Leeds United head coach Dave Hockaday was determined to improve the Championship club's fortunes after Yorkshire rivals Bradford City dumped them out of the Capital One Cup.

Hockaday was sacked by Leeds last week

Hockaday's team were reduced to 10 men half-an-hour into last night's contest when Luke Murphy was sent off for two bookable offences, but eventually took the lead after 82 minutes thanks to a Matt Smith header.

But Bradford, who memorably reached the final of this competition in 2013 whilst playing in League Two, responded 120 seconds later when Billy Knott equalized, before James Hanson took just as long to grab the winner.

The result was another blow for Hockaday, who has overseen three defeats from four league games so far this season and almost lost his job following a bad-tempered 4-1 loss to Watford in which Leeds had two players dismissed, yet the 56-year-old insists he has the support of everyone at Elland Road.

"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," he was quoted as saying by the BBC.

"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."

The former Forest Green Rovers manager added: "I don't have to say this but the players are 100% 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.

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