Leeds to sack Gracia

LEEDS UNITED’S problems continued at the week‐end when they lost 4‐1 to Bournemouth. Javi Gra‐cia’s team are without a win since April 4 when they beat Nottingham Forest at home. Leeds are 17th in the Premier League, above the relegation zone on goal difference only, with four games left this season. It won’t come as a surprise that there are reports that they will sack manager Javi Gracia and they are in talks with Sam Allardyce as his re‐placement.

Gracia was appointed in February as Jesse Marsch’s successor but has won only three games out of 11. Leeds are now reportedly looking to the ex ‐ Bolton, West Ham, and Everton manager to work his survival magic for one of the toughest rel‐egation battle run ‐ ins. Leeds are due to face league leaders Manchester City on Saturday, then third‐place Newcastle followed by West Ham and then finally they will face Tottenham Hotspur at Elland Road to finish the campaign.

There are also rumours that the Leeds United Director of Football Victor Orta is also set to leave the club. Whatever they do they need to act fast as they need a reaction and the players need a boost with fans tired of the lacklustre perfor ‐mances. Will ‘Big Sam’ Allardyce be the one to re‐vive their fighting spirit?

JEREMY PFC MALAGA WOMEN’S FOOTBALL CLUB

THE streaking PFC Malaga limped and stumbled and eventually went splat, their loveliest of dreams dying an ugly death as PFC Malaga were hosting the semi ‐ final second leg match at Guadalmar field.

PFC 2 ‐ 5 Malaga CF Women B (3‐7 agg) And who would have thought? They got stuck with their third loss of the season at the worst possi‐ble time, with no cushion or wiggle room to speak of.

PFC were always bat ‐tling against the odds to overturn a 2‐1 deficit from the first leg. But, nobody expected PFC to fall apart and turn the second stan‐za into something closer to a beatdown.

Malaga got off to a fast‐paced start, wasting very little time to get involved in the match and within 15 mins was up 3 ‐ 0 and