Daniel Farke told to seek Howard Webb showdown talks after Leeds outrage
Daniel Farke has been told to hold showdown talks with PGMOL chief Howard Webb after two huge moments of controversy in Leeds’ win over Middlesbrough on Tuesday night.
Ao Tanaka and Patrick Bamford both had perfectly good goals disallowed by Darren Williams in each half at the Riverside, making Leeds sweat their way to a narrow 1-0 victory.
Both goals should have stood but Williams has a history of wiping legitimate Leeds goals off the record.
Williams in the spotlight as more Leeds goals disallowed
Williams has also disallowed goals by Willy Gnonto against Coventry and Joel Piroe against Millwall this season when both of them should have stood, so that’s four goals incorrectly taken away from the Whites by the assistant referee.
Speaking to Sky Sports after the game on Tuesday night, Farke called out Williams’ track record of disallowing Leeds goals, asking why he’s continued to work on games involving the West Yorkshire club.
| Disallowed goalscorer | Opponent | Date |
| Willy Gnonto | Coventry | 5 February |
| Joel Piroe | Millwall | 12 March |
| Ao Tanaka | Middlesbrough | 8 April |
| Patrick Bamford | Middlesbrough | 8 April |
Keith Hackett doesn’t believe Farke’s post-match comments crossed a line, but he does believe the Leeds manager should hold talks with Webb to discuss why these mistakes keep happening to his team from the same official.
“Having seen two good goals wrongly ruled out for alleged offside, I think that Farke was quite restrained,” Hackett told MOT Leeds News.
“I would suggest that he requests a meeting with Howard Webb to raise his concerns.
“He should at that meeting show the video clips and discuss each decision.”
Leeds back on top of Championship despite controversy
Even though the Whites were robbed of two legitimate goals against Boro, they have gone back to the top of the Championship.
Dan James’ early goal was enough for Leeds to get all three points as Sheffield United lost to Millwall and Burnely were held to a point by relegation-threatened Derby.
The relief was there to see at full-time though with Tanaka in tears as the Yorkshire giants got their automatic promotion bid back on track.