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The Square Ball: Season 35, Issue 02
This is the second issue of The Square Ball’s 35th season and Leeds United’s 2024/25 title-winning campaign.
Our cover art is a visual representation of the transfer window just gone, by Arley Byrne.
Featuring all your favourite regular contributors, it’s a lot more fun and nourishing than doomscrolling for the latest Fabrizio Romano update, and you’d look really cool if you posted photos from it on your Twitter or Instagram pages. Just sayin’!
- Rob Conlon interviews Simon Johnson about wanting to knock Kevin Blackwell out, and a short Leeds United career that packed in all the ups and downs
- Chris McMenamy on Andrea Radrizzani arriving at Sampdoria as a saviour and leaving under a cloud
- Calum Archibald pays tribute to Sol Bamba, a man who cared about Leeds United when too many others didn’t
- Paddy Gunn with the second instalment of a series revisiting the chaos of Massimo Cellino and the 2014/15 season, ten years on, featuring awkward handshakes with Dave Hockaday
- Our new agony aunt — AKA Michael Normanton, AKA Problem Chimp — using his infamous expertise to solve all your problems
- Plus regrettable Leeds shirts, the day Jack Charlton stole one fan’s bobble hat, and Pie Man
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Getting the magazine delivered to your home is a very good idea, as it will arrive free of beer stains and torn corners, unless your postie is having a bad morning.
The best way to buy The Square Ball is to subscribe and get every regular issue delivered to your home for the next twelve months.
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.
If you don’t want to subscribe — why not?! — you can buy this issue on its own by clicking here, and we’ll post it out as soon as it’s printed.
Can I buy the magazine at Elland Road?
As always since 1989, barring pandemics and badly timed World Cups, The Square Ball magazine will be on sale outside Elland Road, for the match against Burnley on Saturday 14th September 2024. 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.
I’m a TSB+ member, where is the online magazine?
TSB+ members can read the magazine online now, either of two ways:
What else is in this issue?
Our now eleven 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.
Can I read something now? For free? Ah go on?
Free to read from this issue is an interview by Rob Conlon with former Peacocks striker Simon Johnson, on moving to Leeds aged 15 with the club destined for the Champions League, and leaving with the club stuck in the Championship — click here to read that for free.
Also free in this issue, Calum Archibald on his love for Sol Bamba and his memories of Bamba playing for and against Leeds — click here to read that one.
You can order paper copies of issue two from our online shop now, and they’ll be sent out as soon as they’re printed. To read a digital version online, please become a TSB+ member, with a one month free trial, here.
As Howard Wilkinson always used to say, thank you for your magnificent support. ⬢
