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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 39: Tuesday 21 March 2006
Leeds United 0 - 1 Crystal Palace
(Half-time: 0 - 1)
Crowd: 24507
Referee: P Joslin (Nottinghamshire)
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Just as some footballers construct careers around an ability to
make late, incisive dashes into the penalty area, Iain Dowie is
developing the coveted managerial knack of building promotion
campaigns on springtime surges up the table.
Two years ago Dowie's Palace won a Premiership place after over
taking almost all comers on the blindside as they morphed from
relegation candidates to near invincibles, and his current team may
well be poised to repeat that feat.
Suddenly firmly in the play-off frame, fifth-placed Palace
certainly dented Kevin Blackwell's automatic promotion hopes,
ensuring Leeds remain fourth behind both Sheffield United and
Watford in an intriguing race towards the promised land.
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