As I write this, I have literally just got home from the Leeds much full of so many emotions, most of them not good. On the pitch, I think we saw enough to suggest that quite a few teams will come here during the season and get a battering off us.

First half, superb, and we deserved to be a couple of goals to the good and I think Grant McCann would hold his hand up and admit he should have netted.

That said, I thought he was absolutely superb, along with Ian Morris in the first half. Gary Hooper looks inventive and not scared to front up against whoever gets in his way, while the two wingers - particularly in the first half, hopefully for the time being at least did enough to shut the boo boys up.

Izzy had a good game alongside Kenny Milne and, for the record, unless some sort of replay shows me different Izzy's first half goal was nowhere near offside.

I was bang in line of where he was and when the ball was played he was clearly on side in my opinion.

After the break, Leeds were a different team and it was perhaps a touch against the run of play when Scunny took the lead. Back though came Leeds, equalising with a goal that was as much offside as Izzy's was and then predictably, Jermaine Beckford popped up to score the winner.

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The difference - David Prutton. He began to break up play and find his own team mates. He starved us of possession and we weren't able to dominate so the wingers and the strikers became largely redundant, although Hooper could and perhaps should have equalised late on. On the flip side of that, after a shaky first half, Josh Lillis did well to keep the score down late on.

So, a good number of positives on the pitch despite the defeat, as there will be plenty of teams that lose to Leeds this season and, against just about anyone else, we would have won with our first half performance alone.

It has been hard to write something positive about Leeds because quite frankly I don't have a lot of time for the club and a large minority of their supporters.

Arrogant and bigheaded doesn't quite cover it, and I would take great delight in them at least extending their stay outside of the top two divisions. Relegation would be better, however unlikely. Some of their fans are great, I work with some of them and have some great banter. Unfortunately a disproportionate minority seem hellbent on causing havoc.

Going back to the game though, and as the Scunny fans who had the misfortune to sit down in Telegraph stand towards the away end on Saturday will testify, some of the aforementioned Leeds fans were a disgrace, although the stewards were no better, and I have to question the club's stance on selling tickets in this stand to Leeds fans. Weren't online ticket sales stopped to prevent this happening?

How have Leeds fans, en-bloc been able to buy tickets for the home end of the ground? A large number of them did nothing but try and cause hassle, and what capped it all off for me was when one of them, albeit not necessarily on purpose, elbowed my three-year old son when Leeds scored their equaliser. Not one word of an apology - just this arrogant idiot turning round gesturing in my face.

Don't get me wrong, it was not a case of him swinging his elbow at him and I am not suggesting it was on purpose, but it was reckless and wouldn't have happened if this muppet had been in the away end or at home.

Did the stewards do anything about it? No - they just stood and watched and then kicked out some less hostile Leeds fans who were easier to tackle.

When confronted, their answer? Write to the club!!!

Who is more at fault, the Leeds fans, the club for selling them the tickets or the stewards for taking no decisive action at all? Not quite sure, but my son will not be stepping foot inside Glanford Park again until this is rectified.

I never leave games early, but on Saturday I did - nothing to do with the performance on the pitch, more the shambles off it.

This is not sour grapes. Leeds did enough in the last 35 minutes (although I only saw 30 of them) to win this game, they battered us and although I think the linesman needs to take a look at a couple of replays, on the pitch they won fair and square.

It did make me chuckle that Leeds reacted like they had won the title on Saturday. Shows how times have changed when their big day out is Scunthorpe on the opening weekend in the third tier of English football. Time for a bit of perspective.

Good luck Leeds, I mean it....no, honestly I do.

By Simon Sephton