The Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph now seem to
require registration to view articles on their sites, with the Times
and Sunday Times charging readers outside the UK. The Times/Sunday
Times has also moved some of the older articles into an archive which
requires separate registration and requires you to pay to access the
content. The Independent now charges for access to articles more than
a week old.
If Wayne Rooney was watching this on television from his oxygen
tent he will have been heartened by David Nugent's impact on a night
when Preston took a small step towards the Premiership.
Making his first start after a swift recovery from a broken
metatarsal, Nugent scored the sort of virtuoso goal that would grace a
World Cup final and arguably affords Billy Davies's side a slight
advantage before Monday's semi-final second leg at Deepdale where
acquaint-ances will once again be renewed.
In David Healy, Sean Gregan and Eddie Lewis, Leeds had three
Preston old boys in their starting XI. Another, Richard Cresswell,
began on the bench. Lewis, especially, caught the eye, the Californian
left-winger persistently troubling Preston as he reminded Davies just
what he lost when Kevin Blackwell came calling. Indeed, Leeds believed
they should have been awarded three penalties after Lewis was fouled
by first Youl Mawene and then Tyrone Mears, and Matthew Kilgallon was
also bundled over.
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