LONDON, May 11: West Indian World Cup captain Brian Lara has been refused permission to take a break from the tournament to watch the European Cup football final in Barcelona later this month.Lara wanted to cheer on his friend Dwight Yorke of Manchester United against Bayern Munich on May 26 - a day before West Indies play Scotland in a World Cup preliminary-round tie at Leicestershire. But team manager Clive Llyod has turned down Lara's request, according to media reports. Lara, sacked then reinstated as West Indies captain at the end of last year, has a history of taking breaks from his teams. He was fined by county Warwickshire when he failed to return for a match after taking time off to visit home in Trinidad and he walked out on the West Indies touring England in 1995 after a dressing-room row before being persuaded to return.
