Après fizz
As Red Bull's energy football goes out of style, it's leaving frantic, effervescent players like Brenden Aaronson marooned on uncertain, shifting terrain, trying to learn what RB never taught them.
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2025-26
A collection of 24 posts
Leeds United 2-1 West Ham United: A night to remember
This game almost produced one of the goals of the decade. It's just over twelve years since the last one, and just about the only chance I'll get to compare Brenden Aaronson, favourably, to Rudy Austin.
Burnley 2-0 Leeds United: Crosspatch
Not taking three points from this relegation rival means those three points will have to be taken from better teams later. So Leeds need to become an even better team, soon, if they can.
The mess Meslier is in
Illan Meslier's 9,600 minutes in the Premier League alone are 600 more minutes than Perri has played in his entire career. The simple truism comes to goalkeepers before others, about doing much too much, much too young, and Meslier has grown up in much too bright a spotlight.
Will the hottest trend win the overheated World Cup? or, long throwing in the USA
The Premier League fad might be the ideal tactic for a sweaty, exhausting, stop-start tournament of drinks breaks, storm delays and keeping the ball out of play so everyone can rest.
Leeds United 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur: Help from here to get there
It's important that Leeds United outplayed Spurs in every department of this match and marched off the pitch, chests out and heads high, flicking Vs at the referee and feeling hard done by.
It's called a long throw, and here's what it's for, so
Football finally has long throws to offer its modern, phone-watching fans, but only Leeds United are brave enough for bringing flick-ons back.
Leeds United 2-2 Bournemouth: The details
United have quickly become competitive among the Premier League's middle tier and that is making the games more interesting because they could go either way. Normally you'd offer that to the neutrals, but the novelty of arriviste status is making this fun for Leeds fans, too.
Wolves 1-3 Leeds United: Score-a-lot
Premier League life was better for Wolves before they started scoring goals. Leeds, now they've begun, should feel no need to stop.
"I want the person I'm talking to to feel my gratitude": Marcelo Bielsa goes back to Chile
Focused before the game, warm and reflective afterwards, Marcelo Bielsa brought happy memories on his long awaited return to Chile.