Leeds United 0-2 Manchester United: Philosophical
After torrid months since August trying to decipher what Jesse Marsch thought this team could be, since he's been gone we have found out that it can be a good one.
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2022-23
A collection of 109 posts
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.
Manchester United 2-2 Leeds United: Got a point
A key phrase of Angus Kinnear's programme notes, introducing Jesse Marsch last year, said Marsch was coming earlier than planned as part of 'the acceleration of the coaching transition', post-Bielsa. Later than planned, Leeds might have finally made a start.
Michael Skubala is taking on the big pitch
If he's good enough for Pikachu, then he's good enough for me. And if we're not enough, ask Mike Whitlow.
At least Nathan Jones is also having a bad time
"It's my fault," said Jones, when he was asked why Pablo Hernandez had wanted to tear his head off his neck.
Before, during, after
Now we've seen Leeds United as owned by Andrea Radrizzani both before and after Bielsa was in charge. And we've seen that Bielsa's reign was the only time Leeds United was good.
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Leeds United: This isn't going very well
Eleven months in, his confident delivery can't mask the substance of what even Jesse Marsch is saying about his own work: this isn't going very well.
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.
How much more can Leeds ask of Jackie Harrison?
Somehow the player who turns up every week fit and strong, runs his arse off in training and never stops working in the games, becomes a player people think is expendable. But hell, we would miss him if he was gone.
Accrington Stanley 1-3 Leeds United: Through
No Leeds fan could enjoy this game unless they had binned the Twitter app from their phone and refused to speak to anyone who hadn’t done the same. (Not an entirely bad idea.)