Liverpool extends lead
NZPA London The .prospect of the English soccer championship flag flying over Anfield, the home of Liverpool. next season took on an air of inevitability at the week-end. Liverpool stretched its victory run to 10 games with a 3-2 win in a nerve-tingling encounter at Southampton and moved four points clear at the top as its main challengers slipped up. Second-placed Ipswich was heid 1-1 at Manchester City to move on to 73 points, tour behind Liverpool and with one match more plaved. If Ipswich finishes second again (It was pipped at the post by Aston Villa last season) it will look back ruefully on the last 10 minutes of its match at City. Leading by a thirty-sixth minute goal from Scottish international striker Alan Brazil. Ipswich had a golden opportunity to clinch victory when it was awarded a penalty in the eightieth minute. But'John Wark missed from the spot and City raced upfield to snatch a dramatic equaliser fill seconds later through Wark's Scotland colleague. Asa Hartford, Liverpool and Southampton treated the capacdt ZS.UW crowd
at the Dell to 90 minutes of allout action before the leaders sealed victory in the dying seconds through Irish mid-fielder Ronnie Whelan, the find of the season. lan Rush shot the leaders ahead in the twelfth minute, but eight minutes before the interval six Southampton players, combined in an electrifying move on the edge of the box and Mike Channmi stepped in to blast home the equaliser. Liverpool regained the lead in the ■ fifty-seventh minute when Whelan netted from close range, but Southampton struck back again with a penalty by Kevin Keegan one minute later. The honours looked like being shared as the battle swung from end to end until young Whelan stepped in with that late killer blow. Manchester United.and Tottenham kept their slim hopes alive in contrasting style. United had to battle all the way for its 1-0 win at Brighton, but Tottenham swept past Notts County 3-1 United is in fourth place on 65 points and Tottenham lies seventh, one point behind Sotii.nampion. which remains on (12
The battle to be the league's top scorer looks like being fought out between Keegan. Rush and Brazil. The Southampton and Liverpool strikers took their tallies to 28 al the Dell and Brazil's twenty-fourth goal of the season musi have boosied his chances of a place in Scotland's 22-man World Cup squad. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division one— Birmingham 2. Swansea 1; Brighton 0. Manchester United 1: Everton 2. Arsenal 1: Manchester City 1, Ipswich 1; Middlesborough (I. Coventry 0; Nottingham Forest 1, Aston Villa 1; Southampton 2. Liverpool 3; Stoke 2. Wolverhampton 1; Tottenham 3, Notts County 1: West Bromwich 2. Sunderland 3; West Ham 4. Leeds 3. Division two—Barnsley 1, Charlton 0: Bolton 0, Chrystal Palace 0; Cambridge 1, Leicester 2: Cardiff 1, Queens Park Rangers 2; Chelsea 0, Derby 2: Newcastle 0. Grimsby 1; Norwich 2. Blackburn 0. Oldham 2, Wrexham 1; Rotherham 2. Luton 2: Shrewsbury 2 Orient 0; Watford 4. Sneffii-id Wednesday 0. Division three - Bristol Rovers 2. Walsall 1: Burnley 2. Bristol
City 0: Chester 1, Brentford 2; Doncaster 2, Plymouth 2; Exeter 1, Newport 0: Gillingham 0, Carlisle 0; Huddersfield 0. Portsmouth 1; Preston 2. Oxford 2: Reading 0. Southend 2: Swindon 1. Lincoln 0; Wimbledon 3. Chesterfield 1. D'vision four.- Bradford 1. Blackpool I): Colchester 1. Darlington 0. Hartlepool 3. Port \ ale 1. Hereford 3. Mansfield 1; Hull 3. Bury 2: Northampton I. Petersburough 0; Scunthorpe 0. Halifax 0: Sheffield United 0. Bournemouth 0; Tranmere 1. Aidershot 0: Wigan 1. Rochdale 1. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Premier division.-Aberdeen 2, Airdrieonians 0; Hibernian 2, St Mirren 1; Partick 0. Celtic 3; Rangers 1. Dundee United 1. Division one—Aw 3, Hamilton 2; Dumbarton 0, Kilmarnock 2; Dunfermline 1, Hearts 2: Falkirk 3, Raith 2; Motherwell 0, Clydebank fr. Queen of South 1. Queens Park 2: St Johnstone 7, East Stirling 1. Division two - Arbroath 2. Albion <1; Berwick A. Stenhousemuir 2. Fortar 0. Bre< bin 0. Montrose >. Meadowbank (I surimi’ 3. Alloa 2; Stranraer 1. (nwdf.abeath u.
Liverpool extends lead
Press, 26 April 1982, Page 20
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