21/10/2001 Leeds 0 Chelsea 0 Leeds boss David O'Leary can expect to face a Football Association rap after being 'sent off' following a bust-up with referee Paul Durkin in the tunnel at half time. O'Leary had been left incandescent with rage after watching Chelsea captain Graeme Le Saux escape with a mere caution following an horrific two-footed lunge on Leeds right-back Danny Mills moments before the break. Mills was left with stud marks down his left thigh and in need of treatment, but although the game-turning incident was no more than a couple of yards away from one of the linesmen, Durkin only flashed a yellow card. O'Leary was fuming and remonstrated with the linesman concerned, which led to the intervention of fourth official David Pugh, who ordered the 43-year-old Irishman back to the dugout. But O'Leary refused to let the matter lie and then confronted Durkin as the teams made their way towards the dressing rooms, leading to the Portland official banishing the United manager to the stands for the second period. After an unblemished playing career with Arsenal, and a short spell at Leeds before retiring with injury, it was the second time O'Leary had been sent off in a managerial career which so far only spans three years. The first occasion was when he was assistant to George Graham in a UEFA Cup first-round tie against Maritimo in Madeira, a game which proved to be the Scot's last in charge. O'Leary was then banned by UEFA for the first leg of the second-round clash against Roma in the Olympic Stadium at a time when he was caretaker-manager. With Durkin issuing five other bookings during the game - and it was surprising there were not more - it took the ill-discipline count to 71 yellow and five red in the last 11 meetings between the two teams. It again underlined the fact there is never any love lost when Leeds face Chelsea, with the football more of a sideshow, albeit at the end of which the point was enough to take United back to the top of the Barclaycard Premiership, and with both teams maintaining their unbeaten league starts. Le Saux was one of four players restored to the starting line-up by Chelsea coach Claudio Ranieri of the 'stayaway six' who had caused a furore in deciding not to travel to Israel last week for a UEFA Cup second-round tie against Hapoel Tel Aviv. Emmanuel Petit, Eidur Gudjohnsen and William Gallas were also recalled, leaving captain Marcel Desailly on the sidelines with an Achilles injury, while Albert Ferrer was named as a sub. The six had chosen to remain in Britain for security reasons, and in doing so immediately walked into a storm of controversy, with goalkeeper Mark Bosnich laying the blame for Thursday's 2-0 defeat squarely at the door of the half-dozen dropouts. But Australian Bosnich, starting his first league match for 18 months since his days at Manchester United with Carlo Cudicini and Ed de Goey both out through injury, proved the difference between the sides. The 29-year-old first threw himself in front of a Rio Ferdinand half-volley after the Leeds skipper had chested down an Ian Harte cross before turning inside Petit and Le Saux. In the closing 20 minutes, Bosnich then came into his own as he denied Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell and Alan Smith, the latter on as a 76th-minute sub for Robbie Keane. The 20-year-old immediately had a second bite of the cherry, but an acutely-angled drive was cleared off the line by John Terry, the second time Chelsea had been saved by such an act as Gallas had thwarted Viduka with a spectacular overhead kick in the first period. Bosnich, though, did not have it all his own way as opposite number Nigel Martyn brilliantly saved from former Leeds star Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, while in injury time he tipped a Petit free-kick onto the bar, ensuring Leeds have yet to concede a league goal at Elland Road this season. Petit was among those booked, joining Le Saux, Sam Dalla Bona and United's Eirik Bakke and Olivier Dacourt in Durkin's notebook, but with O'Leary's dismissal proving to be the main bone of contention.