This Monday evening in Britain, Leeds United travel to Darlington for a Carling Cup 2nd round tie. Most fans know the sad tale of Leeds United, who reached the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2001 only to go in a massive financial tailspin. In 2007, LUFC would have clinched automatic promotion, if not for a 15 point deduction to start the season, instead they lost in the promotion play off finals. Leeds lost in the promotion playoff semifinal round last season, and still are toiling in League 1.
Darlington FC won the Premier League title in 2009, behind 30 goals from CF Jozy Altidore. Alright, that was only on my copy of FIFA 07. In real life, Darlington have been mired in League 2 since 1992. The Quakers have scrapped their way to middling finishes over the past two seasons, and this year will be hoping to improve. Darlington recently came out of administration, one of the main reasons being their arena, Darlington Arena (officially it's sponsored by some company and is so named, but has had a multitude of sponsors since it's inception, so I feel safer with Darlington Arena.) Anyways, the Arena seats 25,000 but Darlington only pulls 3,000 a game, which is understandably quite draining on the money supply.
This match comes our way 1:30 Central Time, on ESPN360.com and myp2p.eu.
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