Happiness is a warm goalkeeper
Two players stood out among many at the end of United's draw with Liverpool. One for his high profile misery, and one for his surprising, reassuring joy.
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2025-26
A collection of 43 posts
Leeds United 3-3 Liverpool: Making a point
Celebrating the draws like wins is the way you get, one day, to celebrate the wins like wins. And to celebrate the draws, you have to win them. If Leeds United's players understand that, and it looks like they do, they have a great chance of staying up this season.
Leeds United 3-1 Chelsea: Earning the right to stop the future
Elland Road is still capable of neutralising the future. The game Howard Wilkinson grew up in still has to be played, first and foremost: players have to earn the right to play.
Manchester City 3-2 Leeds United: Can't do right
Last Thursday, after a long question about whether he and the board were 'still on the same page', Farke simply answered, 'yes'. Even after getting more right at the weekend than anyone predicted, he might have to hope nobody asks him again this week.
What's holding up Leeds United's planning application to expand Elland Road?
Highways issues — getting more people to and from a bigger stadium — were always going to be the most difficult part of a redevelopment that every key stakeholder seems in favour of. And highways issues seem to be the biggest problem there has been with Leeds United's planning application.
"I would like to live the complete opposite of what I live": Marcelo Bielsa loses 5-1
After a reporter told him watching Uruguay's defeat in the USA was like 'tearing his eyes out', Marcelo Bielsa called the press together to analyse, well, everything.
Leeds United 1-2 Aston Villa: Always something new to sell
Football's trying very hard to trade excitement away for the predictable routine of a bizarrely furious careers fair but I'm still clinging, to Struijk heading and Martinez saving, for one random thrill.
Nottingham Forest 3-1 Leeds United: Noise and hunches
The next month at Leeds pits the strength of strategy against the might of the fixture list. When the aim is 16th and the team is 16th, does a club back itself, or not?
Brighton 3-0 Leeds United: A hard time for urgency
Farke said, "We don’t have to over-analyse the game," and I hope he was lying ahead of a week spent over-analysing, over-thinking and overall tearing up plans, finding a solution for a better Leeds team.
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.