Derby County’s captain, Igor Stimac, was booked for the tenth time this season on Saturday and was far from happy about it. Premiership referees may have adopted a more lenient approach following their mid-season meeting, but for some players they are still too keen to reach for yellow and red cards. Liverpool: Thomas.Man of the match: Berkovitch.Attendance: 15,222.. Substitutes not used: Matteo, Kennedy, L Jones, Warner (gk).Referee: S Dunn (Bristol).Bookings: Southampton: Maddison.

The maximum compensation levy will be 23 per person a year.Oliver Heald, the Social Security Minister who announced the charges, said: “I believe we have struck the right balance between the security for each scheme and costs that come with that security.”However, the Act has been criticised for the unnecessary expense and bureaucracy involved in administering it, plus a new minimum funding requirement, which some experts predict could lead to higher employers’ contributions.Despite recent government figures showing that few firms have so far switched out of complicated, and potentially expensive, final-salary pension schemes, experts believe the trickle will turn into a flood after April, when the Act comes into force.Mr Johnstone said: “There is a real danger [firms] are going to fail to comply [with the Act] by default and Opra may then step in to impose fines.”. Substitutes not used: Magilton, Basham, Moss (gk).Liverpool (3-5-2): James; Wright, Ruddock, Babb; McAteer, McManaman, Barnes, Thomas, Bjornebye; Fowler, Collymore (Berger, 70). If we keep doing that it will cost us our place in the Premiership.”Goal: Barnes (77) 0-1.Southampton (3-4-1-2): Beasant; Maddison, Lundekvam, Benali; Neilson, Slater, Van Gobbel (Hughes, 82), Robinson; Berkovitch; Ostenstad, Watson (Le Tissier, 57). “We play football, try to do it the right way, and we let ourselves down with errors like that. A couple of years ago, maybe last year, we’d have gone under.”"It was the story of our season,” said Souness. “Over the years teams that win championships are the ones that grind out results when not playing well That is an added quality we have got this year. “The determination was there and that was the pleasing thing,” said Evans.

He next won a free-kick which James saved well and The Dell primed itself for a rousing finish.Then came Beasant’s aberration and Liverpool had escaped with the points. Berkovitch immediately went close before Le Tissier – watched by Glenn Hoddle – tested James and almost set up Egil Ostenstad. Beasant, relieved, saved.It took the introduction of Matt Le Tissier, just before the hour, to ignite the game. He drew Dave Beasant, looked across to the unmarked Stan Collymore, eight yards out, and shot. They should have scored when Robbie Fowler beat the offside trap to run onto Michael Thomas’s through ball after 12 minutes. They could have scored when Mark Wright hit the bar following a 28th-minute corner. Yet, despite a scramble or two in David James’ goal, they never looked like scoring.Liverpool, though emasculated by the impressive Ulrich van Gobbel’s man- marking of Steve McManaman, could, and should, have scored.

They dominated the first period, closing the ball down and outmanouvering Liverpool in midfield. But yesterday, as so often against apparently stronger teams, Southampton raised themselves. North Sea oil and gas revenues will contribute more than pounds 20bn to the Exchequer over the next six years, according to unpublished forecasts by the Inland Revenue. The Revenue expects North Sea revenues to reach pounds 4.1bn during the 1997- 98 tax year, tailing off slightly to pounds 3.4bn by the year 2001-2002.
The figures come as a separate report by Royal Bank of Scotland, issued today, showed that provisional estimates of combined oil gas and oil tax revenues for November reached pounds 54m per day, 21 per cent up on the same month in 1995.The Revenue’s forecast for future tax income, issued yesterday by the Scottish National Party, is based on output remaining at similar levels to today, while oil and gas prices stay broadly as at present.Tax revenues are structured to take a larger proportion of any increase in the price of oil and gas. This year oil prices have surged from $18 to around $24 a barrel, taking the industry by surprise.The SNP said a study by the University of Aberdeen, published in November showed that for each US$1 increase in the price of a barrel of oil, the Government receives an extra 50 per cent in revenue. At $16 a barrel, oil revenue alone between 1997 and 2000 will be almost pounds 11bn, rising to pounds 18bn if oil reaches $22 a barrel.Nicola Sturgeon, SNP energy spokeswoman and prospective parliamentary candidate in Glasgow Govan, said: “These figures confirm the massive contribution that Scotland’s energy wealth will continue to make to the London Treasury.”It is all the more staggering when you consider that Labour and Tory politicians in the 1970s telling [us] that the oil would not last 10 years.