Facing things down
Staying up, after this season and last, doesn't feel like something to celebrate. And yet, if Leeds somehow pull this off, will anyone inside Elland Road be able to resist? 'Don't you know, pump it up! The Whites are...'
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The less we see, the more we say
Three minutes of highlights in return for 24/7 access to direct messaging feels, at this point, like a stupid exchange. It makes footballers feel less like players, more like online vessels for receiving anger about other things.
Marcelo Bielsa on Argentina, the World Cup & love
Perhaps you were also wondering how Marcelo Bielsa felt when Argentina won the World Cup — Pablo Lamedica from TyC Sports in Argentina was, and asked him about it. And perhaps you will see how the answer relates to recent strife at Leeds United AFC.
Is Sam Allardyce just Jesse Marsch with a different accent?
Part of me would love to get Jesse Marsch and Sam Allardyce round a table over a few pints of wine so I could hear them trading mindfulness techniques and motivational quotes
Big Sam's Leeds United
Maybe we'll just go with what everyone wants: dugout cam. Forget the camera following the action, just focus one on each manager, split the screen, and we can spend ninety minutes wondering: can he do it?
A month in the old school with Sam Allardyce
The story of an upwardly mobile exemplar of innovation disintegrating into a bitter caricature of the very aspects his haters used to mock, as a result of his own egotism and hubris, makes Sam Allardyce the obvious candidate to be Leeds United manager through the month of May 2023.
Victor Orta, and the search for an idea
After promotion, Leeds United became a club caught waiting for someone to decide its direction, unable to get beyond the next crisis. And out in front was Victor Orta.
What went wrong for Javi Gracia?
Javi Gracia says football is not about miracles, but miracles still have a better rep in some boardrooms than science, because so many are attempted each season that a few will come off and make the idea, of miracles, stay tempting.
Proposal: Leeds United players should be nice to children
If focusing on the game is the excuse, then next time I suggest we get a full children’s choir down there and force the squad to join them in a rendition of Ilkley Moor Baht’at, because focusing on the game isn’t doing them any damn good.
Picturing promotion, Paul Heckingbottom's way
There is more than one way to get promotion from the Championship — there has to be, because there is only one Bielsa.