Transfer chills are multiplying
Leeds United, in the end, kept a grip on their own transfer window sanity. But what of the nine-figure no-brained Premier League around them?
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And Leeds have every right to go mad
Leeds United Football Club is being talked about as a home of sound common sense. But this is still football, where common sense is still very relative.
14th again, but better
Back in May, we wondered what Daniel Farke's ambitious talk was all about. Now we know, and his new project begins in the same place: 14th, but better.
Some friendly
I didn't do this game. But it's a chance to take a look and take stock of the club behind the show.
James Trafford at 23, the reverse skidoo
A record fee for a 23-year-old to play in goal is a flip of history at Elland Road. Why is James Trafford not Allan Clarke? Is it because Harry Gray, we hope?
Ken Bates, and the anatomy of a nobody
Whether it was about money or not, it certainly wasn't about football. The money was our money, subsidising the platforms Ken Bates' megaphone wouldn't reach unless he had the legitimacy of a football club to make people pay attention.
New norms, and never calling it Fifa while we still can
Fifa didn't have the authority to extend half-time to 27 minutes but it did. And the people got to see Coldplay telling them to sign up to an email list to save the planet: you do want to save the planet, don't you? Well, that's Fifa.
Rhythm and radio: World Cup (in mid-sensation)
Where once I suspect rock 'n' soccer could sync, were oppositional rhythms: a band with a beat, a game with none at all.
We're about to have the best time with Harry Wilson
Harry Wilson's skills should have put him in someone's pantheon by now. Someone more interesting than Fulham. There's nothing else for him to do, at Leeds, but to make it here.
Shoulder to shoulder: World Cup week (think of a number)
From Ao Tanaka labouring morning to night to Gabriel Gudmundsson shouting out the wife: it's not a normal World Cup, so it's made for Erling Haaland.