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■ Stephen McPhail, with

Preston 0 Cardiff City 1

bottle, hugs team-mate Paul
Quinn at the final whistle as
City kept their dream of
automatic promotion to the

A LOT OF
Premiership alive
PICTURE: Huw Evans Agency

BOTTLE

CARDIFF City showed they have the

bottle to win automatic promotion –
but Norwich clung onto second spot
Bluebirds grit their teeth to earn can play a game a few days earlier.
“I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t have
scored in the 96th minute. We had to
The Preston forward limped off and
Brown said: “It was a potentially
leg-breaking challenge – a red card
courtesy of a winner in the SIXTH
minute of injury time. three precious points at Preston hang on.”
Whittingham’s winner relegated
offence.
“But no card was shown and that
The Bluebirds kept the pressure on Gareth Rodgers the second half and there were a lot of Preston and Lilywhites boss Phil changed the game.
the Canaries with a 1-0 win at Preston tired bodies, but the boys dug in.” Brown’s mood wasn’t improved by “My player has a 12-inch gash on his
yesterday, Peter Whittingham scoring And Jones could not resist taking a Bluebirds defender Jlloyd Samuel’s leg.”
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