14-07-99: Byske (a) 15-0 (HT 6-0) Crowd (28,000)

Programme & Teamsheet

Leeds were overwhelmingly superior and it refelected in the rugby-score outcome. This was despite wholesale substitutions in which every player other Alan Smith at Inside Right and Stephen McPhail at Outside Left did not get a full game. Stephen McPhail had opened the scoring in the twelfth minute and five minutes later Alan Smith got the first of his four goals. Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink then scored a quickfire hat-trick with goals in the nineteenth, thirty-fifth and fortieth minute before David Hopkin rounded off the first half scoring with the sixth, three minutes before Half-Time. Paul Robinson came on for Nigel Martyn in goal, Gary Kelly and Danny Granville took over the full-back spots from Danny Mills and Ian Harte, While Michael Duberry and Martin Hiden took over from Danny Hay, a New Zealand trialist, and Jonathan Woodgate in Central Defence, after the Half-time break. In Midfield, Alf-Inge Haaland replaced David Batty at Right Half, Lee Bowyer replaced David Hopkin at Outside Right and Matthew Jones replaced Eirik Batty at Inside Left, While Harry Kewell took over the striker's role at Centre Forward from Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink. The goals continued to come with monotonous regularity. Alf-Inge Haaland had only been on the pitch two minutes when he got the seventh, Gary Kelly scored his first from the spot, after fifty-five minutes and Smith got his second two minutes later before Kelly got his second and the team's tenth from the spot after sixty-five minutes. Alan Smith got his hat-trick after seventy-two minutes, Matthew Jones made it a dozen three minutes later and Smith took his tally to four a minute later as United made it a Baker's dozen. Harry Kewell netted in the eighty-fourth minute and Lee Bowyer completed the scoring two minutes later for what is believed to be United's highest score in any game.