It's a funny old game!

First thing's first. Three cheers for Ian Holloway's Foxes. They duly played their part this evening in ending Palace's unbeaten run. It took a last ditch Barry Hayles goal to do it but Leicester had chances to take the lead in both halves. I expect Palace to bounce back against Southampton at Selhurst on Saturday but their ball has been punctured and we can beat them on 9th February.

The reward then for victory tomorrow will be to climb above Palace once again and a two-goal clear win would also see us move above Stoke by the slenderest margin. I'm really looking forward to it (almost an omen).

On the wider football front, I am amazed and more than a little bemused to see that horrible little shit, Dennis Wise, leaving Leeds for Newcastle. This doesn't make sense. Kevin Keegan knows his way around the football world. He comes from a different era than Wise and surely he would have had a queue of better qualified and certainly better respected men to choose as Director of Football than the obnoxious Wise? True, Wise played under Keegan during his England reign, but it's not as if he's going to get the lads going in the dressing room now?

What's equally strange, is why Wise would walk out on "big" Leeds United having done two-thirds of the job? What's his motivation, I wonder? Surely not simply filthy lucre? It can't be the glory! Ken Bates is is a big pal of Wise and the reason he got the job at Elland Road in the first place. I'm sure he'll have something to say about this. It all smells a bit fishy to me but I guess I should look on the bright side; there's every chance that Leeds' promotion push will continue to falter now and they might spend another season in the wilderness.

Bring on Stoke!