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Article: Kendall finds respite in Wembley dreams
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1996
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The FA Cup third round is one of football's most evocative
occasions. In deep mid-winter, with most of autumn's ambitions
reduced to fantasy, the season is regenerated. Small clubs scent a
giant-killing, big ones are revived by the prospect of another
trophy to play for. And everyone remembers the good times past.
Few will recall such a range as Howard Kendall, and few will do
so in such an appropriate setting. When Kendall takes his Sheffield
United team to face Arsenal at Highbury today he will roll back a
dozen years on the clock. Then he might go back 20 more, to 1964,
when he was 17.
At an age when most football fans have not even been to Wembley
Kendall was out there playing, in the ...