On a weekend of refereeing howlers it was apt that the former official Martin Atkinson skulked to the back row of the press box at Elland Road.
Out of view and as distant from the pitch as possible, Atkinson watched Paul Tierney preside sensibly over a committed contest where the only line that was crossed was by those to his right on the terraces.
Atkinson will have strolled down the gangway satisfied with the officiating after a chastening Saturday. Only the monitor available to Atkinson did not show the ball that dropped to Wout Weghorst for his late disallowed goal was via a Leeds player's arm.
