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Premier League
Game 36: Sunday 2 May 2004
Bolton Wanderers 4 - 1 Leeds United
(Half-time: 0 - 1)
Crowd: 27420
Referee: S Bennett (Orpington)
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Songs of pride, anger and defiance rang out from the away
supporters' end as the slow-motion disaster of Leeds United's
season reached its inevitable conclusion yesterday. Even if Leeds
were to win their two remaining fixtures, Manchester City's vastly
superior goal difference means that Yorkshire will be without a
club in the top flight next season for the first time in 20
years.
A goal up at the interval, but already down to 10 men, Leeds
collapsed in the second half. Three goals were conceded in a
seven-minute spell soon after the restart, followed by a fourth
shortly before the end as they were relegated along with
Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leicester City. Such was their disarray
that, with Bolton's increasingly confident forwards queuing up to
take pot-shots, it could have been a dozen.
"I'm realistic enough to know that, over the season, we weren't
good enough," Eddie Gray said afterwards. "Nobody has a divine
right." The Leeds manager refused to speculate on his own future or
that of his star players, but added: "It will not be the end of the
club."
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