Sport 17-12-2002 Three Points For Struggling Leeds who: Leeds United what: Beat Bolton Wanderers 0-3 where: Reebok Stadium, BOLTON when: Last night snippet: "They had come to bury Terry Venables," says Oliver Kay in The Times reporting on Leeds United`s 0-3 win over Bolton last night, "but, with tongue ever so slightly in cheek, the Leeds United supporters left the Reebok Stadium showering their 59-year-old manager with hymns of praise." The press all agree that manager Venables would have been shown the door if United had not so elegantly dispatched their opposition - thanks to Danny Mills, Robbie Fowler and Jason Wilcox respectively, not to mention a penalty save by Paul Robinson - to claim a much-needed three points. "It sounds emphatic - but it was not," says The Sun`s Shaun Custis, warning TV not to get too comfortable at Elland Road. Bolton have only won once at home in the Premiership this season and they "did as much to give it away as Leeds did to win it themselves." And in The Telegraph, Tony Francis says Venables is on a hiding to nothing trying vainly to fill the shoes of the great Don Revie. "As poisoned chalices go, it ranks somewhere between Master of Foxhounds at the Quorn and personal orthodontist to Hannibal Lecter." [... more]

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