Leeds United 2016/17 thread

Although Elland Road is the most hostile stadium I've ever been to - primarily in the 70s - they had a bloody awesome squad/team - Bremner, Giles, Clarke, the Gray brothers, Hunter, Charlton, Reaney, Lorimer, Jones, Cooper, Madeley and Harvey. All hard bastards.
Always remember Norman (hardest player in the league) Hunter punching Franny Lee in the mouth. Our Franny, all 5 foot 7 of him came back at the 6 foot something Hunter throwing left and right hooks. Watch Hunter going backwards and down in the face of Franny's superb boxing technique.
 
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I get that, in fact quite a lot of posters on here say the same. However, I've never had a bad experience with them, and the Leeds fans I've met have been good lads.
Personally, on a one-to-one basis I've never had a bad experience with any Leeds fans. Some of my mates are Leeds fans.
 
Although Elland Road is the most hostile stadium I've ever been to - primarily in the 70s - they had a bloody awesome squad/team - Bremner, Giles, Clarke, the Gray brothers, Hunter, Charlton, Reaney, Lorimer, Jones, Cooper, Madeley and Harvey. All hard bastards.

Ask Francis Lee if he thought Hunter was hard:

 
Although Elland Road is the most hostile stadium I've ever been to - primarily in the 70s - they had a bloody awesome squad/team - Bremner, Giles, Clarke, the Gray brothers, Hunter, Charlton, Reaney, Lorimer, Jones, Cooper, Madeley and Harvey. All hard bastards.
And every one of them, from number 1 to number 11, were a bunch of cloggers, the worst being Giles. Clarke was the best ankle tapper I've ever seen - the number of defenders who mysteriously "tripped" on a one to one chase for the ball with him, leaving him clean through on goal. It wasn't until slow motion replays came in that you saw what he was doing. And don't get me started on Bremner, Hunter et al.

Hated the team, the ground, the supporters, the tactics, the "gamesmanship" (AKA cheating). What was there to like?
 
....Hated the team, the ground, the supporters, the tactics, the "gamesmanship" (AKA cheating). What was there to like?
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And every one of them, from number 1 to number 11, were a bunch of cloggers, the worst being Giles. Clarke was the best ankle tapper I've ever seen - the number of defenders who mysteriously "tripped" on a one to one chase for the ball with him, leaving him clean through on goal. It wasn't until slow motion replays came in that you saw what he was doing. And don't get me started on Bremner, Hunter et al.

Hated the team, the ground, the supporters, the tactics, the "gamesmanship" (AKA cheating). What was there to like?

M62 back to Manchester that's all.

Horrible place, horrible fans with a team set up to cheat their way to success.
 
Not a massive fan of Dirty Leeds. I was there when they smashed up the Platt Lane end, and just managed to escape a kicking on the way out of the ground when a copper on a horse got between us and a mob of marauding Leeds fans.
 
Don't think the M62 was there in those days. Had to go through Huddersfield and over Standedge on the A62.
Meant these days reference the M62.

Back then went on the special trains, safety in numbers, but it was always dodgy at the best of times getting from the station to the ground and back again
 
As opposed to a false fact, yeah?

;-)
I remember seeing an interview with the Irishman Jack Charlton once and he reckoned that Revie didn't take any inspiration from the Madrid kit, but had noticed that you could spot the white kit a fraction quicker, when passing the ball. Don't know whether true or not but Charlton did then put that massive white stripe on to the front of the Middlesbrough kit.
Whatever the truth of it, I just hope Elland Road spontaneously combusts one day.
 

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