Sam Allardyce’s back five failed to keep Tottenham’s potent strike force at bay but poor recruitment has been the problem
As kick-off approached the strains of “Don’t You Forget About Me” by Simple Minds drifted over the sound system. Maybe it was the acoustics, but the lyrics sounded particularly plaintive.
By the final whistle no song would have been sufficiently forlorn to match the mood as wholesale boos signalled that Leeds had just experienced football’s equivalent of stepping off the edge of the world.
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