‘Shocking’, ‘Cheats’ – Some Leeds and West Brom fans react to footage from Brentford win
After Fulham were eliminated from the race for the top-two this week, it’s a three-way dance between Leeds United, West Brom and Brentford for automatic promotion.
Both Leeds and West Brom fans were watching the Brentford game on Wednesday night, praying that the Bees wouldn’t make it eight-in-a-row.
They did, courtesy of an early goal scored in the third minute against Preston.
However, there was a shocking dive from one of their most talented attackers, Said Benrahma in the 64th minute – he got a yellow card for his actions.
He’s been absolutely brilliant in recent weeks, so good that we think he’ll be in the Premier League next season whether it’s with Brentford or someone else.
We’d definitely take him at Leeds.
However, the dive, which you can see in the footage below is really bad and he wasn’t the only one at it for Brentford, with some Leeds fans slamming Pontus Jansson for diving to get a penalty too.
Brentford manager Thomas Frank brushed off the controversy saying he wasn’t “too bothered” and that many players would have done the same thing.
However, that didn’t stop one Leeds fan from labelling Brentford as “cheats” among other criticisms on Twitter…
West Brom fans were even more irate after Matheus Pereira had been hammered for overreacting to having his hair ruffled in the game against Fulham on Tuesday.
One called for retrospective action but Benrahma was booked at the time so that won’t happen.
We’d like to point out that’s both of our rivals who are trying their best to con the referee into getting decisions or opponents sent off.
Meanwhile, Leeds are doing things the right way. (And we won’t talk about Patrick Bamford from last season.)
Here are the annoyed West Brom fans…
Leeds play Barnsley on Thursday, where a win will take them one step closer to the Premier League.
It can’t be confirmed on Thursday now but it could be on Friday if West Brom lose or Saturday if Brentford drop points. Otherwise, it’s onto Sunday and Pride Park.
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