Leeds United 2-1 Sunderland: Not very sensible
Pascal Struijk was wearing the most enormous unmovable grin you'll ever see on a footballer. A lot of football had to happen over a long time for that smile to get that wide.
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Watford 0-4 Leeds United: The right place
Confidence breeds confidence but this form must be inspiring a contagious 'oh no' in the rest of the Championship that gives Leeds an advantage before they have to do another thing.
Leeds United 0-2 Millwall: Your own heroics
Sometimes all the FA Cup becomes is a game against Millwall, again, too soon. But football matches still form their own entities and so the players picked to play could take to the pitch with heroics in mind.
Coventry City 0-2 Leeds United: Here's your chance(s)
Leeds United either did or didn't get what they wanted from the transfer window, and your perspective might have influenced how unhinged you felt as kick-off approached in Coventry. Personally I felt like I was going insane.
Leeds United 7-0 Cardiff City: Just like seven
Seven. It wasn't an audacious backheel by Billy Bremner and as an aesthetic experience Firpo-to-forward on repeat can't quite compete with 1972. But on its own terms this was a perfect goal, it made a perfect seven, just give all the players a perfect ten and worry about the details in Coventry.
Burnley 0-0 Leeds United: Scared of sexy
If Expected Sexy was a metric the Championship would not score highly and Burnley's pride in all their clean sheets would hit different.
Leeds United 2-0 Norwich City: Good taste in winning
At Elland Road, the Peacocks were giving the Canaries every chance to play fair. Well, apart from the scoring after thirty seconds thing, but in some ways that was a kindness.
Leeds United 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday: Grinding down a groove
All this hard work and nothing more than a single point of comfort at the top of the table: that's football at its reassuring, familiar, painful best.
Leeds United 1-0 Harrogate Town: Only clues to take you through
This was a match when fans were looking for answers, forgetting that football is essentially unsolvable and that should be why we love it. Never mind love! give us final judgements.
Hull City 3-3 Leeds United: Somewhere, over the bar
Illan Meslier could have just left it all alone and let things take a quieter course. Goalkeeper? More like, let in a goal to keeper things interesting... er.