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- ↑ "OFFSIDE REMARKS: Now this was some derby". Archived from the original on 31 October 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
- ↑ Lewis, Michael (3 August 1977). "Lancers can win title only by optimum output". Democrat and Chronicle . p. 50.
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