My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 11 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 23 minutes ago
Born and bred Wakey lad. Always supported Leeds although if Wakefield had a team i would probably have supported them. Its a shame that a place like Wakefield doesn't have a team. Saying that i might have supported Leeds anyway!
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Wakefield FC potential promotion this season. Looking at getting their own groin near Walton I believe. Strangely in a lower division than Emley, Pontefract Colliries and Osset United and in the same division as Horbury (promotion rival), glasshougton and Nostell!
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Yeah i keep an eye on them and wish them well. Keep meaning to go watch them. The owner wants to get them up the leagues. Be nice to see them in the national leagues
Morning all🌞.
So, my take on this is that we should all be immensely proud and welcoming of all Leeds fans, wherever they were born or live now in the world.
We can either be proud of having a worldwide fan-base or look down on non-Beeston born and bread (and currently residing) fans, deriding them as ‘plastics’ and so on. We can’t have it both ways.
I’m proud of our worldwide fan-base. The more the merrier.
💙🤍💛
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
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Totally agree.
It was my Dad who took me to my first game 50 years ago & I'll be eternally grateful that he did.
i think it was said during the O'Leary times that we had the biggest percentage of season ticket holders in the league from a postcode outside the town/city.
think the majority of our out of town fans are of a certain age and come from an area that doesnt have a major team travel round these towns now and you will see Man City etc shirts.
I always find it odd when people who are born in Leeds support another team like Man Utd, Liverpool etc. Baffles me. You see it more and more these days as well. Theres a few who i work with. Lives in Morley but supports Liverpool? Strange
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I always find it odd when people who are born in Leeds support another team like Man Utd, Liverpool etc. Baffles me. You see it more and more these days as well. Theres a few who i work with. Lives in Morley but supports Liverpool? Strange
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My nearest team is Peterborough, but thats 35 mile away and L1 level. Norwich is next but its still 50 miles away. Closest prem team is Leicester which is about 70 odd away. I'm 1 and a half hours away from the train rolling right past the Emirates so I could get away with being Arsenal.
Leeds is 135 miles if anyone was wondering how far I come up. Purple sectors on the way home after midweek games 😏
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
I always find it odd when people who are born in Leeds support another team like Man Utd, Liverpool etc. Baffles me. You see it more and more these days as well. Theres a few who i work with. Lives in Morley but supports Liverpool? Strange
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Sacrilege.
But to me it's as bad for anyone from the righteous side of the Pennines to be a schum fan. I've no idea how they can look at themselves in the mirror.
Born in Coventry. Growing up had no influence on who to support as football wasn’t a big deal in my house growing up. When I was at school started to collecting football cards. Leeds was the first team I completed and have supported them ever since for over 30 years. Spent most of my adult life living in Nottingham but have now moved to Sheffield and have married a Yorkshire lass. Am slowly moving my way up to Leeds.
I know lots of Liverpool fans never even stepped inside Liverpool in their lives, always ask them why they want be associated with a demographic that think for some reason they aren’t part of the uk, don’t work and always seem to have a massive chip on their shoulders about being the victim. 😂 too easy to wind up.
Born in South Wales, been following Leeds since 72-73. I think I started supporting Leeds because when I started getting interested in football, Don was in charge and we had a great team. There are a lot of Leeds fans in South Wales around my age. Nearest league team is Newport County 15 miles away, I go to watch them occasionally, but not this season. Was at the game when they knocked us out of the FA cup, I was needless to say, fuming.
Born in Kiel Germany. Moved to Norway as a kid, and found there are lots and lots of Leeds fans here.
Living in a small town, but one of the pubs have the 2nd floor reserved for Leeds fans. Scarfs and flags all along the walls. It's beautiful.
Leeds chooses you. And if some don't like that, well then; that's their problem, not mine
Erm, actually I'm from Greater Manchester, though in my defence when I was young it was Lancashire (though that will matter not to the white roses).
My gran bought me my first football strip when I was in infant school -- a Man U kit!! (I'm still having therapy!)
The first football ground I visited was Bolton Wanderers (Burnden Park back in the day).
My first visit to the hallowed turf of Elland Road was to take my missus to a Rod Stewart concert. (Been for footy twice since in the "Prawn Sandwich" suite - sorry Norman).
Despite all that, the ONLY team I've ever supported is Leeds United. Fell in love with watching them on the telly back in the Bremner/Harvey days aged 10 and stuck with them for over 50 years now.
So, if there's anybody who wants to throw some electronic bricks at the obvious target - here I am!
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
Born in Kiel Germany. Moved to Norway as a kid, and found there are lots and lots of Leeds fans here.
Living in a small town, but one of the pubs have the 2nd floor reserved for Leeds fans. Scarfs and flags all along the walls. It's beautiful.
Leeds chooses you. And if some don't like that, well then; that's their problem, not mine
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👏👏👏👏
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
Born in Kiel Germany. Moved to Norway as a kid, and found there are lots and lots of Leeds fans here.
Living in a small town, but one of the pubs have the 2nd floor reserved for Leeds fans. Scarfs and flags all along the walls. It's beautiful.
Leeds chooses you. And if some don't like that, well then; that's their problem, not mine
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100% MOT
comment by BATTYWACK (U2254)
posted 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
Born in Coventry. Growing up had no influence on who to support as football wasn’t a big deal in my house growing up. When I was at school started to collecting football cards. Leeds was the first team I completed and have supported them ever since for over 30 years. Spent most of my adult life living in Nottingham but have now moved to Sheffield and have married a Yorkshire lass. Am slowly moving my way up to Leeds.
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Well, I’m a Leeds fan who has lived in both of those cities, and like you lived in them when I was single. The issue is I fronted up on the other side of the world when I got married!! 🙄
comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 14 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
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Totally agree.
It was my Dad who took me to my first game 50 years ago & I'll be eternally grateful that he did.
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WASnow….Forgot to mention that as a kid I spent several school holidays in and around Harrogate. My grandmother lived in Bilton up by the old railway line and then the other side of Bilton in Cavendish Street. Always enjoyed my trips to Knaresborough,York and the coast up by Scarborough and Whitby.
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 1 day, 11 hours ago
Those Yorkshire folk who support a team from over Pennines is bizarre. Like Geoff Boycott. ManU and Yorkshire CC. Just bizarre. Can’t get my head round it.
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What about the other way around Kebablegs?
I was born on the wrong side of the Pennines (though only by a few miles) and spent my first three years in Manchester.
Then we moved to Leeds and I was introduced to ER in 1974. The final days of Revie's great side, though we did have Eddie Gray living in our village.
Moved down south as I became a teenager and have been living in south-west London since the late eighties. Have been a ST holder for the last eight years.
I certainly don't sound like someone from Yorkshire, but I'm not sure it matters where you come from or why you follow Leeds, if you're giving the side your support, that's enough.
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 23 hours, 53 minutes ago
comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 14 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
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Totally agree.
It was my Dad who took me to my first game 50 years ago & I'll be eternally grateful that he did.
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WASnow….Forgot to mention that as a kid I spent several school holidays in and around Harrogate. My grandmother lived in Bilton up by the old railway line and then the other side of Bilton in Cavendish Street. Always enjoyed my trips to Knaresborough,York and the coast up by Scarborough and Whitby.
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🙂👍
Interesting comments from everyone & great to see there seems little animosity from the most local fans towards the more far flung.
Which of course doesn't surprise me, as i believe we have the best fans in the game. MOT!
I think the difference is that in every pub, up and down the country.
There always that one Liverpool or Skum fan, fat sweaty b@stard in a four year old replica shirt, even though its not game day, and never been to a game Lauding it over the people who support their local team.
Always chat shhite during super sunday, and mainly unemployed.
Boils my pis
If you cant get to the ground within half an hour you should be banned for life
comment by gelderd82 (U6817)
posted 43 minutes ago
If you cant get to the ground within half an hour you should be banned for life
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Getting to Elland Rd in half an hour would get me banned from driving for life.
I say 30 mins but only on a non-match day, can sometimes take me 45 mins otherwise haha
"If you cant get to the ground within half an hour you should be banned for life "
Is being stuck here not basically the same?..
I remember having this conversation a long time ago, not sure here or the old 606, but it had some calling people out because of them not living in the Leeds area!.
And my story I've told it so many times everybody should know it by now!.
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posted on 22/3/25
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
posted on 22/3/25
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 11 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 23 minutes ago
Born and bred Wakey lad. Always supported Leeds although if Wakefield had a team i would probably have supported them. Its a shame that a place like Wakefield doesn't have a team. Saying that i might have supported Leeds anyway!
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Wakefield FC potential promotion this season. Looking at getting their own groin near Walton I believe. Strangely in a lower division than Emley, Pontefract Colliries and Osset United and in the same division as Horbury (promotion rival), glasshougton and Nostell!
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Yeah i keep an eye on them and wish them well. Keep meaning to go watch them. The owner wants to get them up the leagues. Be nice to see them in the national leagues
posted on 22/3/25
Morning all🌞.
So, my take on this is that we should all be immensely proud and welcoming of all Leeds fans, wherever they were born or live now in the world.
We can either be proud of having a worldwide fan-base or look down on non-Beeston born and bread (and currently residing) fans, deriding them as ‘plastics’ and so on. We can’t have it both ways.
I’m proud of our worldwide fan-base. The more the merrier.
💙🤍💛
posted on 22/3/25
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
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Totally agree.
It was my Dad who took me to my first game 50 years ago & I'll be eternally grateful that he did.
posted on 22/3/25
i think it was said during the O'Leary times that we had the biggest percentage of season ticket holders in the league from a postcode outside the town/city.
think the majority of our out of town fans are of a certain age and come from an area that doesnt have a major team travel round these towns now and you will see Man City etc shirts.
posted on 22/3/25
I always find it odd when people who are born in Leeds support another team like Man Utd, Liverpool etc. Baffles me. You see it more and more these days as well. Theres a few who i work with. Lives in Morley but supports Liverpool? Strange
posted on 22/3/25
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 2 minutes ago
I always find it odd when people who are born in Leeds support another team like Man Utd, Liverpool etc. Baffles me. You see it more and more these days as well. Theres a few who i work with. Lives in Morley but supports Liverpool? Strange
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My nearest team is Peterborough, but thats 35 mile away and L1 level. Norwich is next but its still 50 miles away. Closest prem team is Leicester which is about 70 odd away. I'm 1 and a half hours away from the train rolling right past the Emirates so I could get away with being Arsenal.
Leeds is 135 miles if anyone was wondering how far I come up. Purple sectors on the way home after midweek games 😏
posted on 22/3/25
comment by Outwood White (U9610)
posted 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
I always find it odd when people who are born in Leeds support another team like Man Utd, Liverpool etc. Baffles me. You see it more and more these days as well. Theres a few who i work with. Lives in Morley but supports Liverpool? Strange
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Sacrilege.
But to me it's as bad for anyone from the righteous side of the Pennines to be a schum fan. I've no idea how they can look at themselves in the mirror.
posted on 22/3/25
Born in Coventry. Growing up had no influence on who to support as football wasn’t a big deal in my house growing up. When I was at school started to collecting football cards. Leeds was the first team I completed and have supported them ever since for over 30 years. Spent most of my adult life living in Nottingham but have now moved to Sheffield and have married a Yorkshire lass. Am slowly moving my way up to Leeds.
posted on 22/3/25
I know lots of Liverpool fans never even stepped inside Liverpool in their lives, always ask them why they want be associated with a demographic that think for some reason they aren’t part of the uk, don’t work and always seem to have a massive chip on their shoulders about being the victim. 😂 too easy to wind up.
posted on 22/3/25
Born in South Wales, been following Leeds since 72-73. I think I started supporting Leeds because when I started getting interested in football, Don was in charge and we had a great team. There are a lot of Leeds fans in South Wales around my age. Nearest league team is Newport County 15 miles away, I go to watch them occasionally, but not this season. Was at the game when they knocked us out of the FA cup, I was needless to say, fuming.
posted on 22/3/25
Born in Kiel Germany. Moved to Norway as a kid, and found there are lots and lots of Leeds fans here.
Living in a small town, but one of the pubs have the 2nd floor reserved for Leeds fans. Scarfs and flags all along the walls. It's beautiful.
Leeds chooses you. And if some don't like that, well then; that's their problem, not mine
posted on 22/3/25
Erm, actually I'm from Greater Manchester, though in my defence when I was young it was Lancashire (though that will matter not to the white roses).
My gran bought me my first football strip when I was in infant school -- a Man U kit!! (I'm still having therapy!)
The first football ground I visited was Bolton Wanderers (Burnden Park back in the day).
My first visit to the hallowed turf of Elland Road was to take my missus to a Rod Stewart concert. (Been for footy twice since in the "Prawn Sandwich" suite - sorry Norman).
Despite all that, the ONLY team I've ever supported is Leeds United. Fell in love with watching them on the telly back in the Bremner/Harvey days aged 10 and stuck with them for over 50 years now.
So, if there's anybody who wants to throw some electronic bricks at the obvious target - here I am!
posted on 22/3/25
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 1 hour, 37 minutes ago
Born in Kiel Germany. Moved to Norway as a kid, and found there are lots and lots of Leeds fans here.
Living in a small town, but one of the pubs have the 2nd floor reserved for Leeds fans. Scarfs and flags all along the walls. It's beautiful.
Leeds chooses you. And if some don't like that, well then; that's their problem, not mine
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👏👏👏👏
posted on 22/3/25
comment by Loidis-Norvegicus (U9680)
posted 2 hours, 37 minutes ago
Born in Kiel Germany. Moved to Norway as a kid, and found there are lots and lots of Leeds fans here.
Living in a small town, but one of the pubs have the 2nd floor reserved for Leeds fans. Scarfs and flags all along the walls. It's beautiful.
Leeds chooses you. And if some don't like that, well then; that's their problem, not mine
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100% MOT
posted on 23/3/25
comment by BATTYWACK (U2254)
posted 7 hours, 23 minutes ago
Born in Coventry. Growing up had no influence on who to support as football wasn’t a big deal in my house growing up. When I was at school started to collecting football cards. Leeds was the first team I completed and have supported them ever since for over 30 years. Spent most of my adult life living in Nottingham but have now moved to Sheffield and have married a Yorkshire lass. Am slowly moving my way up to Leeds.
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Well, I’m a Leeds fan who has lived in both of those cities, and like you lived in them when I was single. The issue is I fronted up on the other side of the world when I got married!! 🙄
posted on 23/3/25
comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 14 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
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Totally agree.
It was my Dad who took me to my first game 50 years ago & I'll be eternally grateful that he did.
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WASnow….Forgot to mention that as a kid I spent several school holidays in and around Harrogate. My grandmother lived in Bilton up by the old railway line and then the other side of Bilton in Cavendish Street. Always enjoyed my trips to Knaresborough,York and the coast up by Scarborough and Whitby.
posted on 23/3/25
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 1 day, 11 hours ago
Those Yorkshire folk who support a team from over Pennines is bizarre. Like Geoff Boycott. ManU and Yorkshire CC. Just bizarre. Can’t get my head round it.
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What about the other way around Kebablegs?
I was born on the wrong side of the Pennines (though only by a few miles) and spent my first three years in Manchester.
Then we moved to Leeds and I was introduced to ER in 1974. The final days of Revie's great side, though we did have Eddie Gray living in our village.
Moved down south as I became a teenager and have been living in south-west London since the late eighties. Have been a ST holder for the last eight years.
I certainly don't sound like someone from Yorkshire, but I'm not sure it matters where you come from or why you follow Leeds, if you're giving the side your support, that's enough.
posted on 24/3/25
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 23 hours, 53 minutes ago
comment by White as Snow (U22893)
posted 14 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by Real Estate - Costa Rican White - Podemos ser Top Four de nuevo (U21471)
posted 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
My question for you White as Snow….
What is your opinion then about Erling Haaland calling himself a Leeds fan? He left the city aged 3.
For me, he is the best example of your passion for the club having its roots in the footsteps of your father, mother or another close family member.
Definitely nothing wrong with that, I am sure most Leeds born and bred fans would agree?
Despite my father being Pudsey born and bred, I was Wiltshire born bred, loving Leeds and only Leeds, apart from supporting my home town club Trowbridge Town FC, which as a 9 year old reached its pinnacle in why is now the National Conference.
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Totally agree.
It was my Dad who took me to my first game 50 years ago & I'll be eternally grateful that he did.
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WASnow….Forgot to mention that as a kid I spent several school holidays in and around Harrogate. My grandmother lived in Bilton up by the old railway line and then the other side of Bilton in Cavendish Street. Always enjoyed my trips to Knaresborough,York and the coast up by Scarborough and Whitby.
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🙂👍
posted on 24/3/25
Interesting comments from everyone & great to see there seems little animosity from the most local fans towards the more far flung.
Which of course doesn't surprise me, as i believe we have the best fans in the game. MOT!
posted on 24/3/25
I think the difference is that in every pub, up and down the country.
There always that one Liverpool or Skum fan, fat sweaty b@stard in a four year old replica shirt, even though its not game day, and never been to a game Lauding it over the people who support their local team.
Always chat shhite during super sunday, and mainly unemployed.
Boils my pis
posted on 24/3/25
If you cant get to the ground within half an hour you should be banned for life
posted on 24/3/25
comment by gelderd82 (U6817)
posted 43 minutes ago
If you cant get to the ground within half an hour you should be banned for life
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Getting to Elland Rd in half an hour would get me banned from driving for life.
posted on 24/3/25
I say 30 mins but only on a non-match day, can sometimes take me 45 mins otherwise haha
posted on 24/3/25
"If you cant get to the ground within half an hour you should be banned for life "
Is being stuck here not basically the same?..
I remember having this conversation a long time ago, not sure here or the old 606, but it had some calling people out because of them not living in the Leeds area!.
And my story I've told it so many times everybody should know it by now!.
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