As recently as Friday the message from the Leeds boardroom was that the club’s directors remained determined to keep faith with Jesse Marsch but such resolve is now being subjected to an intense stress test.
Marsch’s side endured a fourth successive Premier League defeat here, extending their winless run to eight games and sinking into the bottom three. The American met the final whistle by walking on to the pitch and applauding those home supporters still in the ground yet he found himself greeted by loud boos mixed with alternate chants of “sacked in the morning” and “sack the board”.
