Leeds and Southampton will slug it out for a lucrative place in the Premier League when they meet in football's single richest match at Wembley on Sunday.There were regrets for Leeds, who finished in third place in the Championship, three points clear of fourth-placed Southampton, after losing their grip on an automatic promotion place that went instead to Ipswich.
There were no video assistant referee errors on the final day of the Premier League season, before the vote by clubs to scrap the technology.
Both are seeking a return to the Premier League after just one season away. The Championship playoff final between Leeds and Southampton is hardly one for the romantics but still retains an interesting narrative, not least because it remains the richest one-off match in soccer. A guaranteed revenue uplift of 140 million pounds ($180 million) is on offer, according to soccer finance experts at Deloitte, for the winner of Sunday’s game at Wembley Stadium.
Joy Division are still a big noise around Leeds. Forty-five years on from their mesmeric performance at Futurama in the city, their most famous song continues to be perverted to taunt Leeds United.