Seconds later it was 3-0, Kristensen taking his first four touches in the Wolves area and firing home from an acute angle. He jumps, they move the blanket, he makes a pancake on the pavement, high fives all around from the firemen. For a long time the expression “doing a Leeds United” was shorthand for catastrophic failure as a Premier League club after they dropped down to League One against a backdrop of financial problems and boardroom upheaval. Furthermore, close rivals West Bromwich Albion have won only once in six games, and that was in the FA Cup.

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And having frustrated their head coach with the way in which they attacked in the 2-2 draw with Brighton a week prior, Leeds were clinical in the extreme. Allardyce’s response is not to drill his 13th club side to death, let alone bombard them with tactical instruction, but rather to afford individuals “brain space. The Whites made a quick start against the Hammers and thought they'd taken the lead inside 10 minutes.And so, while Leeds floundered in the slipstream of Norwich City’s stress-free joyride to promotion last season, this time around it’s not quite the same, and Leeds are one of two catchable targets for the chasing pack, most of which aren’t showing anywhere near the consistency required.

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A van driver used to amuse himself by running over every Manchester United fan he would see strutting down the side of the road, dressed in their ubiquitous red colors.Suddenly the driver saw a Manchester United fan walking down the road and instinctively swerved to hit him. The summer break will allow some of the wounds to heal, but there is so much to sort out off the pitch before things can be put right on it. Every single game throws up such hard luck scenarios, and in Leeds United’s case, pretty much every season does too, indeed, to the point where you can’t really put bad things happening down to bad luck anymore. As things stand, Leeds have no idea who their owners will be when they kick off in the Championship next season, let alone who will be manager.

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But many have been left aggrieved by the change, as it will give in-form Newcastle an extra two days to prepare for the December 31 match-up. Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.Perhaps unwisely, someone described the 20 games remaining before Saturday’s Yorkshire Derby with Sheffield Wednesday as ’20 Cup Finals’. In the modern world, users find it hard to possess the one which totally meets their need because there are often hundreds of choices here and the web is full of tempting ads. On and on they came, Meslier saving twice in quick succession, once with his back side from Sarabia's backheel and once from a Jimenez attempt.

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It would appear some of that is still alive and well today with the ‘Dirty Leeds’ tag being mocked over 40 years later in an episode of sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf. This year, there was even a skit about the club in stand up Jon Richardson’s mockumentary series Meet The Richardsons. It arrived via a wicked deflection that wrong-footed Meslier, Matheus Cunha, another replacement, the man behind the shot. A switch from Stuart Dallas was flicked on by Patrick Bamford to Costa, who drilled the ball across the box for Roberts to put in the net.However former Manchester United defender Gary Neville criticised the statement from the Leeds players. And Leeds United need to start winning football matches again, so we need goals, and all the other problems in the squad, the defence looks very shaky, the wing backs are being caught out of position too often, the goalkeeper can do most things well except actually save shots on target, and the midfield isn’t controlling games like it used to, would probably solve themselves.