David Kerslake ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Leeds needed a right-back in 1993, and David Kerslake was the best in the second tier three years running, the player Ossie Ardiles had needed to replace Dave Hockaday.
How more Spygate makes Marcelo Bielsa even more right
I suspect Kim Hellberg's emotional response to feeling cheated by Tonda Eckert is the same reaction many coaches have felt, over the years, but when seeing their best ideas reduced to dust by the sheer weight of work Bielsa puts up against them.
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Leeds United 1-0 Brighton: Raise the roof
This match mattered for the visitors, who helped haul it back towards being an occasion. The game became a determined and in the end hilarious contest, Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club will qualify for the Champions League versus No They Won't.
How more Spygate makes Marcelo Bielsa even more right
I suspect Kim Hellberg's emotional response to feeling cheated by Tonda Eckert is the same reaction many coaches have felt, over the years, but when seeing their best ideas reduced to dust by the sheer weight of work Bielsa puts up against them.
Tottenham 1-1 Leeds United: Worth doing well
Leeds United played like a team used to hitting a certain standard, regulated by Ethan Ampadu's determination to stop every Tottenham player and help every Leeds player.
David Hopkin ⭑ From A-Z since '92
History was heavy on David Hopkin. When George Graham made him captain, he was following Collins, Bremner, Strachan and McAllister. The two trophy-winners among them were also notoriously flame-haired, which perhaps inspired Hopkin's decision to stand apart by bleaching his hair white.
Champions League 2001: Valencia vs Leeds United
David O'Leary was preparing, at 5pm the day before the game, when he took a call in his hotel room from a representative of Uefa's disciplinary committee. They told him that, using video evidence, Lee Bowyer had been found guilty of 'gross unsporting conduct'.
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.
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.