[Jacko The Flopsy Piglet]

Agree, it will be a bit of a kick in the balls if he now goes back to Norwich just when he's hit top goal scoring form. Having just seen Norwich on MOTD they could certainly do with him. Fingers crossed time!

[St Charles Owl]

I don't know what the ref was thinking for the L**ds "goal". If you watch the replays, he clearly looks across at the sideline to check the sub has been made and you can see him hesitate when L**ds take the kick, appearing to not know what to do!! I think he was hoping it would end in a goal kick and therefore he could allow things to continue without any incident!! When the ball went in he signaled for the goal but I can only imagine that the 4th official told him the sub had yet to be completed when the free kick was taken, hence why he went over to him. In the replays I saw you can clearly see FF is still 10-15 yards from the sideline when he looks over.

By the letter of the law he got the decision right by insisting the FK was retaken, his blunder was allowing it in the first place.

[dubaiowl]

We need to sign hooper. My friends a Norwich fan and he doesn't like the Scottish manager in charge. Seems to have his favourites and players like hooper and laferty have never got a look in even tho they are crying out for decent strikers. The fact they put a 3.5 million price tag on him shows the intent to sell. Mgrs are usually too stubborn to say they have got it wrong and welcome players back with open arms. Hooper prob doesn't wanna go back anyway to sit n the bench.

It's meeting his wages that will be the problem. Hopefully they will be team spirit and he's enjoying the football to want to come. Don't expect loyalty tho if some other high flying team comes in. The fans were slagging him off before he joined and calling him lazy in the first 5+ games.

[madsteve]

Still can't get over the fact that the L**ds player put it in with his arm anyway regardless of the referee's initial cock up and no one has mentioned that

The officials were shite today   we had two or three offsides given that were clearly not when we could have been in (they had one too), a number of times early on when advantage should have been played and a clear penalty when FF was grabbed by the neck and thrown to the floor by Bellusci as a cross came in from a free kick. Cook should also have been sent off (and possibly Hutch) and the guy who handled the ball on the line in the first goal scramble (harsh, but he did stop the ball crossing the line before Hooper forced it home).

And Hooper's miss in the 7th minute wasn't that bad. The ball took a deflection off the defender causing it to go slightly behind him. Without that he would have scored.

In a way, the hand ball was irrelevant (or should have been) because the error was allowing the free kick to be taken.

I instinctively thought our two early one on one situations were onside despite being well out of line. Why then did a linesman is position get both decisions badly wrong & give them offside? What happened to the benefit of any doubt going to the attacker?

I felt the referee let the game pass him by. He was a late replacement & didn't want to be there. ( He has reffered at Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City & PSG in the last month & was his first game below PL level this season. To some extent, he managed the Cook & Hutchinson challenges consistently. The penalty on FF was clear but the referee wasn't watching.

The penalty for the handball would only be a yellow card because it would not have denied a goal scoring opportunity if we still forced it into the net.

Watching Hooper's early miss on TV and you could see why he missed it. The cross took a deflection which took the pace off the pace off the ball meaning Hooper arrived well before the ball did.

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MS price made a reflex lucky save after he made the mistake of not gathering or getting rid of the first shot !! and maddix come over to the bbc site leeds fans feel hard done by ffs ????

Felt he should have held initial shot but at least he saved the situation, assisted by Sasso. He was the best keeper on the pitch yesterday.

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The thing about Hooper is that, like all strikers, he misses chances you'd expect him to score but, he keeps getting in position to score them. Just like on Tuesday when he missed a couple of chances but ended up getting 2, including the winner. It's something Joao needs to learn if he's going to become a better striker. You can't just score belters and headers. Sometimes you just have to get in the six yard box and fight to get to a loose ball first and knock it in.

Hooper is a goal scorer. He will be worth about 6-8 points more to us this season if we keep him.

"Never judge a striker by his misses, judge him on the number of strikes he has" Gary Lineker

[Imre varadi]

Just read on Fb that the fan didnt die yesterday !!