This is the first issue of TSB’s 34th season, back where we, er, belong? Let’s hope Daniel Farke has other ideas. Our cover art is a big welcome back to the Champo by Lee Shackleton.
There’s plenty inside this issue, possibly even some optimism!
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As always since 1989, barring pandemics and badly timed World Cups, The Square Ball magazine will be on sale outside Elland Road, for the first match of the season against Cardiff on Sunday 6th August 2023. 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.
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Our now ten times-nominated and two-times FSF Award winning fanzine, plus one for the podcast and as of 2022 one for ‘Fan Media’, 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.
Rob Conlon on boxer Maxi Hughes having his Paris ’75 moment in the ring in Olkahoma
Flora Snelson writes from the World Cup on the weirdness of Fifaland
Our new columnist Gaetano Berardi writes about Bielsa’s first summer, and how it all went right against Stoke
Moxco on Leeds United’s top 5 chaotic summers that make this one look organised, almost
From the Lowfields, our writers discussing: How it went for Daniel Farke at Borussia Mönchengladbach, and what that might mean for us | trying to find Pablo Hernandez on the day he retired | what Jose Mourinho wants with Diego Llorente and Rasmus Kristensen | who directs the directors of football? | that time Rodrigo poked Klich in the eye and doomed LUFC | another new dawn at a club that has seen plenty | how Charlie Taylor was our last good left-back, and might be our next | what 49ers Enterprises might do with white, yellow and blue
Bus to town, for when the game is over: | a new exhibition at the Corn Exchange | new Leeds music with DJ Emily Pilbeam | past meetings with upcoming foes | why we love Sam Byram
Free to read from this issue is Patrick Gunn’s survey of some Borussia Mönchengladbach fans to find out how things went for Daniel Farke last season, and what that might mean for us. Click here to read that for free.
Also free in this issue, DJ Emily Pilbeam on the best new Leeds music, because Music Makes Football Better — click here to read that one — and a selection of images from a new exhibition at Colours May Vary in the Corn Exchange, Forward Play!.
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As Howard Wilkinson always used to say, thank you for your magnificent support. ⬢
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