<img title="Image: http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44691236_macca_at_final_203_594078515.jpg&amp;size=article_medium" src="http://www.myvivvo.com/thumbnail.php?file=_44691236_macca_at_final_203_594078515.jpg&amp;size=article_medium" alt="Season not a failure - McAllister">
										
									
								
                                
								<br>Leeds United boss Gary McAllister insists that their season 
has not been a 'failure', despite Sunday's play-off final defeat to 
Doncaster Rovers.<br><br>Leeds battled through their pre-season 15-point
 deduction - and a change of manager - to reach the play-offs, winning 
27 games in the process.<br><br>"The facts say we didn't win promotion," said McAllister.<br><br>"But with 27 wins, just eight defeats and second highest scorers, it can't be described as a failure."<br><br>The
 West Yorkshire club would have been automatically promoted in second 
place if they had not been docked the 15 points for breaking the 
Football League's rules on insolvency.<br><br>But McAllister points out that is now history, telling BBC Radio Leeds: "We go away and regroup.<br><br>"We come back fighting and start next season on the same number of points as everyone else."<br><br>Leeds' hoodoo in finals hit them once more at Wembley, as they failed to score for the third consecutive time in a final.<br><br>They
 lost 3-0 to Watford in the Championship play-off final at Cardiff in 
2006, having also gone down 3-0 to Aston Villa in the 1996 League Cup 
final at the old Wembley.<br><br>Excepting the 1992 Charity Shield 
victory over Liverpool, Leeds' last winner at Wembley was 36 years ago -
 from Allan Clarke in the 1972 FA Cup final win over Arsenal.<br>