Manager Joe Royle has confirmed that striker Dean Bowditch can be recalled from his loan spell with Burnley if Town require him during their promotion run-in. The Blues have extended Bowditch s one-month loan until the end of the season.
Larry Lloyd, who has died aged 75, was an English footballer who won major domestic and European honours as a rugged, no-frills defender with Liverpool and Nottingham Forest under the larger-than-life managers Bill Shankly and Brian Clough, as well as being selected for England by Sir Alf Ramsey.
Everton are on the road again for a trip to the northeast that looks daunting in view of the Blues worsening form and the Magpies stirring comeback against West Ham on Saturday.
Town boss Joe Royle says that the Blues promotion push is in their own hands. Royle s side sit in eighth place in Division One but are just one point behind West Ham, Millwall and Sheffield United in the play-off positions.