I assume most of you have seen it on TV.Could not get in the WMC we usually go to - home fans only on police advice and though I was silver tongued enough to talk my way in, it was clear the rest of my mates would not be so lucky, so we ended up in the cricket club. A strange place for a pre match drink - 3 bars on different floors in the pavillion looking out over the cricket pitch and it was rammed with Leeds fans , a good proportion of our 4,000 followers decided to drink there. One GILF was shouting at the odd Burnley fan who was there and I was told she was the Granny who had recently been banned from running on the pitch at ER - a real celebrity , expect to see her in the jungle or a big brother house soon!It was a glorious sunny day and we left for the ground with high expectations. Turf Moor is a proper old fashioned ground with wooden seats and a dark and dingy concourse with poor toilets but a good place for us old timers to remember the old days before plastic soulless idenikit grounds.We made it just in time for the the well observed minutes applause for Jimmy Adamson - we all agreed he was an awful Leeds manager but could put those feelings to one side as we stood and clapped in his memory.That was almost as good as it got until the 76th minute.First half we were dreadful - in truth they were poor too - managing one shot from Clayton that did not dip enough and a free kick from McCormack that the keeper saved.At the back we looked dodgy at times- Sam kept going missing and leaving White exposed and the centre back pairing looked like they had never met.It was almost inevitable that the goal would come from this - their winger was in acres of space and White was caught in two minds - that let the winger with time and space to pick out one of two onrushing strikers who were marked by one defender too easy for them 0 1Only some good saves, one with his feet , from the impressive McCarthy , and a poor miss when through just before half time kept the score down and us in it.We did think that their keeper had handled outside the area but the fact that no Leeds player appealed meant that we kept quiet about it until various moible calls from TV watchers confirmed we had been hard done by.Second half we were better but never really threatened - I am losing faith in Keogh, and McCormack is losing faith in himself, and between them they never looked like scoring or creating opportunities. SG thought the same and took them both off and brought on Nunez and Becchio.I know Rich W likes his stats when slagging Becchio off but here is one - 60 mins with Keogh , no goals, 30 mins with Becchio , two goals (even if he did not have a direct hand in either)Both goals were similar - first Sam with a good bit of skill had a good deep cross and Snoddy sneaked in at the far post and slid it home - Game onThen a Snoddy corner in the last couple of minutes fell to Nunez on the far side, he chipped it back in and again it came to Snoddy ghosting in at the far post , this time he controlled it and with bodies all around him managed to put it into the far corner.Just like last season a last minute winner after being behind , although this time I did feel more like we had robbed them.Time for a quick pint in the Wacky Warehouse place near the station (again full of Leeds fans) and then train home. Job done but far from convincing One last point - I recorded the game and fast forwarded through it this morning and then watched the highlights recorded on the Championship programme - it was the same TV channel and the same pictures and coverage but the live programme killed all the crowd noise and the highlights one turned up the crowd noise so it sounded like the place was rocking. Do they always do that and if so, why? Dave _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email leedslist-unsubscr...@gn.apc.org
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