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26/10/96 v Leicester (a) 0-2

"This was the game after the Man United 5-0 and all the players felt we were on a real charge. Shearer had gone for a groin operation, so it was important that we kept the momentum going and this was a real hammer blow.

On the day we were muscled out of it a bit, especially David Ginola. He didn't handle it very well, though. They doubled up on him which obviously meant that I had a bit of room down the left. I kept playing it up to him and asking for it back but Ginola had turned it into a bit of a personal battle and wanted to take them all on. At the end of the day it might have lost us that game.

I can also remember David Batty having a real go at me. Casey Keller was having a brilliant game for them - one save form Les [Ferdinand] was unbelievable. Anyway, someone put the ball through for me and Keller came out and beat me to it, smothering it as I jumped over the top of him. Batts shouted at me for not leaving my boot in and taking him out of the game...!"

All quotes are taken from John Beresford's interviews for NUFC.com