Here are the Leeds United evening headlines on Monday 26th April 2021.
Meslier makes history
Leeds United goalkeeper Illan Meslier made history in the stalemate versus Manchester United at the weekend, earning his tenth clean sheet of the season.
He surpasses former England and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart in becoming the youngest player in Premier League history to keep ten clean sheets at 21 days and 54 days old.
The Frenchman has kept shutouts against ten different sides this year, in what is his maiden top flight campaign.
His only previous first-team experience came in Ligue 2 with hometown club Lorient and with Leeds United in last season's Championship.
Meslier's achievement is all the more remarkable considering he has kept all ten clean sheets in a single season.
U23s hold on to draw
Leeds United's title-winning U23 side were held to a 1-1 draw with Fulham at the London School of Economics on Monday afternoon, just over a week after lifting the PL2 Division 2 title.
Mark Jackson fielded a relatively young side for the dead-rubber, which saw Sam Greenwood and Olly Casey excel at either end of the pitch, both doing their bit to avoid defeat.
It extends Leeds' fantastic record in PL2's second tier this season, a league they have outgrown and will not be playing in next year.
LeedsLive's Joe Donnohue has player ratings here.
Leeds shirts inducted into National Football Museum
A Leeds United's Super League protest t-shirt, adorned with the message, "Earn It/Football Is For the Fans" has been inducted into the National Football Museum's gallery.
"Curators at the museum have been busy collecting other objects in response to the ESL. The National Football Museum is reopening on 27 May with new exhibitions and displays," a press release read on the institution's website.
It is part of a collection the museum intend to acquire in order to preserve in time the few days in which Super League proposals threatened to tear up the footballing fabric in England, creating a chasm between so-called Super Clubs, the rest of the Football League pyramid and below.
T he museum revealed the t-shirt donated was worn by a Leeds player, however do not disclose the individual in question.
