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Saturday 23 May 1998 (Evening Edition)
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WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN
Only 17 Days To Go!
ANELKA AXED BY FRENCH
ARSENAL'S FA Cup hero Nicolas Anelka has had his World Cup dream shattered by French manager Aime Jacquet. The teenage striker, who scored the Gunners' decisive second goal at Wembley last Saturday, was one of six players dropped from France's preliminary squad yesterday, although his Highbury teammates Emmanuel Petit and Patrick Vieira have both survived. Also axed by Jacquet was AC Milan striker Ibrahim Ba, who has recently been linked with a move to Chelsea. But another of the Stamford Bridge side's Milan targets, central defender Marcel Desailly, is in the 22 alongside potential Blues teammate Frank 'The Beef' Leboeuf.
Full French squad: Goalkeepers: Fabien Barthez (Monaco), Lionel Charbonnier (Auxerre), Bernard Lama (West Ham). Defenders: Laurent Blanc (Marseille), Vincent Candela (AS Roma), Marcel Desailly (AC Milan), Frank Leboeuf (Chelsea), Bixente Lizarazu (Bayern Munich), Lilian Thuram (Parma). Midfielders: Alain Boghossian (Sampdoria), Didier Deschamps (Juventus), Bernard Diomede (Auxerre), Youri Djorkaeff (Inter Milan), Christian Karembeu (Real Madrid), Emmanuel Petit (Arsenal) Robert Pires (Metz), Patrick Vieira (Arsenal), Zinedine Zidane (Juventus). Forwards: Christophe Dugarry (Marseille), Stephane Guivarc'h (Auxerre), Thierry Henry (Monaco), David Trezeguet (Monaco).
INJURY SCARE OVER ROMARIO
ROMARIO gave Brazil a scare when he limped out of their first training session in France, after straining a calf muscle. Team doctor Lidio Toledo said the injury did not appear to be serious, but the striker is likely to be rested for the World Cup holders' friendly against Spanish side Real Betis next Sunday.
SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKER GETS SHIRTY OVER SQUAD NUMBERS
STRIKER Benni McCarthy has threatened to walk out on South Africa's World Cup campaign in a row over shirt numbers. The 20-year-old, who was joint leading scorer in this year's African Nations Cup finals, was furious when his favourite No. 17 shirt was handed to fellow striker Shaun Bartlett. McCarthy immediately issued his threat to quit and was only placated when South African Football Association president Molefi Oliphant and captain Lucas Radebe of Leeds United stepped in to persuade Bartlett to wear No. 9 instead.
MUSIC STOPS FOR REGGAE BOYZ COACH
JAMAICA coach Rene Simoes is to quit after the World Cup finals, after a local newspaper reported details of his salary. The Brazilian, credited with turning the Caribbean country's football fortunes around, was furious that his £150,000 package had been made public and insisted: I have no intentions of renewing my contract with this country's money. Simoes believes that resistance to his policy of dropping homegrown footballers to bring in players born abroad of Jamaican ancestry resulted in the leak. He will now leave when his contract expires in October.
RED HENNING'S LIFE ON DISC
MANCHESTER UNITED'S Norwegian international Henning Berg is releasing his life story on CD-Rom. The defender hopes to appeal to young players with stories about his playing career, but admitted: Making a lot of money was not the driving force behind the project.
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TODAY'S FOOTBALL ON TV AND RADIO
PICK OF THE DAY
2pm, Sky Sports 2; Second Division Play-off Final The Mariners take on the Cobblers in this battle of the most exciting nicknames in football. Who'll get to pit their tactical wits against Graham Taylor next season? And who will be forced to go to Maine Road?
BBC2
1.30pm, Sunday Grandstand Expect at least some reference to Saturday's goings-on at Wembley among the depressing litany of showjumping and international lacrosse from Eastbourne.
CNN
9.30pm, World Cup Weekly Cringeworthy Americanisms aside, a half-decent round-up show hosted by the wooden Terry Badu. Erykah Badu would be better.
EUROSPORT
3.30pm, Spain v Russia, UEFA U-21 Championship Quarter-Final Live from Bucharest, Romania. Think Archie McPherson will be there? Think again.
7pm, Norway v Sweden, UEFA U-21 Championship Quarter-Final More from Bucharest while Archie sweats it out in his Docklands studio. Allegedly.
FOX KIDS
7.30am, Futbol Mundial (Repeated at 2.30pm) They're a bit short of cartoons on Fox Kids, then…
SKY SCOTTISH
7pm, The Beautiful Game Scottish football nostalgia, from a year when the title was won by Celtic. Or Rangers.
SKY SPORTS 1
7.30pm, Football League Review Highlights of this afternoon's Second Division play-off final. Will almost certainly benefit from only being 60 minutes long.
SKY SPORTS 2
7.30am, Futbol Mundial They're a bit short of cartoons on Sky Sports 2 as well…
8am, Soccer Extra The best football talk forum of the week, with the in-no-way media-hungry Brian Woolnough of the Sun.
1pm, Ford International Football Yesterday's epic battle against the Saudis reviewed.
RADIO 5
1pm, Sunday Sport The usual mixture of stories about Adolf Hitler being alive, women with 80-inch breasts and adverts for premium-rate phone lines. Possibly.
TODAY'S TRIVIA
Do You Know This Man?
AS WORLD Cup squads are announced left, right and centre, we nip back to the build-up to the 1950 World Cup. While England won their final warm-up match 4-1 in Belgium, the FA, in their infinite wisdom, had selected one major star to play in their representative side touring the United States. He played in a win against the USA but was not selected when the full England side played the same opponents in the finals… and lost, 1-0. He was brought in for the last group game against Spain but could not prevent a 1-0 defeat as England went out in farcical fashion. Who was that wide man?
Yesterday, we asked you who the third sub was when England last played Saudi Arabia, ten years ago an embarrassing 1-1 draw in Riyadh. Gazza made an early appearance, replacing debutant Michael Thomas, Alan Smith came on for Peter Beardsley and Brian Marwood took the Arsenal contingent involved up to five when he came on for Chris Waddle. His international career lasted only nine minutes, but his media career has been more prolonged, commenting for Radio 5, doing major PR for Nike UK and hosting his own footie show on Three Counties Radio in Herts, Beds and Bucks!
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BOLLOCKS!
"I just want to be known for my football," moans David Beckham in Saturday's Sun. "I find it odd when I am on the front pages because I dyed my hair blond."
If Becks would like the nasty old media to lay off, then perhaps he should stop signing lucrative sponsorship deals with the likes of Brylcreem - whose products just happen to be highly visible in a clearly posed picture of Becks and interviewer in, you guessed it, Saturday's Sun.
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