Sport in Short: Football

MANCHESTER UNITED will announce a profit of more than pounds 5m to their shareholders at their annual general meeting on 20 November. United's profit for the last financial year, ending in July, was pounds 5,056,000. The directors have appropriated pounds 250,000 to the transfer fee reserve and the balance of pounds 1,172,000 from profits after taxation has been retained.

BIRMINGHAM CITY have signed the Canadian international striker, Paul Peschisolido, from Toronto Blizzard for pounds 25,000 following a month's trial.

UEFA yesterday admitted Feyenoord's John de Wolf should not have been sent off for violence during a European Cup- Winners' Cup tie last week. Uefa's statement said de Wolf's team-mate, Henk Fraser, should have been dismissed in the second-round first-leg tie against Lucerne which the Swiss side won 1-0. Fraser, who had earlier been booked for dissent, has been banned for three games.

FA CUP Fourth round qualifying replay: Merthyr Tydfil 2 Abingdon Town 1.

BEAZER HOMES LEAGUE Barclays Cup first round second leg: Dunstable 2 Bury Town 2 (agg: 6-4); Sittingbourne 3 Canterbury 3 (agg: 3-4).

PONTINS LEAGUE First Division: Blackburn Rovers 4 Leeds United 1; Bolton Wanderers 0 Sheffield Wednesday 3; Liverpool 2 Leicester City 1; Manchester City 1 Nottingham Forest 2; Stoke City 0 Rotherham United 2.

FRENCH LEAGUE: St Etienne 1 Nantes 0.

ITALIAN CUP Third round second leg: Venezia 1 Parma 1 (agg: 1-2).

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP (Hiroshima): Saudi Arabia 1 China 1; Qatar 1 Thailand 1.

WEDNESDAY'S LATE RESULTS: International Friendly (Minsk): Belarus 1 (Gotsmanov 56) Ukraine 1 (Maximov 78). Spanish Super Cup first leg: Barcelona 3 Atletico Madrid 1.

B & Q CUP Semi-final draw: Hamilton v Meadowbank; Morton v Montrose. (Ties to be played on Wednesday 11 November).