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Leeds       1 - 0   Swindon, Beckford u 87. 
Millwall       0 - 1   Leicester
MK Dons     6 - 2   Oldham

1   Leicester           38   81
2   Peterborough     38   72
3   MK Dons            35   67
4   Millwall              36   64
5   Leeds United   37   62
6   Tranmere          37   59
7   Scunthorpe        36   58
8   Oldham             37   58
9   Stockport          38   56

Slijedi gostovanje kod Crewea, pa kući protiv MK Donsa...

Leeds 1-0 Swindon

Leeds: Ankergren, Douglas, Marques, Naylor, Parker (Grella 84), Snodgrass, Howson, Kilkenny (Johnson 79), Delph, Beckford, Becchio (Liam Dickinson 79).
Subs Not Used: Lucas, Michalik.

Sent Off: Beckford (90).

Booked: Snodgrass, Beckford.

Goals: Beckford 87.

Swindon: Phil Smith, Amankwaah, Morrison, Greer, Vincent, Robson-Kanu, Tudur Jones, Timlin, McNamee (Jack Smith 83), Paynter, Cox.
Subs Not Used: Brezovan, Ifil, Nalis, Razak.

Booked: Tudur Jones, Cox.

Att: 21,765

Ref: Keith Stroud (Hampshire)

(BBC)

Beckford crveni karton   

Crewe - Leeds 2:3 (0:3) 
0:1 (27.) Neil Kilkenny
0:2 (30.) Luciano Becchio
0:3 (32.) Robert Snodgrass
1:3 (60.) Tom Pope    
2:3 (73.) Tom Pope

Domaći su još od 17. minute igrali bez isključenog Billya Jonesa, a nama previše u korist ne idu ostali današnji rezultati jer su od konkurencije Peterborough, Millwall, Scunthorpe i Tranmere slavili pobjede, a MK Dons kojeg čekamo u sledećem kolu je remizirao kod Yeovila. No čini se da je ovjera Play-offa sve bliže... 

Top 50 greatest Leeds United players

50) Eric Cantona (1992) 34 appearances, 11 goals

Cantona gave Leeds some much-needed impetus in 1992, but while his subsequent sale to the Theatre of Short Memories has been widely used to damn Howard Wilkinson, nobody, including I suspect Sir Alex Ferguson, could have envisaged the bit-part player becoming such a global icon. "I don't recall him getting too many clinchers," Gordon Strachan said of the 1992 title campaign, but there were occasional moments of brilliance. It was scarcely a surprise that Leeds's Rimbaud-reading maverick did not gel with Sergeant "Last of the Summer Wine" Wilko. "Eric likes to do what likes when he likes and then f***s off," Wilkinson said. "We'd all want a bit of that."

49) Michael Bridges (1999-2004) 82 apps, 21 goals

Bridges deserves his place in this list because of the 21 goals he scored in his debut season and the sheer determination he showed during the injury hell that followed. Bridges could have been one of the best strikers in the club's history - he was the record signing when bought for £5 million and scored a memorable hat-trick at Southampton - but there was a meningitis scare, drilled bones and no end of failed comebacks. "You think, 'What the hell have I done to deserve this?' but I wasn't ever going to tie a knot in the ceiling and put my head in it," he told me. "I thought about people worse off than myself." When he scored for Carlisle United at Elland Road in January, it was hard not to feel happy for him and sad that he never achieved what he should have.

48) Gary Sprake (1962-73) 506 apps, 0 goals

Before you start looking, David Harvey is not in this list? Why? I just thought he was a good, competent keeper. Sprake, by contrast, had miracle moments, although his legacy has inevitably been tainted by high-profile erors and his ostracism from the Leeds family for speaking ill of Don Revie's finances. If you prefer unspectacular reliability over fairly regular brilliance, then substitute Harvey here.

47) Tom Jennings (1925-31) 179 apps, 117 goals

Have a look at that strike record again. A pre-war phenomenom who scored three successive hat-tricks, Jennings was one of the club's first Scottish heroes, starting a trend that would reach its apotheosis with Billy Bremner and overcome the behind-the-sofa cringing at David McNiven.

46) Frank Gray (1971-79 & 1981-85) 404 apps, 35 goals

A very reliable full back and sometime midfield player, Eddie's brother was all unfussy efficiency and, to this memory, the slow side of shuffling. That said, he was positively fuel-injected when compared with the steadily deflating Space hopper that was Ian Harte. Gray never let Leeds down, though, and kept a rock-steady beat before going to Nottingham Forest to win the European Cup. Allan Clarke re-signed him for Leeds and he made close to 400 appearances, almost unnoticed.

45) Terry Yorath (1967-76) 196 apps, 12 goals

The blond Welshman was another version of Mick Bates, a high-class stand-in for any part of the most illustrious midfield in Britain. Yorath's contribution to Leeds is oft overlooked as he actually played in 28 games of the 1974 title campaign and was even more prevalent the next season, when post-Revie Leeds made it to the European Cup final.

44) Joe Jordan (1970-78) 220 apps, 48 goals

Subtle as a Glaswegian kiss, he arrived at Leeds in 1970 for a bargain £15,000, underscoring Don Revie's eye for spotting potential, and lost his front teeth in a reserve match. Thus was born the most frightening smile this side of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Jordan also had to contend with the Clarke-Jones axis before finally becoming a regular. His best tally in a season was only 12, but he was more important than that and was sorely missed when he went to the Theatre of Lost Souls across the Pennines.

43) Jonathan Woodgate (1997-2003) 142 apps, 4 goals

Woodgate would have been one of the best defenders in Leeds's history had it not been for his involvement in the events that led to the savage beating of Sarfraz Najeib at the start of 2000. Until then, Woodgate had bristled with promise and nascent class, but he faded to a cadaverous relic as the court case dragged on. It is often forgotten that it was Woodgate, not the more easily dislikeable Bowyer, who was convicted of affray. To his credit he rebuilt his career and when he was sold against Terry Venables's will, it was symptomatic of the crash. I went to Spain to watch his debut for Real Madrid. He scored an own goal and was sent off, but gave post-match interviews in Spanish and English. He had grown up.

42) Arthur Graham (1977-83) 260 apps, 47 goals

The Scot's inclusion is also a vote for Carl Harris because, although next to useless in the 1980s, Leeds did at least have two high-class wingers. I had a soft spot for both of them and Harris did turn down Manchester United for Charlton Athletic, but Graham gets the nod for the top 50. His speed was more iffy wiring than electric, but he was clever and when he scored his hat-trick against Wolverhampoton Wanderers, the world seemed to make a bit more sense. He still lives near Leeds, coaches at the academy and, when he visits schools, says he encourages the kids to sing Marching On Together. What a man.

41) Chris Whyte (1990-93) 146 apps, 6 goals

Clubs are only as good as their cult heroes and Chris Whyte was up their with the eccentric best. He was a mainstay of the 1992 championship side with the sort of elasticated legs that made Carlton Palmer look like a stunted hobbit. You watched him and felt he was overreaching in every way, but for that year he was fantastic.

40) Gordon McQueen (1972-78) 171 apps, 19 goals

For the hair alone. Could not have epitomised the Seventies more succinctly had he turned up for training on a Raleigh Chopper.

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39) Tony Yeboah (1995-97) 66 apps, 32 goals

It was a brief affair but in the mid-1990s Tony Yeoboah was the most in congruos thing Elland Road had seen since Queen pitched up a decade earlier and started singing about Fat Bottom Girls; this was long before Paul Robinson was in goal. The strikes against Wimbledon and Liverpool rank among the best scored in Leeds colours. Gorgeous George then continued a time-honoured Leeds tradition in deciding the best thing to do with a precocious goalscorer was to sell him.

38) Mel Sterland (1989-93) 146 apps, 20 goals

Like a runaway stag party, the Yorkshire Zico stormed up and down the right with a crowd-pleasing zeal. That he did so while always looking slightly overweight only endeared him to the fans all the more. Sterland also had a habit of scoring great goals and was one of those rare players who looked as if he actually enjoyed this pro football lark.

37) Rio Ferdinand (2000-02) 73 apps, 3 goals)

Lists are basically the domain of listless journalists and they come fraught with problems. Do you reward longevity or fleeting brilliance? Ferdinand did not stay around for long after his £18 million move, but he was arguably the best defender the club has had since the Revie era. Classy, strong and occasionally elegant, he was better than Woodgate if not as popular. To all at Leeds's immense satisfaction, he was not the same player at Old Trafford the next season.

36) Brian Flynn (1977-82) 177 apps, 11 goals

He looked like a fey Subbuteo player, but little Brian Flynn was a pint-sized colossus at a club that has specialised in them - Collins, Bremner, Giles, Strachan et al. Flynn would have made the list for the simple fact he once scored the winner at Old Trafford, but he was also a wolf in sheep's clothing, fiercely competitive and the perfect foil for Tony Currie's flamboyance.

35) Alan Smith (1998-2004) 228 apps, 56 goals

"He was mean and I don't like players like that," Frank de Boer said after Leeds had been humbled by Barcelona in 2000. He didn't, but Leeds fans did. With Aled Jones looks and Vinnie Jones savagery, Smith was a local hero from the moment he scored at Liverpool with his first touch for the club when 18. He showed moments of real class, notably in Europe, where he scored four in Florence and humbled Anderlecht.

Opponents hated him. Five minutes after his introduction into a game at Arsenal in 1998, he was head-butted by Gilles Grimandi, and he allegedly riled Tony Adams, a recovering alcoholic, by asking if he fancied a post-match pint. But pious journalists lamenting his late sending-off as Leeds crashed out of the Champions League semi-final against Valencia just did not understand the emotion of losing. It was the best foul ever.

He blotted his copybook by moving to Manchester United and saying they weren't rivals because they weren't in the same division. This was some months after he had pledged his future to Leeds even if they were relegated. Despite several managers' selectional whims, he was also a useless midfielder. "I'm a better player than Viduka and Bridges put together," he told David O'Leary. He wasn't, but he was the best-loved player since David Batty.

34) Duncan McKenzie (1974-76) 81 apps, 30 goals

If you didn't like Duncan McKenzie, you didn't have a pulse. He was P. T. Barnum with an Admiral tracksuit. Signed by Brian Clough (see, he wasn't all bad), McKenzie did things such as trap the ball with the backside and jump over Currie and Frank Worthington. McKenzie was more than a show pony, though, and worked well as Allan Clarke's post-Jones partner. Being the top scorer in 1975 he was, of course, sold. Cue decline and fall.

33) Chris Fairclough (1989-95) 240 apps, 23 goals

Leeds fans with short memories will cite Woodgate and Ferdinand as the best defenders since the glory days, but Chris Fairclough was far more significant than both. Quick, athletic and tough, he was a key cog in the 1990 and 1992 title-winning campaigns. He only looked bad when, in keeping with Leeds tradition, he was played out of position in midfield.

32) Rod Wallace (1991-98) 256 apps, 66 goals

Some players never quite make it into the hearts of the fans and Rod Wallace was a prime example. We liked Lee Chapman because he was a semi-arthritic carthorse and we could all identify with that, but Wallace was too mercurial. He mixed brilliance with anonymity, but he was crucial to the 1992 title win and deserves inclusion for that goal against Spurs alone.

31) Willis Edwards (1925-43) 444 apps, 6 goals

They had a different slant on loyalty in the old days. Where Cantona tried to wriggle his way into Elland Road's book of legends on the back of one sublime volley against Chelsea, Edwards's love affair with Leeds lasted 35 years. He was a much-admired wing half who formed a lustrous half-back combo with Wilf Copping during the prewar years of strife. Later he set the trend in popular former players failing as the club's manager. He ended his life working in a jam factory after starting it down a pit. He had no diamond earrings, Ferraris or tattoos.

30) Trevor Cherry (1972-82) 484 apps, 31 goals

The first game I saw live was the European Cup semi-final against Barcelona. To be honest, I was 6 and not very interested, but I remember my dad harping on about Trevor Cherry and someone called Johan Cruyff. Cherry was always there after that. He was a left back or a centre back, even a midfield player. He played 27 times for England and managed to get sent off in a friendly. For some reason, my abiding memory is not his shackling of Cruyff but that late goal against Manchester City in the fifth round of the FA Cupup in 1977.

29) Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink (1997-99) 87 apps, 42 goals

Hasselbaink always seemed to be in danger of tripping over his quivering bottom lip, but he could be fabulous as well as fabulously sulky. When he got his head down within 40 yards of goal, it was a throwback to the days when you knew Peter Lorimer would not be bothering with any deft chips or such nonsense. He was Hotshot Mk II. He also had a wonderful way of shooting with minimal backlift, thus surprising many a goalkeeper and helping himself to bucketloads of goals before it all got too much for George Graham and he was offloaded to Atlético Madrid for £12 million.

28) Albert Johanneson (1961-70) 200 apps, 68 goals

One of the saddest stories in football history, Johanesson was the first black player to play in an FA Cup Final, and the second for Leeds after Gerry Francis, but died in an alcoholic haze in a bedsit in 1995. I once visited his grave in Lawnswood Cemetery where there was a headstone with a Maya Angelou verse inscribed: "I am a black ocean leaping and wide." The South African had the raw talent to rival George Best, according to Johnny Giles, but suffered crises of confidence after freezing against Liverpool at Wembley in 1965 and was hampered by the rise of Eddie Gray. After his death, he lay in an unmarked grave until a Leeds teacher, Paul Eubanks, got in touch with the club, who said they would pay for a wooden cross while a tombstone was made.

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27) Wilf Copping (1929-34 & 1939-42) 183 apps, 4 goals

One of the prewar greats, Copping was the original Iron Man at a club who have long prided themselves on an ability to go in hard. "The first man in a tackle never gets hurt," was his mantra. Unlike the mollycoddled megastars of today, Copping juggled half-back duties with Leeds, Arsenal and England with serving as a sergeant-major in North Africa. Things were a bit different then.

26) Lee Bowyer (1996-2003) 265 apps, 55 goals

I tried to put Bowyer farther down the list. Although found not guilty after the protracted court case into the savage beating of a student in Leeds city centre, Bowyer became a malodorous presence and his post-trial behaviour was reprehensible as he refused to pay a club fine. Yet, for a while, Bowyer was the complete midfield player, lung-busting breaks from midfield, goals aplenty and, shall we say, a penchant for a tackle. Brilliant home and abroad in 2000. Has done nothing since leaving.

25) Lee Chapman (1990-93 & 1996) 174 apps, 80 goals

I tried to put Chapman lower in the list, too. He had the staccato gait of a badly constipated zombie and a numb first touch. He was very much the artisan to Eric Cantona's tortured artist. However, Chapman was also a gilt-edged goal machine and utterly fearless. He got Leeds promoted and then was the star man of the title turn. Sure, Cantona came in for a few end-of-season bows, but the rewriting of history to suggest the Frenchman was the key to the 1992 championship is an insult to his less gifted but more prolific team-mate.

24) Tony Dorigo (1991-97) 208 apps, 5 goals

Gordon Strachan said he felt the game was too easy for Dorigo. "Maybe it was the way he looked, his hair all neatly in place, the fact he was never dirty," he told me. "I was very happy with his effort, but I always felt he had another 10 per cent to give." Dorigo had pace, panache and a powerful shot. When Mel Sterland, a rampaging wildebeest for whom the game always looked a matter of life or death, was tearing down the right, Leeds had the best left-right combination since Sugar Ray Leonard.

23) John Sheridan (1982-89) 267 apps, 52 goals

In the 1980s, Elland Road was a bitter place where they had a riot every other week behind the Lowfield Road terrace. There was a smattering of half-decent players such as Tommy Wright and Scott Sellars and an awful lot of dross; I seem to remember Kevin Hird's haircut being voted player of the season one year. But then there was Sheridan, the first flair player the midfield had seen since Tony Currie left. He had an agressive streak to tether the skills to gritty Northern reality, but he was the reason for believing in the dark days of the second division.

22) Gary Speed (1988-96) 311 apps, 57 goals

I will never forget the first day of the 1996 season. I was listening to the radio and Mike Ingham, the BBC Football Correspondent, was adamant that the world had gone mad because Everton had paid Leeds £3.5 million for Speed. "I don't think he' s worth that," he opined. He was actually worth double. In his pomp, in 1992 and 1993, he had long hair and was a goalscoring winger, that volley against Stuttgart a particular gem. Later reinvented himself as a holding midfield player and set the record for Premier League longevity. Not worth £3.5 million?

21) Paul Madeley (1962-80) 724 apps, 34 goals

For those poor, ill-fated Leeds fans who only really got into things when things had got bad, it is hard to pinpoint what Madeley did. Endless videos will instruct you in the brilliant ways of Gray and Giles and Bremner, but Mr Versatile? However, despite a lack of video evidence, Madeley was clearly the ultimate deputy. Famously, he played in every outfield position, was never knowingly miffed about his lack of a regular slot and was another to top the 700 games tally. The stand-out stand-in.

20) Lucas Radebe (1994-2005) 262 apps, 3 goals

The man who spawned the Kaiser Chiefs, Radebe was just about the loveliest man to play for Leeds since Eddie Gray. In his early days in South Africa, he was shot in the back in Soweto and thought he was going to die, but he survived the violence and started out at Leeds on the, er, right wing. "Christ! Right wing!" he recalled. "I didn't have a clue." Having rewritten history, Howard Wilkinson was clearly losing the plot. He signed Ian Rush and said he was emotionally disembowelled after the 1996 Coca-Cola Cup debacle. He left and, under George Graham, Radebe flourished as a centre half. Athletic, passionate and more smiley than the old badge, the way he became the lifeblood of Leeds was especially satisfying in light of the tragic and lonely end that befell Albert Johanneson.

19) Terry Cooper (1961-75) 350 apps, 11 goals

Bought as a winger but converted into an attacking left back, TC has become part of Elland Road folklore because, not only did he start the Revie era in earnest by getting the winner in the the 1968 League Cup Final against Arsenal, but he also wore white boots. That may sound inconsequential to the modern generation, well used to seeing players don pink, green and blue footwear, but this was an age when men were men and skin grafts were encouraged. But Cooper turned up in white boots set off nicely by his natty sock tags. The left has never looked so good.

18) David Batty (1987-93 & 1998-2004) 382 apps, 4 goals

To understand the importance of David Batty, you really have to come from Yorkshire. As down-to-earth as a subterranean grouter, his approach was summed up in the penalty shoot-out that did for England in the 1998 World Cup. Batty missed, of course, but there was no pizza advert as with Gareth Southgate, no tears and six-year wait for an exorcism as with Stuart Pearce. Batty just poked out his tongue and walked back to the halfway line. "I thought I'd score," he said bluntly afterwards. "I knew he'd miss," his dad added. An underrated player with a joyous economy of ambition, his goals were celebrated as titles.

17) Nigel Martyn (1996-2003) 273 apps, 0 goals

Goalkeepers have never had it easy at Elland Road. From Gary Sprake's battle against his foibles to John Lukic letting in five at home to Arsenal, the No 1 has often been the weak link. Nigel Martyn, recruited for a record fee for a goalkeeper, was different. The rest were just odd, as evinced by this remark from Sprake about a young rival. "I remember David Harvey coming in one day," he said. "His pet monkey had committed suicide. It had put its head in the oven."

16) Paul Reaney (1961-78) 745 apps, 9 goals

Speedy Reaney was the best right back Leeds have ever had. He was fast, strong in the air and had a penchant for shackling prime-time George Best. Reaney made more than 700 appearances for Leeds and would have been even better but for the broken leg he suffered a week before the 1970 FA Cup Final. Reaney can still be spotted at Elland Road and, among his varied roles, he now acts as the agent for No 4 in this list. How did that happen?

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