Beckford is the man of the FA Cup so far
Two penalties, a fallen giant and the player of the moment grabbing two goals. The FA Cup match between Tottenham Hotspur and Leeds United was everything that a football fan could ever want from the famous competition.
Spurs are very much still in the hunt for fourth place and that Champions League qualification spot but they aren’t going to turn down the chance of a May trip to Wembley. They may rather wait until the following season because everyone knows that it’s lucky for Spurs when the year ends in 1…but get it whilst its going is a good motto for life.
Spurs may have thought they were due to open the scoring from the spot but yet again, Jermain Defoe was the player to miss. The forward can be deadly in front of goal but his touch quite often goes missing from the 12 yard spot. With the World Cup looming, English fans will be hoping that other players will be ready to step up to the plate when it matters.
Spurs weren’t to be denied and took the lead on the stroke of half-time. There was a stroke of good fortune about Peter Crouch’s goal but the tall forward reacted quickly to the rebound that came at him with pace.
This half-time lead should have been the catalyst for Spurs to ease to victory but Leeds came roaring back. Within 7 minutes of the second half, Beckford was on hand to bundle the ball home and have the Leeds fans dreaming of another Premier League scalp.
If Beckford is the man of the moment, Roman Pavlyuchenko has been the forgotten man of the season but he looked to have grabbed the winner with his strike on 75 minutes. Some lucky Spurs fans was the lucky recipient of the players gloves as he threw them into the crowd but Spurs were unable to hold onto their passage into the next round.
It was deep deep into injury time when Matt Dawson put a ludicrous challenge in that the referee decided was worthy of a penalty kick. Spurs fans will argue that Dawson took some of the ball but as a defender, you should not be taking that sort of risk in injury time.
Beckford picked himself up and fired the ball past the despairing dive of Gomes to draw Leeds level and earn his side a replay on the 2nd of February.
Leeds will think that they have every chance of progressing at Elland Road and it should be a fascinating match once again.
Leeds fans, can you get past Spurs?
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If this was horse racing the bookmakers would be driving Ferraris and the Jockeys wrapped in scandal for not trying Horse would be dope tested and Jockeys Banned for drug abuse.OH that’s what happened and if i have my way Football will be next if UK sport don’t act on the ephedrine taking by some Teams what this is doing is creating History by cheats players will get bought for loads of money and then suddenly turn into average players and sold for a lot less and clubs will end up in Finacial trouble by panic buying when its drugs winning games with late late goals outstanding goalkeeping blocks dirty tackles .Why if Leeds are so good why did Exeter win 2-0 and they havent won since the UTD game because other teams are treating them like they treat us and are using Ephedrine to compete and the one I discovered that opened a can of worms was the Spanish man who said is team would finish in the top four.
Davspurs, are you seriously suggesting that the Leeds side is on drugs? I hope you have a good lawyer. Ken Bates owns the club! Leeds earned a draw because they played some good football at times and that includes defending like a ballet dancer in the goal mouth if that’s what you have to do. Matches are not won on reputation or salary. They are won on team work, two defenders on a player, tracking back, hard work, that kind of thing. In League One, teams don’t have the luxury of pitches like carpets and refs let players get away with murder. Can’t defend the Exeter or Wycombe results because sometimes you just lose, simple as that. But the fact that Leeds stood up to a Premier League team and made a good account of themselves doesn’t make them drug taking cheats.
Leeds were not lucky at the lane, they put more into it than spurs, who thought it would be a walk over. Leeds players played to win and took everytheng that spurs threw at them, including all the spurs subs including Robbie Keen. Bring it on at Elland road. Brian McMullen Leeds