Realism should come with a health warning, too
This gets to the heart of why some Leeds fans don't get along with Daniel Farke's management: he is pathologically incapable of telling fans what we want to hear.
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Champions League 2001: Milan vs Leeds United
Milan, and Barcelona, and Kim Milton Nielsen, and UEFA, and probably Christos Michas, all stood between Leeds and six more lucrative group stage games.
Battle of Britain '92: Elland Road
The Rangers players were each on a £20,000 bonus, but Howard Wilkinson wasn't thinking that far ahead. He said he didn't even know how many teams would be in the Champions League. "I was too scared to think about it."
Positive Action Movement: When Ken Bates took over his homeland in 1968, Noel Lloyd led the fight to take it back
'A lady came up by the name of Louella Harrigan and she said, "Regardless, we got to take back our country from Kenneth Bates, and whatever we’re going to do we’re going to march this morning, and we are going to take our country back! This lease must be revoked, and Kenneth Bates must go!”’
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