Weekly Show #259: Making a Splash

Jackie Haradona

The Match Ball: West Ham 2-3 Leeds United · Premier League · 16th Jan 2022

There was more VAR nonsense at the London Stadium, but it didn't matter. Full time thoughts after Bielsa's Boys deservedly beat Moyes's Men.

By The Square Ball

Soccer Supremo Mug

Steam Dream Bee Team · Watch The Extra Ball Q&A

More of your questions answered for a prize mug! Does a life of beekeeping await (after a trip to the sauna) plus plenty of LUFC antics.

By The Square Ball

Feeling Hot Hot Hot

Q&A · Adventures with pensioners in the sauna

Being undercover in the away end, favourite shithole stadiums, lockdown purchase regrets and more. We award another prize mug as we answer your questions.

By The Square Ball

Concentrating on the League

TMB30: Leeds United 0-1 Man Utd · FA Cup 3 · 15th Jan 1991

Leeds dominated the game despite key absentees, but it wasn't enough to progress in the cup as the visitors got the better of us again and progressed to the next round.

By The Square Ball

Opportunity knocks

Bielsa before West Ham unleashes one hundred Drameh-tic puns

"Leeds is a city, a club, a fanbase, that leaves a mark on someone who's been a part of it."

By Moscowhite • Daniel Chapman

Centre what

Junior Firpo is fitting in and moving about

Leeds United's left-back says he's fitting in well. Oh, and he fancies playing centre-half one day.

By Moscowhite • Daniel Chapman

Watch The Weekly Show

What a dive! · Watch Podcast #259

Watch all the entirety of the TSB weekly show, as we look at the early January moves and look ahead to yet another trip to the London Stadium, while dreaming of wet reality shows.

By The Square Ball

Dive-rsity

Cody Drameh is out of Elland Road and Leeds United are out of the cup, but that doesn't mean we can't play West Ham again and again. Instead of getting bogged down with VAR talk, there's game show chat as we pick a hero and villain.

By The Square Ball

The best Leo

Hjel-yeah and a high five

You know what I don’t hate? Promising young centre-backs.

By Patrick Gunn

Hup hup hup

Hench Hammers’ half-hearted huddle hoodwinks Leeds Under-23s

West Ham were a brutal reminder that you can never escape the present, where a good big ‘un beats a good little ‘un.

By Rob Conlon

Televised Destruction

TMB30: Sheffield Wednesday 1-6 Leeds United · 12th Jan 1992

Leeds United dismantled third place Sheffield Wednesday on the televised Big Match despite the absence of both David Batty and Gordon Strachan.

By The Square Ball

Roller Disco

A poor game in a dreadful stadium · Watch West Ham Cup Propaganda

We find out what's been said about Leeds United in the wake of the defeat at the London Stadium - from our fans, theirs and some Ipswich fans too.

By The Square Ball

Carnage!

Propaganda · Fan reaction to West Ham 2-0 Leeds

Supporter reaction to the defeat at the London Stadium; some from Leeds fans, some from Hammers fans, and some from - get this - neutral fans in attendance. What a strange world.

By The Square Ball

Body-bag game

49ers took their play-off hopes into overtime, kept fighting

It's a few weeks since we checked in with our San Franciscan kissing cousins, and already this weekend it was the vital regular season closer.

By Moscowhite • Daniel Chapman

Same Time Next Week

That’s the cup then · Watch the West Ham Match Ball

See our reaction on the full time whistle as the Whites were beaten in the FA Cup in the yawning black hole of the London Stadium.

By The Square Ball

5/10

Stop getting Leeds wrong, London

Bad press at West Ham is all part of the Leeds deal.

By Rob Conlon

Dive-rsity