What is it about Leeds? While other clubs rise out of the ashes, we get stripped of our assets, sell off our talent, and bring in a shower of shysters to defecate upon the traditions and values of our once great club.
You'd have to be some kind of lunatic to bring in Bates, GFH, Haigh, and Cellino, each one finding new ways of demeaning and degrading us. Twelve years of false dawns and broken promises, we are now reduced to a club in name only.
The only thing we have is the fans. No matter who or what, the fans are always there. 25k+ at a meaningless final home fixture says everything about the heart of Leeds United. It beats strong. We are better than the cretinous owners and their obscene, criminal behaviour. We are united and we are behind our team. Cellino has no idea who we are or what we believe in. At least with Evans, we had a manager who acknowledged our importance to the club.
This is our darkest hour. We lurch from one off-field controversy to the next. We have seen many clubs, big and small, come from behind us to reach the Premiership. We have experienced so many humiliations, we know it is a matter of days before another rears its head.
And still the fans come. What an amazing support we have. You look at our turnout at Elland Road every week, how we fill our away ticket quota game after game, you look at our worldwide fanbase still fired up, we are the beating heart of this club.
At some point, we will find an owner who recognises our real value and restores a sense of purpose to the club. We will get a dynamic coach and leaders on the field, and we will play football worthy of the name. The likes of Cellino will never understand what it means when we sing 'We are Leeds', but we will be singing long after he has smoked his last beautiful cigarette and been consigned to the footnotes of history.
The heart of Leeds
posted on 27/5/16
All very laudable comments, but the clock is ticking and every year we get less significant in comparison to clubs we used to regard as inferior in every way. Our inability to partake of the cash available to Premier League clubs means that every year we fall further behind and clubs in the Championship showing ambition, shove us even further down the greasy pole. There is no positive outcome without a decent owner coming along.
posted on 27/5/16
OP - I know how you feel - I could have written this very article not too long ago. Not that it will make you feel any better but we have (touch wood) found our " owner who recognises our real value and restores a sense of purpose to the club. We will get a dynamic coach and leaders on the field, and we will play football worthy of the name."
It can happen. One more step to go for us.
Keep The Faith.
posted on 27/5/16
Excellent article, sums up our predicament in a nut shell.
I know it has been said many times and it is hard to turn your back on the club we all love so much but never has the need been so urgent as now to finally stop going to home games until this hellish chapter in our history has been eradicated.
The old saying when you are going through hell you have to keep going has never been so apt right now. Just don't know how much more of this madness we can all take. It's cruel and it's torture. Please God let it end soon.