I suspect so. I don't know many rational 6ft+ blokes who sit on pavement bollards for much of the day with their bottom lip hanging out, morosely surveying the immediate area.
It's a screen shot of #lufc being one of the most talked about things in the UK this morning. Does your carer have to explain everything to you as well?
Truly amazing that a city bigger than Sheffield has a history of such poor attendances. Some of the worst attendancesnfor a big single club city in Europe. There again Leeds have no history. Formed 1919. 10k attendances pre Revie. Even under Revie their average attendance never topped 40k. Whereas clubs like Chelsea arsenal spurs united averaged 40k plus from the 20s and 30s when Leeds barely existed
Is it on that twittle thing or is it on googleface or whatever they're called? Either or I can't say I'm overly impressed. Social networking( is that what's called?) is for the mentally ******ed and socially inept. Oooh look I've got over two hundred friends, er no you haven't. If you did you wouldn't spend your life on a ****ing networking site saddo. In my humble opinion posting on here is bad enough, Twitter and Facebook are for teenagers and sad ****s. There, I've said it. Deal with it.
If you think a tirade from some middle aged bloke with aggression issues is something I'd need to "deal" with, it's no wonder you can't get on with online communication.
You can't beat a good rofl. Middle aged though? I thought 40 was still young!!! Now that deserves a right old rofl. Let's rofl together Kenny, me, you and anyone else who wants to join in with our rofling. Rofl.
Pretty rich saying we have no history when you'd done **** all in Europe and only won the league once before the modern football/Abramovic buying trophies for his plaything era. Whenever Leeds have had good momentum, we've been screwed over. Probably the best club side between 65 and 75 in the world, but cheated by so many bent refs and FA fixture cock-ups that we won a third of our realistically potential haul. We were getting 35-40k in those days, probably more since the club were notorious for underreporting gate receipts, but then suffered with the Clough and Stein clangers and drop in the 80s, just as Chelsea did. Built the momentum again in the 90s, but our club was to blame for never capturing the wider fanbase's imagination like Newcastle could with their insanely cheap season tickets. And then it all came crashing down again as you know after the Ridsdale fiasco. I admit that we've underachieved for a city of our size and reputation: now the heart of Yorkshire, the biggest admin, legal and financial centre outside of London, and one of the fastest growing and greenest big cities in the country. By that yardstick, we should be the second or third club in England. However, there are so many migating factors which have affected that from the club's foundation to this day: - Leeds was indeed a rugby league city as you mentioned. It only stopped being so when Revie turned things around and despite Leeds RL's successes, they can't claim half of United's support, even in Yorkshire. - Leeds was as far as I know only an average sized city from 1919-1970, and even until the 90s was only just in the top five cities in England. - It sounds ridiculous, but the fact the club was founded in 1904 as City and 1919 as United means that football never got a strong grip in the city. There were five big RL teams in Leeds in the early days, and many of the city's locals used to get the train to Huddersfield to watch Herbert Chapman's Town, rather than 'the Mugs' (LUFC). Before 1904, who knows where the football-lovers of Leeds went? Football had been popular for two decades before that, so there must have been some outpouring of support to other Yorkshire teams, which would have passed on to the next generations as well and affected our crowds. - Leeds has a population of 200,000 students which swell its population, and many of the football fans in the city migrated in the last 40 years from the south and midlands (my family among them). - Our ticket prices have been scandalous for far too long. Our season tickets are the fifth most expensive in the entire country, and our membership the most expensive in the UK and the unfairest in the world for what you get out of it. - With those last two points in mind, it's no wonder that the working-class core of Leeds has been priced and forced away from the club to an extent, especially with the over-stewarding and ridiculous banning order count which has helped to kill passion. - A lot of fans are boycotting, whether tacitly or overtly, due to the failures we've been subjected to for a decade. Years of dedicated support from fans does not warrant years of insults, broken promises, failure and rip-offs from the club, and Yorkshire people aren't thick where their wallet is concerned. - One-club cities always suffer from this lack of enthusiasm unless they have a close rival next door (e.g. Newcastle/Sunderland). When everyone around you basically supports one of Leeds, Bradford, Liverpool and Man U, there's hardly as much incentive to prove yourself as there is if you work in an office or factory in Sheffield, where you've got the constant hassle from the other half of the city's football population to deal with. - If Bradford were our equals over the course of our history, even if you omit the Revie glories, I think we'd be getting bigger crowds than we do now, because the banter and bragging rights are such a big part of football motivation and enthusiasm. The closest we have to that is Man U, but obviously when we challenge them that's when we're at the top anyway so crowds are naturally higher. So... If you actually think about it for more than a second of wind-up hilarity, it's not really that notable that our crowds are what they are. If anything it's amazing they've been so high over these last few years, and if there were ever a time to truly fulfil our potential, it's now. *Awaits Carmine calling me 'boring' for caring enough about my club and city to know these things and use them as a defence*
I've got a mate who actually got his head kicked in a couple of years ago for wearing a man u shirt in Leeds.
There was a delightful rumour the season before last that Snoddy had brayed a scum fan who was having a go at him in Tiger Tiger bogs.
Here we go again. The the hill poodle from Holland seems to forget that the mighty dullards could only muster a mere 3600 fans on average before they started shifting up from division 4. But of course we're not allowed to talk about history. Well, not unless it suits anyway.......
Wow you certainly now my history and why i chose a avi name horray to you. Still didnt answer my question I see Have Hull won the 1st or premiership title's or are you going to evade the answer. Maybe originallambrettaman should be UNoriginallambrettaman. its funny how you say people are saddo's for facebook YET your on here trying to be so high and mighty and that we are such peasants to you. Ohh i forgot you have life and are not a saddo for being a Leeds board and trying fishing. Infact I see your here more often than lot of Leeds fans, IS THAT BORING wher you are?
You seem to ignore the clear fact that leeds only has a six year history, and also the clear fact that Hull City own attendance records in the lower leagues. funny how your low gates are claimed to be because of protests, but you selectively choose not to mention that ours quite clearly were and done far more effectively. Hell, you can't even find anyone from Leeds up to the task of moving your protest up from sulky emails, you had to get one of Hull's lesser individuals to do it for you. Despite us repeatedly pointing it out, you also ignore the clear fact that we couldn't give a flying **** about this 'big club' ****. That's more the domain of the sad, deluded and inadequate types and a big part of why you're seen as a laughing stock. We're happy doing what we do because we enjoy it we don't need the comfort blankets you ladies crave. You lot really take 'deluded' up to whole new levels.
That must be so, so annoying when that happens. You write something that makes perfect sense, then once you click send, the cyber monkeys jumble it all up and turn it into gibberish like that.
If there are only 20k footie fans in Leeds in a 750k city, there must be a lot of United fans and/or homo sexuals in England's third biggest city
