Then Shaun Murphy headed over the top after a free-kick given when Peter Hawkins fouled Asaba.

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Sheffield United striker Carl Asaba grabbed a last-gasp equaliser to save the Blades' blushes against lowly Wimbledon.

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And substitute Carl Asaba completed the thrashing when shooting home from John Paul McGovern's cross two minutes from time.

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Located on the Izu Peninsula two hours south of Tokyo, the exquisitely detailed Asaba has been run by the same family for 336 years.

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As Kazuhide Asaba, who, with his wife, Misa, is the tenth generation of his family to run the inn, explains, it was brought from Tokyo 100 years ago.

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At the entrance to the bar, Kazuhide Asaba has contributed a contemporary piece from his personal collection: a futuristic black sculpture flashing red LED numbers by the artist Tatsuo Miyajima.

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Asaba was in the thick of the action within a minute with a header that went wide, before he struck a volley that soared over the bar from Ndlovu's cross.

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Half-time substitute Asaba, who is not fully fit after a back injury, repeated his heroics of last week, when he had entered the fray late before grabbing a hat-trick against Brighton.

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United piled on the pressure in the second half after manager Neil Warnock threw on two new strikers in an attempt to show more teeth - Asaba and Dutchman Ten Heuvel.

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