Sporting Digest: Football

LEIGHTON JAMES, the former Welsh international winger, has been appointed manager of the Northern Premier League club, Morecambe, after a spell in charge of Gainsborough Trinity.

PONTINS LEAGUE First Division: Liverpool 1 Derby 3; Sheffield Wedy 0 Wolves 1; Sunderland 1 Leicester 0. Second Division: Middlesbrough 0 Port Vale 0; Stoke 2 Burnley 0.

FA YOUTH CUP Third round: Southend 0 Stoke 4.

KONICA LEAGUE OF WALES: Postponed: Llanelli v Afan Lido.

NEVILLE OVENDEN COMBINATION First Division: Postponed: Portsmouth v Chelsea.

SPANISH CUP Third round second leg: Atletico Madrid 2 Real Madrid 3 (agg: 4-5).