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Article: Football: City's great expectations dashed by Moore's unusual tale of two feet Manchester City 1 West Bromwich Albion 2
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 3, 2003
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THAT LATE, great schemer-turned-acerbic scribe, Len Shackleton,
once spoke of a player whose colleagues kept passing "to his wrong
feet". Darren Moore does not quite come into that category, although
the muscular defender who revived Albion's hopes of escaping
relegation did so with the left peg he normally only uses for
standing on.
For Moore, whose principal attribute is aerial strength, the
priority was to contain Robbie Fowler and Nicolas Anelka on their
first outing together for City. Having achieved that, his late goal
was what players term "a bonus". It was also, the scorer revealed, an
instant and tangible reward for an unusual training session.
"On Friday morning we played a ...