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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 13: Saturday 21 October 2006
Luton Town 5 - 1 Leeds United
(Half-time: 1 - 1)
Crowd: 10260
Referee: G Hedgley (Bishop's Stortford)
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Ken Bates loves a bargain. He picked up Chelsea for a quid. He
hoped he had another in his caretaker manager, John Carver, at
Leeds. Now, even before this latest debacle, he was said in
desperation to be considering Graeme Souness, who will not come
cheap despite a track record of quick fix, quick fade and quick
fire.
Carver took over last month after Kevin Blackwell's one win in
the previous six league games. As credentials come, his came with a
bang - an instant victory over Birmingham City. As credentials go,
they have gone up the spout. Four successive defeats, in which 15
goals have been shipped, have followed and left Leeds next to
bottom. Five years ago they played a Champions League
semi-final.
Managers generally say they like their players to do the talking
for them, on the pitch. Carver's were incoherent, blurting with
random anxiety. The defence especially found no common language. If
Saturday was Carver's last stand, he is in ample company. Six, a
quarter, of the Championship's managers have been unseated this
season. Seventeen of the 24 have been in office less than a
year.
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