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.
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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.
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From just after the league title win, to just before we began to live the dream, David Wetherall was synonymous with two things: Leeds United, and chemistry.
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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.
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Trying to kickstart their title defence in 1993, Leeds joined Eurosport, Inter and Fiorentina for some experimental satellite soccer.
Leeds United 1-2 Charlton & Birmingham
Because it doesn’t really seem to matter anyway.
Positive Action Movement: When Ken Bates took over his homeland in 1968, Noel Lloyd led the fight to take it back
'A lady came up by the name of Louella Harrigan and she said, "Regardless, we got to take back our country from Kenneth Bates, and whatever we’re going to do we’re going to march this morning, and we are going to take our country back! This lease must be revoked, and Kenneth Bates must go!”’
About Mike Grella, Carl Shutt, and the Cult of Soccer Dog
Hollywood has produced so many underdog sports movies that the template is familiar worldwide, and we all knew the script Mike Grella was supposed to follow.