Kevin Pressman has long been the Sophie Dahl of the Premiership catwalk, and at times has attracted comparable acclaim, but goalkeeping for the fuller figure will quickly fall out of style if he persists in the type of blunders which presented Leeds United with a victory yesterday that David O'Leary's charges rarely looked capable of fashioning for themselves.

Wednesday's winter collection, as modelled by Pressman, possessed a sombre flavour for a relegation-haunted season. He tottered around his area for both Leeds goals as if wearing a pair of six-inch stilettos.

In conceding Leeds's equaliser, six minutes before half-time, he flapped at Martin Hiden's long throw with all the presence of Sophie readjusting a loose shoulder strap. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink hooked in the goal. Further ignominy followed for Pressman just after the hour. David Hopkin's corner was met beyond the far post by Jon Woodgate's looping header and Pressman, sensing that a rescuing leap was beyond him, fell to the floor under the slightest brush from the Leeds substitute Clyde Wijnhard.

Wednesday had led within three minutes through Andy Booth's first goal for eight months - a header from Danny Sonner's corner - and although they were increasingly undeserving as the match progressed, Booth was unfortunate not to win a penalty three minutes from time when he was tripped by Ian Harte.

Leeds were edgy in possession - their two defensive wing-backs unable to outsmart Wednesday's flank players, and Stephen McPhail, the young Irishman in whom their manager David O'Leary has placed so much faith, was largely uninvolved.

O'Leary's deliberate wake-up call to Hasselbaink, though, goaded him into life. One explosive run past Emerson ended with a ferocious drive over the bar, and Hasselbaink's equaliser at least quietened the boos that had sounded sporadically around Elland Road.

Leeds United: Martyn, Hiden, Woodgate, Molenaar, Wetherall (Wijnhard 45), Harte, Hopkin, Bowyer, McPhail (Haaland 75), Kewell, Hasselbaink. Subs Not Used: Ribeiro, Halle, Robinson. Booked: Harte, Bowyer. Goals: Hasselbaink 40, Woodgate 61.

Sheffield Wednesday: Pressman, Atherton, Thome, Walker, Hinchcliffe, Alexandersson, Jonk (Magilton 68), Sonner, Rudi, Booth, Humphreys (Newsome 79). Subs Not Used: Sanetti, Briscoe, Clarke. Booked: Jonk. Goal: Booth 3.

Referee: K Burge (Mid Glamorgan).