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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

It’s party time at Leeds and Burnley – but how long will the good times last?

Largie Ramazani gets down while going up.
Largie Ramazani gets down while going up. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/Shutterstock

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Not content with prompting scenes of unbridled jubilation at Turf Moor by securing promotion to the Premier League after a one-year absence, Burnley’s win over Sheffield United also sparked similar, if less densely populated scenes of elation across t’Pennines in yonder Leeds. Sporting shades and busting the kind of moves you don’t often see in the formal surrounds of Elland Road’s Lorimer Suite, Largie Ramazani was still dressed in full kit almost three hours after the 6-0 slaughter of Stoke. He was also the conspicuous life and soul of a party in which his teammates could be seen whooping, hollering and popping champagne corks safe in the knowledge that Burnley’s blunting of the Blades confirmed they’d be returning to the top tier too. Inside one ground and outside another, the euphoria of players and fans of both teams knew no bounds.

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