You win this weeks prize, Tim. I always put a deliberate mistake in my reports
to make sure you are reading properly :-) yeah right, I always was poor at
maths.In fairness 5,000 is a good turn out for such a match especially since
the tickets went on sale quite late so it was never going to be a '6 pointer'
or important to usDave
From: Tim Leslie <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: leeds list <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2015, 12:53
Subject: Re: [LU] Wigan
Great report as ever. We are unbelievable away fans though ... 50,000 for a
dead rubber!!! :)
> On 7 Mar 2015, at 20:03, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What a great day out but what an awful football match.For various reasons I
> have 'retired' from away games and so Wigan was my second away game of the
> season, and like Bolton it is nearer my home than home Leeds games.For
> anyone who, for whatever reason do not go to games the order is like this -
> teletext, radio, TV, home games, away games, away games in Europe. Just being
> in a different town makes all the difference. Me and my son were on the train
> from Victoria, 2 mates coming from Leeds via Piccadilly and 2 others from
> Settle via Lancaster. Mobile phones have taken all the guesswork out of it (
> we used to come out of station and unless there was an obvious pub outside it
> was 'turn right and first pub on the right - it worked) Anyway we came out of
> our station turned right and went to first pub on the right - the Clarence -
> only £2,20p for bitter and it was a mixture of Leeds fans and locals. Bloke
> came in and sold his mate a rabbit in a plastic bag ! This was at 10.30 am
> and we all met up, had a few beers in there and had a wander via a few pubs
> down to the ground.Team news was Beradi in place of Cooper at left back,
> Taylor staying further forward and 2 up front, Sharp keeping his place but
> Morison also getting the nod with Byram being injured. We missed the Whelan
> speech - could just hear something as we queued to get in. The first half was
> a real non event - Ok our season is all but over, but they must have thought
> that a win today gives them a fighting chance. We played like this was the
> case but they also did so the first 45 had all the passion and commitment of
> a friendly. It was poor fare for the 50000 Leeds fans who had made the trip.
> Neither side had a shot or chance worthy of the name, the only incident was
> when Sharp was clearly pushed over in the box. Foul to us I thought and then
> 'wow its inside the box, a pen'. The ref (who gave Sharp nothing all game)
> did not see it that way and nothing was given. I cannot recall anything else
> that happenedSecond half and early on a great move ended with the ball coming
> to Mowatt in the middle of the area - give it Morison I yelled, since Morison
> was to his right unmarked and a good ball would have given him an open goal -
> Mowatt chose to shoot with his right foot and buried it , the ball hit with
> pace and precision and hit the back of the net. We all went wildAll we needed
> to do from then on in, keep the ball and see it out. However for some reason,
> just as on Wednesday we forgot how to play. All our passes went astray and we
> looked dreadful, They seemed to wake up and for the next 15minutes we were
> really up against it. Silvestri made really good save, they had a procession
> of corners and two or three times the ball flashed across our 6yd box but
> luckily for us no-one was there to tap it in. After this flurry the game
> petered out and we looked like we would hold on. Morison went down and lay on
> the floor in our box for a minute which led to an unbelievable 7 minutes of
> injury time.Both Morison and Sharp went off in a double sub with Cani and
> Antenucci coming on. Cani did nothing to make me want to keep him, Antenucci
> did bits and pieces to show he has been unlucky to be dropped. So with the
> fans singing 'going down' 'we'll see you again' etc the clock ticked over and
> after 97 minutes the ref blew for full time. A deserved win, sort of, but 2
> bad teams in a poor game, We went for a pint afterwards and agreed that away
> games are great (Charlton here we come, hopefully)We are safe now and we need
> to see out these last 10 games with a view to next season. I think Redfearns
> record is good and did stick up for him but not one of my mates thought he is
> the man to take us up !Dave
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