Alex Bruce ⭑ From A-Z since '92
The indignity is not necessarily his heritage or his puking, but that Leeds could just as easily signed any of a hundred other players who didn't look like Steve Bruce who would have been exactly the same.
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A good cigar
A lot of this is just wanting to cut and paste favourite players into highlights of history. Like Mateusz Klich who, ideally, would like to cut and paste United's 2020 promotion into another era altogether.
Some football, before it's all forgotten
Fans will always be reassessing and reshuffling their chosen memories for as long as there is more football, and I guess more podcasts. In the meantime, Joel Piroe scored a great header.
Alan Thompson ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Alan Thompson looked like everything when Leeds United were desperately trying to avoid relegation to League One in 2007. What he looked like, in essence, was a new Gordon Strachan.
Sunderland 2-2 Leeds United: Wait for it...
No Leeds fan wants Illan Meslier to do... do that again. But every game is a kind of waiting to see if someone does.
Up at the end of the eighties: three trips to Roker Park
Howard Wilkinson was never afraid that his way might be wrong — you could only do what you believed in and take your result. But if the result was that he was right, well, he absolutely loved that.
Norwich City 1-1 Leeds United: Caution to the wind
Performance: actually good. Vibes: manic. A point: it'll do. To look at Joe Rodon was to think, heck, let's just get out of here.
Leeds United 3-0 Coventry City: Getting interesting
This is how it's done, just winning to nil over and over. It's something Leeds fans have wanted for a long time.
What is Daniel Farke up against this season?
A lot has to be right about your team for winning 2-0 to feel like a letdown. Like it or not, fairly or not, 2024/25 is demanding more of Leeds United.
Alan Tate ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Outside Swansea, I doubt Alan Tate ever made anyone happier than he made Neil Warnock when he joined Leeds United.