If he moves up to the main squad he will play Smith said

"If he moves up to the main squad he will play," Smith said.The Tranmere midfielder Liam O'Brien has been added to the Republic of Ireland squad for next week's European Championship match in Dublin against Northern Ireland, who have called up the Walsall goalkeeper, Trevor Wood - born in Jersey - in place of Nottingham Forest's Tommy Wright.The Everton midfielder Graham Stuart, who has started just four matches since Joe Royle took over at Goodison Park, has asked for a transfer after being left out of the Merseysiders' squad against Queen's Park Rangers on Saturday.Lucas Radebe, Leeds United's South African defender, will be out of action for the rest of the season after surgery revealed that he has torn a cruciate ligament.. The Arsenal teenager, who has featured in the club's Cup-Winners' Cup campaign since his £2.1m transfer from Luton, has been placed on stand- by for the senior side for the European Championship qualifier in Sofia. He is likely to fill the attacking void should Ian Rush, who pulled a hamstring in Liverpool's 2-0 win over Manchester United on Sunday, and Leicester's Iwan Roberts, fail fitness tests. John Hartson's European adventures could take on an international aspect should, as expected, the Wales manager Mike Smith include him in the team to face Bulgaria next week, writes Andy Martin. We'll be just fine."The co-ed crew of 15 women and one man on Bill Koch's Mighty Mary boosted morale with a strong performance against Dennis Conner's Stars & Stripes, leading by nearly two minutes at the halfway point of ther defender race.While Coutts was making easy work of beating Nippon Challenge, leading by over 100 seconds at the end of the first leg, Chris Dickson's Tag Heuer was giving Rod Davis a hard time in oneAustralia.Dickson built a handy lead over the opening three miles, and was still leading comfortably as he made the final turn for home.. We probably have the most vicious racing in- house, including bangs and holes We did about 20 starts the other day That got the sweat up.

He's really grabbed the thing."If we are fortunate enough to win the Louis Vuitton Cup, it would be very nice, but if we went on and didn't win the America's Cup it wouldn't mean anything," said a smiling Blake, who is also sailing on the boat at the grand old age of 46.And the Aussies, considered so strong before the months of trial races began? "We'll be just fine. "I'm never allowed to go into the red - the trustees won't let us."But this time it seems to be coming good. "This won't make Coutts - he is already made," Blake said, "He is quite brilliant It's his programme. "You can have as much technology as you like, though, but first and foremost you need people with ideas."On a relatively small budget - under £11m - they have come up with a pair of boats, either of which seems capable of winning the challenge slot against the six other contenders.

They are also giving their sponsors, from the state-owned Lotto to the ubiquitous Steinlager, a great ride for their money."Everything over $100 I sign off personally," said Blake, who has that touch of Scottish presbyterianism that Kiwis often demonstrate in their approach to money. It is a reserve of power that has been the goal of every America's Cup competitor, defender or challenger, and Blake is proud it has been achieved by human intuition, not just computers."We have just as good computer capacity as everyone else, and the people to drive them," said the man who clearly hated life with the Cup in 1992 and now says he is enjoying it very much. SAILING STUART ALEXANDER reports from San DiegoThe Kiwis are feeling pretty confident these days. After the pressure cooker atmosphere of the Michael Fay regime, Peter Blake is running an altogether more relaxed team, based right in the middle of the favourite bars and restaurants here while the two "black boats" are so much faster on the water that skipper Russell Coutts' opponents have given up thoughts of bringing him down. They are racing for second place in the Louis Vuitton Cup.Sometimes it can be painful to watch as Coutts the conservative comes from behind, climbing all over a rival as though with crampons, using human as well as boat hull footholds to claw his way to the front.

The son of a Stranraer ferryman, Calderwood had an ill-starred introduction to senior football as a 17-year-old with Mansfield. His signing forms did not reach the Football League before his debut at Crewe, and the club had two points deducted for fielding an unregistered player. He moved on to Swindon, captaining the side during their rise under Lou Macari and Ossie Ardiles.Calderwood followed Ardiles to Spurs but was about to re-unite with Macari at Celtic last May before the latter was sacked. Early this season he agreed to return to Swindon on loan until John Gorman was also dismissed He has now established a partnership with Gary Mabbutt.

"Gerry Francis has turned everything round, for myself and the club," he said. But Wembley beckons, and Calderwood was named yesterday in Scotland's squad for the European Championship qualifier in Russia a week tomorrow."Colin is the form player in a form team - a no-nonsense player, diligent marker and good user of the ball," Craig Brown, the Scotland manager, explained. "He's also got experience of the kind of atmosphere we'll encounter in Moscow, because he's playing in it every week."That was not always the case. FOOTBALL BY PHIL SHAW Colin Calderwood will next week complete one of football's more implausible odysseys, from Mansfield to Moscow, a mere 13 years after setting out.At 30, and with only a Fourth Division championship medal to his name, the Tottenham centre-back may have rated his international prospects about as highly as Spurs' chances of winning the FA Cup before Alan Sugar's lawyers went to work. In today's last-32 stage Bryanston will face Skinners, who overcame former winners Bedford Modern in a very competitive Group D. "We've beaten Millfield and won the recent Windsor Sevens so we arrived with confidence," said Bryanston master, Mike Pyrgos, after the first day of the tournament, now in its 57th year, which brings together over 3,000 boys and 334 schools and colleges from all over the country.The 1994 winners of the Festival Tournament - staged for one-term rugby schools - King's Taunton, were knocked out by the impressive and expansive Bromsgrove School, guided by the Midland scrum-half, Giles Thomas, and Ed Sawtell, who ran in 12 tries.Liam Botham's Rossall School were knocked out in a last 32 tie against Wellington College 35-7.NATIONAL SCHOOLS SEVENS (Rosslyn Park) Round-robin winners: Group A: Blundell's Group B: Tonbridge Group C: Bryanston Group D: Skinners Group E: Worth Group F: Culford Group G: Davenant Foundation Group H: Cranleigh Group I: Oratory Group J: Portsmouth.Group K: Radley Group L: Kelly College Group M: Bromsgrove Group N: Epsom Group O: King's, Canterbury Group P: Ivybridge Group Q: Stowe Group R: Loughborough Group S: Wellington College Group T: Rossall Group U: Oakham Group V: King's, Worcester.Photograph, page 40.