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Football: Missing... making it... and mistaken

That Was The Weekend That Was

Jon Culley
Sunday 30 August 1998 19:02 EDT
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David Wetherall

Leeds United

An automatic choice and sometimes captain last season, the 28- year-old centre back's stock appears to have fallen sharply during the summer. George Graham's preference for Robert Molenaar and Lucas Radebe in the Leeds back four seems to have pushed the loyal Wetherall so far into the fringes that he is lucky to make the substitutes' bench.

Jonathan Woodgate

Leeds United

One of those who might benefit if Wetherall does not play himself back into contention, the 18-year-old Woodgate, from Middlesbrough, is one of the Leeds youngsters George Graham raves about most. A member of the Leeds reserve side that won the Pontins League title last year, Woodgate is said to have something of the young Tony Adams about him

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