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How To Lose, and How To Win: by Billy Bremner

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Moscowhite • 7 Comments

“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.… Continue Reading

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They think it’s all over, but the FA aren’t too sure.

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Peter Smithson • 8 Comments

All but a few of the most hopeless of optimists have given up on the play-offs, for Leeds to claw back a three point deficit and achieve a swing of six in terms of goal difference would seem a virtual impossibility. There is one last hope but it involves a dance with the regulatory devil.… Continue Reading

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What Ken Said – 27.04.11 – Do Give Up

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Fax Man • 1 Comment

‘Mr Chairman’ comes around to the harsh reality that we are only on Cloud Number Nine in the Championship after our defeat at Crystal Palace. Our poor recent Run To You and me is tough to take but while Simon Grayson and the lads say Don’t Give Up, Ken has already thrown in the towel – although his maths may have let him down a bit. Everyone knows a win will take us to a total Summer of 69 points, level with Forest and above Millwall – apart from the Chairman, it seems. Before then, there’s the members do in the Heaven-ly pavilion to celebrate… erm… the pavilion, apparently. Finally, just to prove that everything he does, he does it for us, Ken’s gonna give Bryan Adams’ agent a ring and book him for Elland Road… in 2015. But how do we know that won’t be When You’re Gone, Ken? (With apologies to Bryan Adams)… Continue Reading

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Bring on the ‘wall

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Peter Smithson • 1 Comment

If only Nottingham Forest’s Chris Cohen had spoken to Ray Wilkins before last Saturday’s game. If he had heeded the advice of ‘Bald Butch’ and stayed on his feet then Forest fans may not have had so much to bleat about this week. His rash tackle may have wrecked Forest’s play-off ambitions but the sending… Continue Reading

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What Ken Said – 06.04.11 – Account Ability

Posted on April 6, 2011 by Fax Man • 5 Comments

‘Mr Chairman’ gives us his thoughts on the Forest match and the upcoming clashes with Millwall and Derby as well as the Football League’s new TV deal with Sky. He then reveals all (OK, maybe not) about the accounts, insisting maintaining Elland Road is one of the main reasons we made an operating loss of £670k. But he insists there is nothing fishy going on by quoting a bloke from a company called Brewin Dolphin. Richard Scudamore’s claims that the Premier League would be stronger on the ownership issue are given a short shrift while Supporter’s Clubs get it in the neck again. Oh, and you can buy some more stuff even easier than you could before with the world’s best ticketing system. And don’t forget to eat at Howard’s either because it’s really nice and all that. … Continue Reading

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Leeds to pull up Trees? Forest Preview

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Peter Smithson • 2 Comments

Don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise, Leeds versus Nottingham Forest is a fixture that belongs in the top flight of English football yet games between the two have never really lived up to the hype afforded by some sections of the media. You can expect the BBC’s coverage of Saturday’s game to ladle on the tiresome references to Brian Clough, 44 days and the Damned United. Regardless of any historical context the game is massive for one reason only, promotion.… Continue Reading

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Podcast #27: International Rescue

Posted on April 1, 2011 by The Square Ball • 0 Comments

Thanks to the international break there’s only one dreadful game to cover from the last fortnight. With a week-and-a-half having elapsed since the Whites were cut down to size by a poor Blades side, the edge has been taken off the negative feelings that followed a bad day out a Bramall Lane. Doyler, Lowry and McCartney are all in the firing line for various reasons, with Barry Bannan the Bananaman offering the fortnight’s only real high point.… Continue Reading

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What Ken Said – 30.03.11 – Friendly Fire

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Fax Man • 2 Comments

‘Mr Chairman’ welcomes loanee Jake Livermore to the club and sends Ramon Nunez and Adam Clayton packing with a pop at the standard of reserve opposition. He joins forces with Alex Ferguson in ranting about international friendlies, saying they are just cash cows. Pot… Kettle… Back on the home front he looks ahead to the Forest game and his “business” trip to Oslo to meet the “so-called Leeds fans” who he can “get at”. There’s another blast at supporters clubs and how fans don’t have a place in his football club, or something like that. There’s also a new online booking service for fans to splash their cash easier and a reminder to spend some more money on some other stuff, just in case you forgot.… Continue Reading

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