Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Leeds United: Steel
We've been preoccupied with sexy this season. And a point in Sheffield ain't that.
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Bielsa era
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Leeds United 0-2 Hull City: True Faith 2019
Once I would have been yearning for the final whistle so I could quit morose observance of such a drab winter's scoreline, leaving the Hull fans in the away end curling their hands in the air like children, opening and closing their gobs like fish, singing about cats like fucking idiots.
West Bromwich Albion 4-1 Leeds United: Like There's No Tomorrow
Bielsa doesn't bring happiness. Bielsa brings principles and duty, and faith that the effort of adhering to them will result in happiness in the end, and the understanding that it probably won't.
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Leeds United: Entertainment!
While Reach's speculative strike had the satisfying audacity of a stunt, Klich made something artful, deliberate and beautiful. It's the difference between watching two magpies have a fight in your garden, or watching a nature documentary narrated by David Attenborough.
Leeds United 0-0 Middlesbrough: Faith & Knowledge
The lingering impression from seeing Bielsa take on Pulis was not that one style of football works better than another; neither is going to suddenly change their minds now, anyway.
Derby County 1-4 Leeds United: Two Games
Frank Lampard has perfected the in-game suit, the respectful soundbite, and the pensive touchline stance; as Bielsa beamed kindly at him at full-time, like a vet about to do what's best for Lampard's favourite pet, Frank looked shocked.
Leeds United 3-1 Stoke City: Ascension
United's triple-action coaching, three t-shirted tenors taking cues from their conductor and delivering an opera of instructions to all parts of the pitch, was augmented by a claque of coaches strung across the front of the East Stand, so that the word of God was heard all across the field.
Shooting The Moon
Marcelo Bielsa's Newell's looked closer to Howard Wilkinson's Leeds than to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City: a team hard working individuals who, by dedicating themselves to each other and to a tactical plan, achieved much more than they ever could apart.
Announce The Answer
Leeds have appointed the best coaches in the sport before, but they've tended to either walk out after 44 days, or be Terry Venables.
Major Bielsa
Major Frank Buckley might not have been the right man to win promotion in 1948, but hiring him had been the right thing to do. Bold, adventurous, frustrating and fun; we should be happy and entertained if Major Marcelo Bielsa comes to Elland Road and fails the same way.