The striker has signed for the Greek A Division side, Ethnikos Piraeus, where the coach, Howard Kendall, was his manager at Sheffield United.The most exotic recent non-League transfer, though, took Sufyan Ghazghazi from Dorchester Town to the Tunisian club, Club Africain, on loan for the rest of season. His fellow veterans at Ashton are the goalkeeper John McKenna, the player-manager John Coleman (both 36) and the latter’s assistant and fellow striker, Jimmy Bell (34).Another UniBond club, Lancaster City, lost their top scorer last month when Peter Thomson joined the Dutch side, NAC Breda, for a club-record five-figure fee. The Lancashire club’s secretary, Debbie Quaile, said: “He can still outrun all the younger players in training – he’s remarkably fit.”Anderson appeared at Wembley in the 1992 Trophy final for Witton Albion and the 1988 Vase final for Colne Dynamoes. The UniBond League First Division outfit have four players aged 34 or older.The oldest, the 39-year-old midfielder Stewart Anderson, is also a marathon runner. The other is at Whaddon Road, where Cheltenham Town, the Trophy holders, take on Stevenage Borough.One of the more experienced sides from outside the Conference left in the Trophy are Ashton United, who are at home to St Albans City. “It’s a potential banana skin for us,” he said, “and we must ensure we are in top form on the day.”Chapple’s former club, Woking, entertain Rushden & Diamonds in one of two top ties between Nationwide Conference clubs. Last season, his first with the club, they were knocked out at the first hurdle by Crawley.The Ks beat the Conference leaders, Kettering Town, 5-2 in the last round to reach this stage, but Chapple is insisting that his players give Whyteleafe just as much respect as the high-flying Northamptonshire club.

The little Surrey club from the First Division of the Ryman League have reached the last 32 of the tournament for the first time in their history, and they are eager to put their name in the headlines.
Chapple won the Trophy three times in four years with Woking, but he has yet to make an impact in the competition with Kingstonian. That is the case tomorrow, when Chapple takes his Kingstonian side to Whyteleafe in the fourth round of the Trophy. GEOFF CHAPPLE was an expert at the art of FA Cup giant-killing during his time in charge of Woking, but in the FA Umbro Trophy he often finds himself in the reverse position: a manager guarding against an upset. I mean they go from champion golfer to rank bad golfer.”Until recently Faldo was coached by David Leadbetter, whom he credited with helping him win six majors, but Faldo has dipped dramatically in the world rankings, failing to win on the US tour in two years.Baker-Finch, the 1991 Open champion, no longer plays tournament golf after a disastrous slump in form.”They get over-coached,” said Player, who has never had a regular coach and won nine majors, including three Opens and three US Masters.”The players are being brainwashed It’s not just hitting a golf ball that wins a tournament That’s only 10 per cent of it You have to trust your own instinct.”.

“When he makes a cut I’m astounded.”You know how good Ian Baker-Finch was This is one of the saddest things I ever saw in golf This guy was one of the top 20 best players in the world The guy can’t play at all. “They are on the practice tee, the chipping green, the bunkers, the putting green Now when the bell rings, man, these guys can’t go on. They are saying `where’s my coach?’ “Player, 63, said he did not agree with coaches travelling constantly with competitors and cited Faldo and Baker-Finch as severe cases of “paralysis- by-analysis.”"I see what’s happened to Nick Faldo Here was the world’s greatest player Now the guy can’t play at all,” he said. The South African, in Sydney for the Greg Norman International, believes that modern-day coaches are brainwashing players and removing the art of playing on instinct.
“These coaches are like flies around these guys,” he said. OVER-COACHING has destroyed some of the finest golfers in the world, including Nick Faldo and Ian Baker-Finch, according to Gary Player.

A Jaguar car is on offer at the 16th – and any player achieving an ace on the 12th wins his weight in whisky.. He still has the par- five 18th to complete.The leading British player is David Howell, at three-under with two to go. Westwood’s new brother-in-law, Andrew Coltart, is in with a 70.Westwood confessed to feeling rusty as he three-putted the second and third greens. He turned with a tally of 37, double-bogeyed the short 12th, birdied the next, but then dropped another shot just before the suspension.Taiwan’s Lu Wen-teh holed-in-one at the 216-yard second on his way to a level par 71, but missed out on a special prize. After two sevens in an outward 40, he had fought his way back to level par and was on his final hole when play was called off and he could take cover.Spectators were killed by strikes at a US Open and a US PGA championship earlier this decade and Lee Trevino is among other players to have been hit in the past.Valen Tan, the tournament director for the Asian Tour – jointly running the event with the European tour – said hooters were sounded the moment that the lightning device on the clubhouse roof registered a strike within a five to 10-mile radius.Westwood and Clarke, both making their first appearances of the season, will resume their rounds at 8am today with a lot of ground to make up.Westwood, the world No 6, is three-over-par with four to play and Clarke two-over after 13 holes.The lead was established early in the day – before the humidity which preceded the storm became a real factor – by the American Christian Pena and China’s Zhang Lian-wei, both of whom had six-under-par rounds of 66.Pena and Zhang are one ahead of the Filipino Frankie Minoza and another American based on the Asian Tour, Gerry Norquist.