Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.

a nice bit of history repeating.

With Arsenal just about escaping the curse of the 3rd round intact; Manchester United’s loss at home to Leeds simply put was the icing on the cake on a great weekend of FA Cup football. Manchester United in our recent history have always managed to display our inadequacies in the most revealing and smug way possible. Especially when they decide to take us out of cup competitions. Still, Leeds did a number over them today that displayed the fact that, with a bit of metal and grit you can take a result at Old Trafford just as you can take a result anywhere else.

This doesn’t mean that Leeds will do the very same thing at WHL, as that isn’t a possibility, especially when you look at the way we’re playing at the moment. The difference between the way we win matches and United manage to won’t be any clearer than after we welcome Leeds to the lane.

We could do with learning a few lessons from Snodgrass et al though, specifically about shutting a game down through sheer force of will, and hopefully from the game itself we’ll learn how to open one up once the opposition decides shut up shop.

Still, it’s nice to see that the FA Cup is alive and well.