Leeds United 1-5 Crystal Palace: Please stop
It was 3-1 before Gracia could get any substitutes on, and his instructions never seemed to evolve beyond, lads, whatever you’re doing, please stop.
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Jackie Harrison, unsellable workhorse of the wing
Perhaps his style is just fated to go under the radar with fans who want excitement, goals, dancing celebrations. Jackie Harrison, under most circumstances when Leeds score, tends to just look relieved.
Leeds United 2-1 Nottingham Forest: Just right
This game, as Leeds asserted themselves as they should, was like a steady sesh on serotonin, a football match like a pub garden one spring lunchtime when it feels like things are going right for a while.
Arsenal 4-1 Leeds United: Shrugging
A few hours of distraction for the fans, some exercise for the players, Saturday afternoon ended and Saturday evening began.
Collaborating with the Premier League
No collaboration I’ve ever heard of began with one of the collaborators going away and staying away, yet here Chelsea are, convincing Graham to agree to collaborate with them on ending their collaboration.
Victor Orta can't get no
It's a weird game like this, football, because it's not about chasing high after high. Instead it's like being addicted to something that hardly ever satisfies you.
The lower the stakes, the better the vibes
Harry Kane took a scoring record off of Wayne Rooney this week, which was like watching a semolina pudding smother a potato.
Wolves 2-4 Leeds United: Good time for a good time
Leeds United and Wolves are becoming one of those historic battle reenactment societies, getting together once a year to dress up and go crazy on the memories of the good old bad old days. Which is, 135 years after the Football League was founded, basically what football is now anyway.
Javi Gracia in the maelstrom
Gracia wouldn't give anything away about how Leeds will play at Wolves this weekend, other than he'll be trying to get Leeds doing something that will work. Can't ask for much more than that, right now.
Leeds United 2-2 Brighton: The initiative
A year since they sacked Bielsa to 'accelerate the coaching transition', Leeds can no longer be protagonists in their own stadium against Brighton, who used their head coach's walkout in September to make their team even better.