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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 24: Sunday 19 December 2004
Leeds United 1 - 1 Millwall
(Half-time: 1 - 0)
Crowd: 26265
Referee: T Leake (Darwen)
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There was a time when John Oster and Jody Morris were both
tipped for great things. Oster was once hyped, albeit briefly, as
the right winger to help Everton recapture former glories, while
Morris heard himself hailed as "the new Dennis Wise" at
Chelsea.
Mutual failure to fulfil potential allied to brushes with the
law - Morris was questioned about an alleged rape before Leeds
cancelled his contract when he turned up drunk to training last
season and Oster received a police caution after a Durham nightclub
brawl last week - has seen the pair tumble into the Championship,
where their contributions proved pivotal here.
Oster, on loan from Sunderland, began tentatively in a flexible
Leeds formation that fluctuated between 4-4-2 and, more frequently,
4-3-3. Alternately serving as an orthodox wide man and a third
striker, Oster was primarily responsible for regularly permitting
the elusive Paul Ifill to arrive unattended in the penalty area
after breaking from the left of Millwall's midfield.
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