After over forty years supporting Leeds, probably for the first time I'm not really bothered who we sign in the January sales. The reality is they will at best be average journeymen who won't improve our average squad one bit. A whole month ahead watching the transfer merry go round an sky sports and we havent even got the price of an admission ticket to get on it. Thanks bates and Grayson, you pair of useless ****ers for killing one of the main pleasures I had in life, Leeds United
Gave up months ago, the simple fact is that Leeds United is nothing more than a football club, it has no specific importance to my family and if it was to close, then so be it, I would move on. The club is rank rotten from top to bottom and what is the sadest part of this is that some people just have not woken up to the reality of things, perhaps in the hope that one day the good days will return. People give their hard earned cash to watch the drivel on offer and then leave ER looking back on a building that has new parts, none of which were needed or will be used, it's a shocking waste of money (as it was at Chelsea) and yet those same fans go back again and give even more money towards the Bates Empire Building. My hope for 2012, is that Bates leaves this club and new investors are brought in.
No there not, they are a football club and that's all, end of story. If you have only £30 to feed your family and pay your bills, you don't spend it on watching 11 men run around a grass pitch for 90 minutes, you spend it as required on what matters. If Leeds United went bust, you would find something else to have an interest in and move on with your life.
But even if you didn't go you'd still be hurting when we lose and things aren't going well. to say its just a football club, you post some passionate posts on here Boab
Leeds United's a culture and a way of life. There's no other club I know of where complete strangers can salute each other in the street and greet each other as friends and equals just because they're Leeds fans. There's no club in this country that stands up for tradition, justice and the notion of being a proper club like Leeds fans do. The chairman might be wrecking the frameworks, but he'll never tear out our soul. If Leeds went bust, it's obvious that the fanatical supporters would rally together to create a phoenix club which would inherit the United spirit of Leeds. Obviously family comes first, and if it doesn't you've got something really badly wrong with you, but I don't think it's right to claim Leeds are 'just a football club' any more than when women tell me I should spend my money on going shopping instead of Leeds matches because it's 'just a game'.
What you are stating is no different from what I have heard or witnessed from Liverpool, Everton, Celtic, Rangers even Stirling Albion fans, we are no different, we just think we are, as the others do.
Bates and Grayson have killed the passion at Leeds United. It's going to be very hard to get it back, but it starts with making the right decisions now.
Well I'd say Liverpool and Celtic certainly are also more than just football clubs. And there's not a Stirling Albion Salute like there is the Leeds Salute... as if any Stirling fans would ever bump into each other anyway.
No club in the world can compete with Millwall in respect of standing up for tradition, justice and the notion of being a proper club - FACT!!
Traditionally, our gates do not fluctuate as we go up and down the divisions - small following maybe, but there wouldn't be any justice to allowing the roaming fans through the door. Thats why we are a proper club
Bigfatboab, you just lost me forever. Unlike Leeds United. Times may be hard at Elland Road but I'll always support Leeds no matter what. Maybe it's blind faith, doesn't matter. You might like to say otherwise but you've shown you're more like Bates than you'd like to admit - Leeds is just a commodity to you, something you can live without, if Leeds die then **** 'em, who cares, move on. Bates is mortal, Leeds United will live on long after he's gone.
While you may believe Leeds will live on forever, I'm not so sure. Another ten years of the current cannibalism of our club will test a lot of even our most ardent supporters. It's not as though any of us are likely to jump ship and support someone else but many of us may just continue to lose interest. Take my case for example, I manage one game a year from here as I bring two daughters along. Frankly that's all I can afford at the moment. I'm going to give it a miss this season as I can't justify spending 700 euros and watching the ****e this team have been serving up all too often over past two seasons. I'm sorry guys but the money is too hard to come by, so until there is substantial improvement in club situation, I for one will have to do my supporting from across the sea
Eireleeds, it was more bigfatboabs attitude of "if Leeds die, who cares, I'd move on with my life" that I was getting at.
