Leeds United 1-0 Everton: Still the Champions again, olé olé
These three precious points are one more gift from the 2025 Champions to themselves and the players getting ready to join in.
These three precious points are one more gift from the 2025 Champions to themselves and the players getting ready to join in.
Just about the only player I saw really standing up to the needs of the occasion was Junior Firpo, who seems to finally have the conditions he needs to shine for Leeds: a team playing badly around him.
Imagine the clammy cold creeping across Kinnear's loins as Rodrigo went staggering off in the first half, sobbing and huffing oxygen to dull the searing pain in his shoulder.
I was nervous as a sixteen year old going to games, when I didn't know the unwritten rules, and I was nervous now, walking down under the station and over the river, not sure if the rules were still the same after eighteen months.
"My dad and I, we lived the game. It wasn't his job, it was his passion. I would ask him, 'Why aren't you playing him, he's such a good player?' He'd say, 'Yes, but he doesn't play well with someone else.' And then I would try to see things in this different way."