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Despite two goals from Leeds captain and defender Richard Naylor it was Max Gradel who earned the man of the Match award.

The former Leicester man won plaudits for a never say die performance. It was Gradel’s first full start after 22 sub appearances.

Naylor, a former striker with Ipswich scored for the first time since january 2009. Both goals were headers. Richard had another header cleared off the line.

Leeds were on top for most of the first half and the start of the second half but once Yeovil scored Leeds fans had to endure a final twenty minutes of anxiety as Leeds faded and Yeovil were invigorated and came looking for the equaliser.

Despite being televised on Sky, kicking of at 12.30 on Easter Monday and the huge travelling involved, Leeds United fans gave Yeovil their biggest crowd of the season.

Leeds temporarily went second in League One after the win, only to be replaced by Millwall 30 minutes later after they beat Colchester away.

Leeds United, the club and its fans are remembering Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight over the Easter weekend.

The two Leeds United fans, were brutally murdered by Turks the night before our UEFA Cup semi-final clash against Galatasaray, in Istanbul, on April 5 2000.

As against Swindon Town, the Leeds United players will again remember Chris and Kevin when playing against Yeovil Town on Monday by wearing black arm bands.

Yeovil Town are to thanked for their expression of sympathy and the gesture of their players also wearing black armbands as a mark of respect.

The travelling Leeds United fans will show their respect by turning their backs to the pitch for the first minute of the game at Huish Park, just as the Leeds fans did against the Turkish scum, at that travesty of a match against Galatasaray so long ago.

While the families of Chris and Kevin await some semblance of justice from the increasingly ridiculous Turkish legal system (if anything so chaotic and racially biased can be called a system?) the Leeds Fans Remembrance aim to raise £100,000 in memory of Chris and Kevin: more details can be found at www.leedsfansremembrance.com.

Tresor Kandol has been fined by Leeds for his embarrassing, injury-time dismissal at Norwich last week. He has also had a meeting with Leeds United manager Simon Grayson.

Kandol, received a four-match ban for  raising his hands to Norwich City’s Darel Russell after coming on in injury-time in an attempt by Grayson to rescue a point from the game with the League One leaders after they had stolen a late lead through Chris Martin’s 89th minute goal.

Grayson is reported as saying, “He has been fined by the club as well as receiving a four match ban from the FA. I am hugely disappointed. Tres has let down himself and the club.”

Grayson’s disappointment with Tresor Kandol made clear by his taking the unusual step of publicly criticising an individual player.

It was Kandol’s tenth appearance on the League this season; remarkably he hadn’t received a single card of any colour in any of the previous league or cup games.