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Leeds boss Hockaday won't quit after Bradford Cup shock

Leeds United boss Dave Hockaday says he won't quit after their Capital One Cup defeat to local rivals Bradford City.

It was the League One side's first win over their West Yorkshire rivals in almost 28 years and Hockaday conceded that his position would likely come under further scrutiny after a third successive defeat.

Hockaday said: "I'm not a quitter, I'm a fighter. I feel as though not just myself, but the team at the moment, things just aren't going our way at the moment.

"But now we have to look at Saturday. They'll be in tomorrow, I'll be in tomorrow and it's on to the next game again.

"I don't have to say this but the players are 100 per cent behind the way we want to play. The president, everyone, they all want us to do well. We're getting a lot of bad press at the moment, some of it self inflicted, and we're making it very difficult for ourselves on the field at the moment.

"It's a tough game at times but we've got to pick ourselves up, nobody here is going to feel sorry for us tonight."

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