Summary

  • Stones, Jesus & Aguero (pen) earn Man City win at Fulham

  • Wilder's departure from Sheff Utd confirmed

  • Result: Everton 1-2 Burnley - Wood & McNeil earn Clarets victory

  • Calvert-Lewin replied but Toffees could not rescue point

  • Result: Crystal Palace 1-0 West Brom - Milivojevic scores VAR-awarded penalty

  • Result: Leeds 0-0 Chelsea - Blues miss chance to go third

  1. 1970 and all thatpublished at 11:10 Greenwich Mean Time 13 March 2021

    Leeds v Chelsea (12:30 GMT)

    FA Cup final 1970Image source, Getty Images

    The rivalry between Leeds and Chelsea, which is clearly not fuelled by locality (although the north-south divide has fed a geographical angle to the games), first grew in ferocity during the 1960s when both sides were seen as challengers.

    Leeds had grown in prominence under Don Revie, mixing supreme ability with the, well, ability to mix it. The Whites weren't a side to take a backward step to anyone.

    Chelsea were too enjoying a high point under Tommy Docherty and had players of flair and ferocity themselves.

    There were numerous meetings, but the one that really set the rivalry in stone is the 1970 FA Cup final and its replay - two games considered to be amongst the most brutal ever professionally played in this country.

    You can read more about them in this piece, written by some nobody.

  2. Postpublished at 11:08 Greenwich Mean Time 13 March 2021

    Leeds v Chelsea (12:30 GMT)

    It is said often, but no less true today in this situation because of it, but today's game between Leeds and Chelsea really is worse off for a lack of fans.

    These are the games Leeds fans were champing at the bit to re-discover during their 16 seasons away from the Premier League. And Chelsea fans would have welcomed the extra edge a game against an old foe would have brought.

    There would have been noise. And a bit of needle.

    Here's a bit of information as to why...

  3. What's on...published at 11:04 Greenwich Mean Time 13 March 2021

    Good morning and welcome to another day of Premier League football. I know, I know, they're pretty much all days of Premier League football right now.

    We have four games for you today, starting with the aforementioned clash at Elland Road. So there's no doubt, here is the full running order...

    Leeds v Chelsea (12:30 GMT)

    Crystal Palace v West Brom (15:00)

    Everton v Burnley (17:30)

    Fulham v Man City (20:00)

  4. Rivalry reprisedpublished at 10:58 Greenwich Mean Time 13 March 2021

    Eddie Gray and David WebbImage source, Getty Images

    Leeds v Chelsea. Whites v Blues. North and south. The rivalry between the two clubs has a rough and rich history.

    Billy Bremner, Peter Osgood, Norman Hunter, Ron Harris. It really burst into life in the late 1960s and early 70s with the perceived fashionable southern fancy-dans, hanging out drinking champagne with celebrities on the King's Road, in stark contrast to a Leeds side seen as dour, gritty northerners, smoking cigarettes and playing carpet bowls in their working men's club.

    The games between them were brutal and brilliant, played out on muddy, unforgiving pitches.

    Today, in a very different world, we get the latest instalment.