* HARTLEPOOL won an FA Cup reprieve in the High Court yesterday and

have been cleared for the biggest pay-day in their history at Sheffield

United today.

The English second-division side, wound up with debts of #263,607 in

London on Wednesday, earned a short-term stay of execution from Mr

Justice Lindsay in a private hearing lasting over an hour. Now they can

collect at least #50,000 from a 19,000 crowd at the fourth-round tie at

Bramall Lane.