By Keith Ingham
Well as Easter Monday’s go you can’t really beat it. Leeds can do it when it matters, it was so un-Leeds. Two up by 10 minutes and home and hosed by the break. It could have been more as they created seven chances in a mesmerising forty minutes in which they totally put to the sword that previously had put a run of results that had kept them out of the bottom three.
Not surprisingly they took the foot of the gas in the second half but still registered a sixth goal when Manor Solomon crossed for a jubilant Willy Gnonto to head in at the far post. We even had with the game nearly ended the introduction of another Gray. Sixteen year old Harry became the youngest of the Gray dynasty to step on the field at Elland Road.
As the players celebrated, a little muted because there was a little matter of another game over the hill in Burnley to complete what could be a joyous end to Monday. Burnley went ahead but Sheffield United replied. Burnley went ahead late in the first half thanks to a Brownhill penalty. We watched the game in the city centre before heading back to Elland Road because you just had to be there if the score stayed the same and both Leeds and Burnley would be promoted with two games to play.
The scenes at the end of the game standing just a short distance from the Billy Bremner statue will live with me forever. We never got to celebrate properly when Beilsa’s Leeds were promoted in 2020 but by hell we made up for it in 2025. The players joined in the celebration on the steps of the East Stand. Plenty of songs including one about Wilder and the Joy Division classic belted out by both players and fans.
It was as I said earlier one bloody good day !! MOT
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