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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 37: Saturday 10 March 2007
Leeds United 1 - 0 Luton Town
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 27138
Referee: P Walton (Northamptonshire)
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If you closed your eyes just for a moment and forgot all about
the reality of the league table, the financial meltdown, the
off-field bickering, life at Elland Road did not look as crummy as
all that. An angelic looking blonde girl with pig tails played tag
with her Leeds-shirted brother around Billy Bremner's statue. The
queue to get into the club shop that has a sale on was healthy. A
couple merrily scoffed their pre-match chips underneath the bronze
plaque commemorating Bremner, Don Revie, and the FA Cup won by the
old team of legend. There was, believe it or not, a buzz around the
place.
Everybody knew this match had the feel of do or die. To the
immense elation of the locals, Leeds found it in them to do enough.
This win did not come without its moment of high anxiety, as Luton
were awarded a penalty with four minutes to go.
The noise that cascaded around the place when Casper Ankergren
plunged to parry Dean Morgan's spot kick was raw and wild. It
ensured that Richard Cresswell's 50th-minute goal, scored through
sheer will as much as skill, gives them glimmer of light.
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