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Sjansemania på LUTV. Utrolig at det ble med den ene skåringen.

Phil Hay ‏@PhilHayYEP 31m
From McDermott's presser, confirms Aidy White will start v Burnley tomorrow. Very strong hint that Byram might too. #lufc

Ã... herregud... HAN ER (kanskje) TILBAKE!! Jeg tror seriøst jeg dåner!!

 Phil Hay ‏@PhilHayYEP 31m
From McDermott's presser, confirms Aidy White will start v Burnley tomorrow. Very strong hint that Byram might too. #lufc

Godeste White  var uheldig med at Warnock ble hentet til klubben samtidig som han selv hadde en god periode på venstrebacken, håper og tror at han griper sjansen i morgen. Det ville gjort meg lykkelig!

Aidy og Sam på hver sin side = vann i munnen...

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-sam-byram-ups-recovery-1-6045897

Gosh.. Jeg gleder meg!!!

Han sier jo noe sånn som " Herregud, som vi savner Gary Speed" etter å nevnt all dritten og skitne Leeds. Det henger på greip jo. 

Uansett , dette er kunst, ikke årsrapporten til statoil ffs.

Fantastisk levert! Et episk homage til Speedo, og en salig gjennomgang av  historier som også har formet mitt forhold til Leeds. Gåsehud og ikke et tørt øye her på morgenkvisten.

MOT

New recruit Scott Wootton admits he can’t wait to get started to life as a Leeds United player.
The 21-year-old has agreed a three-year contract with the club â€" after a deal was agreed with Manchester United for his services - and the former England Youth international was meeting his new team-mates for the first time on Thursday morning.
“I found out about the interest a couple of weeks ago now,” said Scott, who has Champions League experience.
“The gaffer rang the club and asked about me and he came to watch me play in a reserve game. Since then it has taken about a week to get the deal done and I’m now delighted to be a Leeds player.
“I thought the time was right to move, I’ve had a great education there but I’m a Leeds player now and I’m really looking forward to the challenge to taking the club forward.
“It wasn’t really a big decision to come to a club the size of Leeds. Leeds showed interest in me and it’s a club that I really wanted to come to.”
Scott made four appearances for his previous club, but he also gained valuable experienced with Peterborough United and Nottingham Forest, and he is now looking forward to continuing that with his move to Elland Road.
“Every player wants to play regular football and I’ll be delighted if that is the case but there is a great team here and a great squad so it will be a challenge for me,” said the youngster.
“That was why I was so excited to come here, I know the league after having a couple of loan spells at Nottingham Forest and Peterborough. They are two good clubs and I now know the league pretty well and I had a good experience.
“I don’t feel like I have anything to prove to Manchester United. I think this is the perfect step at the perfect club. I played four games for the first team last year and that was a great experience but I think this is the right time for me to move on.
“The gaffer here said he really wanted me to come here, which obviously means a lot. He said that he is delighted that I have signed for the club and just said that it was a perfect move for me and I’m delighted to hear that from the manager.”
- See more at: http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/4myys603mhqp180lqa9w4aiyc/title/scott-cant-wait-to-get-started#sthash.KYljJeD6.dpuf

Pearce MoM. Peltier solid på høyreback, at han har blitt vurdert som noe annet er latterlig. Kenny viser hvor viktig han kommer til å bli denne sesongen. Skuffende at mange fine opprullinger ikke .resulterer i flere sjanser. Savner at McCormack er litt mer  direkte, den ene gangen han er det blir det jo målmålmål.   Og den famøse fjerdesigneringen bør vel væreen ving?

Disse derbykampene lever litt sitt eget liv, det kunne gått begge veier. 1-1 greit nok

[Hørtes]

Hørtes ut som en "ny" spiller i dag! Spennende om han får gjøre høyrebacken til sin, og vi blir kjent med den spilleren han var i H*dders.

En god rekke kamper av Peltier nå kan også bety at Byram blir å bekle en mer offensiv posisjon når han endelig er skadefri. Fantastisk på backen offensivt og defensivt, men gutten er forsatt ung nok til at han kan formes til å bli hva som helst, hvor som helst ( på banen altså, i Leeds).

Ser at flere mener at Peltier var Leeds sin dårligste..?!?!

Ser det ja, men særlig BBC Radio Leeds-gutta hørtes entusiastiske ut over Peltier på høyrebacken i 1.omgang. Mener Kirwin og Gray også slang inn et lovord i 2.omgangen da jeg hørte på de.

[Hørtes]

Hørtes ut som en "ny" spiller i dag! Spennende om han får gjøre høyrebacken til sin, og vi blir kjent med den spilleren han var i H*dders.

En god rekke kamper av Peltier nå kan også bety at Byram blir å bekle en mer offensiv posisjon når han endelig er skadefri. Fantastisk på backen offensivt og defensivt, men gutten er forsatt ung nok til at han kan formes til å bli hva som helst, hvor som helst ( på banen altså, i Leeds).

Smith som header ned på siste scoringen?

Yes. Er det en "cheeky" arm fra Murphy der også? Fantastiske jubelscener

Klassescoring av McCormack. For en helt!

Kenny <3 Smith <3 Murphy <3

["Sustainable"]

"Sustainable" er nøkkelordet i det utsagnet , ikke Reading. Klok tankegang.

Yes! Utløste nettopp et gledeshyl i stua. Han her har jeg tro på etter det jeg har sett i cup og på FL show. BMc er i gang!

Hva med Palace-kaptein Mile Jedinak, 28 år og midtbanespiller?

Lederen vi trenger sentralt i banen?

Ã...rets spiller i Palace, til og med foran Murray med sine 30 mål.


Her er hva Holloway sier om han (Teamtalk):

Boss Ian Holloway added: "It's hard to put into words what this man brings to our club. Have I seen anyone like him in my time? No.

"I totally believe he will lead us, with the other lads, to an unbelievable end to this season.

Sjanseløst tror jeg. Om ikke Jedinak spiller PL neste sesong blir jeg overrasket, helst ikke med Palace dog.

http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/21/sport/fotball/leeds/27276503/


Eventuelt så kan det være at dette ikke var noen stpor sak, jfr eieren. Diouf hadde med seg kona, så det kan være han er som andre karer, og tar det mer rolig da....

Bedritne Dagbladet; uten å ha noen inngående kjennskap til saken skriver de "Fikk en lærepenge av to menn.", og impliserer at han fortjener bank.

Brighton var klart best i tre omganger, og brente en hel del sjanser, før de koblet helt ut i fjerde omgang i går. Merkelig. Palace under Holloway er blitt et usedvanlig kjedelig fotballlag, tror Holloway har snublet over den gamle "route one"-taktikktavlen sin. Håper virkelig ikke de går opp. Så blir det spennende å se hva Watford kan bringe på banen i PL, og da mener jeg hva som i kjøtt og blod.

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-bolton-wanderers-defender-keen-on-whites-move-1-5664689

Jeg håper for all del ikke vi hiver 1 million på bordet for en midtstopper som ikke er god nok for verken Bolton eller Leicester. Grøss!

auren

Lurer på om du sier dette basert på kunnskap, eller etter å ha lest en artikkel?

I Leicester havnet Mills i klammeri med Nigel Pearson. Der var han kaptein frem til da. I Bolton har han vært skadet fra desember til april.

Mitt tips er at Matt Mills bærer kapteinsbindet for oss i august (så fremst han er ordentlig restituert etter skade).

I mine øyne en kjempesignering skadefri.

Kun etter å ha lest halve artikkelen 

Jeg regner med at transferbudsjettet er stramt som vanlig, og da ønsker jeg ikke at vi bruker majoriteten av pengene på en midtstopper. En ny midstopper kommer relativt langt ned på min prioriteringsliste ihvertfall.

Kjenner ikke til Mills, men ser for meg en ny Jason Pearce - commanding centreback.
Det må dessuten være en grunn til at BMD valgte å kvitte seg med Mills i utgangspunktet?

auren

Det var 4,5 millioner grunner til at Mills ble solgt til Lcster. Divisjonens desidert beste stopper under McDermott og Gibbs i Reading.

Milton Keynes Dons were created on 21 June 2004, nine months after Wimbledon F.C.'s relocation to Milton Keynes in September 2003 and its subsequent administration and renaming. Being in law the same business, MK Dons initially claimed the history of Wimbledon F.C. as its own, but stopped doing so in 2007, in part to ensure the recognition of its supporters groups by the Football Supporters Federation, which had previously boycotted the team. Since 2007, the board of MK Dons has maintained that the club is a new one, founded in 2004.

Det som forsatt gjenstår er vel at de sier fra seg "Dons"-navnet?

Lcster - Watford 1-0
Nugent skårte helt på slutten. Hjemmelaget er solide bakover, begredelig fremover. Bortelaget det motsatte. Har en følelse av at Watford fikser seg avansement i returkampen, om de har tatt til seg lærdom fra siste seriekamp mot oss, selv om dette Lcster-laget minner meg om West Ham-laget som snek seg opp i fjor.

Foreslår at denne tråden flyttes til Off-Topic der den hører hjemme, og avslutter herved livet dens på OEF med en  hyllest:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/rob-atkinson/alex-ferguson-a-tribute_b_3235936.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

Alex Ferguson: A Tribute

by Rob Atkinson

The football-related media is in a frenzy of mourning today after the announcement that Sir Alex Taggart has decided to step down as Supreme Dictator of the FA Premier League. Who will follow him, they ask, tearing their hair and wringing their hands in distress. Chelsea fans may be surprised to hear that Bridge-bound Jose Mourinho is being mentioned as inheritor of the poisoned chalice that is the hot-seat at the Theatre of Hollow Myths. But Jose is surely too fly and savvy to "do a McGuinness" as the task of following a long-serving Man U manager is known in the game. Everton fans too may be wondering whether David Moyes will be offered the chance to step into the role of "Premier League's Token Grumpy Scotch Git." Whoever ends up in Mr Ferguson's gout-adapted tartan slippers has a job on his hands alright, and will need urgently to review the manual on "How To Bully and Intimidate For Personal and Professional Gain".

The loss for the media will be acute. Hacks as a breed dearly love the cosy familiarity of a tyrant at the top of the game, someone who is an outlet for all of their natural tendency to fawning sycophancy, a figurehead over whom they can compete to praise in the most glowing terms whilst neatly overlooking the glaring flaws of a man who has been a study in coarseness and choleric wrath when things even threaten to go other than as he would like. The newspaper journos will miss "S'ralex" - he represented continuity for them, an opportunity to trot out well-worn cliches and perpetuate comfortable myths. Now they may even have to think before starting another Man U piece - it will be a shock to be so brutally jolted out of a 26 year comfort zone.

Ferguson has his place in the history of the game. He will serve as the biggest negative example of how to ruin the previously positive image of a historically-respected football club, making of them a byword for arrogance and the tendency to ride roughshod over the rules and conventions of the game. He is there as a useful comparator for the true greats of football and how they went about their business, with humour, humility and a sense of their own fallibility. The likes of Busby, Shankly, Revie, Stein, Nicholson et al are all part of the rich fabric of the game, all lost to us now, but all clearly capable of favourable assessment in the light of the Ferguson legacy; none will suffer in comparison with the man from Govan.

People will point to his record of success - and sycophants and revisionists will hastily gloss over his difficult early years at Man U when the home crowd called for his head and despaired of ever being able to aspire to the levels of Liverpool and Everton, great clubs run properly. The re-organisation of the game and its finances when the Premier League came in was highly opportune for Ferguson, and he certainly made hay while the sun shone; it shone for him for the bulk of the remaining 20 years of his career. Ferguson suddenly found himself in charge of a racehorse competing in a donkey derby, the interests of consumers suddenly paramount, the need to sell satellite dishes and replica shirts in hotbeds of Man U support like Devon and Milton Keynes emphasising the commercial importance of a successful Man U team.

All of a sudden, the top players wanted to go to Salford, all of a sudden the statistics of the game tilted heavily in Ferguson's favour. Penalties against them had never been plentiful, now they were as rare as a rosebush in the desert. Ferguson's natural personality came to the fore; his tendency to bully and to rant began to produce real results in terms of the attitude of the media and of the game's officials, both on the field in the shape of cowed and terrified referees, and off it with the administrators unwilling to court commercial unpopularity by waving the rule book under that purple nose. The most familiar sound-bite emanating from Lancaster Gate was suddenly "The FA can confirm that Alex Ferguson will face no disciplinary action for (insert example of blatant disregard for the rules here.)"

Referees became aware of the fact that those of their number who made a decision not to the liking of Ferguson tended to wait a very long time before selection for another fixture involving Man U. These are high profile games, and referees increasingly had to look to their own career prospects as their role assumed more of a professional profile. So they tended to knuckle under, perhaps only subconsciously, but the effect over many years has been enough bizarrely ridiculous decisions in favour of Man U to spoil the digestion of many a football fan who remembers fairer days pre-Murdoch, pre-Man U dominance.

Given this decided slope of the playing field in Man U's favour, the wonder of it all is that they haven't won more. There have been years when the Title has gone elsewhere; remarkable this, in a game of fine margins where one study exposed as fact that 88% of all 50-50 decisions went the way of the Salford Franchise. This is the measure of Ferguson's failure; a manager who was also a good coach would surely have cleaned up in such a very favourable environment.

So what now for Man U? To be honest, I can see their domination continuing. It's likely that the public image of the club will be enhanced under a manager who does not represent quite so many of the negative personality traits exhibited by Ferguson. It will certainly be interesting to see if a world-renowned coach - if appointed - can improve on their patchy record in Europe, where Ferguson's habit of intimidating refs has not been such a marked advantage to them. Two somewhat lucky Champions League wins is a poor return for twenty years of almost unlimited opportunity, and a better man in charge might perhaps improve on this and finally give Man U more justification for their laughable claims that they have "knocked Liverpool (Five European Cups) off their perch."

The question will be asked next season "Who's the greatest manager in football now?" The answer will be the same as this season: choose any one from Mourinho, Wenger and Hitzfeld. All the propaganda in the world cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

ioseb - Agartha

http://open.spotify.com/album/6z3czYlsyMDcEgzu6zRj3j

Fullkommen

Med Paul Huntington på stopperplass. Uten skadeproblemene tror jeg han kunne blitt en stor spiller for oss.   

Herlig med seier.
Men kan noen fortelle meg hvorfor
ikke vår reservekeeper fikk sjansen
i denne kampen?

For vi har et visst profesjonelt ansvar ovenfor resten av ligaen å stille med vårt beste mannskap i en såpass avgjørende kamp. Ã... vrake en av ligaens beste keepere for en 20-åring som vært på utlån i conference north hele sesongen ville ikke nødvendigvis blitt så godt motatt.
En Hull-kamerat av meg har lagt inn en bestilling av en Kenny-drakt for å feire opprykket  

(Om du mente Ashdown, så er han nyoperert, men det gjelder forsåvidt det samme da - beste mannskap)

Ryan Colclough

http://hereisthecity.com/2013/04/30/ld-the-crewe-youngster-who-could-be-perfect-for-leeds-united/

Ungt Crewe-produkt. Det holder for meg. Sign him up!

Syntes Brighton sitt røde kort er rimelig greit. Hindrer jo en klar målsjanse.
Austin sitt ser døvt ut, Ashley Barnes er ikke mors beste barn.
Går ikke an å  forsvare det Diouf driver med. Liker måten McDermott tar et oppgjør med det hele på. Kort og godt ikke akseptabelt, dumme røde kort har vi ikke råd til.

Brentford - Doncaster 0-1

Doncaster vinner L1, og kommer opp sammen med Bournemouth som var klar for opprykk forrige runde.
Brentford ville rykket opp automatisk med seier i denne kampen, da måtte Doncaster tatt til takke med play-off. Brentford får straffe i 95. minutt, brenner det og Doncaster går opp på motsatt side og scorer. Billy Paynter med assist!

Samtidig er Wolves med tidligere Doncaster-manager Dean Saunders så godt som rykket ned til L1...

Drygt..

Jeg pleier å måtte bruke tid på å venne meg til nye drakter, så også denne gang.
Førsteinntrykket er sånn midt-på-treet grei :/

For å sette den inn i en historisk sammenheng

http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Leeds_United/Leeds_United.htm

Asics <3