With three minutes remaining, Scott Young volleyed the ball into the net from a corner to give Cardiff the lead and the eventual win.

Club chairman Sam Hammam had altercations with a BBC reporter and Leeds manager David O'Leary in the immediate aftermath of the game.

[12] Woodgate was eventually found guilty of affray three weeks before the match, but was cleared of causing grievous bodily harm, and was ordered to complete 100 hours of community service.

The side had won promotion from the Third Division under manager Alan Cork the previous season and chairman Sam Hammam had invested heavily in the team.

[20][21] The draw against Leeds was regarded as a marquee tie for Cardiff and the idea of hosting the fixture at the nearby Millennium Stadium was put forward and the ground was made available if needed by Welsh Rugby Union chairman Glanmor Griffiths.

[24] In his first year with Cardiff, he inserted a clause in the contract of Spencer Prior that required the defender to eat a dish containing sheep testicles.

[15] Cork also claimed that Hammam had bolts loosened on fences surrounding the home fan enclosures at Ninian Park so they would make more noise when rattled during a match.

[30] Leeds made one change to their matchday squad from their previous fixture, a 3–0 victory over West Ham United on 1 January, Frazer Richardson replaced Harpal Singh on the bench.

[33] Cardiff attacked their higher-ranked opponents quickly and Robert Earnshaw made several early attempts to pass his opposite fullback, Ian Harte.

[32] Ten minutes into the game, Leeds suffered an early injury blow when Rio Ferdinand was forced off with ankle ligament damage following a foul by Cardiff striker Gavin Gordon.

[32] Cardiff's captain, Graham Kavanagh, converted the free-kick to draw his side level,[2] fulfilling his prediction to score in the weeks leading up to the game.

[35] He was pelted with missiles as he walked past the stand containing Leeds' supporters before remaining stood behind the goal his side were attacking for the remainder of the match.

[37] As the match wore on, Cork looked to pressure Leeds with substitutions, initially planning to send on Josh Low before instead opting to replace the tiring Gordon with Leo Fortune-West.

[2][3] Match rules As D'Urso blew the final whistle, Cardiff fans immediately ran onto the pitch to celebrate their side's victory.

[32] Leeds' Lee Bowyer was targeted by a Cardiff fan as he left the field, narrowly avoiding a punch thrown by the supporter,[23] while teammates Batty and Viduka also required assistance from security personnel to leave the pitch.

He was charged with one count of threatening and violent behaviour after being filmed throwing an advertising hoarding at Leeds supporters and was jailed for 60 days as well as being banned from all football grounds in England and Wales for six years.

However, Hammam grew dissatisfied with the tone of the interview and subsequently instructed two of his security staff to remove Overend from the ground and confiscate his equipment.

[45] In the days following the match, Hammam described his side's triumph as "a special victory which would lift the profile of Welsh football",[46] while also praising Cork, believing he would become "a great Cardiff City manager.

They lost their next match, 2–1 to Peterborough United in the Second Division six days later, before being eliminated from the FA Cup in the fourth round at the end of January following a 3–1 defeat to Tranmere Rovers.

[49] Jeff Cooksley, the Chief Superintendent of South Wales Police, partly attributed the crowd trouble to the condition of Ninian Park, describing it as "a very old ground, 70 years old, and is very poorly designed compared with modern standards".

[23] The Football Association of Wales later fined Cardiff £20,000 over the pitch invasion but did not uphold further charges over missile throwing or Hammam's pitchside walk.

[52] The team's failure to qualify for the Champions League, and subsequently missing out on the revenue it would generate, has been credited as a key factor in the club's financial implosion in the early 2000s.

The Yorkshire Post stated that the defeat to Cardiff "symbolised the beginning of Leeds’ dramatic fall from literally the top end of English football",[51] with the club eventually being relegated to the third tier in the space of five years.