Managing Leeds has to be one of the toughest jobs ever says Reid.

(From Yorkshire Evening Post)

EXCLUSIVE By PAUL DEWS FORMER Leeds United boss Peter Reid today branded Kevin Blackwell's Elland Road job 'the hardest in football'.

Reid, who appointed Blackwell as head coach at United 18 months ago, has been watching events unfold at Elland Road from the vantage point of his new post at Coventry City.

And the Sky Blues boss, who is due to lock horns with Blackwell at Highfield Road on Monday, reckons his old mate is performing miracles in the hottest seat in the land.

Reid said: "The troubles at Leeds have been well documented and Kevin has a very, very difficult job there.

"We've all got pressures in management and it's not easy at the best of times but I think that managing Leeds over the past six months has been one of the toughest jobs ever. They are his players and he's had to change it all around, and when you look at it, he's doing a great job." The United of 2005 is a very different one to the club that Reid took charge of almost two years ago.

Blackwell was fortunate enough to become the first manager since Terry Venables to spend in the transfer market, but Reid sympathises with the ongoing problems surrounding his pal's re-building mission.