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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Branton Rover on December 13, 2018, 06:28:56 pm
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Leeds United owner’s firm is at risk of closure after failing to find a platform to broadcast its sports coverage - meaning this could impact our friends up the M1 !! Shocking news this; What’s the one word that comes to mind when football clubs owners holding company fails
ADMINISTRATION!!!!
Try reading this without laughing
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Would be the best Xmas present ever.
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You mean one of those firms that doesn't really do what it says on the tin, and is a vehicle to move dodgy money through? Well I never!
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Leeds, Leeds are falling apart, again....
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Am I in the minority? Whilst I enjoy schadenfreude at their expense, I really don’t have a big issue with Leeds.. I grew up with them being one of the biggest clubs in the country, and wouldn’t be upset to see them promoted to the premier league..
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IDM, you are one of the few.
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I think you're in a minority IDM.
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What is it about Leeds that attracts such...ahh...interesting owners?
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I grew up with Leeds being one of the biggest teams in the country and apart from family matters the best day of my life was when we beat the f***ers at Wembley.
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I admired the side of the 60’s & 70’s after spending an evening with Eddie Gray he was humble & interesting to talk to. I loved Billy when he managed us & I went to his funeral - I think what doesn’t help Leeds is their supporters are so arrogant and have a sense of entitlement to be a top 6 premier league team - well I’m sorry you have to earn the right to be up there.
Whenever I meet a Leeds fan I ask him was he one of them who was crying on The Wembley Big Screen ? It’s a question they don’t appreciate being asked lol
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Am I in the minority? Whilst I enjoy schadenfreude at their expense, I really don’t have a big issue with Leeds.. I grew up with them being one of the biggest clubs in the country, and wouldn’t be upset to see them promoted to the premier league..
I’m with you on this one IDM. Might be only two of us as the hate for Leeds does not seem to be in short supply.
My excuse is I am from Leeds and was brought up on the GREAT Don Revie side of the 60’s & 70’s
I don’t understand why there is so much bitter hatred of the club. Yes I know they have some obnoxious supporters but doesn’t every club? I know Rovers have some as you see them at almost every away match. Leeds have more than an average no of them but that is because they have an above average numbered fan base.
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I cannot believe that so many people were dropped on their heads when babes in arms, and grew up to be Weeds fans.
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I don’t get this Great Don Revie side thing, they never won much really
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As I’ve posted before those 9 or so days between us beating Southend and playing at Wembley I had supporters of 17 different teams wishes Rovers well and hoping that we win ,and every one said it because we were playing Leeds United. The most hated club in Europe
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I don’t get this Great Don Revie side thing, they never won much really
No they didn’t win as much as they should have done agreed. But having a bent ref in Solonika for the Cup winners Cup Final against AC Milan ( on my 18th birthday ) 17/5/73 and a bent ref for the European Cup Final against Bayern Munich on 25/5/75 didn’t help.
Having to play Wolves and needing to win to do the League and Cup double on the Monday after the Saturday Cup Final against Arsenal in 1972 didn’t help either.
That’s 3 trophies they were robbed of just for a start.
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I don’t get this Great Don Revie side thing, they never won much really
That team with Shankly as manager would have won far more than Don Revie did.
The problem seems to stem from when Donny fans at school were classed as inferior to Leeds fans.
I was happy for Leeds to do well in the 60s/70s because they were a Yorkshire side. I am Donny first Yorkshire second.
I was writing this before Campsall's post but it sums it up.
We also had, Bremner, Cooper, Bates etc here after they left Leeds.
You can't revere Billy without accepting where he came from.
Rodney Johnson and Steve Briggs also came from Leeds.
Some folk in Yorkshire these days are Man U but White Rose at cricket, how does that work?
Even Geoff Boycott is a Man U fan.
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How many clubs had so many International players.
That’s British/Irish International in one squad. You would be hard pressed to find so many as Leeds had in the 1970/75 years.
As follows.
Sprake. Wales
Harvey. Scotland
Reaney. England
Cooper. England
Cherry. England
F Gray. Scotland
Charlton. England
Hunter. England
Madeley. England
McQueen. Scotland
Bremner. Scotland
Giles. Rep Ireland
Yorath. Wales
E Gray. Scotland
Lorimer. Scotland
Clarke. England
Jones. England
Jordan. Scotland
18 Full internationals in one squad all British and Irish.
The 1973/74 team was one of the most attractive teams to watch in my lifetime. Some of the football was quite sublime.
As good as Man City are now. Yes different era but that team was ONE of the best British teams of my time watching the ‘beautiful game.’
No question (in my opinion of course.)
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They had Terry Yorath (Wales), Mick Bates and Jimmy Greenhough coming off the bench as well.
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And Celtic played them off the park at Elland Road and Hampden Park Paul, with all the players from one country I believe. And the Ajax side were in a different league altogether.
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They had Terry Yorath (Wales), Mick Bates and Jimmy Greenhough coming off the bench as well.
Yorath is on my list Idler as he was a full International.
Yes Bates was a very good player and appearances were limited due to Bremner and Giles.
Greenhough also a good player and was in the 1968 league Cup winning team and a big part of the squad that one the League in 68/69 season.
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I’ve no particular beef with the club itself. I was pretty ambivalent about Leeds until Wembley when we had to run the gauntlet of their fans after the game. They were total scum and I’d be ecstatic to see them suffer.
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And Celtic played them off the park at Elland Road and Hampden Park Paul, with all the players from one country I believe.
Do you know I was waiting for you to say that Brian. Right on cue. :facepalm:
Yes I was at Elland Road for the 1st leg and Celtic were fantastic that night.
Jimmy Johnstone made Terry Cooper look like a 3rd Division full back. Probably the best display from a winger I have ever seen.
The 2nd leg at Hampden i missed as my parents would not let me miss school. :thumbdown:
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And Celtic played them off the park at Elland Road and Hampden Park Paul, with all the players from one country I believe. And the Ajax side were in a different league altogether.
Over two legs they weren't outplayed and went out on the odd goal if I remember right.
Even in those days Scottish teams would have been also ransom in the 1st division. A cup game can always throw up the giant killing but over a 42 game season you don't finish at the top.
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And Celtic played them off the park at Elland Road and Hampden Park Paul, with all the players from one country I believe.
Do you know I was waiting for you to say that Brian. Right on cue. :facepalm:
Yes I was at Elland Road for the 1st leg and Celtic were fantastic that night.
Jimmy Johnstone made Terry Cooper look like a 3rd Division full back. Probably the best display from a winger I have ever seen.
The 2nd leg at Hampden i missed as my parents would not let me miss school. :thumbdown:
At what point did you see the light and ditch Leeds to start supporting Rovers?
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Fee Fie Fo Fum.
I smell the blood of a Donny White.
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I used to watch Leeds - on the kop - when Donny were away in the 60's and 70's. In those days we all supported local Yorkshire clubs ( I was born and bred in Thorne). Bit like being a remainer I suppose. I think we are better sticking together and as Jo Cox said about various folk in Yorkshire ' We have more in common than divides us '
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Yes, similar. As a 12/13 year old my parents took me to watch Leeds regularly in their pomp from 72 to 74 and I enjoyed it. Great team they were. But when I could choose for myself, I enjoyed the likes of Peacock, Taylor, Brooks, O'callaghan and Kitchen more. When We scored it meant so much more. I couldn't get that intense joy or misery watching Leeds!
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Leeds United owner’s firm is at risk of closure after failing to find a platform to broadcast its sports coverage - meaning this could impact our friends up the M1 !! Shocking news this; What’s the one word that comes to mind when football clubs owners holding company fails
ADMINISTRATION!!!!
Try reading this without laughing
But it's not the holding company that's failing though.
It will have consequences however, but in a positive way for the EFL as it will bring an end to the arguments over the Ifollow service and the break away group.
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I’ve always hated Leeds, for as long as I can remember
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Sad man with all that hate ? Glad i am not in your shoes.
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Whilst I have respect for the Revie team they never really won owt. Perennial bottlers and ugly with it. Let's just call it uncompromising! Their profligate spending and failure to pay the St John's Ambulance and local businesses still rankles and the attitude to their punishment. No contrition. But worst of all was the disrespect they showed by purchasing vast numbers of tickets in 'our' end at Wembley. They would not have done that against Millwall or West Ham or many other teams. It was utterly contemptible and classless. We're a family club. Clearly from a different planet to their moronic hangers on. What they achieved 50 years ago counts for nothing today. Behave like scum, expect to be treated as scum.
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Just worked out Filo I worked underground at Hatfield Main when you were 4 -9 years old
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'their moronic hangers on'?? Have you thought about counselling donny bob ?
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Another closet Leeds fan...
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I am not a closet anything. I am a Yorkshireman and love any team that represents our glorious county. As far as Leeds not winning much under Revie I don't think 3 league titles, one FA cup, one League cup, a charity shield and 2 Inter City Fairs Cups is too shabby !
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And Celtic played them off the park at Elland Road and Hampden Park Paul, with all the players from one country I believe.
Do you know I was waiting for you to say that Brian. Right on cue. :facepalm:
Yes I was at Elland Road for the 1st leg and Celtic were fantastic that night.
Jimmy Johnstone made Terry Cooper look like a 3rd Division full back. Probably the best display from a winger I have ever seen.
The 2nd leg at Hampden i missed as my parents would not let me miss school. :thumbdown:
At what point did you see the light and ditch Leeds to start supporting Rovers?
Between 1975 when I first came to Doncaster and 1980 I watched both teams. Billy Bremner becoming manager in late 1978 really increased my interest in Rovers to the point of abandoning Leeds in 1981 and becoming a fully fledged Rovers fan.
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Give us more fake news Donny bob !!
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Whilst I have respect for the Revie team they never really won owt. Perennial bottlers and ugly with it. Let's just call it uncompromising! Their profligate spending and failure to pay the St John's Ambulance and local businesses still rankles and the attitude to their punishment. No contrition. But worst of all was the disrespect they showed by purchasing vast numbers of tickets in 'our' end at Wembley. They would not have done that against Millwall or West Ham or many other teams. It was utterly contemptible and classless. We're a family club. Clearly from a different planet to their moronic hangers on. What they achieved 50 years ago counts for nothing today. Behave like scum, expect to be treated as scum.
I know how happy I would be to see Rovers in the top division, win it three times, win the FA Cup, League Cup and Inter Cities Fairs Cup and be runners up in these and the European Cup.
That leaves us a lot of catching up to do so maybe it's a good job they really never won out.
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Well I feel a lot better now knowing that not everybody has an inbuilt hatred of LUFC.
Yes in recent times the club has had some dubious owners and yes SOME of their supporters think they have a Devine right to be at rhe top end of the Premier league but fundamentally the club has a fantastic fan base and has the potential to compete with the Manchester’s Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea’s.
Nobody has a right to success, it has to be earned of course.
So while I am sounding like a Donny White, that day at Wembley in May 2008 was the best Football day of my life.
DRFC are and always will be now my 1st football love.
I have watched live, Leeds about 350 times and Rovers now at a guess about 1200 times.
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Just worked out Filo I worked underground at Hatfield Main when you were 4 -9 years old
That would be 1967-1972 then, in 1979 i started my apprenticeship at Thorne Shipyard
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F*ck Leeds! My problem isn’t actually with Leeds themselves but with those glory seeking, think they’re European champions, never even been to bellend road w*nk*rs who are born in donny, but who prefer to wear the scum shirts and car stickers rather than support their f*ck*ng home team! Treacherous c*nts who, if they supported their home team, would fill the keepmoat every week! Donny white scum!
Sorry, did I say that out loud?? Merry Christmas one and all!
:santa:
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F*ck Leeds! My problem isn’t actually with Leeds themselves but with those glory seeking, think they’re European champions, never even been to bellend road w*nk*rs who are born in donny, but who prefer to wear the scum shirts and car stickers rather than support their f*ck*ng home team! Treacherous c*nts who, if they supported their home team, would fill the keepmoat every week! Donny white scum!
Sorry, did I say that out loud?? Merry Christmas one and all!
:santa:
Couldnt have put it any better!!
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We are cooler and more edgy club than boring snoring plain Leeds United
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One of the only chants that 91 out of 92 sing is “ we all hate Leeds scum” . As I posted before they are the most hated club in Europe
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I know that not all Leeds people are like this but the followers of LUFC and Leeds Rhinos seem to have a superiority complex where they have a right to be No1. It is this I think as much as anything (and the moronic thugs who still think it’s 1970s) that’s gets people’s backs up.
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I'd rather be positive about my club than negative about another.
WhenI was a kid you all supported your home town team buthat's a soft spot for another team or two.
If people from Donny want to pay higher ticket prices and a fortune in petrol money to support another club let them. I hope that the air of superiority that it gives them is worth it. I left Donny 40 years ago but could never support another club and cannot understand why anybody chooses to spend time and money,travelling elsewhere to watch a football team.
I have come to watch the Rovers and passed buses filling up in Bradford for Old Trafford and coaches en route from Donny going there. Crazy in my eyes.
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Am I in the minority?
Yep, I reckon so IDM
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I can’t see why we can’t have respect for what a football club can be, whilst not particularly liking them..
To me, there’s a difference between that, and the large amount of their fans who spoil their club’s reputation..
I’m happy to enjoy the anti-Leeds banter and I give it large to my Leeds supporting work colleague, but ultimately he’s a decent bloke..
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I don't have a problem with any other clubs/fans. It's unfair to tar all supporters with the same brush, it wasn't a Leeds fan who spat in the face of a child recently was it?
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F*ck Leeds! My problem isn’t actually with Leeds themselves but with those glory seeking, think they’re European champions, never even been to bellend road w*nk*rs who are born in donny, but who prefer to wear the scum shirts and car stickers rather than support their f*ck*ng home team! Treacherous c*nts who, if they supported their home team, would fill the keepmoat every week! Donny white scum!
Sorry, did I say that out loud?? Merry Christmas one and all!
:santa:
what he said!!!!!
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I don't have a problem with any other clubs/fans. It's unfair to tar all supporters with the same brush, it wasn't a Leeds fan who spat in the face of a child recently was it?
no, just leeds fans at Wembley spitting at our players as they went up to collect the play off trophy!!
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I don't have any issue with Leeds. In fact in the 80's/90's we signed loads of players from them. We are not a rival to them. Its only the few years with them in League 1 and the championship that people then jumped on the bandwagon then.
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I’ve been on that bandwagon for over 40years
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I don't have a problem with any other clubs/fans. It's unfair to tar all supporters with the same brush, it wasn't a Leeds fan who spat in the face of a child recently was it?
I think most people acknowledge that we’ve got more than our share of scrotes, but I’ve never had the sustained amount of abuse from so many (including being spat at) than I did walking to Wembley in my Rovers shirt. Some of my best mates are Leeds fans but I’m still happy, sometimes delighted, to watch them fail given the behaviour of so many of their fans that day.
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Must admit second result I look for after Rovers is Leeds, in the hope they have not only lost, but in some cruel but entirely appropriate way i.e. last minute own goal or a former player scoring a hat trick. Petty, but it is what makes a Yorkshireman I think.
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If the Football League had anything about them, Leeds should have been expelled from the league for still being in administration when another season started, which was against their own rules along with Southampton and Leicester City.
Hereford and Chester were treat completely differently, why? and all three are likely to do the same thing again, all foreign owned and all trying to live beyond their means.
It will take a club their size to go bust properly to stop the insane pushing for the top table,. In the future I can see only the London clubs at the top table in a European League, and only a couple of those, with regionalised smaller leagues, and just a probably British league for the big City teams in the home countries, surely a franchise in Glasgow, Dublin, and Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, and Newcastle would attract investors more than Leeds in a British league with Manchester too close, and more football history.
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Did n’t Leeds United come about after Leeds City were expelled for wrong doings?
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Leeds City went bust I think. But yeah, basically.
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Leeds City's whole league career was in the Second Division. However, during the First World War there ensued a sequence of financial irregularities, including breaking the ban on paying players during the war, that led to the club's dissolution in 1919. They were expelled from The Football League eight games into the 1919–20 season. The harsh punishment was handed down mostly because of the behaviour of the club's directors, who refused to co-operate in an FA inquiry, and refused to hand over the club's financial records.[3]
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It even sounds like a crap place "Leeds"
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Another aspect for me is their attitude of getting back to their rightful place in in the Premier League. What's rightful about it? A fair proportion of their fans have a chip on their shoulder and their relagations were just a temporary blip and their rise back to the top is inevitable. Any team that stands in their way are just dog poo. An irritant.
I think it's fair to say a good proportion of their fans are in denial and they don't show enough respect for other well run clubs, bigger or smaller.
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A totally negative thread about another team has run to three pages.
Let's concentrate on OUR positive season, we'll be in a far better mood.🙂😀
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It even sounds like a crap place "Leeds"
One of my dogs favourite words, he just doesn’t understand that it is the wrong spelling.
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It even sounds like a crap place "Leeds"
One of my dogs favourite words, he just doesn’t understand that it is the wrong spelling.
I think this explains a lot.
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I’ve always hated Leeds, for as long as I can remember
Good God, I'd never have guessed that.
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Let’s hope it all falls apart again. I’m fed up of all the pundits lauding them as a big club. They never really won that much.
They are no longer a big club. Big clubs win things. When was the last time they won anything
Typical of the mentality. Was the sacking of David O’Leary. They got what they deserved after all he wasn’t good enough (unbelievable)
And it all went downhill from there
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I’m in two minds in what could happen ,
(A) Leeds-vermin-United get to another play off final at Wembley and get beat,on penalties after being 2-0 up.
(B) Leeds-vermin-United get to the Premiership,sign a load players on at mega transfers/wages and then get batted every week by all and sundry.
I don’t which would be most fun
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Let’s hope it all falls apart again. I’m fed up of all the pundits lauding them as a big club. They never really won that much.
They are no longer a big club. Big clubs win things. When was the last time they won anything
Typical of the mentality. Was the sacking of David O’Leary. They got what they deserved after all he wasn’t good enough (unbelievable)
And it all went downhill from there
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Same with the massive (wed's) sacked francis? For only being 6th
Downwards from then on. Think they've suffered enough now tho and never as obnoxious as their west York's friends. Should have gone up two yrs ago tho
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Leeds are a bunch of no good wrong'uns.
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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=leeds+united+fans+jimmy+savvile+youtube&view=detail&mid=0E953427D58BE357859B0E953427D58BE357859B&FORM=VIRE
All you need to know about Leeds fans. Enough said.
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Yawn
Nothing with the severity that they deserve ever goes their way.
Fair play to them, they cheat, they're sometimes slightly punished. No real deterrent, so they can carry on with cheating.
I don't understand how the fans can justify the cheating, but the club itself is just following the above pattern.
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L**ds the cesspit of Yorkshire, the only city/team that all t'other Yorkshire clubs hate.