He loathed the routine – he loathed any routine – but it paid enough to allow him a few hours of writing and drinking between shifts.He broke through at last in the late 1960s when a collector of American literary classics, John Martin, sold his book collection to the University of California for $50,000 and set up Black Sparrow Press, which became Bukowski’s publisher until the end of his life.Martin asked Bukowski how much money he needed to live on Bukowski said $100 a month. On this form he has some way to go to meet the huge expectations surrounding him. Substitutes: Canero (Leciester) for Holt, 16; McCann (Southampton) for Cameron, h-t; Sennels (Brondby) for N Jensen, h-t.Referee: M Ingvarsson (Sweden).. Lawrie Sanchez saw his Northern Ireland side secure a creditable draw against Serbia & Montenegro in a friendly tonight in Belfast. James Quinn marked his comeback by equalising after Veljko Paunovic had opened the scoring.
Serbia’s coach, Ilija Petkovic, was so keen to end a run of seven successive defeats in friendlies that he called up his son Dusan. Northern Ireland, who have begun to recover from their own appalling run, were still without a home win since September 2001.However, they got off to the worst possible start when Serbia took the lead after seven minutes.

Paunovic latched on to a good ball from Zvonimir Vukic to give the home goalkeeper and captain Maik Taylor no chance.Just moments earlier Ivica Dragutinovic had seen his effort from an acute angle go beyond Taylor’s near post. Meteja Kezman rattled a shot into Taylor’s body before Northern Ireland equalised in the 18th minute.James Quinn scored at the back post following a cross from David Healy. It was a heartening response from Northern Ireland, who have now managed to score in their last three matches. Healy and Quinn found chances limited, although Healy could have added a second before the break but shot straight at Zoran Banovic.Sanchez made four changes at half-time. Manchester United’s Roy Carroll took over from Taylor between the posts and Gary Hamilton, Paul McVeigh and Steve Jones were also called into the action as the Wimbledon defender Mark Williams took the captain’s armband.The action was punctuated when a m?e broke out in the 63rd minute after Albert Nadj took the legs from Quinn.

Jeff Whitley was unhappy at the challenge and shoved the Serbian before Williams waded in.Northern Ireland had clear claims for a penalty turned down in the 83rd minute when Jones was chopped down by Goran Gavrancic. Then Hamilton saw a goal-bound shot cleared by the legs of Banovic in stoppage time.NORTHERN IRELAND (4-4-2): Taylor (Carroll, h-t); Baird, Craigan, Williams, Capaldi; Gillespie (Jones, h-t), Doherty (Hughes, 78), Whitley (Sonner, 78), Mulryne (McVeigh, h-t); Healy (Hamilton, h-t), Quinn (Smith, 78). Substitutes not used: Kennedy, Murdock, Sonner.SERBIA & MONTENEGRO (4-4-2): Banovic; Cirkovic (Markoski, 83), Dragutinovic (Vitakic, h-t), Gavrancic, Nadj; Kezman, Paunovic (Kolakovic, 69), Vukic, Trobok (Ivic, h-t); Petkovic, Krstajic. Substitutes not used: Dudic, Djordjevic, Miroslavjevic, Kovacevic.Referee: C Richards (Wales).. The widely predicted deflowering of Scotland did not materialise in last night’s Copenhagen friendly.

Indeed, after conceding 10 goals to the Netherlands and Wales in their previous two away fixtures, to restrict a Euro 2004-bound Denmark team to Ebbe Sand’s second-half goal had the feeling of a moral victory. The contest had just passed the hour mark when Sand, one of nine substitutes who appeared, headed in. Even with a Mackay and a Fletcher in their ranks, Scotland could not get out of jail, although to their credit they were still pressing in stoppage time.The battling nature of Scotland’s display against a nation listed 47 places higher in Fifa’s world rankings will alleviate the pressure on their manager, Berti Vogts. They did not claim their first goal against Denmark in five meetings since 1975. Yet nor did it ever look likely that the Danish capital would see the end of Vogts’ Scotland career as it did Billy Bremner’s after a notorious nightclub escapade that year.Vogts said: “There were a lot of positives out there. All my players showed heart and emotion – and that’s what Scottish football needs.” They also showed a modicum of style, no one more than Darren Fletcher, who looked as technically accomplished as any Dane. Malky Mackay, 32, became Scotland’s oldest debutant in 37 years and could not be faulted for commitment, while Paul Gallacher had easily his best game in the Scottish goal.Scotland started positively and had opportunities to score in the opening five minutes.