Adam Clayton ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Clayton loved a strike. One that he placed in Leicester City's top corner from 25 yards won Leeds' goal of the season and really, really pissed Kasper Schmeichel off.
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Anatomy of a super-team: behind the scenes at Leeds United in 1971 (part two)
In 1971 Leeds United was not 'happily reconciled', but a club with its greatest triumphs still ahead that was already, perhaps imperceptibly, coming apart.
Anatomy of a super-team: behind the scenes at Leeds United in 1971 (part one)
Here's a look behind the scenes at Elland Road close to the peak of United's greatest era, with a different focus to most looks at Leeds.
Aaron Lennon ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Smith, Milner, Lennon. Twenty-three, seventeen, sixteen. Rothwell, Horsforth, Chapeltown. 2004 wasn't only a battle against relegation, and liquidation, but to save the future that the club's youth prospects still teased was possible.
Aapo Halme ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Welcome to the start of a project that will take approximately (checks calculations), oh, only eight years, to write about every (*most) Leeds player since 1992. And it all begins with Aapo Halme.
Terry Venables at Leeds
What we should have done then, Leeds fans and Terry Venables, was go out somewhere together (one of Terry’s nightclubs) and get hideously drunk together (so he could pick up the bill).
A brief history of wanting away
Gnonto's actions are disrespectful to the shirt, the badge, the city; at Harewood House, the peacocks in the woods there weep. There is something to all that. But Leeds United's history also says that, historically, we can get over it.
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.
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.