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Club Legend: Ian Bryson, Preston North End

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Ian Bryson is one of only two North End players to score a goal in a Play-Off Final for the Lilywhites. The Scottish midfielder was involved in one of PNE’s most thrilling of Play-Off campaigns in the 1993/94 season, it would almost inevitably end in disappointment, but the former PNE captain still has fond memories of that month of May in ’94.

You gave yourself and uphill task in that First Leg defeat at Torquay.
Yes, we lost 2-0, we didn’t play particularly well at all and we were probably quite lucky to come away losing just 2-0. That obviously set us up for the home game, the last game on the Astroturf.

It can’t have been a happy journey home all the way from the south coast?
It wasn’t, we were all disappointed, we had let ourselves down and we just didn’t perform on the day and that was the biggest thing. Not that we thought we didn’t have a chance, we knew that it would be hard at Deepdale but we more or less got together and decided to give it our best shot.

John Beck was famous for his unusual training methods, did he do anything different in the build up to that game?
Not really, we trained as normal, we didn’t have our own training facilities in those days, we did a lot of training at the barracks that week. We didn’t do anything different that set us up, we all knew what was at stake, not many of us had ever been to Wembley and when you look back you think that there wasn’t many years of Wembley left. We’d more or less dominated the season and we shouldn’t really have been in that situation of being in the Play-Offs and I think it was up to us to put it right.

We got an early goal but then they equalised which made your task doubly hard.
We knew that that would make it tougher, away goals counted after extra-time in those days so we all knew that a clean sheet was imperative to give us half a chance. To get one up quickly was great but to lose a goal, we all knew that it was going to be very difficult. I think they got a man sent off which gave us a boost. I don’t remember the time of the goals, I think I set one up and I remember Hicksy [Stuart Hicks] scoring the one in extra-time to make it 4-1. It’s the only game I have ever been in tears after the game, it was a very emotional day.

That sending-off is probably what tipped the game in PNE’s favour.
We more or less battered them second half and that gave us the buzz, the crowd sensed it as well and once we got the one goal we knew we had to get it back to 3-1 before the end because we all knew the rules on away goals. The priority was always to get the two goals and once their man got sent off it gave the game that extra edge. It was a very exciting game, although we won 4-1 we didn’t create a lot of chances during the game, but it was one to remember.

It was one for the fans to remember and they piled on the pitch at the end.
Everbody wanted a little memento of the plastic pitch and I believe that there a few gardens throughout Preston with bits of it stuck down. There’s a picture in the old players’ lounge of David Moyes and Andy Fensome being carried off the pitch, it was quite an occasion.

You scored in the final against Martin O’Neill’s Wycombe, what are your memories of the trip to Wembley?
There was a long build-up between the semi-final and the final, it was about 10 or 11 days, but we prepared as we normally did. The big news before the game was the fact that all the players thought Stuart Hicks was playing but Mr Beck decided that Jamie Squires was playing. It was a shock to all the players and it was a shock to Gary Peters, we had worked most of the set-pieces with Stuart during the week so it was a bit of a gamble. We took about 26,000 fans down there, it was a fantastic occasion.

That was one of many unsuccessful PNE Play-Off campaigns, do you think this will be lucky number seven?
The year after we got to the semi-finals again and we got beat by Bury, home and away, we didn’t play particularly well in any of the games. We had double misery from Play-Offs in my time, but we won the Championship after that and that is the best way to go up. Obviously I went to the Bolton game and on the day the best team won, all the quotes were that the Bolton fans went to win the game and the Preston fans went for the day out. Whether the players had that attitude it is difficult to guess, as it turned out Bolton have done well and have stayed up. It was a disappointing day, as was last year when North End probably didn’t do themselves justice against West Ham. In hindsight and you see what West Ham have done, they have not been outside the top ten all year, there’s not many teams do that, especially after going up through the Play-Offs.

Last Three Play-Off Games At Deepdale

15th May 2005
PNE 2-0 Derby
David Nugent opens the scoring before Richard Cresswell grabs a last gasp second to give Billy’s men a two goal cushion.

17th May 2001
PNE 2-1 Birmingham
An amazing night at Deepdale as Mark Rankine’s last minute goal takes the tie into extra-time and after Francis’ strop North End win the shoot-out.

16th May 1999
PNE 1-1 Gillingham
David Eyres puts the Lilywhites ahead just after the break but David Moyes watches in despair as Rob Taylor grabs a crucial equaliser for the Gills.

Club Legend – Eddie Gray, Leeds United

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Leeds United have a whole host of legendary former players to choose from, the list of players given to the matchday programme to interview was mightily impressive indeed. But we decided to go for a one-club man who played on the wing and later managed the club, Eddie Gray.

You made your debut as a 17-year-old on New Year’s Day 1966, what are your memories of the game?
I didn’t feel that nervous, I was reasonably confident in my ability. You feel a little bit nervous but no nerves that are going to stop me performing.

We won against Sheffield Wednesday; it was a good win for the club, a tough game. I managed to score which made it better It was just so that my younger brother Frank had come to stay with me for the weekend and a few years later I watched Frank score on his debut for Leeds.

Within two years you were collecting your first winners medals with the League Cup, Fairs Cup in 1968 and in 1969 you claimed the League Championship?
They were great experiences as a young player, they were the club’s first major trophies which was important because Don Revie was trying to build something at the football club. It started in the early 1960s when I arrived at the club and it was nice to see it come to fruition when the club became a powerful force in English football.

It was a great feeling to win the league, there was a lot of good teams around at that particular time and to win the league championships was a great experience. Obviously we had our disappointments along the way but all in all it was a successful time for the club.

That goal you scored against Burnley has been rated as one of the best in the club’s history; do the fans still remind you of that?
Yes they do, I scored another goal that day which gave me immense satisfaction from the point of view of how I executed it. But the goal that the fans talk about was something that I could do naturally.

You almost completed an unprecedented treble in 1970 but it turned out that you missed out on all three fronts.
It was more unfortunate than disappointing but you are better playing in games like that than not at all. That’s always the way I’ve looked at football anyway, you were better challenging and being in Cup Finals and challenging for league trophies and European trophies than not being involved at all. It is disappointing at the time but the status of the football club was getting stronger all the time, it was nice to bounce back and keep winning trophies, that was the most important thing.

I think there was 136,000 at Hampden for the European Cup semi against Celtic, it was a tremendous occasion, a great game of football between two top class sides. Celtic had won the European Cup in 1967 and they probably should have won it the year they beat us in the semis but Feyenoord beat them, but Feyenoord were on the up as well.

It was a memorable occasion but a huge disappointment to get beat, I used to follow Celtic as a boy, they were my club, I always used to look for their results and to play them in that semi-final was a great thrill.

When Don Revie left the club Leeds went into decline but you stuck with them through those years.
 The club were still hovering about the top positions in the league for a few years but nothing like the success that we used to have. The club never bounced back until Howard Wilkinson took control. I had a go at management when the club got relegated. I had a lot of decent young players but like all things you have got to be successful in football. Howard joined the club after Billy Bremner had left and he was successful, the club started to spend a little bit of money again. There was some top class footballers at the club, you only need to look at the midfield then with Strachan, Batty, McAllister and Speed, that was as good as any midfield that had played for a long time.


You also left a legacy of your own as your brought some fantastic young players through the youth set-up during your time there.
I brought some terrific young players through the football club It was just disappointing that in the circumstances the football club had to sell those players. If it wasn’t for having those players and being able to generate some money through them, the likes of Kewell, Smith, Woodgate, Robinson and even the younger ones like Milner and Lennon, they would have probably been in huge trouble, they were in a lot of trouble as it was but it would have been huge. It was nice to work with these players and it is nice to see them all going on and fulfilling the potential they showed.

Last Three Games With Leeds United At Deepdale
6th November 2004
PNE 2-4 Leeds
Cresswell scores twice for North End but it is Healy who has the last laugh as he returns to haunt his old club with a brace.

4th October 1966
PNE 1-1 Leeds
Bill Cranston grabs the goal for North End as the two sides are forced into a replay in this League Cup encounter.

3rd March 1964
PNE 2-0 Leeds
Goals from Wilson and Ashworth secure the win in front of almost 36,000 at Deepdale but Leeds go on to gain promotion as the Lilywhites finish third.

Club Legend: Sean McCarthy – Plymouth Argyle

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Sean McCarthy’s career in football will best be remembered as the hustling and bustling centre-forward that scored goals for Bradford City and Oldham Athletic during the 1990s but the former Republic of Ireland international bookended those spells in the north by making many great friends with two spells at Plymouth’s Home Park

You’d had a few good years with Swansea, what prompted the move to Plymouth?
I signed from Swansea, they paid £50,000 for me and I signed for Ken Brown in 1988. I had been at Swansea for five years and we couldn’t agree on a contract and I was out of contract in the summer, Ken Brown came up top watch me in a pre-season game and I ended up signing for Plymouth.

What was Ken Brown like to work with as a manager?
He was brilliant, he was a good manger. The two seasons I was there was in the old First Division, but we were always struggling against relegation for the two seasons I was there. But Ken was brilliant, he didn’t show any strains, I played under Joe Royle at Oldham and they were very similar managers, quite laid back but very good coaches.

One of the most memorable games from that time must have been the FA Cup game against Everton?
We were only averaging crowds of 9,000 but it ended up with 30,000 fans coming out of the woodwork, it was fantastic. I scored in the game and we were winning with four minutes to go, but they won a dubious penalty which Kevin Sheedy converted, that was our chance because we went to Goodison Park for the replay and ended up getting beat 4-0.

Everton were a quality side, it was on Match of the Day and I remember Jimmy Hill saying that the penalty was very harsh. They had Neville Southall, Dave Watson, Sharp and Cottee up front, Kevin Sheedy, Trevor Steven, Gary Stevens, McCall in midfield, it was a great great team.

You also had the privilege of playing with the legendary Tommy Tynan.
Tommy Tynan was a great player, I learnt a lot of of him. People probably didn’t give him the credit that he deserved, they just thought that he was a goalscorer but he had a little bit more to him than that, he could hold the ball up. But his main threat was in the 18-yard box, I remember playing in one game against Blackburn Rovers, I got sent off so we were down to 10 men but Tommy ended up scoring four goals, we beat them 4-3. He used to come alive in the box, he was a great goalscorer.

You finally left Home Park and moved north to enjoy great success with two northern sides on opposite sides of the Pennines.
Ken Brown got the sack at the end of the second season I was there and in the summer I was out of contract and there was a lot of clubs interested in me, I had a few phonecalls and I didn’t know whether I was going to get a new contract. Bradford came down to meet me in a hotel in Newport and they thrashed out a deal there and then, they put the offer on the table and I accepted and I had three and a half good years at Bradford.

There are a lot of clubs up and around that area, when you play for teams like Swansea and Plymouth every away trip is an overnight stay but up north there are so many clubs within a radius of a one hour drive and there is not so much travelling. I still keep in touch with a lot of people up there, my main strike partner at Bradford was Paul Jewell, we had three and half great seasons and we were quite close buddies. I was lucky enough to score quite a few goals at Bradford and there were quite a few clubs interested in me. It was Oldham who put £550,000 on the table for me and I was across the Pennines for four great years, one of which was in the Premiership, that was a great place to play with places like Old Trafford and Highbury.

I had a brief spell with Bristol City on loan for the last ten games of the season and I remember the last game of the season was at Preston, we lost the game 2-1 but I scored a goal. I’ll never forget the day though because my father passed away the day before, John Ward was the manager and he told me to have a lie down and if I felt like playing then he would leave the decision up to me. I spoke to my family and they just said try and score a goal for my dad, which I did. I helped Brstol City get promoted before I returned to Plymouth for three more great years.

Last Three Plymouth Visits To Deepdale

28th September 2004
PNE 1-1 Plymouth
Billy Davies’ last game in charge in the caretaker capacity saw Richard Cresswell rescue a point for the Lilywhites after Matthias Doumbe had opened the scoring.

1st November 1997
PNE 0-1 Plymouth
A third successive home defeat for Gary Peters’ side as Carlo Corazzin gets the only goal of the game to leave the Lilywhites struggling at the wrong end of the table.

5th April 1997
PNE 1-1 Plymouth
North End’s first season back in League One sees them struggling with mediocrity, David Reeves opens the scoring but Mark Saunders equalises for the Pilgrims.

Club Legend: Marvin Johnson – Luton Town

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Luton’s Marvin Johnson is the Hatters’ answer to Preston’s Sir Tom Finney, a one club man who was revered by his home supporters during a very long career at Kenilworth Road.

Marvin you came into the Luton Town side during what was a real halcyon era for the club.
I made my debut in 1988, I was about 18 or 19. I remember making my full league debut against Wimbledon, it was a bit of a baptism of fire against John Fashanu and the Crazy Gang, we lost 2-0 on the day but it is something I will always remember. I remember playing in the Simod Cup for my first debut, we played against Everton at Goodison, we won that 2-0 and as a kid that was a good experience. As a kid to become a professional footballer is the ultimate desire and at the time when you are playing against the likes of Liverpool, Manchester United and Arsenal I was probably taking that for granted. When I look how difficult it would be be for a club like Luton to do that these days, to get into the top flight and play against the likes of those clubs it was a great experience.

The Hatters had three trips to Wembley, the highlight of which was the League Cup win over Arsenal.
The first year when we got to the Littlewoods Cup Final and we won it I played in a couple of games in the earlier rounds. I was quite a fixture with the squad that season anyway and I was also involved in the squad for the final, at the time they only had two subs on the day so I was very close to being involved in some aspect in that game.

Brian Stein is still at the club now and he scored two of the goals, Arsenal were the favourites and obviously we were the underdogs but the fact that we were there involved in it and to come out winners was an amazing achievement and a brilliant occasion.

What are your personal highlights of playing for Luton during that time?
As a boy you always have a team you support and mine was Liverpool and I had posters on my wall of Kenny Dalglish. I had the privilege of playing against Kenny when he was player manager at Anfield, I did have a picture of me marking him on a set-piece and that was a memorable occasion for me, to play against your idol and to play at Anfield, even though we got smashed 4-0. Those are the memories for me from that time, players I looked up to when I was growing up, playing against Charlie Nicholas at Arsenal, Bryan Robson at Manchester United, you take them for granted when you are playing but now when I look back they are good memories.

What was the turning point which led to Luton’s demise?
We were very unlucky because that season we won the Littlewoods Cup was the first season that English clubs were banned from Europe. When we did get relegated it was the year before it turned into the Premiership and if we had stayed in it a couple more years we would have got a lot of money from the Premier League and that was a turning point.

Later in your career you was joined by a youthful Graham Alexander.
He has turned into a very comfortable, very good footballer. He came from Scunthorpe when we signed him and he was very young but he was technically very good footballer and as you get older you get more experienced. I talk to kids about watching footballers and when Preston came down to Luton I told the kids to watch Graham because he is a very good footballer, he plays the way how I like the game to be played, he tries to pass it and he is very comfortable on the ball and he is a very good friend as well.

Is it true that the fans used to sing ‘Marvin for England’?
I don’t know about that! They used to shout that quite a bit when I was playing. I  still get on really well with the fans, I was at the club for 15 years and I was fortunate that the majority of the fans liked me.

Tell us about this goal which has been compared to Ricky Villa’s Cup Final goal?
I didn’t score too many goals. I scored about 11 goals in about 480 appearances. I’ve got the goals on video and they are not usually tap-ins, the one against Tranmere was probably one of the best goals I have scored. It was on my weaker foot, my right foot, after a bit of a mazy run and a decent finish at the end of the run so that was probably one of the best goals I have scored for the club.

You played at Deepdale a few times, what are your memories of playing at North End?
The pitch has always been very good and you can always have a good football game there. People tend to forget that Preston is a massive club and I don’t recall doing too well there as it happens but more often than not I enjoyed playing football there because the surface was of a high quality.

Luton’s Last Three League Visits To Deepdale

18th March 2000
PNE 1-0 Luton
A vital victory for David Moyes’ side as Iain Anderson scores to keep the Lilywhites on course for the League One Championship title.

16th January 1999
PNE 2-1 Luton
Supersub Jason Harris pops up with a 90th minute winner after Kurt Nogan cancels out an Andrew Fotiadis opener.

3rd March 1998
PNE 1-0 Luton
A rare Ryan Kidd effort is the difference between the two sides as Habib Sissoko makes one of four starts for Preston North End.

CLUB LEGEND: MIKE ELWISS

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Whilst one legendary Northender, Jon Macken, will be hoping to put one over on his old team-mates tonight, we spoke to Mike Elwiss a player who played for first Preston and then Palace and managed to achieve exactly what Macken will be aiming to emulate.

Mike, you played for both North End and Palace so you must have had a smile to yourself when you saw that we had drawn them in the Cup.
These things tend to happen in football but I will look forward to it. I scored for Palace against Preston when I came back, it was the winner, I played absolutely useless and scored the winner, I think that the goal was deflected! I still enjoy watching them these days and they are my team.

You arrived at Deepdale after earning a good reputation at Doncaster, how did the move come about?
It all happened very quickly, I was very flattered that they came in. Prior to that there was a deal with Liverpool, I was about to sign for Liverpool a few months before but that fell through but then Preston came in and I was only too happy to come here.

What was the problem on the Liverpool deal?
Money, not on my side either. It was the time when they were buying people from the lower divisions, but it was all about money between the two clubs. Doncaster kept putting the price up but Liverpool kept saying no. But the move to Preston was a good move and it was a really good time I had here.

It was Bobby Charlton who signed you but he wasn’t manager for too long during that period when you and Alex Bruce terrorised defences.
Bobby was a fantastic player and a nice man but he wasn’t cut out to be a manager. It was an enjoyable, pleasant and successful time. Alex and I were a good foil for each other, I put everything on a plate for him. There’s not one goal that springs to mind, they’re all good.

How did the move south to Crystal Palace materialise?
I was told by certain people that they were going places, they had just got Terry Venables as manager, and it proved to be correct. They had a good crop of youngsters there who had  won the FA Youth Cup two years on the trot and they were all coming into the side, rather like the Manchester United youngsters when they were coming through. We won what is now the Championship and went into the top flight but from there things fell apart, for me and the club, Terry Venables left the club soon after. It was an enjoyable time but I never realised my full potential down there, when a player moves it takes them a good six months to get acclimatised to the place and to the different way of playing. It was only on a number of occasions down there that I felt that I had done a reasonable job.

It must have been difficult also for a northern lad to be moving to London?
To a certain degree, I had the best of both worlds really. When I first went down there I was in a flat in Hearn Hill and it was just concrete all around and I just couldn’t deal with it. They asked me where I wanted to live and I just said I need to get out to the countryside, they did that and they moved me to a place called Coulston and it was the best of both worlds, I went out into the back garden and it was countryside and I went out the front gate and it was solid London. I loved it down there.

You were only at Selhurst a short time but you still made an impression on the club.
I’d like to think so in some ways but I certainly felt that there was a lot more to come from myself, I felt that I could have done a lot more, they never saw the full Mike Elwiss. Unfortunately with the injury that I got it was only on a handful of occasions that I could say that I was pleased with what I have done.

Having worked under a youthful boss in Terry Venables you must be interested in the fortunes of the respective managers of PNE and Palace, both of whom are young and ambitious.
I think that Billy Davies and his staff are doing are great job, a really good job. They haven’t had a lot of money to spend and they keep selling players and yet they are up in the Play-Off spots. I just hope they keep doing it because they should have gone up last year, they were the best side of the Play-Off contenders last year.

Palace’s Last Three League Visits To Deepdale

6th December 2003
PNE 4 -1 Palace
Eagles Player-Manager Kit Symons is sent off as second half goals from Etuhu, Alexander, Healy and Lewis defeat a Palace side who would later be promoted.

10th August 2002
PNE 1 – 2 Palace
Ricardo Fuller scores on his debut but Craig Brown’s first league match in charge ends in defeat after Eric Skora is given a red card on the opening day of the season.

24th November 2001
PNE 2 – 1 Palace
The Lilywhites are losing at half-time to a Freedman goal but at full-time it is 2-1 to Moyes’ PNE thanks to goals from Cresswell and Alexander.

Club Legend: Joe Broadfoot

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This week’s legend is a player who grew up watching the likes of Stanley Matthews and Sir Tom Finney. Joe Broadfoot played almost 300 games for the Lions during the 1960s and was part of a famous side that broke the record for home league games unbeaten.

Was you a fan of Sir Tom Finney then?
He was like me, I used to score goals, I got nearly one hundred league goals but he was some player. I saw a video of myself on television the other night and I got a great goal with my left foot, I was two-footed but he was the dogs.

How did your career start at Millwall?
I started in the Youth Team in 1957, I signed pro around about the time of the Munich disaster in February 1958 and I played for them for five years, got promotion when we won the Fourth Division Championship in 61/62 and I got 17 goals in the first year in the Third Division and I got them goals from the wing which Finney would have been proud of. It was pretty tough, it was a level playing field, you didn’t have all the Russian billionaires buying up all the best players, obviously the top teams had the best but there were a lot more shocks in the FA Cup.

The following season there was an exodus of players, a bit like this year, we got rid of all our senior pros and brought in a lot of new faces. There was only Alex Stepney who ever got anywhere and we were bottom of the league, similar to this year, and I thought I wanted to play in the First Division, asked for a transfer and they sold me to Ipswich.

I went to Northampton after that but we got relegated so I went back to Millwall, the manager at the time didn’t want to play me on the wing, he said we had just won the World Cup without wingers, so I had to run about in midfield and I was shattered all the time and I couldn’t sprint which I was good at.

We went 58 or 59 home league games undefeated which was the record at the time, we took the record off Liverpool and they have got the record back now funnily enough. I fell out with Mr Fenton the manager and I went back to Ipswich to finish my career.

My career ended prematurely because I had an operation and the surgeon said that I had knees like a man of 90.

Were you a Millwall fan? You were born quite local.
I was born in Lewisham, it was local boy makes good and I never really wanted to leave. I was a London cabbie and I was happy at Millwall but we were going back down to the Fourth Division and when you have played over 200 games for a club you want to go up, not down.

Who were your heroes as a boy?
My heroes were Sir Tom Finney, Stanley Matthews, I was a winger. I used to spend all my time playing football and I used to love the continentals and when I was about 14 Hungary beat England at Wembley, and they were the people we used to idolise as kids.

What do you remember of your debut?
My debut was against Carlisle and the first thing I remember is that they never turned up! I’m sitting there waiting to make my debut, the dream of all kids, I’m eighteen years old, I’m all nervous and I haven’t slept for two days, but there’s no Carlisle, they got stuck in traffic. So I’m sitting there at 3 O’clock and they came and told us that they weren’t there and I thought that it was a bad dream. They eventually turned up and I crossed one and somebody whacked it in the net and the crowd and the noise, I went dizzy with excitement, I got the adrenalin and I couldn’t stop running after that. It was a wonderful debut for me.

What’s your main memory of your time at The Den?
My fondest memory would have been when we beat the record for number of home games unbeaten, the crowd swarmed on the pitch and we were drinking champagne afterwards, it didn’t last long because we lost the following week. Winning the Fourth Division was good but to go 59 games without losing in any kind of football is good, Millwall did that and it was a record for a while.  That would probably be my favourite memory, I was 27, we had just won the World Cup and when you get older you savour those memories.

You finally got to meet one of your heroes when you took a visit to Deepdale a few seasons back.
It was the last game of the season a few years ago when Preston had won the Second Division and while I was waiting in the reception in comes Tom Finney and I just had to get up to shake the great man’s hand. I had never actually seen him play in the flesh but his record was phenomenal and as I winger myself he was the ultimate legend.

You do a bit of media work for Millwall so you’ll know all about Danny Dichio?
I thought he was underated by the Millwall faithful, what people don’t realise is how good he is in defence. We never conceded goals from corners or free-kicks when he was there and when we got to the Cup Final he didn’t play in the next game against Coventry and we were 2-0 down at half-time from two corner kicks and we never recovered from that and missed out on the Play-Offs.


Millwall’s Last Three League Visits To Deepdale
13th November 2004
PNE 1-1 Millwall
Danny Dichio comes off the bench for the Lions and inspires Millwall to scrap for a point after Eddie Lewis had put PNE one up.

21st February 2004
PNE 1-2 Millwall
A rare Claude Davis goal is not enough to rescue a point for North End as Paul Ifill and Tim Cahill get the goals for Dennis Wise’s side.

8th February 2003
PNE 2-1 Millwall
First-half goals from Eddie Lewis and Lee Cartwright do the job and despite a late effort from Christophe Kinet, Craig Brown’s side take all three points.