The news that a national poetry centre is to be established in Leeds proved the source of considerable pride in West Yorkshire on Monday. By 10pm on a bitterly cold night at Elland Road any notions that Leeds United would capture the mood courtesy of a suitably cadenced performance had been thoroughly disabused as Daniel Farke’s side scrapped their way to a dramatic last-gasp win after Wilson Isidor had given Sunderland the lead.

Yet if it was hardly poetic as substitute Pascal Struijk’s two goals helped return Leeds to the top of the Championship, two points ahead of Sheffield United, seven points clear of third-placed Burnley and 10 in front of Régis Le Bris’s side.