This has been a difficult week for everyone connected with Leeds United. It’s less than seven days since Gary Speed died, and amid the expressions of shock and grief, the team have already played Nottingham Forest and won with a swagger, and will face Millwall tomorrow at Elland Road hoping to do the same. Even in times of the greatest sadness, life still goes on; and if the Forest game showed anything, it’s that Leeds United – the fans, the players, and the management – have met the challenge of ‘carrying on’ while still doing justice to Gary Speed, and come through with our heads held high.
It’s the last home game of the season, and that means that issue ten of The Square Ball, which goes on sale today, will be our last before we sign off for the summer. But unlike Leeds United, TSB isn’t ending on a whimper. To make sure you’ve no shortage of quality reading material between now and pre-season training, we’ve dug in deep, put some quality on our final ball, and displayed clinical finishing in the box to produce a full-colour sixty-four page monster to end 2010/11. That’s a full sixteen extra pages over and above our regular size; and as if that wasn’t enough, we aren’t charging a single penny more for The Square Ball today than we did in 1989. It will cost you one pound.
And not only is The Square Ball only one pound to buy, but it’s packed full of articles and features by Leeds fans, for Leeds fans:
Eddie Taylor returns to write for TSB after a 15-year hiatus, and he sets the record straight on Don Revie once and for all.
There’s part two of Paul Gill’s brilliant letter to a friend in Australia who had gone travelling during the league title winning season in 1992.
On the theme of 1992, Robert Heath writes about his attempts to track down Eric Cantona in Portugal to ask him “why?” only days after his defection across the hills.
And of course there’s even more – click through to see what else is in the mag, and to buy it from our online shop.
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