Brendan Gilfoyle, a partner in the practitioners, told the Scarborough Evening News: “We are looking over the edge.”Reynolds, who hopes to arrange the sale of Scarborough’s mortgaged McCain Stadium and move to a site on the edge of town, said in a club statement: “The administrators will not be looking for a new owner and will be working with me to find a way forward. This will not affect the players, but to relocate from our existing ground takes time and we need the breathing space to make sure that we continue to the end of the season.”The Conference has announced that its inaugural play-off final will be staged at Stoke City’s Britannia Stadium on Saturday 10 May. “The game is bigger than the FA Trophy final, because there is a place in the Football League at stake,” John Moules, the chief executive of the Conference, said. The four teams placed second to fifth in the final table will contest the play-offs to decide who joins the champions in the Third Division next season.Tomorrow, weather permitting, the Conference clubs take a break from pursuing league points to take part in the third round of the Trophy. The holders Yeovil Town have an attractive tie at Hereford United. Woking entertain Chesham United, whose manager Colin Lippiatt they sacked last season. He was the No 2 to Geoff Chapple when the Surrey side won the Trophy three times in the 1990s..

Lee Bowyer is confident he can help his new club, West Ham United, win their battle against relegation and claim his £1m bonus. “There are some great players here and it’s surprising they are bottom of the table, but hopefully I can bring them a bit of luck,” he said “I think we will be able to do it. I’ve been a West Ham fan since I was a kid and now I am here playing it means a lot to me.”The midfielder is in line to begin his West Ham career against Newcastle United at Upton Park tomorrow. His new manager, Glenn Roeder, said: “It’s common knowledge that there were at least seven, eight or nine Premiership clubs that wanted to take Lee.”Roeder added: “I spoke to one Premiership manager yesterday who called me all sorts of names for getting the signature before him. Thankfully he chose West Ham, the team he supported as a boy.”Asked about his new signing’s troubled life off the pitch, Roeder said: “I only want to talk about Lee Bowyer as a footballer.

Things that have gone are in the past.”Olivier Dacourt has followed Bowyer out of Elland Road and joined Roma on loan. They will nevertheless benefit from a £40,000 highlights fee, as well as 50 per cent of gate receipts, which could give them a further £500,000.. Iain Pyman gave himself a belated wedding present in the first round of the South African Airways Open here. The Yorkshireman hit a four-under-par 68 to lie two shots off the lead held by South Africa’s Jean Hugo. Pyman joined the Scots Andrew Coltart and David Drysdale, the Dutchman Rolf Muntz and Ireland’s Peter Lawrie in fourth place.Pyman was in the first group out at 6.30am local time and, after picking up six birdies in his first 12 holes, would have joined Hugo at the top of the leaderboard but for running up a double bogey seven on the par-five seventh, his 16th.”The seven was a shame but I can’t really complain for the first round of the year,” said Pyman, who missed the first two official counting events for this season’s money list in November and December last year to get married.England’s Justin Rose had to settle for a level-par 72 while his playing partner Paul Casey fared even worse with a double bogey, a triple bogey and dropped shots at the last five holes to go round in 78. We’ll have to wait for 24 or 48 hours to, hopefully, give better news.” He added that Delli-Zotti, 38, was in much better shape.Shinozuka, who also finished third last year, had been in third place overall after Wednesday’s seventh stage.