• Winding-up order leave Hearts on brink of folding
• West Ham's Sam Allardyce signals interest in Nicolas Anelka
**Winding up order leaves Hearts on the brink**
Hearts have raised more than £500,000 in three weeks through a share issue scheme, the Edinburgh club have announced. The initiative was launched in late October to raise £1.79m in exchange for 10% of the club's shares, with the brochure simultaneously revealing a demand for £1.75m in unpaid tax. That amount is separate to the £450,000 bill for which Hearts this week negotiated an extension with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, delaying a winding-up order which led the club to suggest Saturday'sScottish Premier League tie with St Mirren could be the final fixture in their 138-year history.
**Allardyce in Anekla link**
Sam Allardyce admits he would be interested in a January move for Nicolas Anelka. The 33-year-old is plying his trade in China for Shanghai Shenhua but has been linked with a move back to the Premier League. Allardyce, who has guided West Ham to sixth place, signed the striker for Bolton in the summer of 2006. "It could interest me, of course it could," he said. "It would be of interest if that is a possibility financially for us and he wanted to come." Allardayce has rejected suggestions that he employs the same long-ball tactics for which his Stoke counterpart Tony Pulis is renowned. Pulis takes his Stoke City side to Upton Park on Monday night. "[My tactics] are not the same as Tony's. I'm an individual. Nobody copies Sam Allardyce. I don't copy anybody else."
**Russia match abandoned**
A Russian top tier match between Dynamo Moscow and the league champions, Zenit St Petersburg, was abandoned after fans threw firecrackers on to the pitch, injuring the Dynamo goalkeeper, Anton Shunin. Late in the first half with Dynamo leading 1-0 the referee stopped the match after one of the missiles, thrown by the Zenit supporters, landed near Shunin, injuring his eye. The 25-year-old Russia international was taken to a local hospital, suffering burns to his cornea. Local media reported that 30 Zenit fans had attacked Dynamo supporters before the match in the Moscow suburb Khimki.
It was the latest in a series of violent incidents in Russian soccer. Last month, a group of Dynamo fans shot at players using paintball rifles at the club's training ground. The fans had been angry with some of Dynamo's foreign players, warning them to boost their performances or pay the consequences .
**Real Oviedo lifeline**
The financially stricken Spanish club Real Oviedo says the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has agreed to invest ¤2m (£1.6m) in the third-tier team, which had been facing bankruptcy before a massive fund-raising effort by fans. Oviedo narrowly staved off extinction after fans over the past two weeks bought more than ¤1.5m shares in the club. The club said in a statement that Slim, whose company back the Sauber F1 team, decided to become the new majority shareholder because of Oviedo's "history in Spanish professional football and above all for the extraordinary support of its fans".
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• West Ham's Sam Allardyce signals interest in Nicolas Anelka
**Winding up order leaves Hearts on the brink**
Hearts have raised more than £500,000 in three weeks through a share issue scheme, the Edinburgh club have announced. The initiative was launched in late October to raise £1.79m in exchange for 10% of the club's shares, with the brochure simultaneously revealing a demand for £1.75m in unpaid tax. That amount is separate to the £450,000 bill for which Hearts this week negotiated an extension with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, delaying a winding-up order which led the club to suggest Saturday'sScottish Premier League tie with St Mirren could be the final fixture in their 138-year history.
**Allardyce in Anekla link**
Sam Allardyce admits he would be interested in a January move for Nicolas Anelka. The 33-year-old is plying his trade in China for Shanghai Shenhua but has been linked with a move back to the Premier League. Allardyce, who has guided West Ham to sixth place, signed the striker for Bolton in the summer of 2006. "It could interest me, of course it could," he said. "It would be of interest if that is a possibility financially for us and he wanted to come." Allardayce has rejected suggestions that he employs the same long-ball tactics for which his Stoke counterpart Tony Pulis is renowned. Pulis takes his Stoke City side to Upton Park on Monday night. "[My tactics] are not the same as Tony's. I'm an individual. Nobody copies Sam Allardyce. I don't copy anybody else."
**Russia match abandoned**
A Russian top tier match between Dynamo Moscow and the league champions, Zenit St Petersburg, was abandoned after fans threw firecrackers on to the pitch, injuring the Dynamo goalkeeper, Anton Shunin. Late in the first half with Dynamo leading 1-0 the referee stopped the match after one of the missiles, thrown by the Zenit supporters, landed near Shunin, injuring his eye. The 25-year-old Russia international was taken to a local hospital, suffering burns to his cornea. Local media reported that 30 Zenit fans had attacked Dynamo supporters before the match in the Moscow suburb Khimki.
It was the latest in a series of violent incidents in Russian soccer. Last month, a group of Dynamo fans shot at players using paintball rifles at the club's training ground. The fans had been angry with some of Dynamo's foreign players, warning them to boost their performances or pay the consequences .
**Real Oviedo lifeline**
The financially stricken Spanish club Real Oviedo says the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has agreed to invest ¤2m (£1.6m) in the third-tier team, which had been facing bankruptcy before a massive fund-raising effort by fans. Oviedo narrowly staved off extinction after fans over the past two weeks bought more than ¤1.5m shares in the club. The club said in a statement that Slim, whose company back the Sauber F1 team, decided to become the new majority shareholder because of Oviedo's "history in Spanish professional football and above all for the extraordinary support of its fans".
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