Comme ci comme ça: Leeds United's summer of non-communication
The advantage fans have is that everything in football, whether it's comms or money or community, must ultimately be expressed with high visibility on grass.
The advantage fans have is that everything in football, whether it's comms or money or community, must ultimately be expressed with high visibility on grass.
Maybe Daniel Farke got what he wanted from this game, but in that case, why did he want these things? Sometimes what is deemed best for the football team and its players and manager is not what is best for the football club and its fans.
Things may not actually be that bad. But they're bad enough to have me thinking about Peter Ridsdale, Professor McKenzie, Ken Bates and the parallels. So that is bad enough.
Right now Elland Road is an invitation to limbo, and not the cool fun kind where you dance under a pole; the rubbish kind, where you go to a game but nothing that you see is actually what is going on.
Daniel Farke says winning 22-0 "never happens", but Leeds look better when they believe it's worth a try.
Leeds United have a lot of things to put right at the top level. Not just so that the club can have a successful future, but so it can make peace with its past.
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.
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.
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.