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They may not have been to everybody’s taste, including a certain Mr Brian Clough, but Leeds United, under Don Revie in the late 1960s and early 1970s, were amongst the best teams of their time in the English top flight. Much of the team’s success was due to the manager, Don Revie. Like his team, […]
Leeds United have sounded the alarm bells, sacking Javi Gracia and bringing in a new manager until the end of the season. The new manager in question is Sam Allardyce, but can he save Leeds United in just four games? Allardyce becomes the third Leeds manager of a tumultuous season, following Jesse Marsch and Javi […]
Without the fans we are nothing. But, for them we will do everything in our capabilities to take them and this club to the Promised Land. That is a fair and honest assessment of the thoughts of Leeds United head coach Marcelo Bielsa as he prepares to take his charges into the fray once more […]
Leeds United boss Marcelo Bielsa’s mission is clear: to shape his squad with intelligent coaching and to maximise the talent of his players as the Elland Road side bid to gain promotion to the Premier League. Remember, they agonisingly missed out last time of asking following a defeat over two legs in the play-off semi-final […]
This weekend Championship hopefuls Leeds United host Millwall in a must win game for both sides. Leeds come into this game without a league win or even goal in 3 outings. Last time out was away at Ipswich where midfielder Eunan O’Kane saw red, speaking in the club press conference this morning, captain Liam Cooper […]
If there’s one thing recent years has shown us, it’s that football is very much evolving into much more than just a sport. Over the last couple of years we’ve seen record breaking transfer fees shelled out for the likes of Paul Pogba and Neymar Jr., but surely not all this money isn’t moving about […]
Picture a director who made a film that, in its time, was lauded as an award-winning classic. Years on, it’s still remembered fondly, though its age may be showing somewhat compared to some of those modern day innovative CGI-laded offerings… still, most people can still appreciate it as cinema done well. While the director still […]
Football, what a sport it is, loved by people from all around the world whether you’re in England, the home of the Premier League or on the other side of the world in Australia where football is starting to grow. One thing that all football fans have in common though despite the various ways we […]
The decline of Leeds United from early-2000s big spenders to Football League regulars has been well documented. The club’s financial difficulties made them a byword for fiscal responsibility before the demise of Portsmouth in the 2010s. Key assets such as Harry Kewell, Alan Smith and Mark Viduka were sold off to keep the club afloat […]
“Gone for a Burton”. Various origins have been suggested for this phrase, though no definitive source can be quoted. I’m going for the one which refers to the brewing town of Burton-upon-Trent and a pre-WW2 ad for Burton’s Ale where an empty place setting is explained by the person having ‘gone for a Burton.’ This […]
For many of us who love football, the international breaks are proving to be tough love. Before Gareth Southgate, Gordon Strachan et al gave us heart-warming wins in a mild spring, Leeds United were beating second-placed Brighton, and Huddersfield were happily being thrashed at relegation-threatened Bristol City. After Chris Wood’s two-goal performance, some of the […]
Leeds United face Reading this Saturday teatime in the EFL Championship. It’s a critical game for Leeds, but then each of the remaining eight matches will be as we mount a proper challenge for promotion back to the Premier League. We are currently fourth, while Reading are fifth. We haven’t been in such a good […]
Leeds United entertain Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday. I say ‘entertain’ but, of course, at this stage of the season, we just want to get the three points or, at the very least, not lose. The play-off situation is ever closer, though good to see that Fulham – who, in injury time, robbed us […]
Recent sad news of the death of the great Celtic defender Tommy Gemmell and the dementia of his Lisbon Lions teammate and captain Billy McNeill took me right back to my young days of browsing football annuals while listening to the family’s old wireless set. As a six-year-old, I looked on with my father and […]
A police officer astride a white horse, trying to control football crowds! No, this story is not about the ‘White Horse’ FA Cup Final at Wembley in 1923 but it too comes from a different age and could almost be replayed in black and white, if not sepia. Having done the double over fellow Yorkshire […]
So began the lyrics for ‘Rawhide’ – the Western TV series – broadcast from 1959 to 1965. For Leeds United, this period represented the genesis period of our most famous club side and catapulted Leeds into the consciousness of football fans up and down the country as well as placing West Yorkshire firmly on the […]
