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The Promised Land relives these breathless moments on a month-by-month basis, taking you into the dressing room, onto the pitch and into the minds of those involved, to explain why it all worked and how it all happened - with the ... Found inside – Page 379 FA Cup : Cardiff leave one PL in semis after taking out Middlesbrough ; Albion bag five at Bristol Rovers with triple - Miller in the mood . ... 11 Ch Lge : Liverpool make it a PL quartet in quarter - finals after masterly display away to ... Gary Neville on comeback trail at Man Utd . 14 Ch Lge draw : Arsenal v Liverpool , Man Utd away to Roma first and Chelsea at the ... to hit 20 League goals since Fowler in 1996 against lead - taking Reading ; one goal enough for Chelsea at Sunderland ... Found inside – Page 84MANCHESTER UNITED Premiership position 06-07 1st FA Cup Runners - up Carling Cup Round 4 Champions League ... Goals RECORDS CONCEDED CONCEDED Record Home Attendance : 76,098 v Blackburn Mar 31 , 2007 GOALKEEPERS ... 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WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This football book is about something even more important than the "beautiful game"; it is a story of ... This is his inside story of life on the pitch for Manchester Utd; the League titles, FA Cups, League Cups and Champions League adventures. A must for any Utd fan. Found insideIt is a fascinating memoir of a great footballer, and the remarkable story of an extraordinary life. In Beckham he talks candidly about the pressures of celebrity -- his wife and sons were the targets of a 2002 kidnapping plot; how he balances his roles as a devoted husband and besotted father with his globetrotting existence as an ... When Argentinian World Cup winners Ricky Villa and Ossie Ardiles were unveiled as Tottenham Hotspur's new signings in the summer of 1978, it was one of the most sensational transfer coups English football had ever seen. 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