weekend after they lost at home to fellow strugglers Bury, and now Wright is ready to wield the axe little more than five months into Harford's reign.
The former Blackburn and Wimbledon boss claims that the plan this afternoon is to work out how much cash is needed for players this summer yet with the current squad under orders to report to the Loftus Road later today, his dismissal seems a far better bet.
That would pave the way for him to go to St James Park as assistant to Newcastle manager Kenny Dalglish. The two worked together at Blackburn when they won the title in 1995.

TOP KOP AIMS HIGHER
Michael Owen has his shooting boots aimed at new champions Arsenal, who visit Anfield tonight aware the Roy Evans' side are one of only four to beat them in the League this term. If Owen can find the net twice, the 18-year-old can go into the last game of the season top of the Premiership scoring charts.
The goal he scored in the 5-0 rout of West Ham last Saturday took his total to in the Premiership to 17 - level with Blackburn's Chris Sutton.
Owen said: ''I've got 17 in the league and 22 in all games - and I'm very pleased with that. But it would be great to finish as the top scorer. Sutton is my nearest rival and I just have to go out and score a few more in our last two games. It would top a great season off for me. Liverpool haven't managed to win anything which is a big disappointment but from a personal point of view it would be a great to end up highest scorer in my first season. It's something I want, obviously - and would be a nice way to finish off before heading, hopefully, to the World Cup.

DONS CHASE CORAZZIN
Expect Aberdeen to win the race for Plymouth top scorer Carlo Corazzin. The Scottish Premiership side head a list of clubs interested in the Argyle hitman, who rattled in 17 goals this season, and the lure of top-level football, even if it is in Scotland, does sound stronger than that of newly-promoted Second Division champions Watford as well as play-off qualifiers Gillingham.
The popular Canadian international becomes a free agent in summer and said after his side's relegation at the weekend: Clubs have spoken to me through my agent, although I have not been offered anything yet.

JURGEN TO JET OFF TO STATES
Jurgen Klinsmann will jet across the Atlantic after the World Cup finals to play in the United States - unless he and Tottenham manager Christian Gross settle their personal differences.
The German star, whose four-goal blitz against Wimbledon helped secure Tottenham's position in the FA Carling Premiership for another season, admitted that he is unable to forget his public bust-up with Gross back in March.
The cause of the rift centred on where best to use David Ginola, with Klinsmann insisting it would be better if the talented Frenchman played as a winger but Gross refused to agree.
Defender Colin Calderwood summed up the accepted view within the club when he said: ''We've known from the start Jurgen was going at the end of the season. When he came it was a two-way thing - he was coming to help us and to help himself. He needed to play games to keep in Germany's World Cup plans and we needed to score goals.''
Meanwhile sacked Atletico Madrid coach Raddy Antic could be on his way to White Hart Lane if Christian Gross. He played at Luton under David Pleat who is, of course, technical director at Spurs.

CITY NOT GOING FOR £50MILLION
Manchester City chairman David Bernstein is denying his relegated club are the subject of a £50m take-over bid from computer games king Ian Livingstone, chairman of Eidos, who created the Tomb Raider series of games featuring Lara Croft.
But the man who recently took over from Francis Lee confirmed he is attempting to raise significant funds at to Maine Road to help manager Joe Royle rebuild a squad for next season's Division Two campaign.
Bernstein said talk of a take-over was completely inappropriate before adding: ''I've had a number of very positive discussions in the City of London. I believe if we'd stayed in the First Division we'd have raised substantial capital.
''It will be somewhat more difficult now. But I'll do everything I can to raise a reasonable amount of funds to get ourselves properly capitalised and to give the manager the ammunition he needs to get the squad properly balanced. I believe ideally, we require a quality financial partner - possibly a partner we can go back to when the club's more successful.