Leeds banter 8

11 Feb 2026 13:15:16
Can somebody explain the handball rule to me please. I mean it was accidental and unavoidable but it was hand ball.
Commentators said if he had scored it would have been disallowed. Happy it was a goal but confused.
Okafor got some passion there. Always at the crowd.

11 Feb 2026 13:56:03
I believe the ref has discretion to let it pass as unintentional if it hits another part of the body first and then bounces onto the hand, which is what happened here - except if in the penalty box when any ball/ hand contact must not be allowed. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

11 Feb 2026 14:08:18
That's more or less correct JR. Also makes a difference if it is the goal scorer or not. In this case the player alleged to have handled it wasn't the goalscorer so it was ok. Had Okafor been the one to handle it then the goal would have been ruled out.

11 Feb 2026 14:52:06
But it was a LEEDS player surely that is a lifetime ban for Bogle, and 26pts deduction?

Loved hearing Rosenior bleating afterwards about all you want in football is logic applied to decision making and fairness!

Like valuing your women’s team more than Leeds United and selling them to your own company or flogging a hotel to yourself or circumnavigating transfer rules with “swaps” from feeder club Strasbourg, cheats never prosper.

11 Feb 2026 15:52:17
How about praising our away fans trailing 2-0 down what do they do sang on about we marching on together and loving LEEDs till they die fantastic you all are they help Leeds last night what did Chelsea fans do being 2-0 up nothing and for the commentator, Mr. Merson saying game over at two eat your words.

11 Feb 2026 17:19:05
Yes the away fans are amazing.

Handball offence is committed when a player (except the goalkeeper in their own penalty area) :

- deliberately touches the ball with their hand/ arm
- touches the ball with their hand/ arm when it is in a position that makes their body unnaturally bigger and that position is not the result of their body moving fairly as part of play
- scores a goal against the other team with their hand/ arm or scores immediately after the ball has touched their hand/ arm (even if the touch was accidental)

There is also proximity, if the ball ricochets of another part of the body and hits the arm, or if a player is on the ground being supported by his arm and the ball hits that arm, it is not handball.

Again they are laws and therefore interpretation of said law is accepted. VAR will only interject if the center ref has made a 'clear and obvious error' when it's outside the 18 yard line.

Glad it went in our favour .

11 Feb 2026 17:54:44
Rosenior can kiss my white Leeds arse.

Fairness? Like a Chelsea player collapsing like Jenga tower in gale force winds and being awarded a penalty, yet GG was ragged to the ground and didn't get a pen because he went down too easy?

Keep sulking you linkedin twonk.

11 Feb 2026 19:19:55
Didn't hear him complaining when Palmer handled the ball in their area when attempting a clearance!

12 Feb 2026 19:10:33
Liam who?
Although he is benefiting a new manager bounce period, in twelve months or less from now, I can’t see him living up to the very high expectations of Todd Boehly and co. and will be surplus to requirements.
Just an another young coach who thinks he can take a short cut to the top.
👋🏻.

11 Feb 2026 09:51:45
Wonderful result last night. I thought it would be a case of how many when the first went in but we somehow managed to get the draw against the run of play. I will take a point away from home all day long.

11 Feb 2026 11:39:54
Evens up over the season Alf, we were far the better team away at Fulham and lost in the last minute to that cruel own goal by Gabby.

11 Feb 2026 11:49:15
Yep yep yep.

11 Feb 2026 09:51:21
Well done lads. On stats we should have lost but we battled and drew. That was the difference, we dug in did the dirty (not that, you know what I mean) stuff, while they struggled with the pretty stuff. I am mightily proud of my team today BUT can someone please ask Bijol - WHY?

11 Feb 2026 11:50:33
Why oh why oh why oh why. That was ridiculous. They played some good stuff but yeah. Dug in and battled through. Credit.

11 Feb 2026 11:52:54
I did notice gruev and Justin have a habit of gently pushing a player when marking them. Not sure what that was about.
So funny bijol not thinking it was a penalty. Even the Chelsea player was asking him why.

11 Feb 2026 16:59:47
My personal view was the striker waited for the hands and slowed up big time, making a “hands on” into a push.

Watch the same move against Wolves.

It’s not about why, but “how. ”.

11 Feb 2026 07:39:23
{Ed's Note - BullysBoy II has posted a new article entitled, Wolves Selection Debates Need Better Perspective

11 Feb 2026 06:21:50
Now the dust has settled after a very good point last night, does anyone else think the first goal could have been avoided?
I've watched it a few times and I think Darlow hesitated and didn't commit to coming out and sliding to the ball., had he rushed out and slid to the ball.

I don't want to dampen a great point, but both goals IMO could have been totally avoided.
But we'll done lads.

11 Feb 2026 06:27:37
Said same in match chat Dougie
He had a poor game last night for sure
Just so happy we got such a crucial point.

11 Feb 2026 07:11:36
Agree Chris. Very happy with a point. Even though it was a poor performance. We were outplayed for 80% of the game. But to be expected For once early subs and they worked. The boys hung on to the draw. Well done.

11 Feb 2026 08:17:47
Think your been over critical on the lad . John Newsome said the same on Radio Leeds but he also said you've only got a nano second to react!

11 Feb 2026 08:43:57
A few of us watching thought Darlow hesitated, as has Perri on a couple of occasions. As good as Chelsea were, the penalty they got was a total brain fart by Bijol. At the end of the day, a great unexpected point. On to Brum now, let's also get a Cup run going with a win.

11 Feb 2026 08:57:19
Their 1st was a good goal from a good player. Maybe if he'd been marked by a quicker player than Bornauw it could"ve been stopped but sometimes you just have to say well done to them. 2nd was a totally avoidable mistake by Bijol. Subs were timely and correct and when we went from 5;3:2 to 4:4:2 it was a different game, ok they were still a threat, but not able to come forward in such numbers, and we took full advantage of the few chances we created.

Oh, and Estevao should've seen red for his atrocious 'tackle' on Rodon.

11 Feb 2026 09:31:16
Not sure about 1st goal avoidable but the penalty from Bijol certainly was, I’d be focussing on that . Awful play from him Z infuriating.

11 Feb 2026 09:34:40
100 all that jr.

11 Feb 2026 05:51:41
I thought we played very well in the second half and deserved a point out of the game.
Considering we gave them a free goal with Bijol’s inexplicable penalty, Cole Palmers Ronnie Rosenthals type of miss in front of an open goal does happen in football.

Bijol’s did make up for his error with some excellent defending after and defending is what we were going to have to do against this very young talented Chelsea side.
I think their naivety with their lack of experience in their team helped us to claw this game back to a draw, along with our relentless determination to work very hard and never give up.

A lot of posts claiming we played very poor and were lucky is not how i analyzed this game. Even with injuries or absence by key players like DSL, Stach and Struijk we can still find a way to force a result against a billion pond team.

Well done Farke and his players in working very hard to get this result, credit to them 👏🏻.

11 Feb 2026 09:25:27
Good post OP in particular, the billion dollar bit, puts some perspective into last nights excellent fighting performance and for me, fully deserved point.

It’s the equivalent of racing a Bentley in F1 both are presumably at the prestige end of the market, but in truth there’s no comparison, and in reality we shouldn’t be able to compete as we have.

I’m sure Chelsea feeder club Strasbourg are much closer to us in terms of finances, so a great point, now got to go as I’m of to get a picture of Sesko tattooed where it doesn’t show, how important was that last minute equaliser!

11 Feb 2026 12:31:23
It’s funny Class but there’s quite a number of pundits and football journo’s who think we are already clear of relegation!?
It could be one of the biggest fight out in the history of the Premiership with possibly five teams competing against each other to avoid the drop.

Could be literally down to goal difference for several teams on the last day of the season in my estimation, I think we will be in that mix.
Its definitely going to be a white knuckle ride.

11 Feb 2026 13:31:05
Totally agree OP, although very encouraged by the resilience and fight in the squad just now there’s no easy fixture in this league and you’re facing teams also fighting for premier league survival.

11 Feb 2026 01:36:36
Not sure how we managed to get a point there but will take it.
Very lucky. We were pretty poor for most of the game.
Bounow was the centre back chosen to step into midfield when we had the ball I believe. That’s why he was caught out.

Namecheck falls over more than ba. Good penalty though. Ridiculous penalty to give away. Very strange game. See we do get a bit of luck now and then. And above spurs. Loving that. Wolves and Burnley win? Keep palace in the mix, not sure?

10 Feb 2026 22:50:25
Fantastic never say die attitude on show, A team with belief is such a difficult opponent, battle, run, encourage, all on show
So proud after that.

10 Feb 2026 23:18:37
It was a great point and the players ran hard and defended brilliantly last 15 minutes.
It was however a poor performance. We were all over the place as a team defensively for most of the match and did nothing going forward.

Our luck was definitely in tonight because we literally fluked a point. If we played Arsenal tonight it would have been another mauling.
Believe it or not I am delighted with the point 😃.

11 Feb 2026 01:09:05
We lost 3 key players before hand, so certainly not our best 11, so an already difficult game was made much harder. I anticipated a mauling to be honest and as the game progressed couldn’t see us getting anything. Credit for tactical switch and early sub which helped to change the tide. When we surprisingly got in back to 2-2 I was sure we would let it go in the end (we probably should have) .

Credit to the lads who really dug in for that.

Hopefully rest a few over the weekend and then have a good go at a faltering Villa.

11 Feb 2026 06:32:02
To be fair To team Corky, Chelsea played very well in 1st half and so they should with all those huge cost players, . so yes we rode it out 1st half and we just hung on

But it would have been so predictable to fold after we went 2 down but we never .

And that is crucial for a team battling to stay up

Well done boys.

11 Feb 2026 09:54:15
Indeed Chris - one thing that may be the difference this year is incredible team spirit and credit to Farke and the lads for building that.

10 Feb 2026 22:19:13
We didn't deserve it, we only scored when we attacked, then we sat back and invited them in, saved only by Cole Palmford.

As Aus would say, "Crikey! ".

10 Feb 2026 23:16:08
So cold he froze 😆.

11 Feb 2026 00:13:54
That's normally when you score, you never score defending - lol.

10 Feb 2026 21:48:11
That was ugly, but the guts, determination, self-belief and never say die attitude that that has become a key factor of this squad was evident again.

This group is going to see us safely clear of the relegation zone.

A bit of luck for a change also doesn't hurt (Palmer must have been watching my highlights reels 😆) .

10 Feb 2026 22:14:21
Was just going to use a lot of the same terminology, jungle! Blood and guts, and a gritty, battling fightback. Great spirit from the lads, and a very valuable point on the road, in the capital!
Kudos to the Manchester red sox for pegging back the spammers too!

10 Feb 2026 22:29:18
He didn't believe he'd missed that did he.

11 Feb 2026 07:47:29
I must admit to laughing a lot at that, Canada!