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Fans of relegated Leeds have been let down by baffling boardroom decisions

As kick-off approached the strains of Don’t You Forget About Me by Simple Minds drifted over the sound system. Maybe it was the acoustics, but the lyrics sounded particularly plaintive.

By the final whistle no song would have been sufficiently forlorn to match the mood as wholesale boos signalled that Leeds had just experienced football’s equivalent of stepping off the edge of the world.

After winning only seven Premier League games all season and conceding 78 goals, more than anyone else, Sam Allardyce’s side had been erased from the top‑flight map.

Results elsewhere dictated that even if Leeds had won they would have ended up in the Championship but a 4-1 defeat by a Tottenham side whose underachievement is such they have failed to qualify for Europe exacerbated the anguish.

It also confirmed that Allardyce’s experiment with a back five had failed. There is a strong argument that his two managerial predecessors this season – Jesse Marsch and Javi Gracia – should have implemented a defensive quintet much earlier but when, with barely a minute gone, Son Heung-min squared for an unmarked Harry Kane to score with characteristic incision Allardyce’s system suffered a major malfunction.

Leeds fans responded by chanting the name of their much-loved former manager Marcelo Bielsa who, only three years ago, led the team back into the top tier after a 16-year absence.

If sacking Bielsa last year was the right decision, those supporters have subsequently been let down by a series of baffling boardroom manoeuvres. If replacing the Argentinian with Marsch made little sense, spending £35m on making Georginio Rutter the club’s record signing in January when the France Under-21s forward is nowhere near ready for the first team appears

Read more on theguardian.com