But poor finishing was eventually compounded by poor marking, affording Rovers' second, from another fast-moving raid: Nicky Marker clipped the ball over a backpedalling midfield for Alan Shearer and Wilcox to fashion an opening for Tim Sherwood, who finished emphatically from 15 yards.So, the race is back on. Everyone was running in the same direction. The situation on the right today has some similarities, but they do not go deep. The skills, so joyously liberated, of the provincial under-21 sides playing in the curtain-raisers, had to be seen to be believed. On Saturday Escobar was shot dead in Medellin, his home town. The bona-fide men aren't quite so hot, but they include a promising young counter-tenor, Simon Clulow, who has an emergent technique and a bright, direct delivery.As for Roger Vignoles, his accompanist's temperament tends to follow rather than lead, and there are times when you feel a more driven pace (and more brilliant sound) would pay off. But I do find it difficult to keep my concentration over 18 holes.'Whether it's the slow pace of play or because my mind goes blank I don't know, but it does happen to me.

He will have to improve his place-kicking.Northampton: N Beal; F Packman, M Dawson, R MacNaughton, H Thorneycroft; J Steele, D Elkington; G Baldwin, J Olver (capt), G Pearce, M Bayfield, J Etheridge, T Rodber, R Tebbutt, W Shelford.Bristol: P Hull; K Morgan, D Ring, R Knibbs, M Lloyd; A May, K Bracken; A Sharp, M Regan, D Hinkins, P Adams, A Blackmore, R Armstrong, D Eves (capt), C Barrow.Referee: R C Rees (RFU).Scores: Steele (pen, 3 min, 3-0); Rodber/Steele (try/conv, 28 min, 10-0); May (pen, 40 min, 10-3); May (pen, 49 min, 10-6); Steele (pen, 50 min, 13-6); Steele (pen, 71 min, 16-6).. Three furlongs out in the Wyko Power Hurdle here yesterday, Holley, on the front-running Muse, looked over his shoulder to check the whereabouts of Mighty Mogul, the odds-on favourite. There are some papers I dislike intensely, I didn't like the way they wrote when I was national manager. The three will argue that English and Scottish law contravenes the European Convention on Human Rights because it discriminates against homosexual men and interferes with their private lives. Their cases, which are backed by the homosexual and lesbian lobby group Stonewall, are being launched on the 98th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's arrest in London, where he was subsequently prosecuted and imprisoned for homsexuality.

Donna McPhail, comedian, on Lynda La Plante's thriller Comics (C 4, Sunday and Monday): 'I enjoyed it because it's fun to see alternative comedy being used in that way. Served with a Certificate of Unruly Behaviour, he is locked in an adult prison, as no children's home is deemed secure enough. The bad characters are very bad indeed, and in true Jacobean style they turn on each other once they have fed off weaker prey. Bicycles with skeletal figures strapped to wooden seats above the back wheel are a common sight wherever there is a hospital or clinic.