In 1985 some of the worst football riots happened in England, and our game against Birmingham in may of 1985 was one of the worst games Leeds have ever been involved in. A 14 year old kid was killed and even Leeds legend Eddie Gray, then manager of the club, was abused by LUFC fans.
This will be our first meeting with Birmingham since 2007, they have enjoyed time in the Premier League and also winning a Carling Cup last year, while we have been in league 1 and won, ehm.. not much!
Birmingham are currently 14th in the table, but in their case the table actually do lie, they have only played 10 games due to being in the Europa League, so they have three games in hand, and would easily find themselves in the play offs if they were succesful in those games. They have been great in both league and Europe so I think it's safe to say that Simon Grayson's men will face their toughest test so far this season.
Leeds United grabbed a dramatic winner in the 6th minute of Fergie time on saturday, with Darren O'Dea getting his second goal in two games (Had Luciano scored I would have gotten all three goalscorers right from my last blog) and Leeds once again look like a team who can outscore any opponent, but defence still needs a bit of work, but ok, it doesn't help that Lonergan is now injured for weeks, hopefully Paul Rachubka will improve in form when he gets more games under his belt.
Robert Snodgrass missed this weekends win and was replaced by Varynen (who picked up an injury himself), Snoddy is expected to feature tomorrow and if he can't play, Lloyd Sam looks a likely replacement, the Leeds born winger created the last two goals in the weekend, so maybe he will get the chance ahead of Snoddy anyway?
So the right winger is the only questionmark for SG, I think he will play Sam and keep the rest of the team as it was on saturday, eventhough I would still like to see Becchio start, but maybe he is being saved for the next two games when I am on ER? Due to my travel over I won't be able to blog about the next two games, but will return with news from Leeds and hopefully new memories and a brilliant pub guide!
Leeds will win a hard fought battle 1-0 with a late winner from Luciano Becchio M.O.T
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