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Times and Sunday Times charging readers outside the UK. The
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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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