Pringle’s raunchy read

VeTeran sports publisher roddy Bloomfield has been rather taken aback by the manuscript of former Daily Telegraph cricket correspondent Derek Pringle’s raunchy memoirs. roddy might have been expecting a cosy account of life on the road as a cricketer for essex and england in the 1980s, but a lot of the action Pring remembers in graphic detail took place off the pitch. Some of the best bits might be edited out. CHELSEA

had prudent financial reasons for pausing their £1billion stadium build on top of the delay in owner Roman Abramovich’s UK visa application. The complicated project includes building a walkway over the neighbouring underground line which requires specialist foreign involvement, the availability of which might be affected by Brexit. THe Lincolnshire Fa have had special security measures put in place by the Fa after a failure to deal with safe-guarding issues. CeO Philip Hough, who warned the Lincolnshire board about the problems, has left the county Fa. an Fa spokesman said: ‘We work with all county Fas to ensure their safeguarding practices are up to standard. We are not in a position to discuss details.’ SUNDERLAND

are blaming the French agents of Papy Djilobodji and Didier Ndong, who have failed to return to Wearside this season, for kyboshing transfers the club had negotiated with European clubs because there is nothing in them for the middle men.