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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 11: Saturday 14 October 2006
Leeds United 0 - 4 Stoke City
(Half-time: 0 - 1)
Crowd: 18173
Referee: T Kettle (Berkshire)
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The caretaker-manager position at Elland Road had offered John
Carver the opportunity to pitch an irresistible case to be offered
the post long-term. Instead, with Leeds United completely outplayed
by Stoke City, his prospects look bleak. He has surely failed his
practical assessment.
Carver admitted as much when asked whether Saturday's result had
ended his chances of landing the job. "If I'm being quite honest,
possibly yes, because I know what the standards are at this
football club," he said. "I'm very disappointed and I have to take
whatever comes. I know where I want to go, but the result certainly
doesn't help my case."
The understatement of that last sentence was a theme of his
post-match analysis. "We didn't do the basics well," he said. But
in truth Leeds did nothing well, basic or otherwise. "The second
half disappointed me, and I'm sure it disappointed everybody
watching" was offered, but the rousing chorus of "You're not fit to
wear the shirt" that rang out after Stoke's third - Danny
Higginbotham heading past Neil Sullivan - smacked of more than just
disappointment. City's fourth, by Ricardo Fuller, brought only
stunned silence.
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