The 2022 49ers are fine young men backing each other up and not seething (or beating the Bears)

As the new NFL season gets underway, it's time to check in on LUFC's most tenuous sporting connection since that racing car team.

Colouring outside the lines

This is the tension of Leeds and Radrizzani. We don’t want our club to conform to the corporate machine of the Premier League, and while it is subject to the whims of its owner, it won’t. But will Leeds United ever prosper if it keeps eschewing commercial sense to indulge the owner’s whims?

Brentford 5-2 Leeds United: Mind the gap

The idiotic waste of energy, with the net result of weakening an area of the squad that was strong, condemns the board more than any accusations of poverty. They've got money. What's lacking is sense.

Howling in Eindhoven

What we've learned this year, in February and September, is that Leeds' board talk a good game about being committed to their carefully composed strategies, then crack. That is not a good look.

Leeds United 1-1 Everton: Autumn leaves

Imagine the clammy cold creeping across Kinnear's loins as Rodrigo went staggering off in the first half, sobbing and huffing oxygen to dull the searing pain in his shoulder.

Brighton 1-0 Leeds United: Worst coast

United's whole day was summed up when Struijk watched his clearance rolling towards his corner flag, and the camera caught his eyeroll when the ball clipped the pole and fell corner side, not throw-in. Typical.

Leeds United 3-1 Barnsley: Right Klich

Watching Klich here took me back, feeling circular, to the first time he grabbed our attention, a great game and a penalty in a shoot-out against Burnley in the Carabao Cup in 2017, followed a week later by a mistake costing a goal on his first league start against Neil Warnock's Cardiff.

Leeds United 3-0 Chelsea: Brenden Aaronson's joy of grass

Brenden Aaronson just loves grass. Green grass. Yellow grass. Part-synthetic grass. All the grass, he loves all the grass, loves running in it, rolling in it, being on it, dancing across it, eating it up metaphorically with his running feet and perhaps literally with his hungry mouth.

Southampton 2-2 Leeds United: Wave machine

This was like Rondo Wars, and blessed relief when someone took the simple way out of booting the ball into the distance so we could see it done against the fresher background of a different part of the pitch.

The Peacocks of the sea

The benefits of sea creatures might not be immediately apparent but it is important for football clubs to take a long term view about moving on from so-called 'legacy fans'