This is all quite enough to make one person think about how they’re choosing to live and what they value about life, long before they come sopping wet off a field to have a bunch of journalists barking at them about the stress of managing Leeds.
From Leeds, it’s easier to take the result than enjoy the game, but why not allow yourself to do the difficult thing this time?
Fans are left with the same guesswork about when Radrizzani will think his limits are reached and what will happen next. In the meantime, United’s Premier League status is being left to fate, since the board wrested control of it from God.
Here were signs of the more careful, pragmatic Leeds that Marsch was promising. Leeds still conceded three, but this was Manchester City. The three conceded to Bournemouth and Fulham, the four to Spurs, the five at Brentford, those have been the problem.
Maybe the right place for Kalvin was Leeds all along, because Manchester sure hasn’t looked like home from home for him so far.
If a player extends his contract but doesn’t do a video, does he get a pay rise? If a club renegotiates a contract but doesn’t tweet a photo, is it legally binding? If Diego Llorente falls over in the woods and nobody is there to call him an idiot, do Leeds concede a goal?
Monaco switched on for the second half and scored three from three more decent attacks inside ten minutes. Trying a bit of quick maths, I calculated Monaco were on course for a final tally of fourteen and a half, and the sad thing was, it didn't look unlikely.
Mateusz Klich and Jesse Marsch need to go out and get drunk together or something and realise they're a couple of fellas with a lot the other might like. Everyone loves an unlikely buddy comedy at Christmas.
With the Festa d'Elx trophy at stake nobody knew if a draw meant penalties, a dance-off, competitive hot dog eating or what.
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.