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Destroy and exit

I watched Sam Allardyce’s podcast so you don’t have to

We used to call them managers, not head coaches. And inches, not centimetres. It's all low blocks and false nines these days.

By Rob Conlon

Down

Leeds United 1-4 Tottenham: here when it’s a bad time

Beneath every footballer's mistake, you'll find their signature, their unavoidable ownership of their error. That's not where responsibility should end.

By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman

Just end it

The Square Ball: Season 33, Issue 08

This is the eighth issue of TSB's 33rd season, a magazine to remember from a season to forget.

By The Square Ball

Not Bellusci's

Somebody else’s party

A dramatic day in Serie B had Chris McMenamy feeling things that might have been.

By Chris McMenamy

Relegation party

Music makes football better | Emily Pilbeam

Emily Pilbeam is a Leeds based DJ and, as host of BBC Music Introducing in West Yorkshire, is head scout and first team coach combined for new music in the city.

By Emily Pilbeam

El Diego & Big Jack

Bedsheets & pins: Alistair Woods

Alistair Woods is an artist living and working in Manchester, but in 2017 'A Portrait of Jack Charlton' was a bit of a giveaway that his allegiances are with the light side of the Pennines.

By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman

Sick everywhere

Proposal: Don’t let Brighton sign James Milner

Brighton are proof it’s possible to be a sustainable Premier League club and still have fun. Give ‘em a biscuit. But please don’t give them James Milner.

By Rob Conlon

Out of the frying pan

Let’s all laugh at Andrea Radrizzani buying Sampdoria

Buying a club that might be relegated to the fourth tier and are weighed down with debt seems foolish, but who am I to tell someone how to blow their millions?

By Chris McMenamy

Get this over

West Ham United 3-1 Leeds United: Almost time

Time was always against Sam Allardyce at Leeds United. He can't have expected the problem to be too much of it.

By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman

Unconditional

Marcelo Bielsa on Argentina, the World Cup & love

"If you know you are loved in advance, it is much easier to release everything you are capable of."

By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman

Play(ed them) off (the park)

Better than champions

Missing automatic promotion might be the best thing that could have happened to Leeds Under-21s

By Rob Conlon

A bit daft, a bit mad

Pass the valium

It says a lot about Leeds right now that the goalkeeper practising pull-ups on the crossbar before facing a penalty is the one asking for calm.

By Rob Conlon

Penno

Leeds United 2-2 Newcastle United: The knack

How does it feel when you can't do the thing you're best at doing?

By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman

Proper yellow

Introducing our TSB x Admiral third shirt | Yellow (2022/23)

The Square Ball is not, technically, a football club. But if we were, we’d design really nice football shirts for everyone to wear. And with help from Admiral, that’s exactly what we’ve done.

By The Square Ball

Collapsing stars

The fourth law of the Premier League

When it comes to the vastness of the cosmos, romantics and philosophers will tell you this fear is fine, beautiful even, but the helplessness of this season hits differently.

By Flora Snelson

Stronger than biscuits

Leeds Under-21s, cracking open the good stuff

Regardless of the scenario, cracking open the good stuff contains a universal truth.

By Rob Conlon

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A bit daft, a bit mad

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