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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 32: Saturday 17 February 2007
Cardiff City 1 - 0 Leeds United
(Half-time: 1 - 0)
Crowd: 16644
Referee: M Clattenburg (Co Durham)
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Cardiff and Leeds have a simmering history and it came sharply to
the boil here, sweet in part but mostly sour. Oddly, after it all
boiled over in a frantic final 10 minutes in which Cardiff's nine men
clung to a precious win, it was the victorious manager who was
seething. Dave Jones made Paul Jewell seem a model of discretion.
The object of his fury was Mark Clattenburg, widely regarded by
Premiership managers as best of the young referees. Jones said: "He
was a joke. I think he lost the plot. Maybe the game was too big for
him. I can understand why he's not good enough to ref in the higher
division and he's not good enough at this level either. He should keep
on going down.
"He's lots to answer for. He's depleted my squad [West Brom
tomorrow, then Preston] through bad refereeing. The red and yellow
cards today were for nothing challenges. I thought he was trying
everything in his power to give Leeds a helping hand but he doesn't
have to justify himself." Jones may have trouble doing just that to
the Football Association.
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