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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 22: Saturday 9 December 2006
Leeds United 0 - 1 Derby County
(Half-time: 0 - 1)
Crowd: 20087
Referee: S Tanner (South Gloucestershire)
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When a promising young player does something notable, such as score
the goal which takes his team into second place in the Championship,
British managers tend to remind everybody how much he still has to
learn.
So it was with Giles Barnes on Saturday. The 18-year-old Derby
midfielder had lost his marker and headed Jon Stead's cross powerfully
past Leeds United's goalkeeper Graham Stack early in a first half in
which the Rams were so much better than their opponents that it would
have been laughable had it not been so embarrassing.
At the end of the game, however, Derby's manager, Billy Davies,
made it clear he had not been happy with the England youth
international's overall performance, and had told him so.
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