Junior Firpo booed by Leeds United fans at Elland Road after relegation confirmed – Graham Smyth
Leeds United fans were seen booing left-back Junior Firpo during the players’ “lap of honour” after they were relegated from the Premier League on Sunday (28 May).
The Whites were thumped 4-1 by Tottenham on the final day of the season, meaning they will be playing Championship football next season after three years in the top flight.
But writing on his personal Twitter account (28 May), Yorkshire Evening Post journalist Graham Smyth shared that fans were singling players out in the stands and booing them as they did their lap of the pitch following the result.
“Adam Forshaw walking around applauding Elland Road and being applauded in return,” he wrote.
“Firpo is being booed as he follows.”
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It’s not about Firpo individually, and I’m sure there were other players who got stick during their walk of shame around the pitch.
But Firpo is a symbol of the recent regime and how much they have let the club down in recent years, spending £15m on the Spaniard only for him to be nowhere near the required standard.
He wasn’t replaced and the team have had to march on with him, and it’s too much to carry. The same can be said for the likes of Weston McKennie, Georginio Rutter and others too.
On the other hand someone like Forshaw is a club legend for what he has done here, and while he’s part of this absolute mess too the fans simply can’t and will never need to question his commitment to the cause.
If you gave fans a choice of who they’d want to see here next season representing the club to get Leeds back to the Premier League, they would all take Forshaw before Firpo and that’s the plain and simple fact of it.
In other Leeds news, Andrea Radrizzani cut ties with the club early after what he did before the loss to Spurs.