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FRESH Leeds

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Leeds United: 17 Damned United 'Facts' That Are Nonsense

It's not easy being a Leeds United fan at the best of times, so when a director takes the truth with a pinch of salt in a film like The Damned United, that really takes the biscuit. Pedant alert.

38 Comments Eddie Taylor

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Tony Harrison: Leeds, Poetry And Granta Magazine's Snobbery Against The North

Our Greatest Living Poet is best known for getting up the noses of Tory MPs, Mary Whitehouse and the Freeman-esque establishment back in the 1980s.

3 Comments Anthony Clavane

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Leeds United Fans: Did You Know This Was The Birthplace Of Your Club?

Who'd have thought it?

3 Sabotage

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Vinnie Jones On His Time At Leeds United: "I Just Flew Over, Gave ‘em Both A Smack"

From the leafy luxury of Hollywood, Vinnie Jones recounts his time prowling the midfield at Elland Road.

24 Dave Simpson

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How Leeds Became Football's Most Hated Club With The Most Hated Manager And Player

It's been a hell of a season for Leeds United who, already widely disliked hired Warnock and El Hadji Diouf. So how can they now change their fortunes for the better?

7 Andy Peterson

RECENT Leeds

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Leeds Fans, Check Out Neil Warnock's Oompa Loompa Makeover

Neil Warnock has said he's going to take Leeds' promotion chase to the death and that he'll walk if The Whites don't go up, but he forgot to ment...

3 Sabotage

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Leeds Legend Billy Bremner Is A Bantam

He may be the greatest player to ever play for Leeds United but if this photo is any evidence, it turns out that Billy Bremner is a Bradford City...

20 Sabotage

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Dwindling Gates, Potless Sheikhs & A Retiring Manager - What's Next For Leeds?

Despite the few positives of the takeover it's still pretty grim at Elland Rd, and I have no idea where we go from here...

19 Andy Peterson

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Leeds United's 100 Greatest Players #1: Billy 'The Complete Midfielder' Bremner

It started as an idea, a labour of love, and morphed into a book that stole my life for a long time. Here's to Bremner, the player whose name was...

11 Jon Howe

Leeds United's 100 Greatest Players #54: Albert 'The Black Flash' Johanneson

Here's to Johannesson, the man whose potential will forever remain unfulfilled...

1 Comment Jon Howe

Leeds United's 100 Greatest Players #38: John 'The Messiah' Sheridan

Here's to Sheridan, the shining light in the dark tunnel during the 1980's...

8 Comments Jon Howe

Leeds United's 100 Greatest Players #11: Tony 'The Ghanian Cantona' Yeboah

It started as an idea, a labour of love, and morphed into a book that stole my life for a long time. Here's to Yebo...

3 Comments Jon Howe

Leeds United's 100 Greatest Players #34: Jonathan 'Jewel In The Crown' Woodgate

It started as an idea, a labour of love, and morphed into a book that stole my life for a long time. Here's to Wood...

2 Comments Jon Howe

Fashion & Style

Memories Of The Leeds Casual Scene

Much is made of the violence but for many who were part of the casual culture in Leeds in the 70s and 80s it was ab...

104 Comments Pat Slaughter

MORE Leeds

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Leeds United Half-Term Report: Sign Warnock Up, Sell The Stiffs & Steady The Ship

It looks like Leeds are set to miss out on the playoffs, but getting rid of the deadwood and signing Warnock for another year will set the club u...

3 Jon Howe

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A Yorkshireman's Guide
To Yorkshire

Tour De France 2014 is starting in Yorkshire? Time for a completely unbiased, fastidiously researched dissection of God’s Own County...

83 Dave Lee

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The 12 Pubs of Christmas

Sod the partridge in a pear tree and 12 drummers drumming, what Christmas is really about is getting warm and cosy in a good pub, with a foaming ...

6 Adrian Tierney-Jones

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Leaked! Ken Bates' Disturbing Programme Notes For Next Leeds United Game

As the bid by the Leeds United Supporters' Trust to buy the club from Ken Bates collapses, disturbing documents revealing the Leeds chairman's ne...

2 Sabotage

Project Photo Doodle: Art Exploring Mental Health

Illustrator Phil Wall is drawing colourful monsters and luminous beings all over your favourite holiday snaps in a bid to explore mental health issues...

Sabotage

Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand: "Gary Neville Would Be My Ideal No.2"

Rio's been dropped by Hodgson and GNev has been appointed the England manager's assistant. When I interviewed the M...

12 Comments Owen Blackhurst

National Record Store Day: My Love Affair With Leeds' Jumbo Records

To mark Record Store Day As a gateway to the music world this independent record shop is hard to beat. Our man name...

21 Comments James Brown

We Are Leeds United!! Neil Redfearn Does Not Deserve His Chance

For a start, we've got a history and following that most clubs could only dream of and beyond that he's made no dif...

42 Comments Adam Jubb

Why Lie Kenny? All Leeds United Fans Need To Listen To This Song

All is not well at Leeds United and 'Bates Out' banners are brilliant, but sometimes a parody song can have a bit m...

13 Comments Sabotage

MORE Leeds

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Leeds United Flog Howson And Confirm Status As Ultimate Selling Club

First it was Beckford, then Gradel and Johnson, now we've accepted an offer from Norwich City for Jonny Howson, our skipper. I predicted it in th...

41 James Brown

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Why I Wrote 'Blowback'...

Druggies from Leeds and Ukrainian heavies: a match made in heaven.

John Anthony Lake

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Why I Hate Arsenal By A Leeds United Fan

Impressive history or not, doesn't stop Arsenal being a dull-as-dishwater football team.

98 Mark O'Brien

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RIP Gary Speed

Elegant, straight-backed and the general of every team he played in. RIP Gary Speed.

14 Owen Blackhurst

Blowback: Guns, Drugs And Contract Killers In Leeds 6

Set in and around Leeds' petty criminal underclass, the tense and hectic "Blowback" is the latest novel by Sabotage...

2 Comments Russ Litten

Confessions Of A Cafe Owner, Part Three: Battling The Bread Man

I failed miserably in my quest to get my old mucker Dermot O'Leary to open the caff and, despite my hints, the miss...

1 Comment Julian Boffin

Leeds Rhinos Are The Greatest Rugby League Team In The World….EVER

I might still be drunk after watching Leeds Rhinos yet again put Saints to the sword in the Grand final, but I'm st...

12 Comments Jon Howe

Super League Grand Final: St Helens' Greatest Ever Xlll v Leeds Greatest Ever Xlll

As St Helens and Leeds prepare to lock horns this evening, we look at the men of steel who make up the greatest Xll...

5 Comments Paul Knott

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John Barr: The Super Scout Who Discovered Gordon McQueen

Ex-Leeds and Manchester United defender Gordon McQueen has sadly been diagnosed with cancer, this beautiful feature tells the story of the man who unearthed him and some of the greatest British footballers to ever play the game...

27 Greg Gordon

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Confessions Of A Cafe Owner, Part Two: Exploding Coffee Machine

After paying £2,500 for a coffee machine that might kill people, I'm compelled to build a snogging booth for teenagers and recharge my batteries by pretending I'm a Gladiator stuffing Demi Moore...

1 Julian Boffin

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Pollock, Dixon, Sprake And The 10 Most Devastating Own Goals In History

Everyone has scored one and there is no worse feeling in sport. But the Dog and Duck v The Badger's Bollock doesn't come with the same pressure as the FA Cup, World Cup or Premier League...

13 Paul Brown

What Leicester City Can Expect From Jermaine Beckford - By A Leeds United Fan

Written just before Jermaine Beckford joined Everton, this Leeds United fan considers what the player has to offer....

27 Comments James Brown

Preview: Leeds United storm Radio 4

Radio 4 man takes his mob back to Elland Road for some heavy religious action. Just a warning like.

Anthony Clavane

Sniffer and Reaney get them in

In celebration of Don Revie, Sniffer Clarke and Speedy Reaney take over a pub opposite Elland Road to tell tales of...

3 Comments Anthony Clavane

7 Things Leeds United Fans Learnt By Beating Bradford

After Saturday's horror show against Southampton, an initially wobbly Leeds United displayed determination against ...

25 Comments James Brown