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Issue 08 2022-23

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Andrea Radrizzani, Victor Orta, and Angus Kinnear sitting in the posh seats at Elland Road, wondering why everyone else is making mistakes
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Sort it out

2022/23 Issue 08: Editor’s Note

Running a football club isn't easy, writes Michael Normanton, but that's no excuse for Leeds United setting fire to themselves for two years.
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Tom Jennings, his leg outstretched after kicking a shot probably into the net, in front of the numbers 25/26, in front of another image of Jennings playing for Leeds
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Champagne Jim

The last ounce | Last day 1925/26

With one game to go at Elland Road, writes Moxco, First Division survival depended on beating Spurs.
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Billy Bremner kicking a ball, in front of the numbers 61/62, and another image of John Charles playing for Juventus
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Throwing tea cups

Buying time | Last day 1961/62

Don Revie had an inkling, but few others knew what was at stake. At Newcastle in 1962, writes Rob Conlon, Leeds faced the most important final day in their history.
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Rod Wallace playing for Leeds, in front of the numbers 92/93, and another image of Mark Beeney playing in goal
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Minesweeping

The last rave | Last day 1992/93

The party was ending, writes Moxco, but Wilko’s Leeds had one last dance in them.
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David O'Leary with his arm around Harry Kewell, in front of the numbers 99/00, and an image of David Wetherall celebrating his goal for Bradford that put Leeds into Europe
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Happily ever after

Grasping the dream | Last day 1999/00

The day David Wetherall sparked a spending spree, by Flora Snelson.
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An illustration of Victor Orta as a sad clown. It's a metaphor.
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Plus ca change

What’s in a watermelon?

Victor Orta should have taken advice on finding managers from Massimo Cellino, says Miles Reucroft.
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Weston McKennie taking a long throw, but the ball is a sad emoji
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Start the raindance

Worryshine

Adam Clarke does not enjoy Leeds in the sunshine.
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Pieces of Lego in Leeds United kits, but each one is broken, with legs, or ams, or a head missing
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Crisps on the shitter

Somebody’s problem

After Bielsa, Marsch and Gracia, Leeds are now Big Sam’s problem, writes Andy P. But that’s not where the buck stops.
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Javi Gracia playing with the zip on his Leeds coat, haunted by the image of Marc Guehi's equaliser for Crystal Palace over his shoulder
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Into free-fall

Guehi Goal, Gracia Gone

Did Marc Guehi’s goal break everything, Patrick Gunn wonders, or just take the plaster off?
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Three floating Sam Allardyce heads against a yellow backdrop. He looks like he's chewing a wasp
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Vinegar pish

Get behind the wine

Leeds United are the only Leeds United we’ve got, so Richard Finn thinks we might as well get behind whatever all this is now.
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A black and white image of some horrible Ken Bates programme notes with Ken Bates' horrible face with a horrible smile
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Shower curtain

Bates Note Hell

Some football chairmen communicate because they want to be loved. Then, as Ruari Skelton discovered in a classic of the genre, there was Ken Bates.
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Images of Elland Road, Billy Bremner's statue, a football with different Leeds badges printed on, interspersed with the words THE CLUB THAT TIME FORGOT
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Welcome to Caprona

The Club That Time Forgot

Calum Archibald has seen a T-Rex in the Fullerton car park.
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A black and white image of Marcelo Bielsa against a moody black backdrop
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Why do we do it?

Heaven knows I’m miserable now

When studies show losing means more pain than winning means happiness, what about Leeds United, asks Anthony Crewdson.
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Elland Road, 1972:

50 days that changed Leeds United forever.

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  • Big Jack and Don wanted the Cup
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  • 50 days that changed Leeds United forever

A 160 page special publication by The Square Ball, Paul Trevillion and Leeds United Supporters’ Trust, to celebrate Leeds United winning the Centenary FA Cup in 1972.

When Don Revie picked up the phone to call Paul Trevillion, he thought he was getting a public relations expert. What he got instead was a true born artist, a whirlwind of ideas and action, a charismatic tempest. Revie soon nicknamed him, ‘The Beaver’.