Source: TheGuardian
Norwich v Leeds: Championship playoff semi-final, first leg – live
Updates from the 12pm BST kick-off at Carrow RoadFarke rues absence of attacking anchorman BamfordLive scoreboard | Email Daniel with your thoughtsCharlie Brooker once wrote that, though he didn’t like football, he could find pleasure in it “because all human suffering amuses me”. So we can only assume that, like the rest of us, he takes manic pleasure in the playoff system, specifically instituted to make people ill.Leeds must wonder how it came to this. Just a few weeks ago, they were confident of automatic promotion, boasting a stable of varied attacking talents good enough for the Premier League. However to their chagrin – and that of the rest of the division, eager to see them gone at the earliest possible opportunity – they contrived four defeats and a draw from their final six games with even the sole win a struggle. As such , though they might now gather themselves and blow away the opposition … they also look primed to endure devastating heartbreak for our entertainment. Continue reading......read full article
