Notts get Best and McGoldrick cash

NOTTS County have received the cash they were owed by Southampton from the Football League, chairman John Armstrong-Holmes confirmed this morning.

The Magpies were owed a six-figure sum by the cash-strapped Championship club, following the transfers of Leon Best in 2004 and David McGoldrick a year later.

They were due a six-figure sum at the start of February because of an appearances clause in McGoldrick's contract when he left Meadow Lane for St Mary's.

And they were also waiting for a final five-figure sum from the Saints because of a sell-on clause for Best, who now plays for Coventry City.

The Football League have paid County out of cash they are withholding from Southampton, whose parent company Southampton Leisure Holding are in administration.