FOOTBALL DIGEST

•WEST HAM have enquired about Wigan centre back Cedric Kipre as interest mounts in the crisis club’s players. Watford are also monitoring Kipre. Top scorer Kieffer Moore is wanted by Preston, while winger Jamal Lowe is attracting interest from Celtic, Millwall and Cardiff.

•THE start date for the 2022 Qatar World Cup has been set for November 21, with the final on December 18. There are four games a day in the group stage, with kick-offs at 10am, 1pm, 4pm and 7pm UK time.

•RALPH HASENHUTTL believes left back Ryan Bertrand, 30, can win an England recall. The Southampton boss said: ‘He still has targets to be an international for England because he is playing fantastic. He absolutely has the potential to do this.’

•SHEFFIELD UNITED players are to miss out on a ‘survival’ holiday this summer — but are happy to be battling for European qualification in today’s trip to Leicester instead. Midfielder Ben Osborn, 25, said: ‘A staying-up trip was spoken about at the start of the season but the euphoria of staying up had worn off by the time we came to planning it! There will be no time now.’