Well this was my first time back in Leeds and my first game for 27 years and
I was so disappointed. I will be heading back to Oz with no regrets about
missing the next couple of games, and if you guys have to sit through this
standard of football each week you have my upmost sympathy. My hometown
Perth Glory would of given this Leeds team a lesson in passing and
possession.
All you who were booing, Shut the F*** up, yes we can all be critical of
our team but when the team are on the pitch get behind the lads. Why
Beckford is the main target I don't know, he put in more effort than most of
the others.
So many balls kicked out of play, so many misplaced passes, so little
harassing, no fluidity, no midfield, no attack, no defense.
The singing of songs extolling the great team of the 60/70s was great for
oldfarts like me but its sad to be praising the team of 40 odd years ago and
ignoring and booing the team of today.
High point was their goalies warm up at the beginning of 2nd half, and
being able to stand throughout the game.
I might not get to Elland Road again, and this would be a bad game to
remember as my last live one. But no matter what I will always support my
Leeds.
Cheers Nigel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Emmott" <[email protected]>
To: "'list leedslist'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 8:48 AM
Subject: [LU] Wallsall
That was truly, truly awful.
We couldn't pass, couldn't tackle, couldn't do anything right in a first
half that was as bad as anything I've seen them produce in a long time.
Wallsall were stronger and quicker and seemed to want it a lot more than
we
did. Fortunately they were also shite going forward so didn't trouble us
too
much. We did manage to create a couple of chances, one fell to Becchio who
tried a volley that ballooned into the South Stand when he had time to
take
a touch. Oh, sorry, that's Becchio, he doesn't so "a touch". By the time
his
third touch had brought it under control it would've been too late so a
volley was probably his best option even though his chances of scoring
with
it were probably less than zero.
The other chance was the only decent bit of football from either side in
the
first half, some neat build up play ending with Beckford creating space
for
Johnson to hit a good left foot shot which their keeper saved well.
Straight after half time they produced their only bit of decent attacking
play, crisp passing creating space for one of their guys to hit a shot
into
the bottom corner of the goal from the edge of the penalty area. Where was
a
midfielder tracking back to deny him the space you might ask. Same fucking
place they were for most of the game. La La Land!
The game meandered on much as it had done in the first half though now
they
had a lead to protect Wallsall's running and tackling had an extra
intensity.
Then, out of the blue, we equalised. After seeing the re-run on the big
screen I felt that McSheffery had seen the keeper edging towards the
middle
in readiness for the cross and deliberately gone for goal but I was in a
minority of 1 there. Having seen McSheffery later shank several crosses
from
similar positions for goal kicks I tend to the view that the majority were
probably right, it was a fluke.
We did pick our game up a bit after that. Grella and Gradel came on to
inject a bit of pace and effort and we certainly looked the side more
likely
to get the winner until disaster struck.
A deep cross from the right found a man unmarked at the back post (thank
you
Mr. Crowe) and Casper saved his effort well at the expense of a corner.
The
corner came over, there was a bit of a scramble, the linesman started
flagging vigourously and we all thought, good, there's been a foul , until
we saw the Wallsall players tearing towards the dug out celebrating.
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