I suspect I will be in a minority of one, but I am looking forward to it. I like the manager and it's good to see a sleeping giant back in the top flight.
Yes, big club and good fans. They deserve to be in the big league I’d put them with Newcastle, Everton, Villa and Nottingham Forest, Sheffield Wednesday and the ‘big six’ as the clubs that I feel belong in the PL regardless
I always think that Leeds fans vastly overestimate the enmity that other fans feel for the club. Yes there’s a certain generation that will always remember ‘Dirty Leeds’ but there’s also a younger group like myself who have only ever known the club as a ‘sleeping giant’. I know several Leeds fans and have been to Elland Road in the home and away stands. Glad to see the club back in the PL, how it’ll go with Bielsa in charge is anyone’s guess though.
Most of it though comes from Man Utd fans, they are greedy bastards when it comes to hating teams - City, Liverpool and Leeds seem to be the top of the list
Similar can be said for Chelsea There has to be a point where their fans realise that maybe they're the problem...right?
Who do Chelsea hate? Us, primarily. They don't even have a proper local derby, so we're the next best thing. I'd say that at least three clubs view us as their main rivals: Woolwich, Not West Ham Anymore and that lot. The South London Squatters is a mutual and understandable one. We all know where the others came from.
Revie's Leeds team dominated the top division for a while in the 1970's and yes they could be brutal but they also played some good football and players like Peter Lorimer and his thunderbolt shots and one of my favourite players of the time Paul Madeley had very subtle ball control and was always underrated in my view. A Mouriniho team before Mourinho always difficult to beat. They need to be back in the PL it's where they belong as do teams like Notts. Forest and Sheffield Wednesday. The heartlands of English football.
I'd like to see weeds back in the premiership they are a big club with a good fanbase have had a few pints with them over the years
As well as us they have rivalries with... Arsenal Leeds Man Utd Liverpool QPR Also lesser rivalries with... Fulham Brentford Angry little bunch, aren't they?
Allan 'Sniffer' Clarke was a great striker, like the rest of the team he could look after himself but a very good player, we discussed Norman Hunter here recently at the time of his passing - I thought he was top drawer too. As for the original question I am glad to see them back, they are as Spurf says one of the traditional top league teams and even more importantly they are being promoted on merit as the best team in the championship.
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They narrowly blew it last season, having lead for big chunks of the campaign and spending most of the rest of it in 2nd. The lowest that they placed at any point in the season was 4th, but momentum is often massive in the play-offs. They had the good sense to keep Bielsa on and they've benefited from not being too hasty. He might even be better suited to the Premier League. Looks like we're about to find out.
Pretty sure Poch cited Bielsa as his mentor/ inspiration so I think he’ll do pretty well in the Prem if he gets backing. He’ll need it too as they won’t have White or Harrison unless they’re able to sign them permanently or get another loan. White especially has been huge for them at the back.
I remember hundreds of their fans chanting that Lee Bowyer is their "friend cos he hates pakis" to the tune of London bridge is falling down back in 2001 or 02. Nothing against their players or decent fans but I have no time for them.
