Leeds United 0-0 Rotherham United

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Rotherham manager Steve Evans wore a sombrero, sunglasses, T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops at Elland Road

Leeds and Rotherham rounded off their Championship campaigns with a goalless draw at Elland Road.

In a game of few chances, Leeds midfielder Rodolph Austin had the best effort when his fierce 35-yard strike was deflected wide.

Millers manager Steve Evans arrived wearing a sombrero, shorts and flip-flops, keeping a promise he had made to fans if his side stayed up.

Rotherham had already guaranteed their survival by beating Reading on Tuesday.

A campaign was launched to get Evans to go through with his pledge and more than 10,000 tweets were posted with the hashtag #sombreroforSteve., external

He stepped off the team coach wearing a hat and sunglasses, and in beach attire.

Whilst Evans looked flamboyant off the field his side were far from it on it as they only mustered one shot on target in the entire match.

Danny Lafferty nearly put the Millers ahead but his diving header narrowly went over the bar.

The home side had a couple of decent chances to take the lead but Liam Cooper's header was excellently saved by Emi Martinez before Kari Arnison's superb tackle denied Charlie Taylor a certain goal.

Rotherham's Danny Ward thought he had put his side ahead only to see team-mate Matt Derbyshire inadvertently get in the way of his goal-bound strike.

Leeds pushed for a winner late-on and Austin's driven effort looked to have provided it only for Martinez to make another solid save.

The draw meant both Leeds sides ended the season safely in 15th and 21st place respectively.

Leeds head coach Neil Redfearn on his future: "We're free now obviously to discuss things and talk about stuff, so I would expect next week we'll sit down and chat.

"The important part now becomes the recruitment part and if I'm going to be here I'd like to be part of that.

"It's important because if you recruit well and get the right players, you can supplement what we've done and this close season we need to recruit better."

Rotherham manager Steve Evans: "We played particularly well here and we go away hung up not to win, we passed and moved it around.

"You can't ask any more of them when they know they're safe just to have the same application they have had all season.

"I have often said I am immensely proud of them and I am now."

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