Wimbledon manager Joe Kinnear is expected be ready to resume his job in time for preseason training this summer. Kinnear, who suffered a heart attack before his side's game at Sheffield Wednesday on March 3rd, says he will be back "big time" if tests confirm his recovery is on course.

"Hopefully it will make me an even better manager than I am. I am going to be back big time," he said yesterday. Kinnear believes his break from the harsh demands of life in the Premiership has given him time out to reflect on the things that really matter in life.

"It gives you an opportunity to see what is going on around you, outside of football. I have always had my head in the sand as far as what life is outside the game. I've always been told to focus on football. It's been the be all and end all of everything to me. In some respects the past two weeks have given me a little bit more time to myself and my family."

Blackburn Rovers manager Brian Kidd completed the signing of Derby midfielder Lee Carsley for 3.37 million pounds to help their fight against relegation from the English Premiership. Republic of Ireland international Carsley has been bought to improve a midfield which has lost its three ball-winning players.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is taking legal action against the author of a new British book, which claims his election as president last summer was rigged. The allegations appear in How They Stole The Game by English author David Yallop. Blatter has already had the book banned in Switzerland. The book claims that 20 members of FIFA allegedly accepted a million dollars in bribes to fix the election.