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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 38: Saturday 18 March 2006
Coventry City 1 - 1 Leeds United
(Half-time: 1 - 0)
Crowd: 26643
Referee: C Oliver (Northumberland)
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Leeds left it late here, just as they did the previous Saturday,
but that is the story of their resurgent second half of the season.
Kevin Blackwell looked mightily pleased with a point, especially
after the news from Norwich. The time was right for the manager to
dig out an old line: "They say it's not how you start, it's how you
finish."
There was a chilling remorselessness to Leeds's second-half
play, most appropriate on a day when the wind-buffeted Ricoh Arena
became a new candidate for coldest football venue in the land. A
calmly converted penalty by David Healy after much Coventry
complaint two minutes from time sent the visiting hordes home with
a glowing feeling.
Leeds can be well satisfied with a draw because it was extracted
from one of the Championship's most improved teams, one that will
help shape the play-off competition even if they do not reach the
top six themselves. For Leeds, there is no rest in the pursuit of
second place: they entertain Crystal Palace tomorrow night with the
incentive of reducing the gap to a solitary point.
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