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A report in The Independent listed the talented youngsters ready to come through. ‘But’, it concluded, ‘it is financial clout that is likely to determine whether George Graham stays to see them grow.’
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Neil Kilkenny yelling at Ken Bates
This was something else Bates hadn't counted on. Neil Kilkenny often got mixed reviews from Leeds supporters, but a bond had grown between the fans and the players who rescued the club from League One.
If It Feels Right: West Brom vs Leeds, 24th August 2002
'Bowyer for England!' the Leeds fans chanted. Then, to the same tune, 'Sign your contract!' Finally, even louder, 'Sign your contract for the lads!'
The Rod Wallace goal: Leeds vs Spurs, April '94
In the build up to the game Howard Wilkinson was eating at Flying Pizza, when a woman at a nearby table slumped, as the Daily Mirror put it, 'lifeless to the floor.'
John Giles is not impressed: Liverpool vs Southampton, March 1990
An important win for Liverpool, maybe, but Johnny Giles didn't say what he was thinking: that they'd have never been happy with that at Leeds.
McPhail on your side: FA Youth Cup final, May '97
The team you play in is the players you play with, and who better on your side than Stephen McPhail.
Snodin's choice: Liverpool vs Everton, April '87
If my lip-reading is correct Reid's invective after one foul included telling Molby he was a "fat twat". Ian Snodin's role in all this wasn't clear.
Tony Yeboah in the Champions League: Hamburg vs Juventus, September 2000
Yeboah seemed anxious to calm Egdar Davids down; they walk off the pitch with arms around each other's shoulders, Yeboah earnestly advising the younger player, then going to tell Stig Tofting that it might not be necessary to kill Edgar after all.
Tony Yeboah on the volley: Leeds United vs Liverpool, August '95
A strike from the 1970s by Peter Lorimer no longer looked the same, as now it was compared to the goal that was come. Any goal Yeboah scored from that day forward carried echoes of The Yeboah Volley. His life would never be the same, history would never be the same.
Tony Yeboah in Frankfurt: vs Widzew Lodz, September '92
Widzew's midfielder Mirosław Myślinski later described the giant digital rooster announcing every goal on Eintracht's scoreboard. "Long after that," he said, "I had nightmares of it crowing."