Leeds United 3-1 Chelsea: Earning the right to stop the future
Elland Road is still capable of neutralising the future. The game Howard Wilkinson grew up in still has to be played, first and foremost: players have to earn the right to play.
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Manchester City 3-2 Leeds United: Can't do right
Last Thursday, after a long question about whether he and the board were 'still on the same page', Farke simply answered, 'yes'. Even after getting more right at the weekend than anyone predicted, he might have to hope nobody asks him again this week.
Leeds United 1-2 Aston Villa: Always something new to sell
Football's trying very hard to trade excitement away for the predictable routine of a bizarrely furious careers fair but I'm still clinging, to Struijk heading and Martinez saving, for one random thrill.
Nottingham Forest 3-1 Leeds United: Noise and hunches
The next month at Leeds pits the strength of strategy against the might of the fixture list. When the aim is 16th and the team is 16th, does a club back itself, or not?
Brighton 3-0 Leeds United: A hard time for urgency
Farke said, "We don’t have to over-analyse the game," and I hope he was lying ahead of a week spent over-analysing, over-thinking and overall tearing up plans, finding a solution for a better Leeds team.
Leeds United 2-1 West Ham United: A night to remember
This game almost produced one of the goals of the decade. It's just over twelve years since the last one, and just about the only chance I'll get to compare Brenden Aaronson, favourably, to Rudy Austin.
Burnley 2-0 Leeds United: Crosspatch
Not taking three points from this relegation rival means those three points will have to be taken from better teams later. So Leeds need to become an even better team, soon, if they can.
Leeds United 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur: Help from here to get there
It's important that Leeds United outplayed Spurs in every department of this match and marched off the pitch, chests out and heads high, flicking Vs at the referee and feeling hard done by.
Leeds United 2-2 Bournemouth: The details
United have quickly become competitive among the Premier League's middle tier and that is making the games more interesting because they could go either way. Normally you'd offer that to the neutrals, but the novelty of arriviste status is making this fun for Leeds fans, too.
Wolves 1-3 Leeds United: Score-a-lot
Premier League life was better for Wolves before they started scoring goals. Leeds, now they've begun, should feel no need to stop.