As can be expected living where I do I take a lot of stick and lately some sympathy (some geniune, some a piss take) for being Leeds, but I would not swap it for the world. I lived the dream and now I am enduring the ( never ending ?)nightmare. But one thing is it is NEVER boring. We could be a run of the mill Premiership team like Everton or Spurs or Villa where nothing ever happens but instead we are Leeds - the football soap opera. It is only the first week in March and yet, in a quiet moment, I was thinking of all the things that have happened in 2007 that have had me rushing to the net \ teletext \ SSN \ phoning mates to find out the latest goss. Since Jan in no particular order, here is a list of things we have discussed \ got annoyed over. Off the pitch 1.The mole - and the way it was all handled 2.The Captain deserting the sinking ship 3.The chairman inciting fans to attack a (ex?) director and being reported to police 4.Dave Jones offering to fight fans over a chant tha,t whatever your views is sung by other fans at him too but with no response from him 5.The Wilkinson rumours of a takeover 6.The arena \ hotel \ casino plans 7. Crowd of 29,500 turning up to show up Bates ticket price policy On the pitch \ team related 1. The Gary Kelly conspiracy (now joined by the Derry one) 2. Our FA Cup run effectively lasting 15mins before we were 2- 0 down at WBA 3. Bringing in 2 top quality players - Thompson and Flo then seeing them both get injured 4. Beating Hull away only to have our bubble burst by the fact that we acutally went down one place in the League to rock bottom 5. Failing to score or get a point against 9 men at Cardiff 6. Scoring at Birmingham only for the goal not to be given 7. Conceding a fluke \ wonder goal against Wednesday followed by another compared in some papers to Brazils in 1970 WC Final but then pulling 2 back in the dying minutes and still having time to hit the bar ! Like I say I love Leeds United me !!!! Dave _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist maybe if I can work out a reason I can get home
