London - The Football Association (FA) is to establish a register of players with previous doping convictions as part of a series of measures aimed at combating the use of drugs in football, it emerged Tuesday.

"The identity of the players on the list will be decided by UK Sport and the FA," Andy Parkinson, the acting director of the anti- doping programme within Britain's national sporting body, told The Sun daily.

London - Former England striker Andrew Cole will retire from playing football and is eyeing a coaching career, according to news reports on Tuesday.

The 37-year-old left Nottingham Forest 11 days ago, furious at what he saw as a lack of opportunities to fulfil his dream of ending his career in a blaze of glory by inspiring his hometown club to promotion.

As it is, Forest are second bottom of the Championship, and Cole made just five league starts this season.

London, Nov. 11: UK Sport and Football Association officials are due to meet in the next couple of months to draw up the register – designed to thwart stars who take drugs like cocaine and performance-enhancing substances.

It will include at least 15 aces from England squads, ranging from senior level to youth team prospects. The rest of the list will be made up of the country’s top foreign stars.

According to The Sun, 30 of the Premier League’s top footballers are to be placed on a new “hit-list” in a bid to combat drug taking in the game.

Hamburg - Germany coach Joachim Loew will have some clear words to say to the squad he names Thursday for next week's classic encounter with old rivals England.

Loew is to use the opportunity of the friendly international in Berlin to lay down some rules and guidelines on how he expects his players to behave for the rest of the qualification campaign for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

London - The Football Association confirmed Monday that they are considering disciplinary action against Newcastle manager Joe Kinnear, who called match official Martin Atkinson a "Mickey Mouse referee" following Sunday's 2-1 defeat to Fulham.

Kinnear was heavily critical of Atkinson's decision not to give Newcastle a free kick for a challenge between Fulham forward Andy Johnson and Newcatsle defender Claudio Cacapa, in the move that led to the penalty from which Fulham scored the winner.

London  - Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon insisted Monday that the club will not be making any new signings in January and has no immediate plans to move away from Stamford Bridge.

A Sunday newspaper had claimed Chelsea were considering a move to a site in Battersea, 5 kilometres from their Stamford Bridge home.

"We are not considering any advanced plans to move away from Stamford Bridge as recent reports have suggested," said Kenyon.