This is the second issue of TSB’s 33rd season, guaranteed to be a better read than the programme notes.

As always since 1989, The Square Ball magazine was going to be on sale outside Elland Road, for the big match against Nottingham Forest and their squad of hundreds on Monday 12th September 2022. After the death of Queen Elizabeth II that game has been postponed, so we hope you’ll help us out by getting a copy online, subscribing, or buying one at the next home game against Aston Villa on Sunday 2nd October. Just look out for our windswept but friendly sellers by the Lowfields tunnel, Billy’s Statue, the Kop gates, and anywhere else someone is holding a fanzine in the air, until about fifteen minutes before kick-off.

Getting a copy delivered to your home is still a very good idea, as it will arrive free of beer stains and torn corners, unless your postie is having a bad morning. Details on how to support us by subscribing can be found here.

As always our now nine times-nominated and two-times FSF Award winning fanzine (plus one for the podcast) includes lots of pages of articles and artwork about what used to be the pain but now is the glory which still involves pain of being a Leeds United supporter, for more than 100 long, long years.

• Lots about left-backs, because if the club won’t sign any we can remember a few they did
• Who gets to design the kits?
• Unleashing your inner SOB
• Hoping we finally beat a certain opponent
• Feeling sad about Dan James
• The Diary, Heroes & Villains, TSB+ rating results and all the usual Leeds madness
• A photo of Brenden Aaronson enjoying a banana

Free to read from this issue is this article by Chris McMenamy, about there being no more Mr Nice Guys at Elland Road, just a bunch of SOBs who won’t be pushed around. Click here to read that for free.

The best way to buy The Square Ball this season is to subscribe and get every issue delivered to your home.

That way we know how many to print, and we have the money up front to pay the printer. We’ll post anywhere in the world and you won’t miss an issue.

You can get £10 off a subscription to the paper magazine if you buy an annual membership of TSB+. TSB+ gets you all our podcasts advert free, early access and live streaming video of The Match Ball podcast, a digital sub to the magazine, a daily email, discounts and more — and that tenner off getting the paper version delivered.

Click here for more info on subscribing, and choose either TSB+ Mag or TSB Magazine.

If you just want paper or digital versions of this single issue, you can buy them here.

Subscribers can read all the new articles on our website, handy on the phone on the bus to the match or when you’re skiving at work.

Just log in and find the new issue in the main menu under Magazine, This Season, or click here.

Thanks as always for supporting The Square Ball. We hope you enjoy the mag. And the end to the season. ⬢