BLACKBURN ROVERS: 11 April Aston Villa (h); 16 April Southampton (a); 24 April Queen's Park Rangers (h); 27 April West Ham United (a); 2 May Coventry City (a); 7 May Ipswich Town (h). The amount depends on how much remains in accounts on the crucial conversion day, and how many savers close accounts in the meantime.Savers can allow funds to dip during the intervening period. I would laugh it off but I wish now I'd said how hurtful I found it I hoped and prayed it wasn't serious. On Wednesday there were four former champions left in the draw.

It is to Hazan's credit that he refused to remain blind to Stalin's excesses and to the tyrant's use of vicious anti- Semitism to further Soviet aims.Hazan's left-wing Mapam party, which he helped to found, favoured the establishment of a national Jewish-Arab state, which ironically later became the policy of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), led by Yasser Arafat. 'All day I was getting gradually more nervous, sometimes dealing with it well, sometimes not,' he said.'I was almost physically sick at some points and I remember saying to a team-mate that I didn't want to be in this position again because it was so unpleasant John Syer, our team psychologist, was enormously helpful All through the race I had one phrase in my mind: 'Fight'. Russell fractured a bone in his spine and suffered injuries to the jaw in a fall at Ludlow in February, while Teaplanter, winner of 11 of his 12 completed starts, was sidelined with a leg injury days before the Foxhunters Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.'I was off horses for six months, but am now raring to go again,' Russell said yesterday 'Teaplanter is very well and has done a lot of hunting. Doesn't this take club allegiance a little far? Perhaps, but consider the club a year ago - five points adrift at the bottom of the Barclays Fourth Division with three wins from 36 league games - and consider it now, 15 points clear at the top of their league, after 23 wins from 32 matches. The children are hunched gloomily over an open fire, watching videotapes. John and Rose are delighted to see us, thirsty for news from the city.