Everton Football Club Programmes 2002/03
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Leeds United 0 Everton 1, Elland Road, Sunday 3 November 2002
Wayne Rooney was the star of the show again as Everton earned another away victory. This was  arguably the game of the season for the Evertonians - not because it was a brilliant match or because the Blues played brilliant football - but because it was the first time Everton had won a league game at Elland Road for 51 years!!!

It was another superb Rooney goal that won the game for Everton.

On 80 minutes, Rooney, a second half substitute for Tomasz Radzinski, picked up the ball insude the Leeds half, turned Erik Bakke inside-out, danced past Lucas Radebe and slotted a precise shot past the helpless Leeds goalie. The thousands of
Evertonians crammed in behind the goal went berserk and a good hundred or so ran onto the pitch and mobbed the players - such was the joy!

The final whistle was greeted with an even more jubilant celebration from the Everton fans! And a huge sigh of relief too - the Elland Road hoodoo was finally over! Not for the first or last time this season, the Evertonians, delighted with what they had seen, sang the
name of manager David Moyes, "He's got red hair but we don't care..."

The celebrations carried on outside the stadium in the streets of Leeds and long into the night!

Everton; Wright, Hibbert, Stubbs, Yobo, Unsworth, Carsley, Linderoth, Pembridge,
Li Tie (Naysmith 82), Campbell, Radzinski (Rooney 74). Subs not used; Gerrard, Watson, Weir.
Goalscorers; Rooney 80. Attendance; 40, 168.
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