Good Morning. Its Friday 10th April, and here are the latest headlines from Elland Road Championship team of the season is revealed The Yorkshire Evening Post took part, along with 14 other journalists covering teams in the second tier of English football to pick a Championship team of the season. Unsurprisingly, three Leeds players Ayling, White and Phillips all made the starting XI. Did they miss anyone out? GK - Samba - Nottingham Forest RB - Ayling - Leeds Utd LB - Bryan - Fulham CB - White - Leeds Utd CB - Ajayi - West Brom CM - Phillips - Leeds Utd CM - Eze - QPR RM- Pereira - West Brom LM - Benrahma - Brentford ST - Mitrovic - Fulham ST - Watkins - Brentford Who would you have in your Championship team of the year? please log in to view this image Leaked EFL sources reveal timescale for season to recommence Leaked documentation from the EFL have revealed that all clubs in the Championship and lower leagues have been told to resume full training by 16th May at the latest. All 71 clubs were written to yesterday by EFL Chairman Rick Parry detailing plans to get their remaining fixtures underway. Although a timescale was not been set, it is believed that games will get underway by mid June, with an aim of completing the remaining fixtures by August. Bielsa is set to tell his players to take a four week holiday (I hear West Yorkshire wil be a popular location for them). This will him them a chance to recharge their batteries. Each club received the following letter from Rick Parry:- “The EFL Board have determined that, to provide a level of certainty, clubs should be advised not to recommence any training activity with players until 16 May at the earliest.” “Whenever the decision is taken that is safe to resume, we currently estimate that the league will require approximately 56 days to complete the outstanding matches in the season (including play-offs) and we are committed to ensuring that clubs are provided an appropriate notice period to ensure you are able to prepare operationally given the scale and impact of the postponements in place.” “How and when we return [including training] is clearly subject to change and any decisions will be taken in conjunction with the Government and relevant health authorities. Clearly, we are in a position whereby the 2019-20 campaign will be extended, but still remain hopeful of a conclusion in the summer months.” “The EFL Board is currently working on the basis that the end-of-season play-offs will take place across all three divisions as normal with two-legged semi-finals and a final, although no decision has been taken on the likely venue as it will depend on the circumstances at play at the time.” In other words, they still hope to be able to stage the finals at Wembley, but this cannot be guaranteed. It’s quite possible that the games will need to be played behind closed doors, at least to start with, and the letter says “It is our working assumption at this stage. We are absolutely mindful of the need to try and mitigate the cost of this to clubs as best as we can.” please log in to view this image Phillips given cold shoulder by team mates after sending off. In a recent interview with Sky Sports, Luke Ayling revealed that Kalvin Phillips was given the cold shoulder by his Leeds United teammates after he was sent off against QPR. Phillips would go on to miss three cruital games following his straight red card for a reckless lunge on Geoff Cameron, sending the USA International defender sprawling in agony. Ayling revealed that he and his fellow teammates ignored Phillips "We just ignored him! I went in after and said 'Kal, you've been silly'," "The game was pretty much done, we were going through a tough spell and Kalvin is such a big player for us. For him to be missing for three games was such a big loss. It really hurt us. "To be fair to him, though, he never made excuses. He said sorry and that he had been stupid. It shows his character that he knew he had done wrong." Cooper added: "I couldn't look at him when he got sent off! "But I think, even if we were 1-0 up, Kalvin would still make that tackle. If you take that part out of his game you take out a lot of him. He plays on the edge sometimes, and that's like some of the best players in the world. "It can be a very good attribute to have." please log in to view this image
Morning all... Good news about the leaked document, I think those three Leeds players would be in most peoples team of the season, Klich must have been pushing for a spot too.
Morning all When Leeds signed Bogusz I thought we had signed a lad with great potential.Does anyone know what progress he is making? I had hoped that he might be on the fringes of the first team by now.
Morning all. Think most fair thinking footie fans expected current season to finish properly at some point. It’s certainly edging closer. The dates though are completely irrelevant at the moment and are simply aspirational. Lots of clubs with bigger worries facing them than league positions. Survival will be the aim of many
Morning all. Just waiting for the announcement of an extension on this lockdown. My gut feeling is that we will complete the season, behind closed doors or not, although we are in a great position, it doesn't mean we will get promotion automatically. We were on a great run until this virus struck, which is a shame because I think we would have gone on and got promoted.
Fair few weeks to go with lockdown still I’d say. On a positive, Leeds under Bielsa have been at our best in early games of season. Thinking or hoping when we restart, it will be like starting season again and we get off to a flyer. Of course , by the time we resume, many of our current squad may be grandfathers so will be interesting to see their fitness levels
When this season is over and we are seeing progress on lockdown I propose that we ban all goods made in China and we send them the bill of costs to date to fight germ warfare that they made.Why should they get away with it scott free
Just goes to show how highly Kalvin's teammates rate him! Ironic how we went on a six game unbeaten run since his return at Brentford where none of their free-scoring front three hardly got a kick. Phillips has been magical since his comeback at Brentford...... Controls the play from the back, makes us tick allowing the likes of our flair players such as Pablo, Klich, Harrison & Costa to show their quality & tricks! We'll miss him big-time if he does leave Leeds
Dallas, Hernandez, Klich & Harrison all more hard-working & effective plus our lads possess as much quality as their opponents and should be in the championship team of the season. I suppose journalists can't be seen to be bias to one particular team
Even being extremely optimistic with a date and going for mid June as the 1st match back, that would be a full 3 months and a bit since our last match. Normally the gap you have between 1 season starting and another beginning, only in that usual 3 months there's around 5 or 6 pre season games!
Thoughts and prayers are for all who suffer in this pandemic. Today especially for the best defender I've ever seen play for BCFC. The great Norman Hunter.
Lets hope Norman makes a full recovery swiftly He deserves to see his beloved club achieve promotion in our centenary year Get well soon Norman
As you can see from my pseudonym Norman was my hero since the 1970 FA cup final. Keep on fighting Norm and beat this vicious virus.
#BoycottChina has been going around on Twitter for quite a while. China is going to get even richer and more powerful from this outbreak unless governments step in to ban Chinese imports. China already trawls the planet looking for countries they can bail out, so long as they can build and run factories/industries in said nations. Only a worldwide effort will defeat the spread of the Chinese parasite.
I see the flaw in this as one of the key strategies for Boris on leaving the EU was to strike a trade deal with China.
Pinning Coronavirus on How Chinese People Eat Plays Into Racist Assumptions The outbreak has had a decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric “others” While panic and fear abound in response to the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak that has killed at least 213 people in China and infected more than 9,700 worldwide, there has also been a conspicuous — if not entirely surprising — lack of empathy for those who are suffering most from the virus: the Chinese people who face lockdowns, supply shortages, and a higher chance of contracting the illness. The outbreak has had a decidedly dehumanizing effect, reigniting old strains of racism and xenophobia that frame Chinese people as uncivilized, barbaric “others” who bring with them dangerous, contagious diseases and an appetite for dogs, cats, and other animals outside the norms of Occidental diets. These ideas, perennially the subtext behind how Chinese people are viewed by the Western gaze, have been given oxygen anew after preliminary reports linked the coronavirus outbreak to a Wuhan wet market where produce and meat are sold alongside livestock and more exotic wildlife like snakes, civet cats, and bamboo rats; and to bats, which are frequent carriers of viruses that cause human disease. Tabloids like the Daily Mail quickly resurfaced old videos of Chinese people eating bat and mice that had nothing to do with the current outbreak (the bat video, as Foreign Policy’s James Palmer points out, didn’t even take place in China, but the Pacific archipelago of Palau; meanwhile, the “delicacy” shown in the mice video has been debunked; it is not popular or mainstream by any means). People commented “This is not human behaviour” on the articles; on Twitter, searching for anything related to keywords like “China,” “eat,” “virus,” and “food” is enough to bring up an endless scroll of statements that suggest that Chinese people “deserve” the karmic retribution in the form of the deaths and illnesses that the virus has wrought, at least in part because of what they eat.
