Comment: Things can only get worse: Groundhog Day for Leeds United against Southampton at Wembley

IT had been a rough past week for Southampton-supporting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

On Wednesday, he got soaked to the skin after announcing a general election amid relentless rain outside Downing Street and was immediately drowned out by protesters blasting New Labour’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ anthem. A blunder regarding the Euro 2024 finals followed on Thursday before deciding to tour Northern Irish businesses in Belfast’s Titanic Quarter on Friday ahead of inevitable ‘sinking ship’ type questions from waiting journalists.

In the build-up to kick-off, the heavens sporadically opened and the rain was of biblical proportions for a short while. Amid the rain, those with Leeds affiliations will have been silently praying for divine intervention. The sight of Leeds settling the better early on and re-confirming their penchant for fast starts in 2023-24 was heartening enough, given the club’s players’ failure to turn up in previous finals appearances. A goal would have been a fair bit more reassuring, that said.

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