Our second look at the locals is from Paul Dews of the Yorkshire Evening Post, he writes;
Two blatant acts of daylight robbery cost Leeds United dear against Birmingham City at Elland Road on Saturday.
The United revival was taking shape quite nicely, following the humiliation at Leicester, when two scandalous decisions by referee Dermot Gallagher and one of his assistants denied Leeds at least a point against the Blues.
First Gallagher awarded a penalty that never was, then his assistant ordered the spot-kick to be re-taken after Paul Robinson had pulled off a blinding save to deny David Dunn from 12 yards.
It was as though the fates were conspiring against Leeds to ensure Gallagher's golden streak – United hadn't lost in their previous 18 games with him in charge – would come to an end.
The two decisions were a complete travesty. The match officials left the ground without an explanation, and changed the complexion of a game in which Peter Reid's side had done everything bar score.
It's hard to imagine that such controversy would have reigned at Old Trafford or Highbury, but this was Elland Road and United are no longer viewed as one of the Premiership's protected species.
Why the penalty was awarded in the first place is a mystery. Roque Junior, who was given a second yellow card to ensure his home debut ended in an early bath, made minimal contact with a sprawling Mikael Forssell and that appeared to take place outside the area.
Amazingly Roque appeared to have no complaints, but what followed sparked fury at Elland Road.
Robinson pulled off a tremendous save low to his left to deny Dunn before the assistant referee intervened and ordered the kick to be taken again, citing early movement by the keeper off his line.
This is a movement that happens every time a penalty is taken and Robinson repeated the process to the re-taken spot kick, but this time Robbie Savage's strike was allowed to stand.
It was pedantic to say the least, but what followed was a throw back to 1971 when United were famously denied by a linesman's flag in a championship decider with West Brom.
Reid, akin to Don Revie, looked up to the heavens before berating the match officials, while programmes and plastic bottles were thrown onto the running track from the normally placid West Stand paddock.
Indeed, a supporter on crutches was so incensed he even staged a one-man pitch invasion, but was prevented from reaching the Birmingham dug-out by two stewards.
All around there was disbelief.
And that transferred itself onto the pitch where United looked visibly rocked by the decisions and immediately lost their impetus.
The penalty ruling came in the 76th minute and just eight minutes later there was more controversy when Forssell was allowed to sneak in from an apparently offside position to put the result beyond doubt.
TV pictures suggested Forssell was probably level when Dunn played him in, but it was touch and go, and the fact that the assistant referee gave the goal was more by luck than judgement given his incompetence moments earlier.
It was a goal that wouldn't have stood nine times out of ten – similar openings were flagged at Old Trafford yesterday – yet it summed up United's luck beautifully.
The players had given Reid the response he was looking for after Monday's nightmare at the Walkers Stadium.
Ian Harte looked rejuvenated in the left-back position, the defence looked solid and Birmingham never looked like breaking them down – until Gallagher's untimely intervention.
Leeds had bossed proceedings in the middle of the park and full debutant Salomon Olembe linked up well with the busy Jody Morris at the heart of the engine room.
Up front, Alan Smith ploughed something of a lone furrow against a well-organised Birmingham defence and the only real worry for Reid was the lack of quality from United in the final third.
His side dominated in terms of possession, but only created two clear-cut chances all afternoon. Some of the credit for that must go to Birmingham and Matthew Upson in particular who had Blues defence. But Leeds are lacking the killer instinct required to finish sides off and, had they taken their chances, the game would have been over before Gallagher decided to offer Birmingham a helping hand and prove once and for all that he is not a Leeds fan.
United's best chance in the first half came when Olembe played a delightful ball to Lamine Sakho just inside the box. Sakho delivered a lovely pull back and, when Smith and Mark Viduka failed to get on the end of it, Jermaine Pennant was presented with a golden opportunity to open the scoring, but he failed to control.
The second opening was after the break when Viduka held up a Harte free-kick and Smith turned Kenny Cunningham. However,Smith's shot was straight at Maik Taylor.
While those were the only out and out chances, there were no doubts as to who was the better side and Leeds dominated in terms of possession.
Olembe's passing and vision is a real asset while Sakho gave the sort of determined display that he is becoming renowned for. Harte was also a thorn in Birmingham's side at set-pieces and the Irishman did well for United.
But, right from the fifth minute when Roque went in the book for an innocuous challenge, just seconds before Savage went unpunished for an awful tackle on Sakho, it was the referee who made his intentions clear and the game will be remembered for the performance of Gallagher.
That isn't how it's supposed to be.