FOOTBALL DIGEST

CARLOS TEVEZ is ‘overweight’ and will not play for Shanghai Shenhua again until he improves his fitness, according to the club’s caretaker manager Wu Jingui. Striker Tevez, who is reportedly the world’s highest-paid player on £650,000 a week, has struggled for form and scored twice in 11 games.

ENGLAND officials have lodged their evidence in support of Dele Alli who was charged by FIFA after being caught on camera making a middle-finger gesture during last Monday’s game against Slovakia. Alli could face a three-game ban which would rule him out of the start of next year’s World Cup finals, but the FA have pleaded in mitigation because the offensive gesture was aimed at team-mate Kyle Walker and not the officials.