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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 40: Friday 30 March 2007
Leeds United 2 - 1 Preston North End
(Half-time: 0 - 1)
Crowd: 18433
Referee: A Marriner (West Midlands)
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Leeds have finally experienced what the Northern Ireland manager
Lawrie Sanchez termed "the David Healy phenomenon". The Ulsterman's
sixth goal in a week was one of immeasurable importance, a
last-minute winner that lifted Leeds off the foot of the
Championship and, precarious though their position remains, they
can approach the relegation run-in with renewed optimism.
His back-post header, following a deep cross from Eddie Lewis,
secured a ninth Leeds goal of the season, to accompany the nine he
has mustered for Northern Ireland. That it has taken Healy 39
domestic games to reach that tally - compared with an average of a
goal every 57 minutes for his country - shows the disparity between
his club and international form.
"I was going to say to him 'Could you put a Northern Ireland
shirt beneath your Leeds shirt'," grinned Dennis Wise. When Healy's
brace defeated Sweden in Belfast on Wednesday, the Leeds manager
was serenaded with "Are you watching, Dennis Wise?" He said: "I
took some stick from 14,000 Northern Ireland fans thanks to Mr
[Keith] Gillespie saying I play him on the right-hand side. I
don't. I think he confused me with previous managers."
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