CHELSEA  V  LEEDS UTD

KICK OFF

4pm

DATE

Sunday 19th December 1999

AT

Stamford Bridge

FIXTURE

FA Carling Premiership

ATTENDENCE

MAN OF THE MATCH

SCORE

35,106

0-2

Albert Ferrer

SCORERS

CHELSEA

LEEDS UTD

McPhail 66, 87 mins

REFS PERFORMANCE

2/10

REFEREE

J.Winter

ASSISTANT REFEREES

A.Green
P.Norman

TEAMS

CHELSEA

Ed De Goey, Albert Ferrer, Marcel Desailly, Frank Leboeuf, John Harley, Dennis Wise, Didier Deschamps, Roberto Di Matteo, Gustavo Poyet, Chris Sutton, Tore Andre Flo

SUBSTITUTES

Petrescu 64 (Hogh)46 (Desailly) Zola 57(Flo), Morris, Cudicini

BOOKED

Leboeuf, Wise, Di Matteo

Frank Leboeuf

SENT OFF

LEEDS UTD

Martyn, Kelly, Woodgate, Radebe, Harte, Bowyer, Bakke, McPhail, Kewell, Huckerby, Bridges,

Jones 84 (Bowyer) Wilcox 48 (Bridges)

SUBSTITUTES

BOOKED

Bowyer, Harte, Kelly

MATCH REPORT

Well the result speaks for itself, doesn't it?

Leeds came to win the game and to intimidate us and to be honest we never took the bait and with a genuine goalscorer upfront we would have killed Leeds off in the first half.

Leeds players seemed to have problems with their footing as they spent most of the time on the ground play acting and trying to con the diaboloical ref Winter, notably Kewell who fell down all to often, with Chants of "CHEAT , CHEAT" and "Oh Harry Kewell is a cheating aresole, is a cheating arsesole" reverberating around the ground he thorougly deserved it.

The start of the 2nd period had bad omens when Hogh replaced Desailly who appeared to have injured his shoulder in the first half and Leeds quickly siezed the chance and began to look very dangerous.

Things got even worse when are 2nd centre back departed with Hogh being stretchered off with a leg injury.

Vialli had no alternative but to put Sutton back to fill the gap in defence alongside Albert.

Leeds wasted no time in seizing the opportunity and scored a scrappy goal gainst the run of play by McPhail

With sub Zola partnering Poyet upfront, we began to look dangerous again, but if we did, Leboeuf soon put paid to that, when after tripping Kewell and completly loosing his head, stamped on him and was quickly shown the red card by Ref Jeff Winter.

This arrogant french bastard is becoming a liability to Chelsea and left the field to a torrent of abuse by the Loyal Chelsea fans who pay his bloody wages.

His departure left a amazing back three of Sutton, Ferrer, Petrescu, and effectively the game was over.

Leeds completed a miserable afternoon for all Chelsea fans when McPhail scored a second goal from a free kick.

The reasons why we lost this game :

"How do expirienced players loose their composure so easily"

"We need a striker who can hit the back of the net urgently"

"LEBOEUF"

Sorry Luca you have lost the plot

BYE BYE PREMIERSHIP