There was a six-month period during his non-league days where Jamie Vardy would have to be substituted an hour into away games.

The acquisition of Salford City Football Club, partly-owned by former Manchester United stars Gary and Phil Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, has been formally approved by the Football Association and the Northern Premier League.

LEEDS UNITED have endured many low points in their recent history but none, perhaps, as humiliating as yesterday, when they were bundled out of the FA Cup second round by non-league Histon, a team that was playing in front of double-figure crowds just 10 years ago.