A fantastic three points at Leeds - a barren hunting ground for Blues - was marred by the controversy surrounding the first goal. I'm not going to comment until I've seen it on the Premiership tonight (we're one of the featured games, so it's obvious this incident will be replayed ad nauseum), but if we were lucky then I don't care. A few Leeds fans and pundits have had histrionics at our temerity in daring to win at Elland Road, but then most people have short memories when it suits them. I remember us coming from 2-0 down at Elland Road back in 1998 in a fifth round Cup tie only for Hasselbaink, then a Leeds player, to clearly elbow Jon McCarthy in the face as he rose to head the winner with just minutes remaining. Then there's the case last season when Clinton Morrison was felled in the box only for the referee to wave play on.

The fact is, these things happen in football, and I'd be a liar if I didn't notice how we've had the rub of the green so far this season (three penalties, although an equally stone-wall one was turned down at Southampton - someone should point this out to the conspiracy theorists; plus two sendings off of opposition players). However, for people to come on to our messageboards claiming the FA have somehow made us a favoured case in the mould of the bigger clubs is ludicrous. I'd love to think it was the case, because for decades I've had to watch the big clubs get the big decisions (like a certain penalty that wasn't given in Cardiff in the 2001 Worthington Cup Final). However, I suspect that come the end of the season, all our early season 'fortune' will be forgotten as decisions even themselves out.

Stepping away from the controversy, we've now secured 11 points from just five games, meaning we're a quarter of the way to safety...