Yeah, a realist, unlike the rest of us pretendingists...or something...
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Yeah, a realist, unlike the rest of us pretendingists...or something...
I had it in my head that Leeds were called The Owls, at some period, so I googled it, and childishly giggled when I read the original team was formed from one called "The Twinklers". They keep that ****er quiet.
Any how, the Owl is the City of Leeds emblem, created by an Alderman called Sir J Saville, and formed part of the club badge up to the 70's, and seemingly a couple of times since.
Don't ask me the point, because my attention shifted when they turned The Twinklers on and Saville cropped up.
https://thebeautifulhistory.wordpress.com/clubs/leeds-united/
I had it in my head that Leeds were called The Owls, at some period, so I googled it, and childishly giggled when I read the original team was formed from one called "The Twinklers". They keep that ****er quiet.
Any how, the Owl is the City of Leeds emblem, created by an Alderman called Sir J Saville, and formed part of the club badge up to the 70's, and seemingly a couple of times since.
Don't ask me the point, because my attention shifted when they turned The Twinklers on and Saville cropped up.
https://thebeautifulhistory.wordpress.com/clubs/leeds-united/
I wonder if when Leeds were in the First Division in the 1970s they were plagued by supporters of teams who were successful in the 1930s?
Even worse when you consider the huge metropolitan area.
Though they always have a reason for their comparatively poor crowds. I pointed this out to a fan of TWS and he replied, I kid you not, that City have no local competition whilst Leeds have to compete for crowds with nearby cities like .Bradford and Huddersfield.
And many of those who have latched on to Leeds have no connection with the place, meaning local Leeds fans are even fewer.
Most of them are from out of town !!!! plastic dicks..
Hardly anybody in Leeds gives a ****e about their own team.
I had it in my head that Leeds were called The Owls, at some period, so I googled it, and childishly giggled when I read the original team was formed from one called "The Twinklers". They keep that ****er quiet.
Any how, the Owl is the City of Leeds emblem, created by an Alderman called Sir J Saville, and formed part of the club badge up to the 70's, and seemingly a couple of times since.
Don't ask me the point, because my attention shifted when they turned The Twinklers on and Saville cropped up.
https://thebeautifulhistory.wordpress.com/clubs/leeds-united/
You can always win a pint in the pub by asking when was the last time the football league championship winners had an owl as their badge.
Especially useful if any Wednesday fans are about.
Fact - when Leeds were in the PL back in the dim and distant past in the, the PL did a survey of ticket holders. The club with the highest number of season ticket holders living outside the local postcode was Leeds United. Surprisingly Man Utd were third, behind Liverpool. Things may have altered since then. Villa were the club with the largest percentage of young fans,
I work with a kid that goes to the odd game and he said it's mostly people from out of Leeds that go.
He said loads of coaches turn up with white ****e fans.
Do keep up...
Admittedly, it was a tediously boring post to get through the first time so it might explain why you missed it...
This is 100% true. I don't know any TWS fans in Leeds, if anyone wears team merchandise it's always Rarnose.
As if to ram this point home, as I type somebody just walked past me in town in an egg-chasing shirt.
Again true. The area around Bellend Road is full of coaches on a match day. Loads come from Ireland, for some reason.
This is a good point. For some reason the 70s is the arbitrarily defined decade for bigness of football clubs. Seems if you were good then you're big forever, and being good now is far less relevant, which I find absolutely baffling.
I wonder if a club like Burnley or Bournemouth stayed in the PL for the next 20 years while Leeds, Wednesday, etc continue to hover around the lower leagues would people still witter on about what big clubs the latter are and how small the former are?
I was called a racist for pointing out that their Irish plastics were plastics and questioned why there wasn't any football teams in Ireland to support.
I **** you not.
This was shortly before my ban from their board for swearing.
And being racist.
Mostly swearing though.
I am legendary on their board, they fear and revere me in equal measure.
Which is **** loads.
FACT.