We take a look back at a special week in 1990, as Sgt Wilko's promotion campaign came to the boil
In 1990 Leeds United had been out of the top flight for eight years. Ahead of tomorrow's Championship play-off final against Southampton, we look back at the 1989/90 promotion season and how much pressure was on the squad and management to achieve their goal of going up. There's more than one similarity with this season.
Naturally all that pressure accumulated in the last ten days of the season, which started in April that year with an Elland Road double-header that tested nerve endings like a polygraph examination, and blew the needle off a Geiger counter with the explosive release of emotions at its draining conclusion.
But if Leeds United - the board, the management, the players and the fans – had felt the pressure before kick-off, they were locking themselves in dark cupboards wishing they had never heard of football 90 minutes later. 31,700 fans were shoehorned into Elland Road on a humid spring evening when perspiration played havoc with the body temperature as the night’s events unfolded.
Wilkinson had worn a positive outlook pre-match, surely masking a nagging sense of dread, and being asked to attack the Kop in the first half was the sure-fire sign of impending horror to many. But in customary fashion Leeds set off like a runaway train, with Mel Sterland drilling home a 13th minute opening goal.
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