LEICESTER HAS HOPES
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The relegation-threatened Leicester City kept its hopes alive for another season of first division football when it beat Sunderland, 2-1, on Monday.
Leicester now needs three points from its remaining two games to avoid dropping into the second division. Results:— ENGLISH LEAGUE
Division One.—Leicester 2. Sunderland 1: Manchester City 1. Newcastle 0. Division Three.—Hartlepools 0. Crewe 0: Mansfield 3. Watford 9; Shrewsbury 1. Gillingham 1; Swindon 2. Barrow 0. Division Four. —Bradford 0. Port Vale 1: Brentford 2. Bradford City 1; Darlington 2. Southend 3; Grimsby 2, Doncaster 3; Swansea 2. Exeter 0: Wrexham 1. Workington 0; York 0, Halifax o.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 18
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