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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 46: Sunday 30 April 2006
Preston North End 2 - 0 Leeds United
(Half-time: 1 - 0)
Crowd: 19350
Referee: U Rennie (Sheffield)
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As a diminutive Scot, Billy Davies claims his main lifetime aim
is to reach five feet three, but his Preston North End side clearly
have loftier ambitions for him. His quest for added stature is
likely to be the only tall order at Deepdale in the next couple of
weeks, because the team he has fashioned on modest resources is
looking capable of ensuring he becomes the shortest manager in the
Premiership.
What amounted to an end-of-season stroll was played as though
lives depended on the outcome, so heaven knows the commitment
levels to be scaled when the sides next meet, at Elland Road on
Friday in the second of a trilogy of encounters to contest a place
in the Premiership.
There is history between the clubs, and with cross-Pennine pride
on the line, those expecting a tame affair should have known
better. In the past, Preston fans have watched with growing
resentment as they have acted as a feeder club for Leeds with four
players leaving for West Yorkshire (one of them via West Bromwich
Albion).
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