Leeds United 3-3 Portsmouth: Under the overwhelm
Daniel Farke says winning 22-0 "never happens", but Leeds look better when they believe it's worth a try.
Daniel Farke says winning 22-0 "never happens", but Leeds look better when they believe it's worth a try.
Leeds United have a lot of things to put right at the top level. Not just so that the club can have a successful future, but so it can make peace with its past.
Massimo Cellino arrived in a blaze of guitar solos and late nights, with Adryan as the most promising of his sidekicks, and if his ownership of Leeds wasn't going to be healthy the least it could have been was fun.
What makes Rutter a brilliant player is the speed with which his body expresses his intelligence. To watch a player processing and executing this way is like watching someone inventing a calculator.
Football clubs can write whatever they want into players' contracts, but they still end up dealing with a big group of twenty-something manifest destinies with Instagram accounts.
This was Bielsa's point about Champions League quality. Any team, at any level, would trust Forshaw to play with them.
Now it is summer and the sun is shining, but Leeds look great, and won't go wrong if they turn that into being great.
Gary McAllister is gliding. The tacklers are in his wake.
Clayton loved a strike. One that he placed in Leicester City's top corner from 25 yards won Leeds' goal of the season and really, really pissed Kasper Schmeichel off.
Our team does not yet look like the team that will canter to the EFL Championship title this coming season, but at Harrogate on Friday it looked different to the one that cantered into a brick wall at the end of their last campaign.