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Instead, Moyes has had to deal with a row with Jeffers, on a season-long loan from Arsenal. The 23-year-old will not play for Everton again and will be sent back to Highbury on 1 June.Jeffers turned up for training yesterday but was soon sent away. He is expected to be allowed to work on his own because Everton cannot deny him training facilities, but only when the senior squad have left.Moyes acknowledged that the Liverpool-born player’s career at Everton is finished, having cost £2m in wages and transfer costs. David Moyes will send his Everton side out at Elland Road tonight with no thought for Francis Jeffers.

As a result, he embarks on the crucial encounter at a revitalised Leeds with more hope than he would have had a few weeks ago.The 3-1 hammering of Spurs on Good Friday has all but chased away the fear of relegation. Also, the pitches are starting to get a bit livelier now, so games are becoming more unpredictable and the flow is not too good.”We had a new pitch ready for us in Lincoln but when we wanted to move it, the frost had set in and we couldn’t do it.”Adams is awaiting news on the fitness of the striker Les Ferdinand, whose knee injury kept him out of Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat to Fulham. And although Lee Morris is close to full recovery from a thigh problem, he will not be fit in time for today’s game, while the defender Callum Davidson is also sidelined by long-term groin and pelvic problems.. “They are the third top scorers away from home in the entire League, so our defence has a job to do. Ryan Giggs got exactly the same treatment and I would like to think he has been able to play at the highest level for 14 years simply because we watched what we did with him when he was a boy.”Ferguson has been forced to use Ronaldo to a greater extent than he would have liked due to a succession of injuries.Ruud van Nistelrooy will miss out for the third successive game because of a knee problem, although Ferguson said the Dutch striker would be fit for Saturday’s trip to Portsmouth.

“He did a bit of training today but there is no need to rush him, so we will get him ready for Saturday,” Ferguson said.Roy Keane is set for a recall, while Louis Saha is expected to keep his place even though he is still nursing an Achilles injury.Leicester have only managed one win at Old Trafford in 30 years, but Ferguson is aware that Micky Adams’ side are more than bottom-of-the-table scrappers and may prove a tough test on a cut-up pitch he wanted to relay earlier in the season.”Attacking-wise, Leicester are a real handful,” he said. The player has given the club his version of events and how the drug was found to be in his system.Officials are dealing with the matter internally and are checking the player regularly to make sure there is no repeat offence. There was no need to alert the Football Association as the matter came to light during an in-house investigation. The club made the discovery a few weeks ago but managed to keep it secret.The player was fined the maximum possible two weeks’ wages and is officially on the club’s injured list. He will not play again this season while further tests are made on him. An unnamed Premiership club has suspended one of their players after he failed an internal club drugs test. Jacobs was playing some booming shots and it would have been easy for Lara to adopt the same carefree approach.Harmison changed ends but was quickly ruled out of the attack after running down the middle of the pitch on his follow-through for the third time.

Stephen Harmison again bowled with great heart and occasionally extracted steep bounce from a pitch that appears to be getting quicker.With Matthew Hoggard off the field ill, Flintoff took the new ball and the pair tried to frustrate by banging the ball in short with a man out on the hook. England went up for a catch when one such delivery clipped something on the way through to Jones but replays showed it had touched Lara’s shoulder.The locals became animated by the tactics but Lara kept picking up the easy runs and ticking off milestones This showed Lara’s desire once again to top the list. Before this series Lara said he felt in better form than in 1994 but the first three Tests did not back up this claim. Some suggested he was now a declining force but this innings may have changed their view.Lara began the third day needing 68 to overtake Hayden. With the third new ball only four overs away, there was an early flurry of runs but this was followed by a lengthy period of consolidation. This more relaxed approach has allowed him to return to his best.