Leeds United 4-0 Plymouth Argyle
Ahead of Saturday’s Sky Bet Championship clash with Plymouth Argyle at Elland Road, Ben Scott provides us with a Memory Match against the Devonshire based club.
It comes from March 1987, when The Pilgrims were left well beaten by Billy Bremner’s side as they secured three important points to help them make the play-offs. The visitors arrived at Elland Road with some outside play-off hopes themselves, but losses like this one would confine them to a seventh place and no opportunity at promotion into the top flight.
On the day, opposition boss Dave Smith saw his team well beaten as two fan favourites grabbed the goals for Leeds, in a four-goal thumping. John Sheridan bagged an early penalty and fellow cult hero Ian Baird claimed the match ball with a hat-trick.
Leeds had only lost twice at home since August and boasted an impressive tally of conceding less than a goal a game on home turf.
This encounter was just a mere four minutes old when referee John Lloyd pointed to the spot at the South Stand end of Elland Road, the penalty was given after Mark Aizlewood had put a lovely through ball into the path of Baird on the right as Leeds attacked.
Baird was only just into the penalty area when Plymouth defender Gerry McElhinney chopped Baird down in his stride, then up-stepped Sheridan to cooly send the penalty into the bottom corner of Steve Cherry’s goal.
