Football: BLADES LOSE CUTTING EDGE; FIRST DIVISION ROUND-UP.SHEFFIELD United picked the wrong weekend to visit Millwall who inflicted a 2-0 defeat on their guests despite the loss of new caretaker manager A caretaker manager is someone who takes temporary charge of team affairs of a football club. This usually happens when the regular manager is sacked or leaves for a different club. Dennis Wise Dennis Frank Wise (born December 16, 1966 in Kensington) is an English football manager and former footballer, currently manager of Leeds United. Wise won 21 caps for England and scored 1 goal, on his debut against Turkey. and David Livermore to two late red cards. The Yorkshire outfit had started the day top of the table but found themselves overtaken by both Wigan Wigan (wĭg`ən), city (1991 pop. 88,725) and metropolitan district, N England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Douglas River. and West Brom after second-half goals for Neil Harris and Paul Ifill gave Millwall the points. Wigan proved their earlyseason form no fluke by returning to the league summit with a 1-0 defeat of Gillingham, Andy Liddell converting a 55th-minute penalty. West Ham missed a host of chances and needed a late Don Hutchison goal to get a 2-2 draw at home to Burnley. Watford gave their survival hopes a boost with a 1-0 win over fellow strugglers Bradford, Scott Fitzgerald scoring the only goal of the game after 61 minutes. Dougie Freedman levelled for Crystal Palace, earning his side a point in their 1-1 draw with Rotherham who ended with 10 men. A stoppage-time winner from Nicky Forster gave Reading a 3-2 victory over 10-man Preston. |
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