The obscure Todd Collins guided the Bills into the lead in the

The obscure Todd Collins guided the Bills into the lead in the first quarter, and then watched as his team's defense humiliated the Dallas superstars. Troy Aikman was intercepted three times, while Emmitt Smith held to 25 yards as the Super Bowl champions were beaten 10-7. They succumbed 23-7 to a team that has only been in the league 13 months, but is now the clear leader of the NFC West. Carolina even managed without their starting quarterback, Steve Beuerlein replacing the injured Kerry Collins.

The game-breaking touchdown came from Robert Smith's 37-yard run, but just as important was the pressure Minnesota exerted on Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre, who was sacked seven times.The 49ers might have been expected to take full advantage of a Pack set- back, but after two comfortable home wins the 49ers visited Carolina, only to find they had left their art in San Francisco. In storming to a 3-0 start the Pack had crushed all opponents with sufficent elan to suggest that the Vikings could only be added to the list of hapless victims.True, the unfancied and unfashionable Vikes were also unbeaten, but their victories were less convincing and most of the news surrounding the team had focused on the scandal involving their head coach, Dennis Green, and a woman who claimed he had paid her to have an abortion.That may change after a thrilling encounter in which the Vikings trailed 17-14 in the fourth quarter. Despite Dallas's faltering start, little occurred in the early skirmishing to revise those predictions, but Sunday's remarkable set of results saw all three beaten, and provided further evidence that we may be in for a compellingly combustible campaign. Perhaps the biggest surprise came in Minnesota, where the Vikings beat the Packers 30-21. Dallas, Green Bay and San Francisco, it was felt, were all but certainties to retain their titles. While the pundits in America prophesised a variety of Super Bowl winners before the season started, there was virtual unanimity as to who would win the three divisions in the National Football Conference.

We are interested in hearing from anyone with the best interests of Cambridge United at heart," Smart said.United fans have seen their side rise from the Southern League to the brink of the top flight in the last two decades.. "The time has come to find out if there is anyone out there who can make the right kind of financial commitment. The Third Division club's chairman, Reg Smart, said a fresh injection of cash was needed to enable the club to grow. "My colleagues and I have given everything we can to the club over recent years," he said. "We now feel that a fresh injection of funds, and individuals on the board, will give the club the boost it needs to develop." The club is struggling on gates of just over 2,000 and is believed to be losing more than pounds 1,000 a day.

Cambridge United was put up for sale by its directors yesterday. Substitutes not used: Watkinson, Moss (gk).Referee: P Durkin (Portland).. Substitutes not used: Harford, Fear, Heald (gk).Southampton (3-4-1-2): Beasant; Monkou, Lundekvam, Dryden; Slater, Magilton (Oakley, 60), Neilson, Charlton; Le Tissier; Shipperley (Potter, 66), Watson (Maddison, 52). The latter held off Richard Dryden to drive a deflected shot beneath the keeper's diving body.The second half opened with Ekoku coming within a whisker of converting a cross by Robbie Earle, but after 73 minutes he atoned with a shot off the underside of the crossbar, having been generously set up by Matt Le Tissier's sloppy back-pass.The Sporting Lisbon striker Paulo Alves, whom Southampton propose to sign for pounds 1m, was apparently at the game but Souness said: "I'm not sure whether he left at half-time."Wimbledon (4-4-2): Sullivan; Cunningham, McAllister, Perry, Kimble; Ardley, Earle, Leonhardsen, Gayle (Blackwell, 81); Ekoku, Holdsworth (Clarke, 81).