Bielsa’s Leeds are bad in winter. Open your curtains: does it look like winter out there? Exactly. Now look at Leeds trying to play football against Brighton. But not for too long. See?
Moscowhite • Daniel Chapman
Writer for The Square Ball magazine;
talker for The Square Ball podcast.
No Romance
Crawley Town 3-0 Leeds United: Shock O’Clock
It’s not healthy for Leeds to feel that the early rounds are inevitable, that lower league clubs are unbeatable.
When the football year begins with a humdrum defeat in line with the form book and the transfer market, it’s a reminder that this is the Premier League in 2021, where attention wanders easily from the pitch to the timeline.
Perfect Sound Forever
West Brom 0-5 Leeds United: Against Nature
Last night’s Premier League results are an embarrassment for the greatest league in the world: three 1-0s and a 0-0. Except the Leeds game. Even accounting for Burnley’s sinkhole opposition, there have been 21 goals in the Peacocks’ four festive matches. And what goals!
Terry Venables’ task, in his first few weeks as Leeds United manager, was trying to make Leeds United make sense.
It has been a hectic week — month — lifetime enduring the reaction to Leeds United visiting Old Trafford and doing the one thing that ought to have united the world of football: losing.
Not That Football
Manchester United 6-2 Leeds United: This Football
I saw enough of the other kind of football during sixteen years outside the Premier League — not to mention during the Manchester derby last weekend.
Xmas Day Football
Thursday 25th December, 1924
Christmas is a time of goodwill to all people, but if you happen to be playing football, you can forget it.
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Who Put The Ball In The Man U Net?
Wethers & Deane
Our rivalry with Manchester United might have cooled while we spent the 1980s apart, but promotion flung us together.
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