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.

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.

Elland Road in Andrea Radrizzani's post-enthusiasm era

Whatever shiny plans Radrizzani and his cohort had for the West Stand will be rolled up and filed, now, and without that to look forward to, what fun is refurbishing a few kiosks in some part of the stadium where you never set foot?

New trend: smacking a bouncing ball

When it bounced Raheem Sterling must have thought, I could just smash this now. So he did. Pow and bang, into the net. A goal for Chelsea. Terrible, I hated this.

Chelsea 1-0 Leeds United: The fix

It might make for some grim football, but Leeds look grimly determined to stay in games, less willing to throw them away. And yet, they do.

Fulham 2-0 Leeds United: Unfinished

The logic is that variety is the spice of life, and what would be the point of an array of identical strikers? But Leeds would be really blessed if all their forward options had one thing in common: they could score lots of goals.