15 Points

So with a 2-0 victory against Millwall on Saturday, Leeds have pretty much booked themselves a place in the play offs for this year. Damn, why did I type that? With the luck we’ve had in the last few years (yes, a lot of it was down to shoddy management and our even shoddier administration, but luck has also played a part in our demise), we’ll probably end up bottling the last two games of the season and finish 7th. Or even worse, get our 15 points back from that nasty thief Brian Mawhinney, which would put us a clear 2nd and ready for automatic promotion, but again lose our final two games and finish in a play off spot, losing in the final to Doncaster or someone equally as non-descript. (Actually, that’s pretty harsh on Donny, one of the handful of teams, along with Swansea and us, to play some decent football in this league).

Speaking of those 15 points, it riles me up the amount of people who have come out in recent weeks moaning that if we get the points given back then teams like Bournemouth and Luton will have to have their points given back too. This is, of course, absolute bollocks. Bournemouth and Luton were deducted 10 points, just as we were last season, for going into administration. Leeds have never complained about losing these points (and when I say ‘Leeds’ I mean the club, not the supporters), as this deduction is accepted as competition rules. But what these ignorant bastards like Rhys Weston (Millwall Keeper - can't find the bloody link) fail to understand is that the 15 points we are fighting for were taken away from us by the Football League for ‘financial irregularities’, a completely separate issue to the original 10 points deducted in 2007, and absolutely nothing to do with the points that Bournemouth and Luton have lost.

And so the fight goes on. The points were cemented in place, as the Telegraph very eloquently put it this weekend, by chairmen of the clubs in the Football League who were in “direct opposition to Leeds, through their potential promotion rivals in the Championship to the League Two sides whose gate receipts would be swelled by Leeds' fanatical travelling support, all present at that gathering had something to gain”. I can’t see how to be judged by a jury who all have a vested interest in Leeds’ plight can be called any sort of justice at all.

The main problem with our argument is that in order to gain a place in the League for this season, cuddly Ken Bates signed an agreement which said that we wouldn’t seek any further legal matters to overturn the judgement, and many imagine this will be our major stumbling block in getting them back. That said I’m optimistic, and hopeful that by the end of the season we will occupy 2nd spot at least.

This season’s been an amazing one for Leeds fans. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve only made it up for one game this season, a mid winter 3-0 thrashing of Port Vale, but I’ve really been transfixed by all the goings on.

15 points, who gives a f*ck?