Getting out of the FA Cup third round has taken on extra significance for Leeds
New York TimesPerhaps Angus Kinnear should have known better. Kinnear, though, was plain in telling Jesse Marsch last week that Leeds should try to make inroads in this season’s FA Cup and some would say their chief executive had a point. But in telling Marsch that it would be good to make something of yesterday’s FA Cup tie at Cardiff City, Kinnear might have been touching on the more delicate matter of self-preservation. It is, in the end, a matter of credit and standing, and here and now, neither Leeds nor Marsch had enough to risk getting strangled by Cardiff’s second string in front of an away end filled with more than 6,000 Leeds supporters. One of Kinnear’s most prescient quotes in his time as CEO was his insistence after promotion went begging under Bielsa in 2019 that there would be no more “dicking about” with the play-offs in the year that followed and his advice for Marsch seemed to be in the same vein: pick a good team, take care of Cardiff and roll out of Wales with the minimum of fuss.
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