Leeds Continues Winning Run In English Soccer

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32235, 2 March 1970, Page 14

Leeds Continues Winning Run In English Soccer

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) j LONDON. | The dynamic Leeds United; team strengthened its hold on, the English League soccer championship with a 2-0 win at home against struggling Crystal Palace on Saturday. Leeds, the defending English champion, is chasing the treble of the European Cup. English Cup and English League honours. Two goals on Saturday by M. Jones gave the team an. extra surge of confidence in I readiness for next Wednesday's. (European Cup quarter-final 1 against Standard Liege in Belgium. Everton, Leeds’ nearest j English League challenger,! which has taken only six points from its last six games, dropped back a further point in the championship race with a 1-1 draw away to Nottingham I Forest. Leeds now leads with 51 I points from 34 games; Everton >is two points behind, with a game in hand. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division One.—Ayr 2, Dundee [United 3; Celtic 4. Airdrieonians 12: Dundee 3, Kilmarnock 0: Dunfermline 1, Morton 2; 'Hibernian 2. Rangers 2; Mother* | well 0. Hearts 2: Partick 0, Aberdeen 3; St Johnstone 3, !Clyde 2; St Mirren 3. Raith 3. Division Two.—Albion 1, Alloa ,0; Dumbarton 1. Cowdenbeath 2; East Fife 1, Clydebank 1; East (Stirling 4, Stranraer 0: Forfar 2. Brechin 0: Queen of the South jo. Falkirk 2: Stenhousemuir 2. ißerick 1: Stirling Albion 3. .Hamilton 1. Postponed: Queen’s Park v. Arbroath. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division One.—Arsenal 3. Sunderland 1: Coventry 0. Chelsea 3: Leeds 2. Crystal Palace 0: Liverpool 0, Derby 2: Manchester City 1, Ipswich 0: Newjcastle 1. Tottenham 2: Nottingham 1. Everton 1; Sheffield Wednesday 2. Burnley 0; Stoke 2. Manchester United 2; West 'Bromwich 3. Wolverhampton 3: (West Ham 0. Southampton 0. Division Two.—Birmingham 0, Watford 0: Blackburn 1. Sheffield United 2: Blackpool 2, ; Charlton 0: Bristol City 0, .Leicester 0: Hull 1, Swindon 1; (Middlesbrough 1. Preston 1: Millwall 1, Huddersfield 0: Noriwich 1, Cardiff 1; Oxford 3, Bolton 1: Portsmouth 4, Carlisle 0; Queens Park Rangers 4. Aston Villa 2. Division Three. —Bournemouthj 0, Orient 2: Bury 2, Bristol. ! Rovers 2: Doncaster 0. Walsall i )0: Fulham 3, Rotherham 2: Gil-J lingham 0, Barrow 1: Halifax 0, Barnsley 2: Luton I, Brighton 1: Plymouth 0, Bradford City 1: Reading 1, Rochdale 0: Shrews-, bury 3, Stockport I*. Southport 4. Torquay 2; Tranmere 1, MansIfield 1. '

Division Four. —Bradford 0. Darlington 1; Chesterfield 0. (Chester I: Colchester 3, York 0: I Exeter 3. Southend 0; Newport (1, Notts County 0: Northampton: 4, Aidershot 0: Oldham 0. Grimsby 2; Peterborough 0. Brentford 0: Scunthorpe 2., Lincoln I: Swansea 0. Port Vale 0; Workington 1, Crewe 0; Wrex-i ham 1, Hartlepools 0. IRISH LEAGUE Ards 0. Glenavon I*. Crusaders, 1, Bangor 0: Derry 0. Ballymena 2; Glentoran 3, Distillery 0; Lin-i ,field 1, Cliftonville 1; Portadown' 13, Coleraine 1. AMATEUR INTERNATIONALS England 3. Republic of Ireland jl; Scotland 0. Wales 3. ENGLISH AMATEUR CUP Quarter-final Replay.—Skel-( [inersdale 3, Slough Town 0.