Fighting fans heap shame on doomed Leeds

With a less than minute left to play of the 1-1 draw with Ipswich, after referee Mike Jones had added six minutes of injury-time, players ran for cover as fans forced the game to a halt.

Leeds boss Dennis Wise dashed down the tunnel while the matchday announcer urged fans to leave the pitch. But it took police and stewards 45 minutes to clear the area as fights broke out among Leeds fans.

Eventually, both teams came out to play the remaining seconds.

It was a shameful episode in Leeds' campaign, which will almost certainly end in relegation six years after they played in the Champions League semi-finals.

After Alan Lee's 88th-minute goal cancelled out Richard Cresswell's opener, Leeds trail Hull, who won at Cardiff, by three points with a massively inferior goal difference.

It will be the first time Leeds will have played in football's third tier and former Elland Road favourite Mick Jones said: "Don Revie would be turning in his grave right now. This is the worst day in the history of Leeds United Football Club. But you've no divine right to survive. We've had years of turmoil and this is the result."