Long live the Hock

Top 5 chaotic summers: 2014

Written by: Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
Artwork by: Joseph Gamble
A collage by Joe Gamble showing characters involved in the chaotic summer of 2014

The lesson of summer 2014 is that you should always know where your next socks are coming from. ‘Off for them today ha’, Sam Byram tweeted to Jason Pearce. ‘U got plain ones?’ Pearce had got his from ‘Marks n sparkles boyo’.

Meanwhile, Leeds fans were desperately trying to convince themselves that it was a good thing actually that the club was not providing its players with socks for training anymore. Or feeding them. Or employing cleaners. These were improvements, right? This is how a club gets made better, right?

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