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.
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Please try harder
A report in The Independent listed the talented youngsters ready to come through. ‘But’, it concluded, ‘it is financial clout that is likely to determine whether George Graham stays to see them grow.’
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.
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?
Striking Off: Leeds United vs Chelsea, 28th April 2001
Dennis Wise told David O'Leary to calm down. David Batty found a plastic carrier bag on the pitch and threw it in Wise's face. Wise caught it and started following Batty, trying to throw it back. In keeping with the game, it was all more silly than vicious.
Golden: West Ham vs Leeds, 1st May 1999
West Ham fans, whose opinion of Harte was low enough after the first half, did not enjoy his somersault, or that he was spinning in front of a stand full of ecstatic Leeds fans, a cheerful pile of white and yellow replica shirts in the early summer sunshine.
What's Up: Arsenal vs Leeds, 21st August 2001
The fixture was a powder keg filled with fireworks wired up to a detonator in the hands of a toddler. Or Danny Mills, who pushed Ashley Cole over for no reason as he took a throw-in in the fifth minute.
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!'