Now he should instead make his Pars debut at Kilmarnock with the bottom

Now he should instead make his Pars debut at Kilmarnock with the bottom club, Dunfermline.. "To be honest with you, when you play as we did two years ago and lose by 40 points, you don't deserve the support of the crowd. Because the second legs of the respective European ties take place the week after next, the Met Police (keen on anything that improves their popularity at present?) have agreed that a replay of tomorrow's game would be on Wednesday.Should the Old Trafford match live up to expectations, the second half of tomorrow's double bill, between Newcastle and Everton, will do well to come close to it in terms of entertainment. Moreno Torricelli, a defender, scored their only goal in those games. Batistuta has resumed training, but is unlikely to start, while the Brazilian striker Edmundo has a badly-bruised chest so the Belgian midfielder Luis Oliveira may play up front.

The midfielder Christian Amoroso returns but the defender Pasquale Padalino is doubtful.The "purple princes" are against it for Parma have an awesome array of talent this term. Adopting an attacking 3-4-3 formation under Alberto Malesani, their coach, Parma have been terrifying at times. They have strength from back to front with Gianluigi Buffon in goal, French World Cup winner Lilian Thuram and Fabio Cannavaro in their back three, Diego Fuser and Dino Baggio in midfield, and a strike force which perms three from four out of Enrico Chiesa, Faustino Asprilla, the ex-Newcastle Colombian, and Hernan Crespo and Abel Balbo, Batistuta's Argentinian understudies. But, best of all, sitting in behind the front three is Juan Sebastian Veron, the superb Argentinian playmaker.Parma come into this game following a 2-1 defeat at Bordeaux in the first- leg of their Uefa Cup quarter-final tie on Tuesday, a tie in which Malesani controversially rested players with this game - for which the injured French international midfielder Alain Boghossian may be replaced by Stefano Fiore - in mind.Tomorrow: Bari v Internazionale; Bologna v Venezia; Cagliari v Vicenza; Fiorentina v Parma; Lazio v Salernitana; Milan v Piacenza; Perugia v Empoli; Udinese v Roma Tomorrow night: Sampdoria v Juventus.. CHELSEA'S CHAIRMAN, Ken Bates, has widened his attack on Liverpool in the war of words following Graeme Le Saux's clash with Robbie Fowler. He has now criticised Michael Owen and David James, while describing Fowler's actions as a "sad commentary for the decline of a once-great team". Bates had already attacked Fowler for allegedly baiting Le Saux with sexual comments which provoked the Chelsea full-back to elbow him in the head.Now Bates has gone further in condemning "pretty unpleasant behaviour both on and off the pitch" by Liverpool players at Stamford Bridge last weekend.He wrote in Thursday night's programme before Chelsea's Cup-Winners' Cup win over Valerenga: "Owen may be angel-faced but angel he isn't. James' childish behaviour was unnecessary, but Fowler's behaviour was quite frankly disgusting."After reviewing video replays of the Liverpool game, the Football Association charged both Le Saux and Fowler with misconduct, but Bates feels, that the use of television evidence is "too hit and miss"."I have said for nearly five years to the FA and I will say it again - we have a choice, either ignore all TV evidence, and if the referee doesn't see it, then that is the end of the matter."Alternatively, all videos of all matches should be viewed by a panel of respected senior retired referees on Sunday to Monday.

An unbeaten run of 16 games is the club's best since an identical time of year in 1981-2, when , for those who like omens, they reached the final of both domestic cups.No sorrows have had to be drowned anywhere in north London since well before Christmas, as Arsenal are also on a long run without defeat (13 or 14 games, according to whether Sheffield United counts as one match or two). While Barnsley have slipped back to something nearer their natural station in life over the past year, particularly short of goals and even players, this is the Tottenham of Mr Graham, not Herr Gross. Everton will be uncomfortably aware that any benefit to their confidence from an extended run in the competition might come at the expense of injuries, suspensions or points, weakening an already anaemic Premiership campaign.If Chelsea's visit to Manchester is the match of the round, Tottenham's trek to Barnsley is the most authentic FA Cup tie, one rendered even tastier by the home team's 3-1 success against them in the fourth round last season, prior to devouring Manchester United as well.A repeat would, nevertheless, be even more startling. If he does not notch one soon for Wrexham, it could even go down as the last of his famous career.Newcastle, of course, went on from that game all the way to Wembley. Comfortable in mid-table, they can afford to be single-minded about the Cup again. All that remains in the memory of last season's televised third-round tie between them at Goodison is that the only goal was scored for Newcastle by a certain Ian Rush.

The absence of United's Jaap Stam looks less serious in comparison."We go there with confidence," Vialli insisted, after his team had followed United's dramatic Inter-mezzo on Wednesday with a more languid waltz through the Norwegian Wood in the Cup-Winners' Cup the following night. If the pattern is changed tomorrow, it may be in part because the London club are suffering for greater sins over the past few weeks, leading to suspensions for important players in every area of the pitch - Franck Leboeuf, Dennis Wise, Celestine Babayaro and Gianluca Vialli. The familiarity between Manchester United and Chelsea, preparing to collide at Old Trafford tomorrow, will be greatest of all. Last season there were four meetings, including the Charity Shield and an FA Cup third-round match at Stamford Bridge, in which Chelsea suffered the unusual fate of scoring three goals, each nothing more than a consolation - United, irrepressible in attack, already had five in the locker.