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Issue 01 2021-22

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Cover artwork by Lee Shackleton
Home Again
Our first issue of 2021/22 is on sale outside Elland Road for the game with Everton on Saturday 21st August. It's been a while.
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Welcome Home

The past two seasons have been the best in recent history, yet also the saddest.

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Johnny Be Good

There was no transfer window to worry about before 1963/64 season, but there was the small matter of the games starting.

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Artwork by Cris Jones
Double jabbed

After Huddersfield and Sheffield United, Leeds? Andy P confidently predicts not, because they had bigger problems than a second chance.

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A Dolphin's Squeak

You can’t take sentiment out of football, but without Gjanni Alioski, Dave Guile is wondering where we’ll find it again.

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Feeling Friendly

Marcelo Bielsa doesn’t worry about pre-season scorelines, and Tom Hinchcliffe says neither should you.

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Artwork by Josh Parkin
One of Our Own
This was the summer Kalvin Phillips went international. JD Richardson hopes the world sees a Leeds lad, and lets him stay there.
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How to Create a Masterpiece

A year on from promotion, Chris McMenemy is wondering if any of Leeds’ lessons are being learned in the EFL.

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Artwork by Joseph Gamble
Like a Hurricane
Richard Finn reads French, and he has read Le football selon Marcelo Bielsa, the book of life at Leeds by Salim Lamrani.
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Stopped Spinning

The spin cycle approach to running Leeds never worked, says Steven York. But now we’ve stopped Danny Pugh and got off, are we ready for change?

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Who Are Ya?

With lots of fans clamouring for big-name signings, Calum Archibald wants one thing: someone he hasn’t heard of.

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Get engaged

In market research, writes Laura Finnemore, businesses pay customers because knowing how they feel is crucial. In football, for some reason, it’s the other way around.

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Photographs by Lee Brown
Don't Cry

We’ve missed Elland Road, but Anthony Crewdson says our home as we know it will soon be part of our past.

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Chase The Dragon

After three seasons going relentlessly up, Miles Reucroft is wondering if we’re ready for Leeds standing still.

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Welcome Back, Pontus

Centre-back passing stats. Fine words for the Premier League. But Jimmy McCovick won’t forget some other defensive metrics.

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Artwork by Remy Walker
Duke it Out

It’s kid versus kid for the Leeds United goalie shirt. Patrick Gunn introduces the new contender.

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