Parent Page Not appearing in List

Hi All,

I am facing 2 problems.

I had a page called “Football News”. It was a child of another page called “Football”. When i posted a test post and selected it to appear on my selected pages, it did appear on all of them except the child.

I mean, I posted a test post say “test”, and selected it to appear on

1) Home
2) News
3) Football
–>Football News
When I checked, the status was

1) Home(Appeared)
2) News(Appeared)
3) Football(Appeared)
–>Football News(Not Appeared)

I thought there is some problem in the child page so i deleted it. But now when i am trying to create it, i face yet another problem which is as follows.

I have a wordpress page named as “Football”. I want to create a new page,”Football News”, and make it as a child of above mentioned Football page. But some how i am not able to find this parent page in the drop down menu of page attribute->parent….

Please help and let me know why it is not appearing?

Please solve both of these problems.