Fulham - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[norfolk white]

Need a win boxing day desperately to calm the nerves, also Fulham's Scott Parker is giving it large how Leeds are predictable blah blah blah, needs to wind his neck in a bit and show some respect.

[Rev72]

Need a win boxing day desperately to calm the nerves, also Fulham's Scott Parker is giving it large how Leeds are predictable blah blah blah, needs to wind his neck in a bit and show some respect.

Nathan Jones was the same last season at Stoke.

Make no bones about it they were very lucky to get the 3 points today..very lucky.

[Dubbag]

Nathan Jones was the same last season at Stoke.

Make no bones about it they were very lucky to get the 3 points today..very lucky.

We scratched a point against them there a while back.....tough place.
Brentford no mugs...

[alfinyalcabo]

Well if thats a penalty then the game is more fecked than I first thought!

Just had a look at it and in all fairness Rev,that was an awful decision,never a penalty in a month of Sunday's.

[norfolk white]

Softest penalty I've seen for a long while, but there we go, maybe we'll get one next game....but more likely hell will freeze over first, another weekend of feeling hard done by.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Softest penalty I've seen for a long while, but there we go, maybe we'll get one next game....but more likely hell will freeze over first, another weekend of feeling hard done by.

To be fair the ones Ayling won and Bamford won recently were pretty soft too

[MrsORichSenior]

Just back from the game . When Pablo went offf we seemed suddenly to have no composure and too many passes went astray in the first half - Phillips, Ayling and Alioski being particular culprits.

Deffo a pen - White pushed him and the ref happened to be watching bar that we had all the real chances in the first half but never got going.

Fulham though are a quality team and it was a proper decent game of football. Not sure how the effort at the end stayed out but a point would have been fair when were not playing that fluently.

Subs all made sense at the game. Costa was not very effective and at the end he wanted pace and width so Stevens who did alright. Some lads in from of us were trying to get a genius song going to the strains of the Bielsa he comes From Argentina song ... something like 1 2. 3 4 we’ve got Jordan Stevens who only bets on evens .......

Caught up with some Fulham fans in the pub post game and they weren’t sure where that performance came from ( we know teams tend to perform against us).

Quality moment at half time. Alan Clarke was being presented as an ex player to the Fulham fans who politely and reservedly applauded when he came the the away end it was hard to hear yourself think with the reception he got from us. He stayed for a while giving the Leeds salute and his classic scoring celebration back. Brilliant upstaging if the Fulham event!

We weren’t great today but always looked like getting a point - still 3 games clear of 3rd - 6 points from the next two games and we will be fine

Thank you HO for your detailed report on the game
I hope you enjoyed the game & am pleased at the positives you noted since you last saw the team in live action - amazing how sides up their performance when we're in town but that's the attraction of Leeds United and the buzz it gives us when we get it right.

Funny how actual match events can be viewed differently when in attendance and yet again that 'London curse' struck us but hey ho ............... onward we go !
MOT

[Dubbag]

Great match report on the game. Honest as well.
I remember "sniffer" one hand majestically raised each time he scored. Hard to imagine him doing the whole sliding on the ground thing today..😁
A gentleman..

[norfolk white]

Oh how we could do with a "sniffer Clarke" in our side today.

[MrsORichSenior]

Great match report on the game. Honest as well.
I remember "sniffer" one hand majestically raised each time he scored. Hard to imagine him doing the whole sliding on the ground thing today..😁
A gentleman..

Mmm, late 60s/70s Albion had a decent striker or two too I recall and a Len Cantelo who was magical in midfield.
Ref's where dodgy too then - Ray Tinklers sadly are still around in today's game sadly !

MOT