Leeds United 4-1 Newcastle: New metrical dimensions
The numbers are against Newcastle, but the rhythms and rhymes are with Leeds. Four goals, four ways, and even what's familiar was unpredictable.
The numbers are against Newcastle, but the rhythms and rhymes are with Leeds. Four goals, four ways, and even what's familiar was unpredictable.
And here came Baird. His speed was top, the ball was slow, his leap was high. Baird needed gymnastics up there, throwing his head upwards as the ball came down, tilting his heels up behind him to keep his body suspended, neck muscles needed next to send his whole skeleton sideways.
Sometimes you just have to give up a game up to the fates. But then you remember the fates have Harvey bloody Barnes playing for them.
The two games at Elland Road this season have been invitations to make and feel the difference in the place where it matters, where at its best it can be felt far beyond Beeston.
From Leeds, it’s easier to take the result than enjoy the game, but why not allow yourself to do the difficult thing this time?