Just A Rumour

[Herr Tubthumper]

El Abd meets the criteria for a Leeds player

 

[withdeanwombat]

They'd only offer a penny in the pound of their value......(waits for inevitable response)

 

[Nemesis]

Leeds are meant to be looking at 3 Brighton players:

Sam Rents 20 Year old attacking Left Back
Adam El-Abd 23 Year old Right back / Centre half
Tommy Fraser 20 Year old midfielder

What are they like? I've heard no mention of prices or anything, but we are meant to be signing a lot more youngsters?

You can have El Abd and Fraser: CASH only, up front. Anything less-tell that scumbag Bates he can f*** off.

 

[1066gull]

Remember the last left back you took from us.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

why would anyone in their right minds want to go to Leeds
2 years and they are Conference material..... 10 years and back to sunday leagues.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Remember the last left back you took from us.

You mean the one that has established himself at Ipswich?
The one that left, leading to our relegation (along with other factors) ?

 

[sten]

Leeds are meant to be looking at 3 Brighton players:

Sam Rents 20 Year old attacking Left Back
Adam El-Abd 23 Year old Right back / Centre half
Tommy Fraser 20 Year old midfielder

What are they like? I've heard no mention of prices or anything, but we are meant to be signing a lot more youngsters?

You couldn,t make it up

 

[Nemesis]

2 years and they are Conference material.....

Oh I bloody hope so. That would be their just reward for screwing their creditors and the likes of the St John Ambulance and a local hospice. A real scummy club and now they're sniffing around other clubs looking to raid their squads. No wonder I hate them so.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I hate Leeds more than any other club. More than Palace, I must say.

I would be delighted to see them stay down in League One (or get relegated), but fear that Bates will walk away with a hefty cheque and some rich prune will pump millions into the team.

I do believe that Ken Bates is the most loathesome man in football at the moment. I would rather wallow in the bottom tier than have that man run my club.

 

[bailey]

I hate Leeds more than any other club. More than Palace, I must say./QUOTE]

Steady on BoF that's a bit strong!

 

[1066gull]

I hate Leeds more than any other club. More than Palace, I must say.

I would be delighted to see them stay down in League One (or get relegated), but fear that Bates will walk away with a hefty cheque and some rich prune will pump millions into the team.

I do believe that Ken Bates is the most loathesome man in football at the moment. I would rather wallow in the bottom tier than have that man run my club.

i hate no one more than palace

 

[Les Biehn]

Fraser is a quality central midfielder. He can tackle, pass and is a great leader. Totally wasted on the right in my opinion.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I hate Leeds more than any other club. More than Palace, I must say.

I would be delighted to see them stay down in League One (or get relegated), but fear that Bates will walk away with a hefty cheque and some rich prune will pump millions into the team.

I do believe that Ken Bates is the most loathesome man in football at the moment. I would rather wallow in the bottom tier than have that man run my club.

They are the only club where I have seen "supporters" (or if not supporters then someone standing not twenty yards from the main entrance to Elland Road and within the stadium boundaries) openly selling National Front/BNP papers and not one person fron Leeds challenged them or said anything. Some even bought the filfth. Utter trash.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

I hate Leeds more than any other club. More than Palace, I must say./QUOTE]

Steady on BoF that's a bit strong!

No he is right. Palace are contemptable and need a good thrashing every week. but we need them to stay in existence if only to prove our superiority and the proof of Darwins theory of evolution from ameoba/eagle to the perfection that is the mighty seagull.

Leeds on the other hand are nasty and positively dangerous.

Also this may or may not have happened to the best manager we nearly had...

Culture clash
David Peace's new book, The Damned United, will be of particular interest to Leeds United fans.

About David
He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2004) for his novel GB84. He was chosen as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003, and lives in Tokyo with his wife and two children.

In it Peace imagines just what went on during the 44 days, in 1974, that Brian Clough was the boss at Elland Road. It was a fraught time. Clough and the United players (and fans) did not get on (to put it mildly) and it was all over in about six weeks.

Clough's way of winning over the Leeds United players was to apparently suggest chucking all their medals into a bin because they had been won by cheating. It looked like it was going to be a bumpy ride and that is exactly what happened.

So, why had Peace, who was just seven years old at the time and living in West Yorkshire, felt the need to write this particular novel?

"These are just the things that matter to you, locally there was no escaping these stories.

"I also believe that during 1973/4 the country at the crossroads and the changes then are still affecting us.

"But my grandfather, father and I were all Huddersfield Town fans and I actually went to Cloughie's first match in charge which was at Town's old Leeds Road ground. It was a pre-season friendly and my father probably thought it would be safe game for the young me to see.

"I think we went because Trevor Cherry had first played for Town before leaving for Leeds and I think it was the first time he had come back to Leeds Road.

"I can distinctly remember seeing Clough getting off the coach and ruffling a kid's hair on the way into the ground.

"And it was that match that gave me the germ of the idea for the book"

Peace, has a passing interest in Leeds
Peace is usually more at home writing about crime and mystery, but he could not resist the lure of Clough's tempestuous reign at Leeds.

"I began to imagine what it was like for Clough, those days most have been among the most loneliest and paranoid of his life."

Peace wrote the book while Brian Clough was still alive, it wasn't started, as many people think, beause of his recent death in 2004.

The book is almost an homage to the 'kitchen-sink' dramas of the 1960s. On the first page of The Damned United Peace namechecks characters in four of these dramas, including This Sporting Life and The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner.

"Books like that were the ones that my dad had on the bookshelves so, as I grew up and was looking for something to read, I took those off the shelf. The stories were about recognisable places and people.

"And now I felt that that slice of life was being lost a bit."

David Storey, who wrote This Sporting Life in 1960 about rugby league (a game he played at Leeds) has called The Damned United 'remarkable' in his endorsement on the dust jacket.

Controversy followed Clough around, and he clearly relished the notoriety and the profile it brought him. Often he was on a collision course with authority. He was a life-long rebel, and proud to be a socialist, which meant that he didn't doff his cap to the powers running the game of football.

Clough's BBC Sport obituary said he was 'one of the last football managers to rule his club without consulting his chairman or his shareholders'.

Peace thinks that this conflict was the driving force behind Clough's sucess.

"It was the darkest and loneliest part of his life, at Leeds, that spurred him on with his coaching at Nottingham Forest. I think some of his ambition was to show everybody that he could be top dog and he felt it was revenge for what he went through in his life.

"Also part of his early management career was fuelled by a feeling of revenge for his lack of international success as a player. He was resentful of his lack of success in the old First Division."

And yet through that all a sense of humour shone out and Clough was responsible for some of the best known one-liners in football. Peace has been able to utilise that too.

"There are moments when people have told me the book made them laugh aloud - but that's all Cloughie not me.

"I hope I am opening this era up for a new generation, that kids read my book and learn something of the era."

So if you think this could open the floodgates and see Peace pen another football novel, you could be waiting a long time.

"To be honest after 18 months writing this I have had had enough of football."

Not fed up enough though... he still gets out of bed in Japan, where he currently lives, and makes sure the first thing he does is to look for the Huddersfield Town result.

The Damned United by David Peace, published 17 August 2006.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/...s_david_peace_the_damned_united_feature.shtml

... if only he had done for us what he did for Forest.

 

[Black Toes]

love a rumour...... that is what this site is ALL about .....

here's one....


Dean Hammond is off to Charlton in January - taking a Bosman ....

 

[questier]

Surely people cannot be believing this

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Leeds United can't sign anyone or sell anyone, because they have a Transfer embargo at this present time.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

You mean the one that has established himself at Ipswich?
The one that left, leading to our relegation (along with other factors) ?

Indeed, but he is worse than Mayo dont forget.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Indeed, but he is worse than Mayo dont forget.

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm there?

 

[Caveman]

i hate no one more than palace