Well at LU they were rabbiting on about being able to match it with City and the rest, massive investment apparently being in the pipeline. It is money which is certainly required too, going by our result against Birmingham City at half-time.
People are starting to lose a little bit of faith in the manager, Bielsa, fear not though, because Craig Foster loves him for his attacking style. A good result in the end, typical Bielsa team – more of the play then the opposition, less shots on goal. This little problem cost us promotion last season.
Please feel free to comment on the ‘whites’ or even on ‘dirty Leeds’ as the season goes on.
Leeds had a fair contingent of Aussies going back about 20 years ago AR with the likes of Viduka, Kewell, Dorigo, Okon, Burns, Milosevic etc
BH-good memory
most talented Kewell
most memorable Viduka with his four goals against Liverpool
most successful Dorigo considerring Wilkinson’s side actually won the league – I can’t believe he cost just 650 thousand pounds at the time.
some interesting results in mid week games: we drew, but many around us have lost; WBA and Barnsley played out a 2-2 all draw, top versus bottom.
BH: your beloved Swans have struggled in the last couple of weeks – they are still around the top six. They have a big game this week, the Welsh derby against Cardiff City no less.
an average result against SW
it is a very close league – the way some of the top sides have been playing of late, clubs mid table could get promoted to play against Klopp’s lot next season.
The Swans managed to eek out a 1-0 win in the South Wales Derby AR against the arch enemy Cardiff City.
Still not playing anywhere near a promotion standard which is fine by me as I dont have much to any interest in the EPL as it is a bit like the WAFL where only the biggest bank account wins each year!
bease: it was a good result for the black and whites, well done. I think a lot of people resent the premier league; sometimes I still refer to the first division, bh, just to remind others. The sad thing is that if the swans or whites were promoted, you and me would be watching them on Foxtel again in two years time.
Yep pretty much AR that is why I would rather they stay in the Championship as I can watch them comfortably on a weekend night in Summer on Fox Sports.
The EPL virtually has the same 3 or 4 teams who can only win it year after year (Leicester was a once off never to be repeated) about a dozen or so who always stay up and the same old teams who go up and down the Leagues year after year…boring! Imagine paying extra for Optus to watch the same old happen over and over again!
BH – I know what you mean. My only real interest in the first division is to see whether Liverpool can finally win it after spending hundreds of millions of quid and getting a proven manager.
When Wilkinson got us out of the first division in 1990 or so, we beat Everton in our first game and finished fourth at the end of the season. We went on to win the league the following year, piddlled Ferguson right off.
Before that Revie and Clough both lifted clubs out of the second division to the top of the tree in a season or two. As you say Bease, you will never see events like that again because football finances are so loaded against the lower divisions.
Wilkinson was the last pom to win the league and there is no one in sight to be the next; maybe Lampard can do it, if he holds on to the job at Chelsea, a position, we all know he would not have got had the club not been sanctioned by Ufea.
It is an interesting looking ladder in the EFL Championship currently AR!
Bh – thanks for the post it is indeed. the black and whites are flying, alongside LU. I am going to give Bielsa a compliment and say that he has done well given our injuries – Hendnedez – amognst others, and a key forward whom can’t score.
Who is the manager of Swansea at the moment bease? I can’t believe that they got rid of Gary Monk so quickly after winning promotion. He went to LU, as you know, but it was different, as he resigned. Let us hope he makes a success at SW.
typical Bielsa performance in front of goal and at the back against the Welsh – well done to Cardiff.
good old bielsa, we love him
Looks like the Premier League beckons for your beloved Leeds United now AR after hammering Fulham 3-0 overnight.
Bease-- thanks for your post: if they have got any heart, they should still get there, but they lost to Luton last night; one can easily see both Brentford and WBA finishing above LU, especially given our record towards the end of each season in the last few years. Certain strikers steal for a living, bease, as you know. If we had of had Chris Wood, we would have been safe already.
Well done on liverpool’s fine effort in winning the first division so comprehensively.
well done in the end LU – big Jack Charlton would be pleased --RIP, old son.
Congrats AR on the return of your beloved Leeds United back into the EPL.
It is good to see they are back in the Premier Division as one of the few clubs outside of the 2 Manchester sides, Chelsea or Arsenal that have actually won a title in the 30 years of the EPL!
bh: thanks mate, your a gentleman; yes, one should also bless Blackburn Rovers and Leicester for the same reason. I will cross my fingers for Swansea, too, they are only a game out of six – if they make it, you never know.