http://www.thesquareball.net Leeds United Fanzine | By The Fans, For The Fans Thu, 16 May 2013 22:52:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2013/02/15/wish-you-were-here-the-other-dimension-of-eighties-leeds/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2013/02/15/wish-you-were-here-the-other-dimension-of-eighties-leeds/#comments Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:32:56 +0000 Andy Peterson http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5225 October 13th, 1984. One of the rolling stock death traps which British Rail begrudgingly offered up as football specials pulls in to Barnsley central station. Seconds later a sea of young men are already running for the exits, chanting tribal football songs, announcing their arrival like a late 20th century equivalent of shock and awe. [...]]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2013/02/15/wish-you-were-here-the-other-dimension-of-eighties-leeds/feed/ 3 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2013/01/07/mortgages-debt-losses-finances-bates/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2013/01/07/mortgages-debt-losses-finances-bates/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 13:22:50 +0000 The Square Ball http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5186 It has been widely rumoured that Ken Bates will write no further programme notes after his valedictory musings in the New Year’s Day publication for the Bolton game. The outgoing chairman signed off with his usual hubristic mixture of triumphalism, inferences of malevolent forces at work and general business epithets – it was hard to [...]]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2013/01/07/mortgages-debt-losses-finances-bates/feed/ 14 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/12/19/its-a-wonderful-lust/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/12/19/its-a-wonderful-lust/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:01:05 +0000 Michael Normanton http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5161 With Leeds vs Chelsea taking place this evening an interview with our departing Chairman was always, sadly, going to be a hot story for someone. But what would be required to secure an interview with the generally evasive Ken Bates?]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/12/19/its-a-wonderful-lust/feed/ 7 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/11/21/taken-over/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/11/21/taken-over/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:14:56 +0000 The Square Ball http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=4930 A question we've often been asked over the last few seasons is, 'What will The Square Ball write about when Ken Bates has gone?' And now that Bates really has gone, our answer doesn't change: we'll write about what the various people who have written TSB have written about for over twenty years: Leeds United Football Club. ]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/11/21/taken-over/feed/ 16 http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/10/27/ken-bates-duncan-castles/ http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/10/27/ken-bates-duncan-castles/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:30:29 +0000 Fax Man http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5118 Taken from the end of LUTV’s interview with Leeds United’s current owner Ken Bates today… Ken Bates: What I can tell you is, matters are progressing but it is not being helped by people who are trying to cause trouble for some reason. I’m particularly curious about a fellow called Duncan Castles. He’s a gentleman [...]]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/10/27/ken-bates-duncan-castles/feed/ 2 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/27/the-square-ball-issue-3-of-the-independent-lufc-magazine-out-now/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/27/the-square-ball-issue-3-of-the-independent-lufc-magazine-out-now/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 09:03:48 +0000 Moscowhite http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5112 The pen is mightier than the sword; the typewriter is heftier than the pisshead; the printed word impacts more than the drunken slur. But if what you actually want is both pens and swords, if you’ve a requirement for pissheads at typewriters, if you prefer your drunken slurs to be printed on high quality paper in glorious full colour, and if you’d like it all served in one hefty 56 page magazine, then The Square Ball issue three is what you want. ]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/27/the-square-ball-issue-3-of-the-independent-lufc-magazine-out-now/feed/ 1 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/26/the-square-ball-week-2/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/26/the-square-ball-week-2/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:24:01 +0000 Moscowhite http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5103 There has only been one talking point this week. How do you police football fans? How do you stop them all from running on the pitch and assaulting players, from singing sick songs, from breaking seats and throwing coins? What do we do to make sure none of these things happens inside in a football stadium, ever again? And yet, all week, nobody has responded to these questions by inquiring of the inquirer, “Are you mad?” Click here to read the rest on Leeds Online!]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/26/the-square-ball-week-2/feed/ 0 http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/19/the-square-ball-week/ http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/19/the-square-ball-week/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 08:09:10 +0000 Moscowhite http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5084 International football, like love, is a way of diffusing overwhelming passions in a positive way. Nothing speaks more strongly of the heart’s hidden torment than an exchange of flowers, Football Association pennants, and bodily fluids. But international football, like love, can sometimes fail to contain the torid amours of young men in heat. Things are said that are later regretted - other things are said, and never regretted. Blows are aimed, blows are landed, and what started with a kiss ends with a FIFA charge for disrepute. Oh, love is woe. Click here to read the rest on Leeds Online!]]> http://www.thesquareball.net/leeds-united/2012/10/19/the-square-ball-week/feed/ 0 http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/10/06/leeds-united-takeover-ken-bates-update/ http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/10/06/leeds-united-takeover-ken-bates-update/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:34:38 +0000 Fax Man http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5074 http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/10/06/leeds-united-takeover-ken-bates-update/feed/ 3 http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/09/22/leeds-united-takeover-ken-bates/ http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/09/22/leeds-united-takeover-ken-bates/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:06:40 +0000 Fax Man http://www.thesquareball.net/?p=5066 http://www.thesquareball.net/what-ken-said/2012/09/22/leeds-united-takeover-ken-bates/feed/ 14