Leeds stays six ahead

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32561, 22 March 1971, Page 26

Leeds stays six ahead

(N Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. Leeds United maintained its six-point lead in the English first division soccer championship, on Saturday, recovering from a goal down and beating Crystal Palace, 2-1. Arsenal kept its faint championship hopes alive with a 1-0 victory over the bottom club, Blackpool, which held Leeds to a draw the previous week. Leeds has 54 points from 34 games, Arsenal 48 from 32. Wolverhampton Wanderers moved into third place, on 43 points, after beating West Bromwich Albion, 4-2, while Chelsea slipped down one place, being held to a goalless draw by struggling Huddersfield Town. The leading clubs in the other English divisions are (with games played in parenthesis): Division two, Cardiff (32) 43 points, Leicester (32) 43, Sheffield United (33) 42. Division Three, Preston (36) 50, Fulham (37) 47, Aston Villa (36), 45. Division Four, Notts County (37) 57, Bournemouth (37) 48, Oldham (37) 47. Celtic moved up to one point behind Aberdeen, with a game in hand, and is now strongly placed to win the

Scottish championship for the sixth successive year. Results: ENGLISH LEAGUE Division one.—Arsenal 1, Blackpool 0; Burnley 0, Tottenham Hotspur 0; Chelsea 0, Huddersfield 0: Leeds 2, Crystal Palace 1: Liverpool 2, Derby 0; Manchester City 1, Coventry 1; Newcastle 2, Southampton 2; Nottingham 3, Everton 2; Stoke 1, Manchester United 2; West Bromwich 2. Wolverhampton 4; West Ham 2. Ipswich 2. Division two.—Birmingham 3, Sunderland 1: Bristol City 2, Swinton 1; Cardiff 1, Queen’s Park Rangers 0; Leicester 1, Watford 1; Luton 3, Hull 1; Middlesbrough 0, Orient 1: Millwall 1, Sheffield Wednesday 0; Norwich 2, Bolton 1; Oxford 1, Carlisle 1; Portsmouth 2, Charlton 0; Sheffield United 5, Blackburn 0. Division three.—Barnsley 2, Shrewsbury 1: Bury 2, Fulham 0; Chesterfield 2, Brighton 1; Gillingham 0, Plymouth 2; Halifax 0, Mansfield 1; Preston 4, Doncaster 0; Reading 0, Bristol Rovers 2; Rotherham 1, Bradford City 1: Torquay 1, Aston Villa 1; Walsall 0, Swansea 1; Wrexham

3, Rochdale 0. Postponed: Tranmere v. Port Vale. Division four.—Barrow 2, Southend 0; Bournemouth 1, Darlington 0; Brentford 0, Newport 3; Cambridge 2, Grimsby 3; Colchester 1, Exeter 1; Northampton 1, Notts County 1; Oldham 1, Chester 1; Peterborough 5, Hartlepool 0; Scunthorpe 3, Lincoln 1; Southport 1, Crewe 0; Workington 4. Aidershot 0; York 2, Stockport 1. < SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division one.—Airdrleonlans 2, Dundee 6; Clyde 2, Rangers 2; Dundee United 4, Hearts 1; Dunfermline 3, Morton 9; Falkirk 1, Cowdenbeath 2; Hibernian 1, St Johnstone 2; Kilmarnock 1, Celtic 4; St Mirren 0, Motherwell 2. Postponed: Aberdeen v. Ayr. Division two.—Alloa 2, Montrose 5; Brechin 1, Stenhousemuir 2: Clydebank 1, Berwick 2; East Fife 6, East Stirling 2; Forfar 1, Stranraer 0: Hamilton 0, Stirling Albion 2; Partick 3, Albion 0; Queen of the South 3, Arbroath 1; Queen’s Park 0, Haith 1. IRISH LEAGUE Bangor 1, Ballymena 1; Crusaders 3, Portadown 1; Derry 1, Distillery 3; Glenavon 4, Coleraine 2; Glentoran 4, Ards 0; Linfield 2, Cliftonvllle 0.