"I want the person I'm talking to to feel my gratitude": Marcelo Bielsa goes back to Chile
Focused before the game, warm and reflective afterwards, Marcelo Bielsa brought happy memories on his long awaited return to Chile.
Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
Fulham 1-0 Leeds United: Slow boat versus showboat
Players like Kevin come at a cost: of money, soul, time and boredom. The good news is, it can be done. That's not necessarily good news.
Champions League 2001: Barcelona vs Leeds United
Step one is Alan Smith kicking Rivaldo. Step two is Olivier Dacourt kicking Rivaldo. Step three is Rivaldo is orchestrating a move, swerving around Duberry and shooting past Martyn. The game isn't ten minutes old.
Marcelo Bielsa speaking in Uruguay: enthusiasm, running, and everything else
Before his Uruguay team took on Peru, Marcelo Bielsa went deep on what's important, what's important to analyse, and how one crack player can solve it all.
Jack Harrison is just a footballer
He's a football player and that's very different to being a football supporter and, refreshingly if you want it to be, Harrison doesn't try to blur the lines.
Close to the sun with Patrick Bamford
It's our shared bruises from our Icarus natures that I hope, eventually, will unite Bamford and Leeds in feeling less raw and more joy, pride and super-happiness.
Sitting on the dock of the Bay window
This is what you get for buying a football club in the 2020s. Your key performance indicator is now the most rotten of metrics, social media vibes, and you owe your livelihood to Fabrizio Romano tweeting something positive.
Leeds United 0-0 Newcastle United: In the know
The two games at Elland Road this season have been invitations to make and feel the difference in the place where it matters, where at its best it can be felt far beyond Beeston.
Fotherby on Tour: Faustino Asprilla
"I'd be very happy to join Leeds if the clubs can agree on a fee," said Asprilla, and knowing the player's willingness to come Fotherby was jetting off to Italy to do the deal not for £7m, not for £4m, but a bargain at £3.5m.
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Leeds United: Think about it
Most of the 591 passes went side to side and side to side and side to side then side to side. The whole thing was a collective failure to engage brains, summed up at what's supposedly United's new superpower, set-pieces.