New trend: smacking a bouncing ball
When it bounced Raheem Sterling must have thought, I could just smash this now. So he did. Pow and bang, into the net. A goal for Chelsea. Terrible, I hated this.
When it bounced Raheem Sterling must have thought, I could just smash this now. So he did. Pow and bang, into the net. A goal for Chelsea. Terrible, I hated this.
The steely readiness of a coach who only got his work permit that morning and hasn't had time to complete his latest course of dental work before upping sticks to Beeston was a good sign.
It's a good job Luke Ayling is still here, put it that way.
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.
If he's good enough for Pikachu, then he's good enough for me. And if we're not enough, ask Mike Whitlow.
"It's my fault," said Jones, when he was asked why Pablo Hernandez had wanted to tear his head off his neck.
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.
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.
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.
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.