Closing a window the Leeds way

Never really a dull moment at Leeds is there? It’s like if Steven Spielberg had directing duty for a football club, there is always a guarantee to be something happening in the darkest corners of Elland Road. It’s rather fun for the neutral, players in, players out, Ken Bates orchestrating it all against a backdrop of one of the biggest fan-bases in the country. Of course, I can imagine, it must equal hell for them.

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Top 10 Own Goals

We’ve all done it. Stuck a great clumsy boot out and divided the ball into the back of our net. There isn’t a worse feeling in football (unless you’re Vinny Jones and you’ve just grabbed Gazza’s balls) but here are 10 idiots who did rather more than stick out a clumsy boot:

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Leeds United’s ‘Braveheart’

There hasn’t been a lot to shout about at Leeds United of late, the form card doesn’t look that great with 1 win, 1 draw and 4 defeats in their last six league games. However there is one shining light at Leeds that could help the club get back in the play-offs, he is Robert Snodgrass.

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Leeds linked with Cameroonian defender

News is circling around Elland Road that Leeds are interested in a defender with one of the best names in football, that could delight fans and comedians a like.

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Thierry Returns as Football Triumphs

The script was written in the stars and sprinkled down to Earth for the world to indulge in London’s finest production of theatre for many a year. All the talk in recent seasons that the magic of the FA Cup had diminished has been banished in what’s been the most romantic week in the football calendar.

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Leeds go west for Rodgers

Doing business with the American MLS seems to be very much in vogue.

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The Ghost Of 3rd Rounds Past

The start of January is supposed to be a time for looking forward and making changes in your life. In reality, most people's resolutions fade away by January 7th, so it seems right to me that this year 7th January is FA Cup 3rd round day, because now all it reminds me is of a New Years resolution gone wrong.

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Diary of a Sky Sports Reporter

With regard to Huddersfield's League One game home game with Chesterfield on Boxing Day, all my research pointed to a home victory as a side with just two defeats in 46 league outing met the team at the bottom of the division with no league wins in 12.

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Will Leeds ever be back in the Premier League?

Over the last three seasons I have seen a lot of Leeds United matches. Once I have watched a Leeds match whether they have won, drawn or lost I keep asking myself will they ever be back in the Premier league?

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There’s no such thing as a sleeping giant

The 'big' teams submerged in their golden era, and can't relinquish their past in the lower tiers.

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Grayson has absolutely no Idea who to play in Goal

Leeds manager Simon Grayson is looking into bringing a keeper in any way he can following the laughable display by current number two Paul Rachubka.

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Harry Kewell....... Disappointing Australians since 1978

It’s tipped to be the season of legends with Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton back in Australia to show the league why there are worshipped as Australia’s greatest Socceroos

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Why Relegation Needs To Stay

Simply put - the abolition of top-flight relegation would be the abolition of competitive English football. It would kill not only the Premier League, but the whole Football League.

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Who Would Be In Your All-Time Bruiser XI?

The Premier League may have started back in 1992, but there have only been a few players who fans can truly refer to as hard-men or bruisers. So with that in mind, our weekly favourite or irrelevant XI this week is dedicated to some of the League’s tough guys.

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Documenting the demise of Plymouth Argyle

When defender Ladji Sakouna inexplicably dallied on the ball in his own box and hauled down the incoming Rob Taylor of Port Vale to concede a penalty that wrapped up all three points for the away side, it was the madness of what is unfolding at Plymouth Argyle in microcosm. It was the panicky ineptitude of Sakouna that was woefully exposed in an act of helpless surrender and the latest batch of hope at Home Park was ruthlessly deflated by Gary Roberts from the resulting spot-kick.

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