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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 40: Saturday 25 March 2006
Leeds United 0 - 0 Stoke City
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 21452
Referee: K Stroud (Hampshire)
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Michael Duberry deserved this moment. All the bile, boos and
twisted morality he has endured from a despicable minority of Leeds
United supporters could not have been answered more emphatically as
he masterminded the Stoke City resistance that dented Leeds'
chances of automatic promotion to the Premiership.
The chants were low volume, the boos a mere smattering, but they
besmirched Leeds's name for all that. "You grass your mates to save
yourself," was the sour chant from the Kop, referring to Duberry's
willingness to testify in court against his team-mate Jonathan
Woodgate over a street attack on an Asian student.
Woodgate was a classy central defender for Leeds; Duberry, so
often, was comically error prone, at £4.5m one of the most
profligate buys in Leeds' race towards destruction. But Duberry was
defiant on his return, subduing the striker Rob Hulse and
marshalling a stubborn Stoke side.
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