Yes, Leeds is now a fallen giant, thanks to the financial mismanagement of Peter Risdale. but now, leeds is on a 7 game winning streak, and we'll have more to come!

any supporters out there? drop a post! u r welcomed.

This post has been edited by ballackahn: Nov 23 2007, 01:26 AM

Respect mate, good enough you have been a fan since being demoted to the Championship but kudos to you for starting a thread even though you're in the First Division now. Who's the boss now? Is it still Dennis Wise? Is David Healy still there? Pardon my ignorance but I seldom follow the progress of clubs outside the top 2 divisions. It's not an insult, it's a fact.

I remember the good old days. Lee Chapman, David Batty, Lucas Redebe, Gary Kelly, Ian Harte, Tony Yeboah (who incidentally scored the first ever Premiership goal unless I'm mistaken), Nigel Martyn and bunch. Kinda miss you lot actually because I used to watch you games.

This post has been edited by Duke Red: Sep 26 2007, 12:22 PM

There is a great article about the rise and fall of Leeds United in this month's FourFourTwo magazine. Quite interesting to read.. Although there are a lot of tension between Leeds and Manchester United fans, as a football fan I hope that they'll survive and return back to EPL.

They are in bad shape financially now... The fans don't deserve all this.

This post has been edited by schmeichel7: Sep 26 2007, 12:59 PM

Cheers mate, will pick up a copy on the way back to my car after work Missed last months issue as well.

Nice to see a fan who's stuck with his favourite club thru thick and thin. Leeds was a powerhouse back then, too bad the financial side of the club didn't go too well or we'd probably be looking at a Big Five in the Premier League. Still remember the days when Kewell, Viduka and Harte were playing their first team football there. And yea, their hero Alan Smith

I will still remember this fallen giant. Kudos for still being a fan

Leeds produced good heros...
Eric Cantona, Alan Smith, Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell....

DAvid Healy's in Fulham now.

Leeds... i still remember this Elland Road team,they play in CL in 2000 or 2001,lost to Madrid when Raul score a goal with his hand

tok abt leeds...i remember the ex-manager David O'Leary.

brought the team to CL Semi in 2001 then relegated next season :S

the sell of Rio Ferdinand to MU - record 30 mil pound for a defender @ that time

Healy left for Fulham. There's a bit of a Northern Irish brigade in Fulham , of course joining Lawrie Sanchez. Chris Baird is also among of them there.

Le Roi, Eric Cantona wasn't a product of Leeds. he only spent a year there and Howard Wilkinson sold him to us then for a mere 1 mill pounds. Bless Howard Wilkinson.

Ian Harte's free kick,viduka's composure in front of goal,kewell's dribbling n pace...alan smith's finishing,defensive line built up by ferdinand,woodgate,kelly,harte...
goal guarded by once England no1(bcoz seaman injured)
Nigel martyn.
remind me pls....they bought robbie Fowler who scored a hattrick on his debut for leeds?

used to look up to ian Harte as a player .. good to see LEEds seuporters are stilla round... and at least ur not another one of those glory hunter lalang suporters .. hope to see leeds back and give teh big foura run for their money...

A few American's there as well with Dempsey being the latest addition. I watched a footy programme once and it focused on Fulham. They have a pretty big following in the US of A.

I like him as a player. It's good to see him back after his not so publicised spell with Levante. I actually didn't pay much attention to were he went after Leeds and was surprised to see him in Spain, much like when I found out that Vinnie Samways was with Las Palmas.

By the way, we still have not received any thanks for helping you win your Premiership title

This post has been edited by Duke Red: Sep 26 2007, 03:28 PM

Nice to see a Leeds Untied thread here...hope that it is updated regularly
I for one would like to see them back at the top flight as I do have a soft spot for them (mainly because of the reason Don Revie decided to change their kit to all white of course )

Well you can't blame them for having aspirations though they've not done too well at emulating your success

really hope dat leeds can bounce back from their crisis... their main problems are not onfield but offield... they are doing ok on the pitch but its their stupid financial management dat brought the whole club down... sometimes its kinda hard to think or imagine dat this is the team dat progressed to the CL semi finals... and dat they used to hav world class players like viduka, kewell, keane, cantona, ferdinand, smith etc...

It's hard to see Leeds coming up to EPL. It'll take at least 5 years as currently their players & strength is nothing to shout about.
But boy, do they have a manager who can shout his lung out not to mention can start a fight in an empty room.

one question..can chelsea be like leeds?

why not?

lol..got many rumours that many chelsea players will walk out of the club...wonder they're goin to be like leeds someday..

yup i know... haiz... cant believe a giant like leeds fell so badly... they deserve better... yup dennis wise is doing one heck of a job by shouting his lungs out at a match... wondering if he will still be in charge if leeds really makes it to the premiership in the next few years... haha

hope leeds can make it to premiership too..someone who can manage the financial properly have to takeover leeds management and make them comeback..

Register me! I am Leeds United fan !

i may not be a leeds fan but i really do sympathize them... seriously... no matter how deep rivalry goes between clubs... its always bad to see any of them suffering from problems... as i do believe in a fair fight... same goes to my feelings about chelsea at the current moment... altho i dislike mourinho and his tactics... but for a club to let go a manager who has brought so much history and medals for the club... sacking him isn't worthwhile at all...

i enjoy to see leeds palying when there are smith and hasselbaink

haha..i once loved to watch their games..
especially when viduka team-up with smith..


well, if suddenly RA tired toying with us..maybe we'll have the same fate as Leeds

I was a leeds fan. Then i followed Arse when the mass exodus happened..

Nevertheless , it's good to see him doing well.. 7 Winning streak and if not for the point deduction, would have been top of the table..

can't wait for them to promote up....sighz

wow..this is cool...thought leeds had lost all its fans in malaysia..

the real story of leeds united's collapse can be found from this
URL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_United

Leeds went into liquidation last season, guess they are now debt free..

This post has been edited by ballackahn: Sep 28 2007, 02:43 AM

Debt free? Thats good news indeed. Now they can concentrate on the footballing side of things.

And I thought you should stand by your team

Just because of mass exodus and you change to Arsenal

This post has been edited by vreis: Sep 28 2007, 10:24 AM

The one game against Leeds I will always remember ended up with the following scoreline:

Mark Viduka 4 - Liverpool 0. I was watching the game in Kota Kinabalu at the time and it was a painful defeat.

I remembered a little kid balling his eyes out when Leeds were relegated. I would have liked to see his face when they went to Division 1

It was 4 - 3 mate, with Viduka scoring all four goals and declared, that wasn't my best game.

To be honest, many of us felt sorry for leedds, but how many of you know what really went wrong? Leeds' story was an eppitomy of what was wrong in football these days, they borrowed heavily against future success. Meaning taking unsecure loans with very high interest in anticipation of CL qualification and progress. When they had a few bust ups, started off with the Lee Bowyer & Jonathan Woodgate racism trial. Followed by a few other bust ups between players, as well as David O'Leary selling his story of the handling of the Racism saga to the newspaper, everything suddenly fell apart. It was a sad sight nevertheless. How a CL semifinalist went down on such a downward spiral fall that it would scared the best stuntman.

I used to enjoy the football they play, they have this no fear attitude about it, how they would just go and have a go at the opposition, without fearing who they are and while giving respect to the past achievements of the opposition, their approach to the game was akin to "Alright, you lots did well in the past and had a great team, we don't care, if you want our respect, you must come here and play us off the park and perhaps we will acknowledge it at the end of the game." It was great to watch.

Chelsea doing a Leeds? At the moment, I don't see that happening. At the moment, I thinkChelsea is the only debt free club with deep enough pockets from the owner. If he decided to sell, they are still pretty good for a few season yet before anything llike that can happen. Peter Kenyon, while hated pretty much everywhere he goes, is a very good business manager. He'd find ways to keep the club afloat, only thing would be the club have to sell off a few players who are choking the wage bill, that's all.

Current teams that is dangered to "emulate" Leeds in my honest opinion would be Spurs and Man U. This is without looking at their financial reports. Simply because both teams spent heavily and if there's no success on the field, or heaven forbids, crash out of Europe early, the board will have to undertake higher interest payments and that would put more strains on the financial of the club. Especially Man U who spent heavily in the summer while having a few hundred millions pound's debt deom Glazer buying the club. Howevcer, having said all that, I don't think the Leeds' situation will happen again, simply because after seeing what heppened to them, many of the chairman wised up and did not take as much risk. Let's hope for football sake it did not.

Woo, Leeds..hope to see you guys back in the Championship.. Relegation is painful, especially for the fans, but all you guys who stayed Leeds after the 2nd relegation, U guys are trully fans!

if u are a fan of a club u should stay by its side forever... dat's wat i believe in... leeds should be glad dat not all their fans in malaysia hav gone...

seriously the only player on the field i know is Tore Andr� Flo (from chelsea)

other then that , ken bates (from chelsea)
gus poyet and dennis wise ( also from chelsea )


looks like all formal chelsea is here....

I think a thread like this is long overdue. Too often, I've heard fans go silent after their teams have been relegated. I think it's all the more reason to start a thread like this so fellow supporters don't lose interest and they also get to receive updates on their teams progress. It's important the keep the following alive. It's weird when out of the blue, a team gets promoted and the fans magically appear out of nowhere.

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Added on October 1, 2007, 11:38 amI think a thread like this is long overdue. Too often, I've heard fans go silent after their teams have been relegated. I think it's all the more reason to start a thread like this so fellow supporters don't lose interest and they also get to receive updates on their teams progress. It's important the keep the following alive. It's weird when out of the blue, a team gets promoted and the fans magically appear out of nowhere.

This post has been edited by Duke Red: Oct 1 2007, 11:38 AM

Yea, R-e-s-t-e-c-p to the lads who stick with their fav club and not crop up out of nowhere when they resurface to the top flight. Fans and non-fans would be able to be updated with recent team news and how the club's progressing. I'm sure one day Elland Road will be back on the map

Elland Road has always been there, it's just that many ditched the team after the relegation, which is extremely disgraceful if you ask me. I hope it will become a fixture of EPL sooner rather than later. Another team I would really like to see is Nottingham Forest, off topic, but that's what I wanted to see.

What I meant was to have it back as one of the venues in the EPL. Its a stadium of such stature and history.

yup true true... put out some updates so dat malaysian leeds fan can be well informed on how well the team is doing currently...

However, it'll be probably be another 4-5 years b4 Leeds can come back to EPL..

LEEDS 1 (carole, 28)- GILLINGHAM 1 (cox, 90)

end of perfect start....

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Added on October 5, 2007, 1:51 pmLeeds 1 - oldham 0

9 games unbeaten streak!

This post has been edited by ballackahn: Oct 5 2007, 01:51 PM

i wonder can they go up this season?

can ken bates rescue leeds like how he rescue chelsea?

wow looks like Leeds on a rampage, now just 4 points behind the leaders....if not deducted points, i think leeds will go 11 points clear!

wah instantly convert me to a temporary Leeds fan!

Hope to see Leeds bounce back to Premiership. Leeds was always a threat to their opponent.

last night win again..alright ^^

finally they lost..
leeds 1 Carls 3

leeds work so hard ,hehe

Leeds kept on winning!!
Leeds 2 (Beckford 31,56) - 1 Swindon (Peacock, 46)

anyone can patch up updates about leeds...keep the thread alive!!

Doncaster Rovers 1 - 0 Leeds United

Doncaster Rovers promoted to the Championship.

so sad...penalty 15 points but still can go to playoffs right till the end...what an achievement if they really promoted....but sad...wait another year...

Man Utd will not be too happy if Leeds Utd makes it back to the big time... they hate Man Utd in Yorkshire!

Used to be fan of leeds united in the older days where the likes of ian harte,gary kelly,harry kewell,david batty,lucas redebe,mark viduka and etc..Sigh.....

Poor Leeds United, hope Chelsea suffer the same fate

This post has been edited by disco333: May 28 2008, 04:21 PM

I thought O'Leary did his best he could... Risdale and the board was the guilty one for 'chasing the dream'...

What a nightmare it has turned into ehh?

Yeah mate I get what you are saying. O'Leary was an Arsenal legend but he spent too much and was never able to bring any success to the club. You have to take your hat off to him though, some of his promotion of younger players, Jonathan Woodgate, Lee Bowyer, Alan Smith, Harry Kewell, Stephen McPhail, Eirik Bakke, Ian Harte and Danny Mills were great.

He in my opinion is the man that lead Leeds to where they are at the moment

Part of the equation lar...

BTW, Bowyer was bought from Charlton if my memory serves me correct, most expensive teenager at that time...

Really? Millis was signed from Charlton but what I mean is these players really developed under his tutelage

You are so off topic. BTW that could never happen.

Back to topic. Sad to see Leeds can't promote to Championship this season. Thought they would make a comeback. Sigh.

Well, judging from those 2 flying seasons, where are most of those players mentioned now? Or even after Leeds got relegated?

Kewell = bombed; Mills = so-so player; Bowyer - best years were at Leeds; Woodgate - still good; Duberry - can't comment, haven't seen him play since Leeds until last season for Reading; Kelly - again, so-so, Ian Harte - bombed after Leeds; Paul Robinson - LOL; McPhail - decent Championship level player; Bakke - no life after Leeds; Kilgallon - decent Championship player; Alan Smith - again, not the same player after Leeds etc...

Those players led Leeds to a Champions League semi-final. They might have slipped off the radar off late but it does not change the fact that they were above average players

And the only player that is still be able to keep up the standard, I'd say Woodgate. Though not as good during his time in Leeds.

Yes because the rest of them has aged. You don't really think that they can maintain a healthy level of performance well into their 30's do you. Kewell is a special player but injuries have blighted his career, does Ronaldo (the real one) become a bad player because he is suffering from injuries, no.

Here we go with Leeds United
We're gonna give the boys a hand
Stand up and sing for Leeds United
They are the greatest in the land

Every day, we're all gonna say
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!
Everywhere, we're gonna be there
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

Marching on together
We're gonna see you win (na na na na na na)
We are so proud
We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

We've been through it all together
And we've had our ups and downs (ups and downs!)
We're gonna stay with you forever
At least until the world stops going 'round

Every day, we're all gonna say
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!
Everywhere, we're gonna be there
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

Marching on together
We're gonna see you win (na na na na na na)
We are so proud
We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!

This post has been edited by ballackahn: Jul 5 2008, 09:47 PM

Just a piece of info, Harry Kewell went from Liverpool to Turkish side - Galatasaray.

Damned~

Another Leeds diehard here since 1974....Leeds Forever!
PS. ballackahn, how about putting up the Leeds crest?

This post has been edited by dano: Jul 30 2008, 11:23 AM

zOMG Leeds Utd!!

Leeds Utd is my first (ex) favorite football club. Kewell, Bowyer, Woodgate and Ian Harte were my favorites. And a white Leeds Utd jersey is still my first and only football club jersey till today.

My fav club now is Liverpool thanks to Kewell.

Leeds fan here... Anyway, we just won our first league one game.. 2-1 against Scunthorpe.. Hopefully, we'll get promoted this season...

GO LEEDS!

Here's to another win in our first home game tomorrow vs Oldham.

cheers mate!

hi, i have been supporting leeds united for 10 years now.

So surprise to see so many leeds untied fans here... we were unlucky last night... lost to Oldham in Elland Road for 2 consecutive years.... but anyway i believe we will win the league title this time..

leeds united rang my bell when it comes 2 UEFA CL semi final in 2000/2001...LU boys put brave displays by getting 0-0 vs valencia in elland road but sadly lose 3-0 at mestalla in 5 minutes...aaahhh the old glory days i hope LU can comeback 2 the premiership in 10 years time...also hope nottingham forest, another wounded ex-giants can do the same in another 15 years...i really love the old premiership top 5 days seriously...now the premiership spice is not so hot anymore without leeds and nottingham huhuhu

This post has been edited by skylinegtr34rule4life: Aug 17 2008, 07:54 PM

leeds lost yet again to a stupid team after their promotion.still leeds will always have a portion in my heart besides barca.this two teams i will support thru thick and thin since 1990.bring back the glory to elland road!

Need to win at Yeovil today to get back on track!

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Added on September 8, 2008, 5:52 pmLeeds 5 Crewe 2 yeah, another win at Swindon this Saturday will do fine.

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Added on September 15, 2008, 2:14 pmSwindon 1 LEEDS 3, Marching On!

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Added on September 30, 2008, 12:35 pmSept 27, 2008 Result
LEEDS 1 Hereford 0 Marching on!

This post has been edited by dano: Sep 30 2008, 12:35 PM

sweet as bro!
fight on leeds!

Come on guys.. We're going up to the Championship!

The team for the new season looks good. Higgs has been superb in pre season, kisborno looks like another great signing, him and naylor together would be rock solid at the back. Last season our problem was in defence, and now we probably have one of the best defense in league 1.

simon grayson

The only thing that is worrying is delph, now that beckford looks to be staying. Delphs probably going to spurs, hopefully we can get 6-8 million for him, and the money will be made available for grayson.

So the team for new season (so far):

HIGGS

CROWE - NAYLOR - KISBORNO - PARKER

SNODGRASS - DELPH - HOWSON - JOHNSON

BECCHIO - BECKFORD

subs: ankergen, marques, huntington, white, sheenan, michalik, hughes, kilkenny, prutton, robinson, grella, showumni, kandol.


hopefully grayson will get rid of some deadwood like michalik and kandol and maybe a few more signings, especially if delph is leaving.



MARCHING ON TOGETHER!

wow...leeds...im a ex leeds fans
the day where has hasselbaink,kewell, ian harte(special free kicker) ,kelly,radebe,woodgate,smith n more...lol...miss leeds

LOL Leeds? Fabian Delph and Jermaine Beckford

Folks. The season so far:


Mon 10 Darlington W 0-1
Sat 15 Wycombe Wanderers W 0-1
Tue 18 Walsall W 1-2
Sat 22 Tranmere Rovers W 3-0

4 wins out of four games. good start aye?

bro...can rearrange ur score?

Should be

Mon 10 Darlington W 1-0
Sat 15 Wycombe Wanderers W 1-0
Tue 18 Walsall W 2-1
Sat 22 Tranmere Rovers W 3-0

I hope they can climb up soon!!
I am still tracking their result

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Added on August 26, 2009, 9:49 amLeeds win Watford 2-1 for caling cup~

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Added on September 19, 2009, 11:42 amLeeds currently no2 in table~!!


This post has been edited by M4A1: Sep 19 2009, 11:42 AM

Leeds is currently on top of the league, 4 points ahead of second placed charlton with 42 points. theyll win this division for sure if they keep performing this way!

What a superb performance!!!!

Leeds beaten Man utd kudos

Im ex leeds fans and still have the heart for it..

leeds suffered their second league defeat in the season, at the hands of exeter city. they need to pick up quick, or else, they might have to play in the playoffs - leeds has never been lucky with it.

what da heck happen to leeds...why keep dropping point nowadays?

Leeds for me...is a club that produced a great talent..great English talent..

congrats for the promotion

how come some of u became ex-leeds fan....
do u guys don't support them anymore after they relagated?? wow

grats for promotion into CCC.

hope this thread will be bit more active after this

Well done Leeds, will be seeing you guys in the EPL again soon

congrats leeds...

cant wait for the Lily Whites to tear up the opposition in the Championship and get back to where they belong in the Premier League... i've waited too long for this....

promotion promotion and promotion!!

i dont expect leeds to return to the EPL, not for atleast 2 seasons. they need to strengthen the club, and hopefully acquire back some of their sold assets, not the players, but the stands, and their training ground! (part of the administration deal).

at least they are no longer in debt. spur on leeds! the championship awaits!

YEAH!!!! LEEDS back to championship ...next year hope we can go back to EPL!

Let me answer this realistically.

How do we continue to follow when there is no Leeds football to watch on T.v?
We are not living in u.k or leeds so is understandable.
As a football fan of course you find something else to follow as long you not supporting rival club such as man utd.The theory is same as why man utd keep on recruiting so much fans world wide because they keep on winning.Now i think is Chelsea turn to growth.

But doesn't matter the heart is always there and hoping this team make a return to premier league and the fans will soon return.

Marching on!

This post has been edited by beandy: May 13 2010, 11:18 AM