Finally the season is over, but there’s plenty still to discuss. With the transfer window now open and with Colin’s Clearout well underway, the team gets the lowdown on Adam Clayton from the YEP’s Phil Hay and mulls over all the potential ins and outs this summer. After skimming over the final batch of games, [...]
“I honestly don’t know where they get their patience from. They spend their hard-earned money to follow the club – and we turn in a performance like we did at Stoke. It must be heartbreaking for them when they have to watch what we served up for them. They deserve 100 per cent better. If we were up there at the top of the First Division we could not expect more from our fans. I was ashamed that a team of mine could be so lacking in enthusiasm, commitment and effort. It just wasn’t true. It was humiliating and there is no excuse. They are lacking pride in the club, when wearing a Leeds United shirt should be the greatest thing in the world. It was for me.” – Billy Bremner.
The most interesting part of Leeds United’s 2010/11 financial returns, which have become available today, fall after the end of the accounting period. The filings take the assorted companies that make up Leeds City Holdings to the end of June 2011, but at the bottom of the very last page, is this:
‘Post Balance Sheet Events’: Leeds United Football Club Limited entered into an agreement whereby it sold season tickets for both the 2012/13 and 2013/14 season for a sum of £5,000,000 after the year end.
This, it seems, it the £5m facility that was referred to in the official sites reporting of the account headlines: “After the year end we entered into an agreement for a £5,000,000 facility to part fund the East Stand Development.”
At least Warnock has sorted out the defence, eh? After the Forest horror show, the pod – missing a man – reflects on that and the other matches, including a great win at Millwall. The team remembers other humiliations in the history of the Whites. Plus there’s the usual scattergun approach to predictions for the [...]
Elland Road is awash with optimism and so is the pod – well most of it anyway. In light of recent performances and a great win at Middlesbrough, the team discuss the new broom effect. There’s the usual preview of upcoming matches – including great positivity and hope – and a raft of nominees for the KBVOTF award.
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