Soccer hopes boosted
NZPA-Reuter London Manchester United boosted its English first division soccer championship hopes when it beat its title rival, Tottenham, 2-1, away yesterday.
United stays third but its win lifted it to within four
points of the leader, Everton, which has played two matches fewer and has one game in hand over the second-placed Tottenham, whiich is two points behind. The Welsh striker, Mark Hughes, fired United ahead after 23 minutes but the Manchester club, chasing a league and English Football
Association Cup double, had to wait until the eighty-third minute to seal success. The Northern Ireland striker, Norman Whiteside, scored the second goal to end Tottenham’s sequence of 14 league games without defeat. Mark Falco pulled one back two minutes later for Tottenham.
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Press, 14 March 1985, Page 44
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