Bailey Peacock-Farrell ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Peacock-Farrell carried himself through his chaotic baptism with such calm self-assurance that he was convincing others as well as himself the Leeds United no.1 shirt was his for years to come.
Peacock-Farrell carried himself through his chaotic baptism with such calm self-assurance that he was convincing others as well as himself the Leeds United no.1 shirt was his for years to come.
Not everyone can get a 2,500 word entry in this project — not everyone is Armando Sá.
He only played twelve times for Leeds, and while we were getting relegated we had no time to learn Armando Sá's story. It's worth knowing.
A hyped teenager, a dream move, an unlicensed agent, a fight for a place and a battle for revenge: this was a journeyman's life in the post-collapse Football League.
Leeds United feel like a bit of an accident in Andy Robinson's trajectory. He should have played his best years for Everton, then transferred to Tranmere as a Merseyside legend for his boyhood club.
It's hard to imagine not wanting to play for the club that seems like your destiny, so it's hard to imagine the depression that meant Andy O'Brien couldn't take to the pitch for Leeds. But not playing was the only way for O'Brien to get back in control of a life controlled by football.
Things might have been different if Kevin Blackwell had trusted a younger Andy Keogh. But by the time he came back, Keogh wasn't the only big blonde striker in town.
Opinions of Lonergan did improve once everyone remembered he wasn't Rachubka, he was the other one. That still meant shivering memories of the 3-7 to Forest, and scepticism after he'd seemed to struggle with the pressure of playing for Leeds.
Andy Hughes helped Leeds rediscover its sense of footballing self, and helped ensure the club was delivered from its worst times with some of its favourite memories.
It was a shock, for anyone who hadn't kept up Andy Gray's career, to see the one-time inheritor of Uncle Eddie's balletic wingplay now a big targetman heading in a free-kick.