2 min: Huge chance for Sunderland and humungous double save from Meslier! Ballard comes out of defence with all the poise and swagger of a young Jonathan Woodgate, releases Le Fée on the left wing. The Frenchman squares the ball to Bellingham on the edge of the area – completely free after a Gruev slip – but the Sunderland midfielder doesn’t beat Meslier with his shot and the Leeds keeper gets quickly to his feet to block the rebound!

We’re off in Yorkshire. I have just learned Leeds’ Meslier and Sunderland’s Le Fée were friends at school in Lorient, France.

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