Leeds delay the "who dunnit" game

Murkey_Mouse · Feb 14, 2007

Leeds in dark over team news leak

Leeds chief executive Shaun Harvey has revealed the club do not know which player leaked team news to Crystal Palace before Saturday's league game.
Wise claims one of his players betrayed him by giving Palace his starting XI and, while he refused to name him, said he would never pick him again.

But Harvey told BBC Radio Leeds: "While we know it happened, we do not know which Leeds United player it was.

"There are people at the club who know but they have not told us as yet."

Speaking at a fans forum, Harvey added: "If you betray trade secrets in any form of industry to give any of your competition an upper hand you would expect severe punishment to be taken.

"In the cold light of day we have to take into account a number of things.

"Was the leak of the team malicious or naive, was the information given to Crystal Palace directly or indirectly?

"That's the information we have to confirm and once we know the full ramifications of who, how and why the appropriate decisions will be made."

We'll deal with the matter internally as and when we have all the information to hand but we won't make any knee-jerk reactions

Leeds chief executive Shaun Harvey

Harvey was full of praise for Eagles boss Peter Taylor for admitting that he "had an idea" who would be in the Leeds team - although Taylor has since told Wise he over-reacted.

"It is to Peter Taylor's credit that when fronted with the question by Dennis Wise he actually confirmed the answer because it would have been very easy for him to say no," stated Harvey.

"Dennis spoke to all the players on Monday and said, despite everything that has gone on, we won on Saturday, that's the positive.

"He told them to have a look at yourselves, if you can look at yourself in the mirror then fine but if you have anything to say to me come forward.

"So we will deal with the matter as and when that happens but the most important thing at the moment is for everyone to be united behind the club and aiming for three points on Saturday.

"We will deal with the matter internally as and when we have all the information to hand but we won't make any knee-jerk reactions.

"Once we know the full ramifications of who, how and why, those decisions will be made, and those decisions will be made in the best interests of Leeds United Football Club."

I hope they take too long to find out who told Peter Taylor about Leeds team sheet etc - this blame games created by D. Wise can destory the team spirts.

Dennis Wise :guns: Leeds Players

Skyblue · Feb 14, 2007

Cant wait till we play the once mighty ''your not famous anymore Leeds''.Wish they could have been wheeled out for execution straight after the QPR troucing... I'm sure the boys would have been up for it as they were flying. If the game had gone on another 15 mins I'm sure we could have added another 2 or 3.