2025/26 reviewed: Upstairs, downstairs
Tactics, strategy and many, many PowerPoints. We got a new team and we're getting a new West Stand, so how are things looking in the manager's office and the boardroom?
Tactics, strategy and many, many PowerPoints. We got a new team and we're getting a new West Stand, so how are things looking in the manager's office and the boardroom?
One by one, and goal by goal, let's rate Leeds United's attackers from last season in descending order of how many minutes they played.
Nobody could get through Leeds United's midfield last season, but we can go through them now, one by one in descending order of minutes, to remember how they get on.
Let's go through Leeds United's tacklers, blockers and catchers of the season, one by one, in descending order of minutes played.
Leeds got so bored of waiting for the team that was supposedly fighting for its life to actually do anything that they submitted to the sunshine, and the heat, and the fact the season was going to be all over in twenty minutes anyway.
Daniel Farke has made some very reasonable, fan-friendly requests and pegged them to 49ers Enterprises' ambition. Any failure to agree now will be interpreted as the owners' ambition falling short of the manager's — and the fans'.
This match mattered for the visitors, who helped haul it back towards being an occasion. The game became a determined and in the end hilarious contest, Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club will qualify for the Champions League versus No They Won't.
I suspect Kim Hellberg's emotional response to feeling cheated by Tonda Eckert is the same reaction many coaches have felt, over the years, but when seeing their best ideas reduced to dust by the sheer weight of work Bielsa puts up against them.
Leeds United played like a team used to hitting a certain standard, regulated by Ethan Ampadu's determination to stop every Tottenham player and help every Leeds player.
Leeds did enough against Burnley and have done enough all season and considering the last six promoted teams there's not much more they can reasonably have done. And even the fates' most twistical threads can't undo it all now.