Lets Laugh At Leeds Thread

[BuryMeInEngland]

Went there for a game once in the early '70s. Horrible effing place. Has it improved at all?

 

[kr1978]

Went there for a game once in the early '70s. Horrible effing place. Has it improved at all?

No

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

No

That's what I figured.

 

[Metalhead]

Reckon next one is from Italy

Yes, I heard that. Some bloke called Rolando Maran.

 

[tototoner]

I think I read earlier that the latest basket case to come to English football had 35 managers in five years at his previous club.
Not being funny but why on earth did they appoint the manager of forest green? Surely they'd have been better appointing an ex player??

35 managers in 21 years as Cagliari chairman, good luck to the next guy to get the job

 

[Metalhead]

Another one gone then: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29774801

 

[riggi]

Good

 

[Metalhead]

Good

Cellino certainly gets through managers.

 

[UncleBuck]

Basket case club, basket case chairman.
Perfect fit.....

 

[Marty]

Re-hired Redfearn who got 10 points from 4 games as caretaker between Hockaday and Milanic.

Anything less than a repeat of that caretaker run and he'll probably be out too.

 

[Kendall]

The white rose continues to wilt...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29953640

Leeds United served with winding-up petition
Leeds United have been served with a winding-up petition by law firm Ford & Warren Solicitors over unpaid fees.
The fees, which date back to when former Chelsea chairman Ken Bates, 82, owned the Championship club, amount to about £150,000.
The petition is set to be heard at Leeds Combined Court on 13 January.
Bates sold Leeds to GFH Capital in December 2012 before Italian businessman Massimo Cellino bought a majority share in April 2014.
Nick Collins, senior partner at Ford & Warren, told BBC Radio Leeds: "This is not a dispute with Mr Cellino. This is something he has inherited from the previous ownership of the club.
"We bear no ill-will towards Mr Cellino and we wish him well. I genuinely hope we can resolve this amicably but we must do what is necessary to protect our clients' position."
The Elland Road side are currently 17th in the Championship, with no wins in their last eight matches.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

£150k...jesus.

Maybe Rooney could lend them half a week's wages.

 

[kr1978]

£150k...jesus.

Maybe Rooney could lend them half a week's wages.

Didn't they spend that much on a fish tank or something in the pre collapse days.

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

The white rose continues to wilt...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29953640

Leeds United served with winding-up petition
Leeds United have been served with a winding-up petition by law firm Ford & Warren Solicitors over unpaid fees.
The fees, which date back to when former Chelsea chairman Ken Bates, 82, owned the Championship club, amount to about £150,000.
The petition is set to be heard at Leeds Combined Court on 13 January.
Bates sold Leeds to GFH Capital in December 2012 before Italian businessman Massimo Cellino bought a majority share in April 2014.
Nick Collins, senior partner at Ford & Warren, told BBC Radio Leeds: "This is not a dispute with Mr Cellino. This is something he has inherited from the previous ownership of the club.
"We bear no ill-will towards Mr Cellino and we wish him well. I genuinely hope we can resolve this amicably but we must do what is necessary to protect our clients' position."
The Elland Road side are currently 17th in the Championship, with no wins in their last eight matches.

Sounds like it might be a wind up.

 

[Gbspurs]

Sounds like it might be a wind up.

 

[BuryMeInEngland]

I fucking love that gif. For some reason I could watch it for hours.

I'm very simple.

 

[SpurSince57]

Went there for a game once in the early '70s. Horrible effing place. Has it improved at all?

I doubt it. It made Tottenham High Road look like The Bishop's Avenue.

I was at university there in the early 70s. Loved the city, but the football club… Even by the standards of the times they were quite incredibly thuggish—they had some truly skilful players too, but the emphasis always seemed to be on kicking shit out of the opposition. Their support was Neanderthal, and still seems to be—and of course when Spurs visited I had to stand in with these apes because the dimwitted stewards couldn't tell I was a Londoner and wouldn't let me go in with our lot. I had to cheer internally when Chiv tore through their defence and scored.

What gets me, though, is how they think they're a big club, one of the elite, yet until the Revie era they were behind the Sheffield clubs and Huddersfield in the Yorkshire pecking order; they didn't get elected to the league until 1920 and spent most of their time in the old Second Division, being most famous as the club that sold John Charles to Juve.

They had that revival under Wilkinson, and then Gooner George and O'Dreary, but now they're back where they've always belonged.

 

[JerryGarcia]

Was Don Revie really as much of a bastard as he was made to look in the Brian Clough film, or maybe he was more of one?

 

[SpurSince57]

Was Don Revie really as much of a bastard as he was made to look in the Brian Clough film, or maybe he was more of one?

Quite possibly more. The book's even better, by the way.

A possibly apocryphal story that did the rounds when I was at university was that a Leeds player (I can't remember which one now) pushed in front of a bloke at a nightclub bar. The bloke objected.

'Don't you know who I am?' the Leeds player said. 'I'm **** *****. I play for Leeds United.'

'Aye,' the bloke responded, 'and I'm **** ****, and I'm second row for Wakefield Trinity.'

With which, he decked him.

EDIT: I think it may have been Paul Reaney, their RB.

 

[hugrr]

I fucking love that gif. For some reason I could watch it for hours.

I'm very simple.

Does it make you haardman?