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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 41: Saturday 1 April 2006
Hull City 1 - 0 Leeds United
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 23486
Referee: E Ilderton (Tyne and Wear)
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Five matches without a win for Leeds and on the internet
bulletin boards the knives were out for Kevin Blackwell. Leeds
United are still heading for the play-offs but do not assume they
are marching there with their supporters grateful for small
mercies.
Leeds were rescued from the brink of bankruptcy last season but,
if the boardroom has been stripped of its delusions of grandeur,
some supporters still imagine that their rightful place is
alongside Manchester United, not losing a rumbustious Yorkshire
derby to Hull City.
There were some sane voices. "Grow up you fickle, shallow
numpty," wrote one. "We'd have no club without Kevin Blackwell.
Remember last season?" But few care to remember last season; they
remember only that a few weeks ago they had second-placed Sheffield
United in their sights and that now the gap is seven points, all
but irretrievable.
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