Medogsfat wrote:

sveifors wrote:

Hello, marching on together. I saw the game on the internet here 500 km north of the polar circle. I am still flying high. Couldn't be sweeter than this, well worth waiting for.

I have been a lifelong Leedsfan since I was 10 years in 1970, I listen to every match on Yorkshire radio/or LUTV.

 

Soon I must have my first visit to Leeds and Elland Road.

 

It must be a Scandanavian thing - Stefan Edberg is also a HUGE LUFC fan.

I don't live far away from the hallowed turf so if you ever get to visit I will gladly chaperone you😐

Chris.

Thanks, Maybe I take you up on that 😁

sveifors wrote:

Thanks, Maybe I take you up on that 😁

Which game are you going to Svein-Magne??

Spurs 2 -  Leeds Utd 2

Beckford equalising in the 96th minute - what a finale. Can't wait for the replay at Elland Rd, if the first game was anything to go by it should be another drama filled cracker!

Chris.

Yep - no doubt the game will be a sell out. Are you watching Wigan?

Teams only get relegated when the players are not good enough on the pitch. Leeds deserve to be in Div 1 and until they get promoted thats where they belong. I hate all this "too big to go down" or  "big club" stuff. Its all rubbish. Leeds are a Div 1 team and thats where, at the moment, they belong.

Being a Crystal Palace fan I am well used to promotion then instant relegation and the club having no money. We are more "yoyo" than any other club and long may it continue. The seasons are always exciting with either promotion or relegation in our grasp. It must be boring to support a club that wins things!

Have to disagree with you there Richard, simply because Leeds fans with long memories and extensive Beolit collections will recall endless Wigan and Portsmouth fans crowing over Leeds' relegation on phone-ins such as 606 on Radio 5. The level of piety they professed was absolutely ridiculous, hammering on about how their clubs were well run and would never fall into the same trap that Leeds did..blah..etc. Well, a few years on and Portsmouth look set to be the first Premier League club to go into administration (with a Chief Exec who makes Peter Ridsdale look like a cross between Mary Poppins and Mother Theresa), and Wigan with their average gate of about 5 men and a dog seem set to be finally put out of their misery this season - and not before time. I remember watching Scarborough play Wigan in about 1994 in the old Div 3 at the McCain stadium and to be honest, that's about the level that a small town with more interest in Rugby League should be supporting a football team at. Sadly, Scarborough went to the wall a few years back, showing how fickle the whole football circus really is. Leeds is a massive city with one football team with a relatively recent silverware-winning tradition, and one day Leeds will be back where they belong in the top flight selling out nearly 40,000 seats each home game regardless of who the opposition is.

Sorry, I didnt mean anything bad about Leeds. What I meant was that if a team is relegated or is in a certain division, then that is where they deserve to be because its the players that get teams relegated not the chairman. I dont think any team "deserves" to be in a certain league just because they can get lots of people in their ground. If Man U have a bad season and go down, then so be it.

Leeds could be back in the Premiership in a couple of years and if they are you can thank Crystal Palace as we rejected Beckford when we took him on trial!

Palace may well go out of business (I think selling the legend that is Victor Moses will save us) and if we did I would be gutted. BUT thats life and business. I dont think football clubs should be protected in any different ways to any other business. I would like to see ownership limited to British people (no offence meant to the overseas members) but I expect that would fall foul of EU laws.

Good luck to Leeds in the Replay and you never know it could be a Palace V Leeds final and if it is I will buy you a beer in half time at Wembley

I confess to not supporting football - I have been to two Newcastle games and have no plans to return any time soon! However I do think that Leeds and indeed Newcastle do deserve to be Premier division sides. Why? Because they do get 40,000 crowds and therefore bring in the money. It is the chairmen and boards who get teams relegated because they do not run the businesses properly. Manchester United etc will not be relegated as they can (at the minute!) spend the money to bring the correct players to avoid this. Money does talk - Blackburn bought the title some years ago I seem to remember.

I do regret however this age of overpaid primadonnas. It is a shame that more local players do not feature in the sides - players who play for the love of the team that they supported as a child. Liverpool still have some and Newcastle always seem to have one or two as well.

I'm a rather television bound Liverpool supporter but I'm happy to see Everton do well also, so most Liverpool and Everton fans will not view me as a supporter at all! Liverpool did exceptionally well in the pre Sky / money days. 25 years ago the Liverpool manager (Bob Paisley) lived in a modest semi in Woolton, Liverpool (current value <£250k?) Rafa Benitez currently lives in a rather more exclusive residence on the Wirral (current value >£5m?) Even young Torres can happily fund a house in Woolton costing at least four times that of Paisley's.  There's so much money being pumped into football, but the players seem to take most of it leaving many clubs themselves in a precarious financial position. Any big club could suffer the same fate as Leeds or Newcastle.

Fans have unrealistic demands...... Liverpool and Everton both need new stadia, and are practically next door to each other (and both started life at Anfield.) A shared new stadium would give each club a fantastic financial advantage but 99% of both sets of fans couldn't stomach it!

Graham

Had to resurrect this thread - Super Leeds back into the Championship today!!