Jepp, vi er visstnok noen såkalte supportere 
auren
Drit i gamlingen, han er der ikke for evig tid, det er Leeds United vi holder med 
Syns faktisk ikke vi skal drite i gamlingen denne gangen. Makan til arrogant og nedlatende holdning overfor folk som legger igjen tusenvis av pund for å følge klubben sin i løpet av en sesong. Han tror selvsagt ikke at vi skjønner engelsk, har tilgang til internett eller er i stand til å navigere oss fram til websider hvor han blir sitert.
Får dessverre ikke med meg kampen i Bergen, men ville selvsagt ha blitt med på en "shoes off"-aksjon hadde jeg vært der. Kanskje er det på sin plass med en henvendelse fra LUSCOS også, der vi gjør det klart at vi får med oss hvordan nissefar ser på noen av klubbens mest lojale fans. Uten at det vil hjelpe en døyt selvsagt - annet enn for egen anstendighetsfølelse.
Kjenner at jeg ble forbanna nå - og en del fortrengte følelser blusset opp igjen.
Er det sikkert at gamlingen har sagt dette?
Link/kilde?
Om det stemmer er det ein uforskamma nedlatende tone ovenfor norske fans.
Som Håvard er inne på; kanskje en sak for luscos?
Det er hentet fra waccoe. Han sa dette i intervjuet sitt med Yorkshire Radio i går. Her er hele intervjuet:
I've typed it word-for-word so if it doesn't make sense, blame Bates. Also, my recording stopped at one moment (a pretty crucial bit too) so missed a few seconds of it.
Let's start with last night's pre-season friendly, a 4-0 defeat at Bury. Should we be reading too much into this?
Well it depends what you mean by too much. The fact of the matter is, we went to them and we got thrashed. There's no point in beating about the bush. Maybe it's a reality check. A bit of euphoria about getting promotion last year, had a great summer then went off to Slovakia did very well although the weather was pretty bad from the point of view of temperature, 100 degrees nearly every day which is energy sapping and come back and OK Bury's a nice usual run out, knock it about, please the natives and let's go home and we got a hiding. Maybe a number of players who went home last night and hopefully had a bad night's sleep and hopefully woke up this morning and looked themselves in the mirror and said to themselves well we're back in the real world now, better shape up and get myself right. One or two players who thought they were worth a lot more money than they are being paid must now be beginning to ask themselves how do I justify what I am being paid now. Although it was very unwelcome last night, Jack Charlton took his Sheffield Wednesday side to Wigan and got thrashed 5-0, he brought his subs on for the last 20 minutes to shame his starters because in those days of course you didn't make the same kind of subs as you make these days and off they went and all the Wigan fans were happy and blah-di-blah-di-blah, and Wigan just scraped promotion that year while Sheffield Wednesday walked out of division two. So it may well be that this result is a blessing in disguise. Any hint of complacency in the camp is now well and truly gone, and the players have now got to buckle down. Simon's comments about not tackling, not in possession not this, not that, not the other, well they will be from now on and it's up to them to demonstrate that at Hartlepool.
Chairman, a crowd of 2700 at the game with 1700 of them leeds fans, it just shows the appetite around the city ahead of the start of the new season…
It says it all doesn't it. So the players should know that and earn their wages. We'll finish off on what counts is the 7th of August. Let's not get too depressed, let's keep things in perspective.
Chairman, you mentioned the tour to Slovakia. It was an unusual destination but deemed a success all-round.
We've created a lot more friends over there, let's hope they don't get English TV or radio to find out what happened last night. It was a success, we had good crowds, I think 4,000 or 5,000 in one and 3,700 in the other so that was good as well.
Chairman, a new member of the backroom staff yesterday, Mervyn Day joins as chief scout, does this involve a restructure of the scouting system and a new approach?
Well I've said before, a football club works harder in the close season than it does during the season when it's more like a matter of routine. There have been an awful lot of reviews and shake-ups going on at Elland Road and Thorp Arch this summer and one of the things we reviewed was our scouting and coaching system and it was felt that with Mr Walker leaving and retiring, we thought it was a good chance to review our practises and if we can seek a new direction and Mervyn Day became available, of course he's an ex-Leeds boy so it makes life easier, and he's very enthusiastic about the club still even though he has been away for a number of years, he'd be great to head up our scouting. It's laid out like a pyramid system now. Meryvn will be the head scout, he'll have senior scouts reporting to him, and below them will be junior scouts so that way we hope to cover the whole country, reporting on games and opponents we're going to play in the future, but also scouring the, obviously Yorkshire intensively for new young blood and on a wider scale but not so intensively across the whole country. We hope this will be beneficial for us, not just this year or next year but in the long run in 10-15 years. We're laying the foundations of a long-term future success and I think this is one of the steps in the right direction.
Chairman, also this week some Brazilian players are arriving for a trial with the club, do you know whether any of them are Kaka's cousin?
Haha, never know it might be Kaka in disguise, hahaha. It's quite interesting, you know I live Monaco, funny enough it's quite a centre for football agents, one of them I know said he had a couple of friends in Italy who said they would like to come and see me from Milan about two months ago and they brought a most impressive man (BASTARD RECORDING BROKE, comes back in here…) at our expense and stay with us for a week and we will sort out the wheat from chaff, who knows? We can't really lose on this it's a very limited expenditure if we pick up one or two signings out of nine that's an absolute win. Any more than that then it'll be an absolute bonus and if they're not then its cost us hotel accommodation and food so we're very hopeful on this. On a slightly different note, when we were in Malta recently, Suzannah saw this smart young man who caught her eye and smiled, she said 'do you play football?' and it turned out yes he bloody does and he's coming over to join our academy for a fortnight but at least he's keen, hard-working, he's big, strong, he plays for one of the top clubs' junior sides in Malta and who knows, we might unearth another future star. We are doing this all the time in unexpected directions because we need to improve our youth teams and the quality of our reserves so more hard work.
Chairman, you mentioned an on the road event, there's one more coming up in Norway next week as part of the pre-season friendly. Why is Norway such a stronghold for Leeds?
It's one of those happy accidents of history and we were very happy to capitalise on it. Unfortunately the team we were going to play went bust, probably run by a Norwegian version of Mr Ridsdale. The team we are playing is quite strong and we are going over and all of our fans of course, make a nice break for them and of course the Leeds on the Road. There's 3 to 4 thousand so called Leeds supporters over there and it's about time they joined the Leeds members club, which actually does something for the club. So there will be a big event but it will be a closed shop, if they are not Leeds members they won't be allowed in. And they see the players, the usual thing. So it's a great ambassadorial missionary statement from us. Then after that we come back and it's Wolverhampton Wanderers and onto the serious stuff.
Chairman, I ask you this every Wednesday, but can you give us an update on transfers?
Yes, nice and quietly behind the scenes thankyou. And Ben I can assure you and your listeners will be the first to know when there is any movement.
Chairman, we'll move on to one of the big issues yesterday, a few clubs came out and banned vuvuzelas, will Leeds United be following suit?
We will. We wont be having them in Leeds and we will be very firm about it. In fact, we'll go even further about it, if anyone brings them in and starts blowing them they will be thrown out. Not just the vuvuzela but the bloke as well. I think they are a dreadful noise. It was OK at first as a bit of a novelty but they got an absolute pain in the… bum towards the end and there's no tune. They're not playing a tune, they are just blowing a noise and frankly we can do without it. I like all the Leeds songs, I like familiar chants and familiar songs, I think the majority of our fans like their usual refrains as well and we don't want that to be put out of business by that horrible African noise.
auren
