Bristol City 0-0 Leeds United: Scruff and numbers
That stats for Joel Piroe and Nahki Wells backed up what the eyes saw, the red team being dominated out of attacking, the yellow team playing itself out.
That stats for Joel Piroe and Nahki Wells backed up what the eyes saw, the red team being dominated out of attacking, the yellow team playing itself out.
The team playing at Rangers were the champions, and after 69 seconds Gary McAllister made winning the European Cup feel like a real possibility.
You can dress up the Champions League with all the pre-game fireworks you want. Give me the random anthemlessness of a Tuesday night watching goalies going half-Rachubka and Ao Tanaka reinventing the sublime.
Chris Wilder got into the wrong mind, about the wrong things, peering sideways into Farke's head when he should have been staring into the eyes of Joe Rothwell.
Brenden Aaronson, Thomas Tuchel, Bielsa against Suarez, Leeds against Sheffield United, surveys, bathroom facilities and cheap fans melting in the sun.
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.
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.
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 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.
No Leeds fan wants Illan Meslier to do... do that again. But every game is a kind of waiting to see if someone does.