Neil Kilkenny yelling at Ken Bates
This was something else Bates hadn't counted on. Neil Kilkenny often got mixed reviews from Leeds supporters, but a bond had grown between the fans and the players who rescued the club from League One.
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The Golden Vision, something better you can do
Birth, marriage, sex, work, death, religion and salvation in the hereafter. Football has beaten down and replaced them all. But when this film interweaves interviews with Everton's actual players, such consuming football passion turns ominous.
Goals, Gulls, Urinals: Harte & Ribeiro Go Mad by The Swedish Sea
Four Bruno Ribeiro free-kicks and four Ian Harte headers. And four goals!
The Best Left-Back in the World
Leeds fans believed they had the best team, but in most areas of the pitch they'd concede individual supremacy was up for debate. Bobby Moore was a worthy rival to Norman Hunter. Pele might, they'd grudgingly admit, improve the side. But who was close to being a better left-back than Cooper?
If It Feels Right: West Brom vs Leeds, 24th August 2002
'Bowyer for England!' the Leeds fans chanted. Then, to the same tune, 'Sign your contract!' Finally, even louder, 'Sign your contract for the lads!'
Rupture: Leeds United vs Arsenal, 21st November 1992
It was one of those Elland Road afternoons when the intensity of the crowd is matched by the intent of the players. Leeds were showing they wouldn't sit back against the team coming for their title.
Derby County 1-3 Leeds United: Sixteen Tons
⭑ This might be the stupidest thing I've ever set out to write ⭑ There are 15,600 words ahead ⭑ But I felt like this had to exist ⭑ If you're still high off the title, don't let this disrupt your buzz
The Rod Wallace goal: Leeds vs Spurs, April '94
In the build up to the game Howard Wilkinson was eating at Flying Pizza, when a woman at a nearby table slumped, as the Daily Mirror put it, 'lifeless to the floor.'
John Giles is not impressed: Liverpool vs Southampton, March 1990
An important win for Liverpool, maybe, but Johnny Giles didn't say what he was thinking: that they'd have never been happy with that at Leeds.
McPhail on your side: FA Youth Cup final, May '97
The team you play in is the players you play with, and who better on your side than Stephen McPhail.