Match Day Thread Leeds Utd v Tottenham Hotspur Match Thread

strange things can happen on final days. Look at the bundesliga yesterday. The top 2 both played mid table sides.


Dortmund miss a penalty and go 2 down at home to Mainz in 24 mins. Scrape a late draw but end up Getting pipped to the title on goal difference thanks to a last minute winner from Bayern at Koln.

knuckle down for the ride

 

We are 100/1 on to go down so for me it’s stress free, the outcome is virtually certain. It’s when it’s all to play for that I get stressed.

 

Goodbye Premier league

 

Hello Premier league

 

In Croatia and the wedding is at five so won’t get confirmation of our relegation till late.

 

I can send it now if you’d like

 

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way end is that?

 

Morning everyone nearly at leeds bus station. Meeting Eire and chesh at wetherspoons by merrion centre for pre match drinks. Should be well oiled by kick off. Palace game i walked to ground back way to holbeck. Got a cheery greeting by a young lady who then asked if i fancied a bit of business. Wished her a good day and moved on.

 

Everton only need a draw as we wont put 5 past spuds.

 

You giving Spurs at least 2?

 

leeds is right if Everton draw we need a win by three, but i can see your way of thinking as we concede two at least every game so if it's 5-2 so be it.

 

Of course the above would count only as long as Leicester don't win, it's all to much for me but like some of you say you never know, fingers and just about everything else crossed.

 

Simplist thing is Everton lose, Leicester don't win and we win, whatever happens this afternoon we must win to give ourselves a chance, lose/draw were down, simples that part of the equation.

 

Selective stats

 

3 hours to go till D day

 

Sitting here with chesh and wakey and looking for a hurling game to watch. Hard to get interested in Elland road

 

I hope the fans let the players know that they are all a bunch of ****s and we don't want them here next season. They've downed tools too many times this season for my liking. It's massively disrespectful to the fans. It's about time they were told that it won't do at this club.

I have no interest in today at all. I just want them all to go.

 

Team sheet due out in about 10mins then everyone can have a right good moan.
Not worth it lads makes no difference apart from winding yourselves up

 

So, here we are for the last rites. I’m not expecting anything from today’s game except confirmation of our relegation. And whilst it’s possible that we could survive, not only is it vanishingly unlikely, but more to the point it would be undeserved. It pains me to say it, but even allowing for injuries and bad luck over the last two seasons, we simply have not been good enough to warrant our Premier League status. So this is where the great 5-year journey ends and the wheel turns full circle: from the genius of Bielsa’s breathtaking football to the embarrassment of Big Sam desperately tinkering with a team that seems devoid of heart or skill or desire.

I’ll still support Leeds, like I have done for more than half a century. You can change your job, house, car, politics, nationality, friends, gender, even your woman, but you can’t change your club. But right now, football just makes me miserable and I want the season to be over so that the rebuilding project, however brutal, can begin.

Fortunately I shall be spared this final match as today is my daughter’s birthday and I’m going to focus on her. I’ll still keep tabs on the score, of course, and in some recess of my brain will keep alive the hope that we can survive. We might even win but then get relegated anyway. That would be a very "Leedsy" way of ending our time in the top flight by emphasizing the lost opportunity of all that might have been.

Thanks to you all for the comradeship of the season – suffering shared is suffering diluted, at least in some small measure! MOT