Georginio Rutter and the peak of the Brighton model
Things may not actually be that bad. But they're bad enough to have me thinking about Peter Ridsdale, Professor McKenzie, Ken Bates and the parallels. So that is bad enough.
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2024-25
A collection of 80 posts
Leeds United 0-3 Middlesbrough: Invitation to Limbo
Right now Elland Road is an invitation to limbo, and not the cool fun kind where you dance under a pole; the rubbish kind, where you go to a game but nothing that you see is actually what is going on.
Leeds United 3-3 Portsmouth: Under the overwhelm
Daniel Farke says winning 22-0 "never happens", but Leeds look better when they believe it's worth a try.
Cry-laughing through history with Leeds United AFC
Leeds United have a lot of things to put right at the top level. Not just so that the club can have a successful future, but so it can make peace with its past.
Leeds United 2-1 Valencia: Do what you want
What makes Rutter a brilliant player is the speed with which his body expresses his intelligence. To watch a player processing and executing this way is like watching someone inventing a calculator.
Crysencio Summerville is on his own path
Football clubs can write whatever they want into players' contracts, but they still end up dealing with a big group of twenty-something manifest destinies with Instagram accounts.
Yellow car in Germany: Leeds 19 vs Hannover 96 & Schalke 04
Now it is summer and the sun is shining, but Leeds look great, and won't go wrong if they turn that into being great.
Harrogate Town 0-3 Leeds United: Give me a J
Our team does not yet look like the team that will canter to the EFL Championship title this coming season, but at Harrogate on Friday it looked different to the one that cantered into a brick wall at the end of their last campaign.
Uruguay, Canada, coping and the Copa: football and a four hour dirge
"The head coaches have power, the owners of the clubs have power, the media have power and the fans have power. But they don't use it."
Eight years later, Sam Byram is the future again
The old guard are supposed to hand down to the people who came after them, but next season is a stage for younger lads with longer stories.