Leeds unbeaten after 27 matches

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33450, 4 February 1974, Page 20

Leeds unbeaten after 27 matches

1.V.Z.P.A.-Rsutcr—Copyright) LONDON. Leeds United took its unbeaten league record to 27 matches when it drew, 1-1, at home to Chelsea in the English Football League first division on Saturday. Leeds is now leading the first division by seven points, ahead

I of Liverpool, on 37, with Derby. Counts- just edging Burnley/ [both being on 31. ] For the second time in three [ ; 1 weeks, the first division produced] I ] a crop of draws—seven in 10 I matches. All told, there were 10 [ h draws after Saturday's 27-match L programme. • Saturday's round was also a l low-scoring day. no first division! team gaining more than one[! goal. At the bottom o‘f the table, j jOnce-great Manchester United] looked a prime candidate to drop] jrout of big-time soccer after (I another disastrous defeat. It|] I went down, 0-1, to Coventry, and] is now riveted at the foot of!. ; the division. Manchester United never j looked like changing its dismal I away form, and it was no sur[prise when B. Alderson gave: ‘Coventry a winning goal in the- | thirty-fourth minute before a : crowd of 25,000. Celtic and Rangers, the big 5 two on the Scottish football; , scene, were sensationallj- beaten.; Celtic, bidding to keep its) 1 stranglehold at the top of the: , table in its quest for a ninth] . successive championship, got its: share of shocks from Mother-; well, and went down, 2-3, at Fir , Park. in a scrambling match at Ibro.: Park, Fletcher put Arbroath ] ahead, 3-2, with a great solo goal j > three minutes from the end. j ENGLISH LEAGUE ; Division I.—Arsenal 1, Burnley | ( I 1; Coventry City 1, Manchester] t United 0; Derby County 1, Newr castle United 0; Leeds United l,i L Chelsea 1; Liverpool 1, Norwich j S City 0; Manchester City 0. . Tottenham Hotspur 0; Queen's I Park Rangers 0, Leicester City] 1 0; Sheffield United 1, Everton 1;] - West Ham United 0, Birmingham! j City 0; Wolverhampton Wand-; jerers 1, Stoke City 1; Ipswich] Town 7, Southampton 0. Division H.—Aston Villa 0,1 • Luton Town 1; Blackpool 2,: > Oxford United 0; Bristol City 3,; Cardiff City 2; Carlisle United 3,| Orient 0; Fulham 1, Sheffield ■ Wednesday I; Hull City I, Notts] , County 0; Nottingham Forest 5, Middlesborough 1; Sunderland 4.| ’ Millwall 0. Division lll—Bournemouth o,l' Oldham Athletic 3; Cambridge , United 1, Chesterfield 2; Grimsby [ Town 2. Huddersfield Town )-. 5 Plymouth Argyle 1, Southend i United 1; Port Vale 2. Brighton . and Hove Albion 1; Watford 4, , Tranmere Rovers 2; W rexham -1, Bristol Rovers 0. Division IV. — Northampton

;Town 0, Brentford 0; Peter[borough United 0. Chester 0; | Exeter City v. Mansfield Town I replay, postponed. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division I.—Clyde 1, Dundee [United 2; Dunfermline Athletic v. Heart of Midlothian, post jponed; Hibernian 3. Aberdeen 1, [Morton 0, Falkirk 3; Motherwell 13. Celtic 2: Rangers 2, Arbroath [3; St Johnstone 1, Ayre United 1 i Division ll.—East Stirling 0, Airdrieonians 2; Forfar Athletic l. Berwick Rangers 1: Kil m. 8, Alloa 2; Raith Rovers 12, Montrose 2; Queen's Park 2, |St Mirren 1: Stenhousemuir C l . [Queen of the South 4. Stirling I Albion 1. Hamilton Academicals 3; Stranraer 1, Clydebank 0