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Premier League
Game 36: Sunday 2 May 2004
Bolton Wanderers 4 - 1 Leeds United
(Half-time: 0 - 1)
Crowd: 27420
Referee: S Bennett (Orpington)
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Songs of pride, anger and defiance rang out from the away
supporters' end as the slow-motion disaster of Leeds United's season
reached its inevitable conclusion yesterday. Even if Leeds were to win
their two remaining fixtures, Manchester City's vastly superior goal
difference means that Yorkshire will be without a club in the top
flight next season for the first time in 20 years.
A goal up at the interval, but already down to 10 men, Leeds
collapsed in the second half. Three goals were conceded in a
seven-minute spell soon after the restart, followed by a fourth
shortly before the end as they were relegated along with Wolverhampton
Wanderers and Leicester City. Such was their disarray that, with
Bolton's increasingly confident forwards queuing up to take pot-shots,
it could have been a dozen.
"I'm realistic enough to know that, over the season, we weren't
good enough," Eddie Gray said afterwards. "Nobody has a divine right."
The Leeds manager refused to speculate on his own future or that of
his star players, but added: "It will not be the end of the club."
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