Some players are worth their mistakes

It's a good job Luke Ayling is still here, put it that way.

Who needs a manager?

One area of responsibility that hasn't moved away from the manager's shoulders perhaps should. Footballers take to the field and either play badly or play well, score or miss, win or lose, but it's the manager who has to answer for them.

Is anybody going to check if Forest are okay?

The argument against independent regulation coming to football is that if clubs are run badly they should just go bust and be replaced by clubs that are run well. That's just a different way for football to stick its head in the sand.

Don't let them go to Everton

It was Bielsa’s Leeds, and he let us have it. It was a gift to us from a generous soul. And I, a selfish bastard, don’t want him to give anything like that gift to anybody I don’t like.

Do Leeds have enough going on to go down?

You’re unlucky to go down merely for not having a very good team. There’s usually something more, some extra element.

What, exactly, are Leeds United trying to do right now?

Clarity is one of Marsch’s favourite words, he’s always trying to get the players to see with it, think with it. I wonder if he’s been upstairs to ask if anyone there has any to offer.

Harmony vs the seaside

Imagine Marcelo Bielsa and Tony Yeboah of an evening, sitting together in Frankfurt over a beer, talking about how the Leeds fans still love them.

Please try harder

A report in The Independent listed the talented youngsters ready to come through. ‘But’, it concluded, ‘it is financial clout that is likely to determine whether George Graham stays to see them grow.’

The 49ers went one week before Leedsing all their plans

The 49ers season was going to be Trey Lance vs Jimmy Garappolo all season. Then came game two!

The 2022 49ers are fine young men backing each other up and not seething (or beating the Bears)

As the new NFL season gets underway, it's time to check in on LUFC's most tenuous sporting connection since that racing car team.