Jack Harrison is just a footballer
He's a football player and that's very different to being a football supporter and, refreshingly if you want it to be, Harrison doesn't try to blur the lines.
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Close to the sun with Patrick Bamford
It's our shared bruises from our Icarus natures that I hope, eventually, will unite Bamford and Leeds in feeling less raw and more joy, pride and super-happiness.
Sitting on the dock of the Bay window
This is what you get for buying a football club in the 2020s. Your key performance indicator is now the most rotten of metrics, social media vibes, and you owe your livelihood to Fabrizio Romano tweeting something positive.
Leeds United 0-0 Newcastle United: In the know
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.
Fotherby on Tour: Faustino Asprilla
"I'd be very happy to join Leeds if the clubs can agree on a fee," said Asprilla, and knowing the player's willingness to come Fotherby was jetting off to Italy to do the deal not for £7m, not for £4m, but a bargain at £3.5m.
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Leeds United: Think about it
Most of the 591 passes went side to side and side to side and side to side then side to side. The whole thing was a collective failure to engage brains, summed up at what's supposedly United's new superpower, set-pieces.
Arsenal 5-0 Leeds United: Learning how to lose
At least Sean Longstaff has experience of handling this sort of defeat: he's lost 4-0 and 4-1 at the Emirates for Newcastle. You can either view that as the record of a loser or assume it has instilled resilience, and that might go to the heart of the argument.
Champions League 2001: 1860 Munich vs Leeds United
The symbol of it all was Nigel Martyn, saving shots, catching crosses, and submitting himself to Leeds United's permanent pictorial history by failing to notice when his head was cut at the feet of apologetic Bernhard Winkler.
Leeds United 1-0 Everton: Still the Champions again, olé olé
These three precious points are one more gift from the 2025 Champions to themselves and the players getting ready to join in.
Tony Currie, first time: Arsenal vs Leeds United, August 1978
Tony Currie was a symbol of the post-Revie transformation of Leeds United from a clinical winning machine to something more relaxed, and much less effective. Nicer hair, taller floodlights, no more trophies. But what Don Revie had drilled into his players, they now drilled into Tony Currie.