Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Leeds United: Individual Building
This season paring down to an individual face-off - Cellino vs Redfearn - which is not something that should happen at Billy Bremner’s club.
This season paring down to an individual face-off - Cellino vs Redfearn - which is not something that should happen at Billy Bremner’s club.
What shirt will Byram, Mowatt, Taylor or Cook be wearing next time they score at Elland Road?
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…..”
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.
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.
Absence football, because I’m trying to think of what might be the opposite of total football. I’m still working on the terminology.
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.