Leedsista Libre

From December of 2020/21 — Stamford Bridge had millions of pounds and Frank Lampard; Leeds were poor, but with Marcelo Bielsa, we were happy. For how long? This weekend Leeds United did not beat Chelsea, or play very...

From last summer, about the summer of 1994 — and to read this and watch the videos referred to in the episode, you can click here to use a gift link for the members-only article at Leedsista . Given his translator had...

From May of 1998/99 — a couple of weeks before we ruined Arsenal's title hopes, Leeds went to Upton Park and gave West Ham a really bad time: West Ham fans, whose opinion of Harte was low enough after the first half...

From May of 2021/22 — the penultimate game of the season, the last at home, hosting Brighton, and we're in a relegation bat — ah, never mind. If Leeds have an inspiration at the moment it's Raphinha, leading by...

From May of 2018/19 — about the origins of Dirty Leeds, and how Marcelo Bielsa was learning what he had inherited that must be defended: After his exasperated explanation of the implications of the FA's ruling, I...

From January of 2021/22 — in a relegation pickle, and welcoming Burnley to Elland Road: Marcelo Bielsa's was the cuddle seen around the world, and in a pandemic that has driven so many people apart from each other just...

From April of 2000/01 — you can find this at Leedsista.com by clicking here , if you want to see David Batty attacking Dennis Wise with a carrier bag: Dennis Wise told David O'Leary to calm down. David Batty found a...

From April of 2015/16 — featuring some of my finest impressions of Steve Evans: It's bad enough dealing with our own head coach. "Tactically," he said. "Tactically, we've got it right today." And lost 2-1 to a team 20th...

From February of 2022/23 — to celebrate Michael Skubala's promotion with Lincoln City, let's go back to the time he took us to Old Trafford: At the end of this match at Old Trafford, Leeds' modern players looked...

From April of 2018/19 — when there was an attempt to get Elland Road to do one thing, while football got on with making that unnecessary: There’s no way of scripting Elland Road. Whatever is said beforehand gets lost as...

From November last year — and Bielsa talking about the world the way only Bielsa can: After a reporter told him watching Uruguay's defeat in the USA was like 'tearing his eyes out', Marcelo Bielsa called the press...

From March of 2021/22 — a match when manbuns were ascendant and Leeds United still had that frisson of Bielsista chaos: Some players get a moment like this once in a career. Most right-backs get them never. But Leeds...

From January of 1997/98 — a trip to South London reunited Leeds with a real coulda, shoulda player of our mid-1990s: Tomas Brolin's third game for Palace, when George Graham's Leeds came to Selhurst Park, was a chance...

From May of 2023/24 — proving that a good night can happen, and that 31 passes sometimes have a point: Where had all this been? There was so much more of it. Twice in a first half minute first Rutter then Gnonto went...

From February of 2022/23 — given he's been rattling Sam Allardyce's cage this week, let's go back to Jesse Marsch's last game in charge of Leeds United: Eleven months in, his confident delivery can't mask the substance...