SWINDON boss Colin Todd has been included among a team of the greatest ever players never to have played in a World Cup.

The feature, inside this month's Match of the Day magazine, looks at the best British players who did not grace the world's top stage.

Todd lines up alongside Neville Southall (Wales and Everton), Duncan Edwards (England and Manchester United) , Mark Lawrenson (Eire and Liverpool), Tommy Gemmell (Scotland and Celtic), George Best (Northern Ireland and Manchester United), Jim Baxter (Scotland and Rangers), Johnny Giles (Eire and Leeds), Ryan Giggs (Wales and Manchester United), Ian Rush (Wales and Liverpool) and Tommy Lawton (England and Everton)

Not a bad group of players to be

associated with are they?

Aussie midfielder Mark Robertson, awaiting the birth of his first child, has finally come to terms with the fact that it will be born in England.

After feeling a little homesick as he watched the Olympics closing ceremony in his home city of Sydney, Mark said: "At least our baby is not being born in Burnley."

Something tells me he was not too happy during his recent spell with the Lancashire club.

TOWN chief executive Pete Rowe has had the abacus out again this week after the turnstile computer broke down in the Nationwide Stand.

The figure for the Oxford game showed up as 7,975, when in fact it was 9,273. All the machines had been checked on Friday night.