Football: Worthington's Halifax link
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Your support makes all the difference.FRANK WORTHINGTON, the former Leicester and England striker, emerged last night as a candidate for the manager's job at Third Division Halifax Town, which became vacant earlier in the day when John McGrath resigned after only 14 months in office.
It is the hottest of hot seats and the new man will be the 23rd to take the post since the Second World War. Worthington lives nearby and has strong family ties with the club: his father and two brothers both played for Halifax.
Jimmy Case, the player-coach and former Liverpool and Southampton midfielder, is also under consideration to succeed McGrath. The Halifax physiotherapist and former Blackburn defender, Mick Rathbone, has been placed in temporary command.
Brighton, pounds 2.5m in debt and losing pounds 1,000 a day, are considering an offer, believed to be around pounds 4m, to buy the Goldstone Ground. The Second Division club are due to appear in the High Court next week to defend a winding-up petition brought by the Inland Revenue, which is owed pounds 400,000.
Police in Peterborough have charged a 27-year-old man with causing actual bodily harm to the Kingstonian goalkeeper, Adrian Blake, who was felled by a missile in an FA Cup tie at London Road two weeks ago. He also faces a charge under the Football Offences Act, and has been bailed to appear before magistrates in the new year.
The FA Cup tie between Exeter and Swansea, due to be replayed next week after being abandoned five minutes from time when Exeter's floodlights failed on Saturday, has been put on hold by the Football Association. Swansea, who were winning 2-1 when the lights went out, have protested about having to play again. An inquiry will be held on Friday.
Barry Fry, sacked as manager of Barnet last week, has rejected an offer to become the general manager of the GM Vauxhall Conference club, Merthyr Tydfil. Stan Flashman, the Third Division club's chairman, has lodged an appeal against the pounds 50,000 fine imposed by the Football League last month for alleged financial irregularities.
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