Some football, before it's all forgotten
Fans will always be reassessing and reshuffling their chosen memories for as long as there is more football, and I guess more podcasts. In the meantime, Joel Piroe scored a great header.
Fans will always be reassessing and reshuffling their chosen memories for as long as there is more football, and I guess more podcasts. In the meantime, Joel Piroe scored a great header.
No Leeds fan wants Illan Meslier to do... do that again. But every game is a kind of waiting to see if someone does.
Performance: actually good. Vibes: manic. A point: it'll do. To look at Joe Rodon was to think, heck, let's just get out of here.
This is how it's done, just winning to nil over and over. It's something Leeds fans have wanted for a long time.
A lot has to be right about your team for winning 2-0 to feel like a letdown. Like it or not, fairly or not, 2024/25 is demanding more of Leeds United.
Assuming Farke's messages about selling vacuums are getting through to the players, the next step is still about the time it takes for them to learn, act, and achieve.
The single-minded objective is to get promoted. That sounds good. But that single-mindedness increases the pressure, turning this season into an inflection point, or as we used to call it, shit or bust.
I don't think it's true that nothing has changed since last season, but it is true that it isn't working yet.
Despite Angus Kinnear's assurances that everything is fine, he couldn't offer any optimism as a result, because football doesn't work that way anymore.
Let's catch up with our favourite pigskin guys as they get hitting those pucks for some big homers this fall.