Leeds fans march in protest against club owner Massimo Cellino

Leeds fans took to the streets to protest against the club's owner Massimo Cellino on Saturday afternoon.

Around, 1,000 disgruntled supporters marched through Leeds city centre ahead of the Championship side's match with Reading at Elland Road.

Fans carried banners calling for Cellino to quit the club and the group were joined by hundreds more fans opposed to the Italian's ownership on the two-mile route through the Holbeck area.

"We are absolutely sick of our club being dragged through the media and looking like an absolute mess," a spokesman for the Time To Go Massimo group told the Yorkshire Evening Post.

"It's been taken through the gutter and everything he (Cellino) has done in the last two years has not been in the best interests of Leeds United Football Club."

The group promoted the march on social media and by taking out an advertisement in the sports section of Saturday's Yorkshire Evening Post.

Time To Go Massimo mounted a sustained campaign to oust Cellino from Elland Road in February and earlier this week called on the 59-year-old to "end this farce" after former employee Lucy Ward won her claim for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination against the club.

Former academy welfare officer Ward - an ex-player and partner of former Leeds head coach Neil Redfearn - left the club last summer.

Cellino's two-year reign in charge of Leeds has been littered with controversy and managerial sackings.

The former Cagliari owner is currently on his sixth head coach while also appealing a second Football League disqualification for tax evasion.