WSC DAILY
February 2010
Leeds steal Carlisle's Wembley glory | Leeds steal Carlisle's Wembley glory |
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10 February ~ While Premier League supporters can keep tabs on their players' sex lives in today's papers, many lower-league fans would have appreciated reading stories of Carlisle's well-deserved victory over Leeds Utd in the Johnstone's Paint Trophy northern final. If only it had been reported like that. Instead, Carlisle fans will have had to read all about Leeds, including reports of alleged fan violence involving the home crowd and sour grapes from the losing manager Simon Grayson. It was an apparent shock result for many papers who seem to have forgotten that Carlisle are former winners of the trophy and who are now be heading for their fifth Wembley final. Yes, Leeds may once have been a successful club, but Carlisle were the better side last night in a well-contested match. Is it not time that the headlines went where they belong, to the winners? No doubt, however, fans in Cumbria and around the country will still take great pleasure in Leeds' failure to get to the final of the "Paint Pot" trophy, yet another distraction on their quest to be where they apparently belong. Matt Hocken On the subject...
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