Alan Maybury ⭑ From A-Z since '92
Eddie Gray thought he could be the best right-back Leeds United ever had, but Leeds and Alan Maybury couldn't make a chance for each other.
Eddie Gray thought he could be the best right-back Leeds United ever had, but Leeds and Alan Maybury couldn't make a chance for each other.
Aidy White was a cut above while still only sixteen years old, with speed to look like he had the world at his feet and velocity that would make it his.
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.
Massimo Cellino arrived in a blaze of guitar solos and late nights, with Adryan as the most promising of his sidekicks, and if his ownership of Leeds wasn't going to be healthy the least it could have been was fun.
This was Bielsa's point about Champions League quality. Any team, at any level, would trust Forshaw to play with them.
Clayton loved a strike. One that he placed in Leicester City's top corner from 25 yards won Leeds' goal of the season and really, really pissed Kasper Schmeichel off.
In 1971 Leeds United was not 'happily reconciled', but a club with its greatest triumphs still ahead that was already, perhaps imperceptibly, coming apart.
Here's a look behind the scenes at Elland Road close to the peak of United's greatest era, with a different focus to most looks at Leeds.
Smith, Milner, Lennon. Twenty-three, seventeen, sixteen. Rothwell, Horsforth, Chapeltown. 2004 wasn't only a battle against relegation, and liquidation, but to save the future that the club's youth prospects still teased was possible.
Welcome to the start of a project that will take approximately (checks calculations), oh, only eight years, to write about every (*most) Leeds player since 1992. And it all begins with Aapo Halme.