Derby County 1-3 Leeds United: Sixteen Tons
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Tony Yeboah in the Champions League: Hamburg vs Juventus, September 2000
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Tony Yeboah on the volley: Leeds United vs Liverpool, August '95
A strike from the 1970s by Peter Lorimer no longer looked the same, as now it was compared to the goal that was come. Any goal Yeboah scored from that day forward carried echoes of The Yeboah Volley. His life would never be the same, history would never be the same.
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The long game: Leicester City vs Leeds United, November '89
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