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But as it's you..." Anyway, I think when you get this far with someone, you possibly ought to meet them.So, astonishingly, I fix it. I compulsively collect them all, God knows why.) And then, thirdly, it was as the dark, disturbing Tom in the BBC's dark, disturbing cop drama Undercover Heart, where he got to sleep with Daniela Nardini, which I didn't mind so much, because she's quite big and Scottish and possibly part-horse.Anyway, by the time Undercover Heart came along, I was terribly in love, and practically considered ourselves married, with golden-haired children who happily agreed to wear cute sailor suits and didn't mind when Mummy had to go to Hollywood with Daddy, because Daddy was up for an Oscar, and Mummy had been offered the loan of a dress from Versace "It was promised to Julia Roberts, actually, Mrs Mackintosh. After all, and as my mother always told me, what I lack in looks I more than make up for with bags of something that might be personality, but then again might just be bags (Tesco, Safeway, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Kwik Save... "I like him." Next, it must have been as Joe, the romantic lead in the film The Land Girls, which co-starred the disgustingly pretty Anna Friel whom (as part of the plot) he got to sleep with.

In fact, he also got to sleep with her in Our Mutual Friend, now I think about it, but I chose not to let it bother me on either occasion. The striker is likely to be out for several weeks.Kidd, the man for all seasons, page 26. I think I must have first clocked the actor Steven Mackintosh when he played the mysterious John Rokesmith (alias John Harmon) in the BBC's adaptation of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend "Hmm, he's quite something," I thought. Alex himself has to decide who he wants as his No 2 - and that could be a very long process."Tottenham's Steffen Iversen had an operation on his jaw in Oslo following a collision with the Liverpool keeper David James on Saturday. "Alex Ferguson's position when he goes has never ever been discussed with Brian Kidd or anybody else. Edwards did discuss the issue with a Sky representative out of "sheer courtesy".Edwards also contested the claim that Kidd decided to leave because he had not been promised the job of successor to Alex Ferguson. "We sat down with him and gave him a new contract and even offered him extended terms.

But it became quite apparent that it was not a financial consideration. He wanted to have a chance at being a No 1." Edwards' comments put him at odds with Kidd, who said: "There was no salary increase offered to me and nor was there any sought."Edwards also denied any suggestion of intervention from the backers of BSkyB's bid to take over United "That is absolute nonsense," he said. Edwards insisted that he did make an increased pay offer, but he could not persuade the United No 2 to turn down the manager's job at Blackburn Rovers "We did make him a new offer to stay," Edwards said. MARTIN EDWARDS, the Manchester United chief executive, yesterday countered claims by Brian Kidd that he had not offered him a new deal to stay at Old Trafford. Leaver is a former Spurs director and Chisholm was appointed to the Tottenham board in the summer - a post he resigned just before last Thursday's meeting of the Premier League chairmen in order to defuse any possible allegations of a conflict of interest in his new appointment.It has been suggested that Thursday's meeting will be about Leaver's behaviour, but a source close to him insists that it is more about his will to continue in the job if his power to make decisions seems likely to be undermined.. Leaver, who has been in his position for 17 months, is said to be in the mood to resign unless there is a powerful expression of faith shown in him by the Premiership's governing body of 20 club chairmen when they meet for the second time in eight days, in London on Thursday. The barrister and former deputy High Court judge made the unilateral decision to take the pair on board because of their expert knowledge which is certain to come in useful in negotiations for a new televised deal, due to take place in 2001.Leaver believes that making the appointments without having to seek full consultation with the clubs is within the remit of his job, just as it was to fight off the threat of a breakaway European Super League as proposed by Media Partners in the summer.But six of the member clubs - believed to be Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Leeds United and Wimbledon - are said to have expressed reservations about salary inducements offered to Chisholm and Chance.And after a confrontation with the six, who demanded the full details of the appointments after a meeting of the chairmen last Thursday, Leaver has felt obliged to calm the feud by calling another meeting.He has refused to say how much Chisholm will be paid, but the six clubs were given the information last week provided they signed a confidentiality agreement.Speculation puts the figure in excess of pounds 1m, although it is also claimed that the pay award will be linked to the size of the television deal he can negotiate.BSkyB's present domination of that particular marketplace is sure to make them front-runners and the inside knowledge that Chisholm and Chance must have of their former employers' made them, in Leaver's eyes, prime candidates to head the Premier League negotiating team.Some clubs suspect are beginning to suspect a "Tottenham bureaucracy" link between Leaver and Chisholm. PETER LEAVER, the Premier League's chief executive, will test the strength of his support after calling for a meeting yesterday following signs of dissent over his appointments of the former BSkyB executives, Sam Chisholm and David Chance, as media advisers.

Substitute not used: Roberts (gk).Newcastle United (4-4-2): Harper; Charvet, Hughes, Howey, Barton (Dabizas, 82); Gillespie, Lee, Speed, Solano (Glass, 45); Andersson (Dalglish, 76), Ferguson. Substitutes not used: Hamann, Perez (gk).Referee: U Rennie (Sheffield).Bookings: Middlesbrough: Vickers.Man of the match: Harper.Attendance: 34,629.. Hamilton Ricard and Colin Cooper were behind the thrust and though Aaron Hughes got half a block on Cooper's shot the deflection served only to limit Harper's saving possibilities.Not that he could be criticised having earlier performed minor wonders to deny Brian Deane and Townsend of goals - and ultimately that helped Newcastle save the match.Goals: Townsend (13) 1-0; Charvet (38) 1-1; Cooper (59) 2-1; Dabizas (83) 2-2.Middlesbrough (3-5-2): Schwarzer; Vickers, Cooper, Pallister; Fleming, Mustoe, Gascoigne (Stamp, 84), Townsend, Gordon; Ricard, Deane (Beck, 87). The nuts and bolts of it were far more common or garden, Middlesbrough making an awful meal of attempting to clear a Keith Gillespie corner. When, at the umpteenth attempt, Dean Gordon headed clear of his area, it was volleyed back spectacularly to give the French defender Charvet his first goal in the black and white of Newcastle.The arrival of Stephen Glass, from the Newcastle bench, was designed to improve the service to Ferguson, but within 15 minutes of his arrival they were behind again to a scruffy sort of goal. No surprise, though, that the equaliser was not exactly the product of some fluent move. Yet any fears he had about what was to follow abated as Boro failed to build on their lead.So it was of little surprise that Middlesbrough sacrificed their lead before the first half was over.

Townsend looked as though he had enough time to consult the match programme before leisurely placing his first goal of the season beyond Harper.It was hardly the start Gullit wanted, scarcely the one Harper needed in this his first Premiership start. And when after a robust opening period they established a 17th-minute lead Gullit's dreadlocked hope of prolonging deadlock was in pieces.Gascoigne, who conducted his pre-match warm-up routine in the company of his two-year-old son Regan, demonstrated that the quality time spent with family members had not been wasted.It was Gascoigne's quite deliberately placed corner which found his intended target, Andy Townsend, in plenty of space 14 yards out. A perfect Riverside surface then.Initially, Middlesbrough looked as though they had the necessary power and focus to make it a one-way affair, especially in view of Newcastle's frail travelling record. But then serious derby conflicts are meant to be jarring, bone hard affairs void of lasting subtlety. If that was one surprise then the other was that in a stadium so recently constructed undersoil heating was not included amongst the facilities to help provide a more amenable surface. And while there are those who continue to maintain that Paul Gascoigne's levels of discipline remain a worry, he refused to be seduced when one of the space invaders set off in chase of him.Gazza was autographing nothing, and simply ran for cover.