Crack open the champagne and celebrate - for the first occasion this season, its time to have a really good moan about a referee.

It's not something that I normally take part in as they do have a difficult job, but how bad was Paul Durkin on Saturday?

As per usual, you didn't see on Match of the Day that Erik Bakke should have been sent-off for a second bookable way before the flare-up after a deliberate trip on the edge of his own area.

Hassan Kachloul was silly to do what he did but Alan Smith should have already been in the book and Olivier Dacourt, who already was, should also have been sent-off.

Durkin had no idea what he was doing, as the melee showed, and when it came down to it, he didn't have the bottle to send off a Leeds player. Even though it's at The Dell, it was much easier to send off a Saints player.

Then Gary Kelly and Smith didn't give the ball back after we'd put it out to get treatment for one of our players - it was declared cheating when Arsenal scored against Sheffield United in that infamous FA Cup tie a couple of years back. But still we won and Leeds have nothing!

Oh, and I must thank Durkin, because I believe that, by incensing the Saints players and fans, he raised the atmosphere to a point where there was no way we were going to concede a goal.

Anyway, you can't be nasty to us - we're better than Lazio!

* David O'Leary said that the Saints crowd influenced the referee. How - into sending one of our players off, leaving all your guilty parties on the field and helping you bend the rules as much as possible?

I hope the Leeds fans influence the referee as much as we are supposed to have done when we play them at Elland Road.