The 1980s could not have been more miserable for Leeds United. Unfortunate to suffer an eight year sojourn outside Division 1 at a time when football reached its lowest ebb and beset by hooliganism and low gates, it was a decade of despair matched only by their recent, financially driven decline. Lowlights included Paul Petts’ hat-trick in a 5-1 defeat at Gay Meadow in 1983 and a 5-0 tonking by Chelsea that saw the whites’ hated rivals promoted on the last day of that same campaign. Throughout the period, Leeds had obsessively relied on the heroes of yesteryear to kickstart…
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The Thursday Preview: Doncaster Rovers Vs Leeds United
Already identified as the game of the weekend by Sky Sports, tomorrow’s Yorkshire clásico has taken on greater significance after a simply apocalyptic Tuesday night. If Doncaster Rovers fans weren’t anticipating this one enough given the local connections and events the last time they met, Leeds’ capitulation two days ago, also within the boundaries of South Yorkshire, coupled with Rovers’ own ascension to a club best fourth in the table will have sent the Keepmoaters into a frenzy.Viva Rovers’ Glen could hardly contain his excitement on Twitter the other night and the table has been gleefully cut and pasted at…
The Thursday Preview: Middlesbrough Vs Sheffield United
Twenty years ago, Gordon Strachan and Gary Speed were the wide men as Leeds United captured this League’s title. Speed, a youngster who had broken through that season, scored a memorable fourth goal as the Peacocks defeated their nearest rivals Sheffield United 4-0 in the run in, but even these significant events were topped two years later as the Yorkshire club won the biggest domestic prize of the lot, clinching the last ever top flight Football League title with a dramatic victory at Bramall Lane.So, to have appointed something of a nemesis as their manager will have provoked mild surprise…
Max Making the Grade(l) at Leeds
No doubt whatsoever who was man of the match in yesterday’s friendly between Leeds and Wolves at Elland Road: Max Gradel. With his diminutive stature, low centre of gravity, pace and nimble feet, the Ivorian is reminiscent of a younger Shaun Wright-Phillips and tortured his marker with callous ease. It was he who opened the scoring, seizing upon a loose clearance and lashing home a fabulous shot from 25 yards, and his persistence soon after the break paid dividends when he found fellow winger Lloyd Sam to knock in the home side’s second.Whites manager Simon Grayson had opted for a…
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