Nothing changes. You go all the way from Wembley to Valley Parade and your day can still be ruined by one penalty kick. Raffaele Pagnozzi, the new temporary head of Italy's national football federation, had agreed to retain Sacchi for the games against Moldova and Georgia scheduled for 5 and 9 October.Italians had called for Sacchi to be sacked after Italy were eliminated in the first round of Euro 96 in England, but the former Milan coach has refused to resign and has a lucrative contract that expires in 1998.. But another possible sticking point is that QPR must pay Blackpool 20 per cent of any fee they receive for him above pounds 650,000.PSV Eindhoven beat Ajax 3-0 yesterday in the Dutch Supercup helped by two goals from new signing Marc Degryse.The season curtain raiser, renamed this season the Johan Cruyff Cup, is played between last season's Dutch league champions, Ajax, and the winners of the domestic cup competition.Arrigo Sacchi will stay on as Italy's national coach at least for the rest of 1996 which includes two World Cup qualifiers. I spoke to Howard Wilkinson, the Leeds manager, only today and Trevor's name did not even come up."Howard has registered an interest in buying the player but Leeds have come nowhere near our valuation and Trevor is not going anywhere."People seem to think we are just saying that, but I can assure you it is the truth He is under contract and he is happy. His behaviour in circumstances that could unsettle him has been impeccable."Wilkins refuses to reveal if there is a price at which Rangers would even be tempted to sell but, last season, he valued Sinclair at pounds 10m to try to deter potential buyers.It is reported, however, that a clause in Sinclair's contract at Rangers says he can talk to any would-be purchasers provided they meet the club's valuation.

Ray Wilkins insisted again yesterday that Trevor Sinclair is staying at relegated Queen's Park Rangers despite reports circulating in the north that he will join Leeds on Thursday. The Leeds managing director, Bill Fotherby, is said to be ready with a new pounds 6m bid which he will table today, having already apologised to QPR after the West London club's chief executive, Clive Berlin, threatened to report them to the Football Association for conducting transfer negotiations "through the press". Wilkins, QPR's player-manager, determined to keep his best players on board in an attempt to get straight back into the Premiership, and boosted by Chris Wright's pounds 10m takeover at Loftus Road said: "I find all this very interesting. Substitutes not used: Wallace, Beeney (gk).Referee: P Danson (Leicester).Bookings: Leeds: Ford, Radebe, Rush.Man of the match: Asanovic.Attendance: 17,927.. Substitutes not used: Van der Laan, Taylor (gk).Leeds United (3-5-2): Martyn; Jobson, Palmer, Radebe (Wetherall, 89); Kelly, Couzens (Tinkler, 86), Ford, Bowyer, Sharpe; Rush, Deane (Harte, 57). "We've got a new team," Wilkinson said, in what sounded like a plea for patience, "and new teams don't happen overnight.''Goals: Laursen og (19) 0-1; Harte (72) 0-2; Sturridge (78) 1-2; Simpson (79) 2-2; Bowyer (85) 2-3; Sturridge (88) 3-3.Derby County (3-5-2): Hoult; Yates, Laursen (Simpson, 75), Rowett; Parker, Asanovic, Dailly, D Powell (Flynn, 75), C Powell; Sturridge, Gabbiadini (Willems, 75).

It was then that Richard Jobson and Lucas Radebe, pillars of responsibility alongside Carlton Palmer, suddenly turned into faulty towers.From the kick-off an under-hit back-pass by Jobson, a childhood Derby fan, gifted Paul Simpson an equaliser. Even after Bowyer had restored Leeds' lead, Radebe could have cleared halfway to Nottingham, only to end up, as Wilkinson's anatomy class had it, "on his arse". This time the retribution came from Sturridge's right foot.Derby made a habit of comebacks last season, but Smith acknowledged the chasm in class they must now bridge, saying: "I don't think we'll do that too many times in this league." Nevertheless, the pace and finishing of Sturridge will trouble the best defences, and an outlay of pounds 1.5m for Asanovic and Christian Dailly looks like inspired business.As for Smith's fellow former Boston United supremo, whose nine-point haul from the opening week last year ended up saving Leeds from banishment to the nether regions, he believed the first game was always going to be problematic. The impetus they provided at last helped the First Division runners-up to translate territorial superiority into goals, although the first, a left- footed volley by Sturridge, owed more to individual brilliance. Ian Rush, in turn, did not enjoy the service on which he thrives.Rush must have watched enviously as Croatia's Aljosa Asanovic, already a cult figure at Derby, speared a succession of fine passes to Dean Sturridge. They were the kind one assumes he expected McAllister to feed him, though it seemed an issue for the back burner when Ian Harte's thumping drive doubled the advantage secured by Jacob Laursen's debut own goal.Jim Smith, the Derby manager, promptly sent on three substitutes.