Some players are worth their mistakes
It's a good job Luke Ayling is still here, put it that way.
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Who needs a manager?
One area of responsibility that hasn't moved away from the manager's shoulders perhaps should. Footballers take to the field and either play badly or play well, score or miss, win or lose, but it's the manager who has to answer for them.
Michael Skubala is taking on the big pitch
If he's good enough for Pikachu, then he's good enough for me. And if we're not enough, ask Mike Whitlow.
At least Nathan Jones is also having a bad time
"It's my fault," said Jones, when he was asked why Pablo Hernandez had wanted to tear his head off his neck.
Before, during, after
Now we've seen Leeds United as owned by Andrea Radrizzani both before and after Bielsa was in charge. And we've seen that Bielsa's reign was the only time Leeds United was good.
Is anybody going to check if Forest are okay?
The argument against independent regulation coming to football is that if clubs are run badly they should just go bust and be replaced by clubs that are run well. That's just a different way for football to stick its head in the sand.
How much more can Leeds ask of Jackie Harrison?
Somehow the player who turns up every week fit and strong, runs his arse off in training and never stops working in the games, becomes a player people think is expendable. But hell, we would miss him if he was gone.
Don't let them go to Everton
It was Bielsa’s Leeds, and he let us have it. It was a gift to us from a generous soul. And I, a selfish bastard, don’t want him to give anything like that gift to anybody I don’t like.
Marsch & Armas in-flight
Marsch and Armas can sound off-key because they use a corporate nowhere voice that has no home, no nostalgic warmth, no tangible authenticity beyond an approved list of motivational phrases and quotes.
Do Leeds have enough going on to go down?
You’re unlucky to go down merely for not having a very good team. There’s usually something more, some extra element.