David Healy ⭑ From A-Z since '92
David Healy started by grinding his former fans, his first two Leeds goals coming in a 4-2 win at Deepdale. Then another grind began, of playing football for Kevin Blackwell.
The rule books backwards: Leeds, Chelsea and the 1967 FA Cup semi-final
"For about half an hour after the final whistle, I felt completely numb," said Don Revie. "When I met my son, Duncan, outside the ground. He was sobbing — and I felt like sitting down and crying with him."
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Leeds United 3-1 Burnley: Safety first
Leeds did enough against Burnley and have done enough all season and considering the last six promoted teams there's not much more they can reasonably have done. And even the fates' most twistical threads can't undo it all now.
Champions League 2001: Leeds United vs Valencia
35 years on from Valencia's first visit to Yorkshire, people in Spain still blamed Leeds, and English football. Marca splashed a one-word headline — 'Thuggery' — over their reports predicting a new millennium update of the same old Dirty Leeds.
David Batty (part three) ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Older, sterner, but never quite grizzly, Batty was still quiet on the pitch — players dreaded the thump thump thump of his boots — and still taking delight from upending reputations.
Chelsea 1-0 Leeds United: Rather us than them
The dismay of this is that our club can't shrug off the big days and have another go soon. Then again, if Chelsea are what that looks like, perhaps we're better delaying that future as long as we can.
Bournemouth 2-2 Leeds United: Thank you everyone
It got more exciting, but the frustrating sort of exciting, the no points kind, an exasperating missed chance to clear the lingering risk of relegation and go, beleaguerless, to enjoy Wembley. Until Sean Longstaff stepped up and volleyed in.
The rule books backwards: Leeds, Chelsea and the 1967 FA Cup semi-final
"For about half an hour after the final whistle, I felt completely numb," said Don Revie. "When I met my son, Duncan, outside the ground. He was sobbing — and I felt like sitting down and crying with him."
Leeds United 3-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers: Back home
This could have been an afternoon of angst, and the chatter about Wigan 2019 felt designed to summon just that, like repeating 'Gavin Massey' five times into a mirror. Instead the match was settled by an at-home demonstration of just how effective Leeds had been away on Monday.
Champions League 2001: Deportivo La Coruña vs Leeds United
As goalkeeper, Nigel Martyn knew what this pre-match bluster meant. "If they think they can score four, Deportivo must have singled me out," he said.
Manchester United 1-2 Leeds United: United are back
Nobody respects their old myths anymore. In West Yorkshire, nobody ever did. We just needed a team to go there and show how we felt about it on their pitch, while their captain was tantrumming on the grass, nothing wounded but his maloriented pride.