August
After a good pre-season, Leeds started the season with the Capital One Cup against Shrewsbury where the controversial signing of El-Hadji Diouf. I hated him coming to the club and wanted him out as soon as possible. It seemed I wasn't the only one. As he came on to a chorus of boos. Leeds won the match against the League 2 champions 4-0. We then went into the Championship with a televised game against Wolves, who had just been relegated from the Premier League, their Premier League class however couldn't stop a Luciano Becchio goal and a 1-0 win to get the season up and running, we all thought that this was the season that we would regain Premier League status. Though in our next game, a poor performance would result in a 2-1 against Blackpool. We then went to Peterborough knowing that this was a place where we would need to get 3 points in order to have a chance of going up. We got that, a 2-1 win helping us climb back up the table. Then the last game of the month saw us come up against Oxford in the Capital One Cup, Leeds won comfortably 3-0, but a great goal by an unheard of Sam Byram was the pick, this would make him a regular in the future. At the end of August we were 7th in the table and into the third round of the Capital One Cup.
September
Leeds hosted Blackburn on the first day of the month with Jordan Rhodes making his debut for Rovers. Leeds drew 3-3 in one of the most entertaining matches of the season. This was the game where it seemed that most fans were starting to change their views on El-Hadji Diouf, and so was I. He was playing good football and he scored his first goal here. In the next match, Leeds went to Wales and Cardiff City. A 2-1 defeat didn't seem good enough as Leeds were all over the place. Are Tuesday night home match nightmare continued, a 3-2 defeat to Hull City, I remember thinking this was not good enough. We were able to return to winning form with a 2-1 win against Nott'm Forest, it doesn't matter how close it was, we just wanted to keep winning and hopefully gain a play off spot. It was good to get back into winning form with what had to be one of the biggest games of the year coming up. Everton came to Elland Road on a Tuesday night (so already at a disadvantage) Leeds were 11th in the Championship at the time and Everton were rocking the Premier League in 3rd. But an early Aidy White goal and Austin goal after a free kick meant that Leeds were able to walk out with a 2-1 victory. This helped us also drive towards a 3-2 victory away at Bristol City, Diouf scoring 2 and Tonge scoring 1. At the end of the month, Leeds were now 9th with 13 points and now into the fourth round of the Capital One Cup. October
We went into October with high hopes for the rest of the season. Three wins on the bounce in September including the cup shock against Everton meant that Bolton looked even better. This is where the chant of the season took place. Bolton took the lead so sung "We're winning at home, We're winning at home, how sh*t must you be? We're winning at home" so when Leeds took the lead we reversed it on them "We're winning away, We're winning away, how sh*t must you be? We're winning away" But a late Bolton goal meant Leeds drew 2-2. But Leeds could have walked away with all 3 points if Diouf had got his last minute shot 1 inch lower. Whacking against the crossbar. This all meant that we looked strong going into the match against Barnsley (who for whatever reason thinks that we class them as huge rivals) It was a weak performance by the whites as we were lucky to escape with the 1-0 victory. Then came Sheffield Wednesday, it was a tough match with a great goal by Micheal Tonge, sadly the derby was overshadowed by an attack on Sheffield Wednesday goalkeeper Chris Kirkland, now all Leeds fans are branded like him, we are as appalled as the rest of the footballing world, and Leeds took action, banning him from purchasing a membership (which means he won't be able to go to away games) Leeds went into the Capital One Cup fourth round match with Southampton on a bad run having drawn with Charlton 1-1 and then lost to Birmingham 1-0. It seemed like Leeds would lose this match but we all knew that the Saints would prefer to have three points in the league than another match in the Capital One Cup. This proved as Leeds dominated with a huge 3-0 win. We were all hoping for another big tie for the next round. Our prayers were answered with Chelsea. Whilst we were looking forward to that, our league postion was still going backwards, we were now 11th in the league table with 19 points.
November
We started November with a draw to Brighton at the Amex with a fair 2-2 draw. But the way the coaching staff of Brighton came out after the match (more to the point of Soccer AM) was unacceptable, they were going on the lines of it's OK for us but not for Leeds. This is shocking that professional coaches could even dare come out with this sort of comment. Since then I lost all respect for Charlie Oatway and started to lose some for Gus Poyet, showing no respect whatsoever for his former employers. We would then lose 1-0 at Turf Moore, this was a surprise as in the previous years we had done well there and we expected that we could get back to winning ways in the Championship. Every season we have a shocking game at home where we lose and get dominated. November 10th was the day this season as we completely fell over at the hands of Watford. A 6-1 defeat was unacceptable (a word you will hear a lot more of during this blog) our defence and midfield collapsed meaning that the attackers were barley aloud to have any chances. We also lost the next game at The Den 1-0 due to the controversial sending off of Luke Varney and racist chants were aimed at Diouf from the Millwall fans. This meant we hadn't won in seven Championship games. Our fortunes were to turn though winning 2-1 against league leaders Crystal Palace. This continued with a hard earned 1-0 win at home to Leicester. This meant that we were dropping down the league even more, 15th at the end of the month with 26 points.
December
The month started with a match against Huddersfield at the John Smith's Stadium. Leeds were far the better team in this match and it showed with a 4-2 win giving us 9 points from our last 3 games. A poor performance at Derby though meant we couldn't make it 12 out of 4. Leeds never woke up in a game where radio commentator and ex player hated by all Leeds fan Robbie Savage said he might have to go in front of the Leeds fans so there would be something happening. I was at this, my only away match of the season, it explains why I didn't travel with Leeds for the rest of the season. We were dull, Derby were dull, it was just pure DULL. We were able to pick up in our next game with a 2-0 win at home to Ispwich. This was vital, a good record of 4 win from 5 games meant we looked strong going into our Capital One Cup tie with Chelsea. It looked good as Becchio gave us the lead. But 5 goals from an in form Chelsea meant we had no chance of a West Yorkshire derby in the final. Back to the league and the result against Chelsea hadn't seemed to affect us at first with a 2-0 win at home to Middlesbrough. But the month ended bad with two defeats against Forest and Hull. The 4-2 win for Forest wasn't enough (somehow) for ex Doncaster Rovers manager Sean O'Driscoll as he got the sack. This meant going into 2013, we were back in a shout of a play off place, going back up to 9th in the table.
January
On the traditional new years day game, Leeds got a win against Bolton. It was close but it was good enough for the whites. Then in the FA Cup, Leeds got Birmingham at home, it was a match that Leeds wanted to win. But a 1-1 draw meant that we would have to go to St. Andrews later in the month. We then found out that we would be getting Tottenham Hotspur if we were to win at Birmingham. We then went for the seasonal unlucky game at Barnsley. This showed with a shocking performance and a 2-0 defeat. Then back to the FA Cup and a win at Birmingham meant that we were through to the fourth round and Tottenham (AKA Bale FC) Bristol City came calling next at Elland Road, we were just able to push through again with a tight 1-0 win. Then for the last game of the month and Tottenham Hotspur. Leeds were able to push into a shock 2-0 lead before a Dempsey goal put us back under pressure. But we were able to stick out to the end of the match to cause one of the shocks of the round and a game against Manchester City. At the end of the month, we were into the fifth round of the FA Cup for the first time since 1996 and we were 11th in the league with 41 points.
February
Leeds were back in Championship action against Cardiff at Elland Road. This was another match that I saw this year (among many that I have left out) and Cardiff were awful, they kept passing it out of play, giving it back to Leeds and playing like an awful side, but Leeds just couldn't score and a lucky goal from Fraizer Campbell meant Cardiff won 1-0. After that we went to a Wolves side who were even still struggling to find themselves in the league and were looking more and more like relegation candidates by the day. It started badly with a Peltier own goal, but after going 2-1 up we looked like we were going to win until a late equaliser meant we drew 2-2. Then came the big game, Leeds travelled to the Etihad to face Manchester City, they proved that they were champions with a convincing 4-0 win. But we definitely generated the atmosphere in the stadium. Then Blackpool came to Elland Road with Paul Ince as the new manager. A comfortable performance meant that Leeds won the match 2-0. The final game of the month was a boring draw with Blackburn with no goals, hardly like the game at Elland Road in September. This meant that at the end of the month, Leeds had gone back up to ninth with 46 points.
March
Leeds started the month with a game at home to Millwall, the only difference between the two sides was a Steven Warnock penalty that gave Leeds a lucky three points. We then went to the King Power Stadium and Leicester where another 90th minute goal meant Leeds lost points as the game was a 1-1 draw. The two games that were to follow were also draws, at Palace in a 2-2 draw where Varney committed one of the worst dives I have ever seen (including Bale and Ronaldo) and a disappointing draw at home to Peterborough. Two defeats in a row ended the poor month. A defeat against Huddersfield which is always annoying as the Huddersfield fans get in your face about it even if you don't. Adam Clayton had lost all respect for his former team just like In have for him and Beckford came back to a chorus of praise from the Leeds fans, and at Ipswich where a player always gets sent off for Leeds, unfair as always. This meant going into April we were back in 11th with 52 points.
April
The first game of the month came on the first day. A bank holiday and Leeds had the rams at home, it looked good when Ross McCormack scored, but 2 late goals meant Derby won. The Leeds fans were singing for Warnock to go and they got what they wanted, he resigned later that night, though some think he was sacked. Neil Redfern had one game in charge as caretaker manager and it came with a 2-1 defeat to Charlton through yet another late goal. For the next match we found out that ex Reading manager Brian McDermott came and he started well. A 2-1 win over our rivals Sheffield Wednesday. We looked like a side who should be fighting for the Play Offs and we did once again in the next game. Though it was only Rodolph Austin who gave us the 1-0 win against Burnley. We then travelled away to Birmingham, the disappointing defeat was overshadowed by the fact that we were safe. In our last home game of the season Leeds had Brighton, due to another shocking referee at Leeds, we lost the match 2-1. This meant that going into the final day, we were 16th with 58 points.
May
For the last game of the season we travelled to Watford, due to injuries there were 16 minutes of first half added time. A tap in by Poleon meant that Leeds took the lead, Abdi made it 1-1 with a fantastic strike, then in the 89th minute, a counter attack meant McCormack was through and gave Leeds a 2-1 win, meaning Watford had to go in the Play Offs and Leeds finished in 13th with 61 points 
That's all for this blog, there is one blog left of the 2012/13 season which is a play off review on the 27th May at 6pm, for 2013/14 there will be blogs at toellandbackblog.blogspot.com when a player signs for Leeds and the first blogs for the 2013/14 season are;
19th June 5pm: Leeds Fixture Preview
2nd August 5pm: Leeds vs ? - Npower Championship Preview
We also have England Blogs which include;
England vs Republic of Ireland - International Friendly Preview
England vs Republic of Ireland - International Friendly ReviewBrazil vs England - International Friendly Preview
Brazil vs England - International Friendly Review
England vs Scotland - International Friendly Preview
England vs Scotland - International Friendly Review
England vs Moldova - World Cup Qualifier Preview
England vs Moldova - World Cup Qualifier Review
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