Leeds United 2-1 Valencia: Do what you want
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.
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.
In 1971 Leeds United was not 'happily reconciled', but a club with its greatest triumphs still ahead that was already, perhaps imperceptibly, coming apart.
Here's a look behind the scenes at Elland Road close to the peak of United's greatest era, with a different focus to most looks at Leeds.
"The head coaches have power, the owners of the clubs have power, the media have power and the fans have power. But they don't use it."