"Yet nothing changes, does it?" — Leeds, 1990 & The British Art Show
"So it's hello to 1990, and a merry wind to the tragic and traumatised 80s," the Evening Post wrote. "Yet nothing changes, does it?"
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Leeds United on Deadline Day: The Excitement is The Dream
The official account was telling fans: 'Don't go to bed just yet...there is still work to be done', there was reason to believe something was going on behind the scenes, even before the same account retweeted captain Jason Pearce announcing, “Oooooo this is decent…..”
Leeds United 1-0 Bolton Wanderers: Responsibility & Results
It’s almost as if employing an under-qualified coach that nobody believed in created an atmosphere of despondency and a fear, quickly confirmed, that the team would be dragged down to the coach’s level. Funny that.
Seventy Days of Leeds United
One thing Hockday has done at Elland Road is concentrate all our attention on him and on the football, and to be fair to Dave, dimming Cellino’s limelight for a while was no mean feat. It’s just a shame that what he lit up instead was such a godawful mess.
Bradford City 2-1 Leeds United: Impact Football
Absence football, because I’m trying to think of what might be the opposite of total football. I’m still working on the terminology.
Leeds United 1-0 Middlesbrough: Practical Heroics
I wonder how many children, distraught about missing the Kop Cat on Saturday, had their tears dried by a gleaming new ‘Billy Sharp 8’ shirt on their way home from the game. Us grown ups, remembering Vinnie Jones, will settle for copying his haircut and cheering more goals like Saturday’s.
Sheffield Wednesday 6-0 Leeds United: Shaking the Throne
Well, you know the result by now. And you know too that for the second time in a week Brian McDermott had to fess up to his worst moment in football.
Leeds United 2-1 Middlesbrough: Big Game Players
The lovely atmosphere of Elland Road in autumn, when a game starts in sunlight, is played beneath brass skies, and ends floodlit but not too cold.
Leeds 0 - 1 QPR: Inches
The equation was in almost perfect balance - Rudy Austin’s right foot + football + physics + gravity = goal. But one element was fractionally wrong. We’ll never know which.
No Bull
When Red Bull link up with a football club, they don’t just settle for a name on a shirt or a token stadium name change that all the fans ignore anyway. They engulf everything about a club and its history that isn’t Red Bull branded and they destroy it. That isn’t hyperbole.