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*Official* English Football Season 2014-15

BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
wpdavid said:
Sounds like the piece on the Beeb was written by someone who never saw them play, unless Crowe was watching them in the mid-1960's, when I gather they were indeed a nasty bunch.
But by the 1970's, they really were a fantastic side. Sure they could dish it out, and weren't above getting their retaliation in first, but so were most other sides of that era. Anyone watching the legendary 1970 FA Cup final and replay against Chelsea would have to say they were more sinned against than sinning in those encounters.

And they should have won far more trophies than they did. If memory serves, they were usually knackered by playing 50+ matches on all fronts, with a first team squad of about 14, on pitches that would raise eyebrows at the Horse of the Year show. That and Revie's strange decision to stick with the often disastrous Gary Sprake in goal. You'd think that when he raided Leicester City for Alan Clark, he really should have gone the whole hog and broken the bank to buy Shilton as well.
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The Beeb article just said he started following then under Revie, tbf.

The defamation was my own editorialising.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
BoyBrumby said:
The Beeb article just said he started following then under Revie, tbf.

The defamation was my own editorialising.
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Fair enough. I should only add that their midfield of Bremner, Giles, Lorimer & Gray is up there with 1978-1980 era Liverpool (Souness, McDermott, Kennedy & Case) and late 1990's Man Utd (Keane, Scholes, Beckham & Giggs) as the best I've seen in our top flight.
 
grecian

grecian

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
wpdavid said:
Fair enough. I should only add that their midfield of Bremner, Giles, Lorimer & Gray is up there with 1978-1980 era Liverpool (Souness, McDermott, Kennedy & Case) and late 1990's Man Utd (Keane, Scholes, Beckham & Giggs) as the best I've seen in our top flight.
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My dad loved the team too, but in the end everybody knew they had a really nasty streak, Bremner and Hunter could play, but they were viciously unpleasant.

Leeds United – dirty. This goes back to Don Revie’s superbly-talented side of the sixties and seventies. Sadly that team possessed a nasty streak that ran right through the team and they took few prisoners. The main culprits (IMHO) were, in order of descending thuggery, Johnny Giles, Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter, Paul Reaney, Allan Clarke… Jack Charlton? Yes, but I actually let him off more lightly as he talked honestly about the subject in his 1996 ‘The Autobiography’, and swears in his case it was never personal . But he points out others, including that great goalpoacher ‘Sniffer’ Clarke as a man who caused big trouble in games by starting the sly, dirty stuff. To me Leeds United were just plain dirty too many times. And you know what? I think it finally rebounded on them, they never won half the trophies they should have, given their ability . Eventually Revie left, firstly to manage England and then financially lured abroad, leaving Leeds to gift Brian Clough his crazy 44-day pot of gold – and he told ‘em didn’t he? Only Cloughie had the testicular equipment to say it to their faces. Leeds eventually slid back down to our Championship of today, from whence Revie had created them. But that team was from long ago, and today Leeds play good football. Whatever happened to that nice Simon Grayson?
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Which team do YOU hate most? | the courier newspaper

that sums it up really, they could play but often didn't want too.
 
Tangles

Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Disappointing. Was looking forward to sideshow bob and some long ball United. Our most effective play style tbf.
 
dontcloseyoureyes

dontcloseyoureyes

BARNES OUT
The commentators talking about how Pellegrini's big problem is that his CB's are letting him down is annoying me. I mean, ignoring that the world is just catching up with Kompany being crap for 3 seasons, Pellegrini's biggest problem is that he's spent absolutely awfully in the market despite blowing over a hundred-million. Not a single player he's bought is in out best XI, that's a huge problem. Especially when players he's bought are absolutely ****ing awful (Fernando, Mangala, Jovetic's hamstring). That's the real problem.
 
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