Two ways to win
We're lucky, as football supporters, that we have two ways to win: the goal, or the tackle that stops the goal, are equally valuable to our weekend.
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Essays
A collection of 204 posts
Breaking the football dynamic, that is broken
Regulations have created a bizarre situation where football clubs are very cheap for owners to run but very expensive for fans to follow. Which is how execs end up 'thinking about' AI-driven dynamic ticket pricing.
Shambling back to football
Of course it was Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds that took on Pep Guardiola's Sham City and drew and won. And of course it was Bielsa who proposed wage cuts to mend football. And of course it was also Bielsa who took a Leeds team to City's ground in December 2021 that lost 7-0. Replay?
Raphinha was not a dream
Leeds were paying his wages and helping him achieve his goals. And Raphinha's respect for that was worth more than his love.
Zooming in, Bahoya and Bogle and Calvert-Lewin
Now the goal has been given back to Calvert-Lewin, let's get back to the simple brilliance of it: what a cross, what a leap, what a header, what a goal. Don't zoom in. You won't see anything better.
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?
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?