Bradford City 2-1 Leeds United: Impact Football
Absence football, because I’m trying to think of what might be the opposite of total football. I’m still working on the terminology.
Absence football, because I’m trying to think of what might be the opposite of total football. I’m still working on the terminology.
I wonder how many children, distraught about missing the Kop Cat on Saturday, had their tears dried by a gleaming new ‘Billy Sharp 8’ shirt on their way home from the game. Us grown ups, remembering Vinnie Jones, will settle for copying his haircut and cheering more goals like Saturday’s.
Well, you know the result by now. And you know too that for the second time in a week Brian McDermott had to fess up to his worst moment in football.
The lovely atmosphere of Elland Road in autumn, when a game starts in sunlight, is played beneath brass skies, and ends floodlit but not too cold.
The equation was in almost perfect balance - Rudy Austin’s right foot + football + physics + gravity = goal. But one element was fractionally wrong. We’ll never know which.