Coca-Cola Football League Championship Game 25: Sunday 26 December 2004 Sunderland 2 - 3 Leeds United (Half-time: 1 - 1) Crowd: 43253 Referee: R Beeby (Northamptonshire)
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Match Facts
Sunderland	Team	Leeds United
Thomas Myrhe		Neil Sullivan
Stephen Wright		Gary Kelly
Gary Breen		Frazer Richardson
Julio Arca		Danny Pugh
George McCartney		Matthew Kilgallon
Steve Caldwell		Paul Butler
Liam Lawrence		Jermaine Wright
Carl Robinson		Matthew Spring
Dean Whitehead		Aaron Lennon
Chris Brown		David Healy
Michael Bridges		Brian Deane
Subs
Ben Alnwick		Scott Carson
Neil Collins		Clarke Carlisle
Jeff Whitley		Martin Woods
Marcus Stewart		Julian Joachim
Stephen Elliott		Michael Ricketts

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Leeds change their tune on day of records - Michael Walker

Copy from Football Unlimited of 27/12/2004.

Leeds United stared down the biggest crowd of the Football League season yesterday. More importantly they stared down their own history.

Beginning the game 20th - after Brighton had earlier beaten Gillingham to go above them - Leeds were briefly in their worst position ever. Club officials could not have looked more anxious about this.

With only six wins in their previous 24 matches and Sunderland looking at the chance to go top of the division, unwelcome history was Leeds's for the making.

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