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.
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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.
Cardiff City 0-2 Leeds United: Hoover, damn
Assuming Farke's messages about selling vacuums are getting through to the players, the next step is still about the time it takes for them to learn, act, and achieve.
The inflection point
The single-minded objective is to get promoted. That sounds good. But that single-mindedness increases the pressure, turning this season into an inflection point, or as we used to call it, shit or bust.
Liam Cooper ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Fate might not always give our captains everything they deserve, but the good ones aren't playing for fate. They're playing for us.
Leeds United 0-1 Burnley: Good in a bad way
I don't think it's true that nothing has changed since last season, but it is true that it isn't working yet.
Is football enough fun to last?
Despite Angus Kinnear's assurances that everything is fine, he couldn't offer any optimism as a result, because football doesn't work that way anymore.
Alan Smith ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Alan Smith did play for twenty seasons, but only six were for his hometown club, and like so much of the Ridsdale and O'Leary years, he left more questions than answers about what might have been made of everything Leeds, and Smith, had going for them.
Summer's end in San Francisco and Leeds
Let's catch up with our favourite pigskin guys as they get hitting those pucks for some big homers this fall.
Football is from the players
I would have welcomed Sol Bamba as the chairman of Leeds United, and not just because he was a lovely guy with a solid baseline of decency. But because he was a player, a footballer.