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FA Cup
Quarter-Final: Sunday 9 March 2003
Sheffield United 1 - 0 Leeds United
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 24633
Referee: S Bennett (Orpington)
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Bramall Lane witnessed a match here that most people will want
to forget but one of which Sheffield United and their followers
will cherish the memories.
Having to watch the type of Sunday-morning huff and puff that
will have been replicated on craggy parks throughout south
Yorkshire yesterday was a small sacrifice when the upshot was a
place in the FA Cup semi-finals. The knowledge that Watford will
accompany the Blades in today's draw will help too.
For their manager Neil Warnock, a passionate, verbose hometown
hero in an era of mercurial imports, it was "the finest hour" of a
remarkable season that has also seen his side reach the semi-finals
of the Worthington Cup and mount a serious campaign for promotion
from the First Division.
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