I've been through the lot.
I remember the first ever playoffs.
This was between top of Championship (Div 2 in those days) and bottom of Prem (Div 1) and we lost out to Charlton.
Then we'd chased Sheff U when they lost we lost etc and got through play offs to face Watford.
Utterly outsmarted by Aidy Boothroyd in Cardiff.
Losing to Millwall in Semi final stages, going out at home....deflating.
Dougie Freedman lifeline v Cardiff and then big favourites v Doncaster at Wembley. If not for Ankergren would have been 4-0, but 1-0 was enough for us to be totally let down again.
And then Derby, we beat you at home, we beat you away.....pride came before a fall and if you have Kiko in your side, you're going to have a fall.
And now here we are, with awful form, I expected nothing from this, but maybe, just maybe, this lot delivers when we really need it most.
This is the beauty of sport, doesn't matter how sh things can be there is always hope, there is always luck and there are always fairy tales.
We've been through this enough times, it's now about time to go up through the most glorious way possible.
Come on Leeds!
For this younger fans.....
posted on 15/5/24
Hope you're not hearing it from hospital bed this year Matty!
yes know was Carlisle, have no idea why apple made it Cardiff!
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Mattyp (U8926)
posted 1 day, 14 hours ago
When we last got promoted I was lying in a hospital bed at St James listening to it on radio hardly able to move, as the combination of leukemia and the treatment of arsenic and about 20 different pills a day to do various things to me because i didnt have an immune system during a global pandemic, had done a colossal number on my body meaning if I was awake I was either dosed up on morphine or in constant pain.
I was in a lot of pain yet very happy that it had finally happened.
So when I think back to that I struggle to get too upset about how it's going or how it might go.
There's worse things than not getting promotion.
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Very true. Perspective is everything.
I love LUFC as much as the next man but if we don’t go up I won’t be going into a depressive rant like I’m sure some will.
Life is life and what will be will be.
I hope you are well now Matty. MOT.
posted on 15/5/24
For the record - I’ve been going since the old Scratching Shed was the place to be. Stood behind the wall if I could get there.
Definitely seen the ups and downs. Was at the famous West Brom offside game. Watched Arsenal come and beat us, winning the league in the process. Witnessed us winning the Fairs Cup with the flick of a coin.
Watched in awe as we beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final and was distraught the next year when we battered Sunderland and lost 1-0.
Brides at times but too often Bridesmaids.
Then the years of mediocrity after demotion to the second division and the elation when we went back up and won the last ever 1st Division Title under Wilco.
I could go on but most in here will know what we’ve been through since then. Some great times and some mad times.
But we all put ourselves through it and stick with the club. I can’t understand anyone who changes alliances at any point in their football supporting life.
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 31 minutes ago
For the record - I’ve been going since the old Scratching Shed was the place to be. Stood behind the wall if I could get there.
Definitely seen the ups and downs. Was at the famous West Brom offside game. Watched Arsenal come and beat us, winning the league in the process. Witnessed us winning the Fairs Cup with the flick of a coin.
Watched in awe as we beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final and was distraught the next year when we battered Sunderland and lost 1-0.
Brides at times but too often Bridesmaids.
Then the years of mediocrity after demotion to the second division and the elation when we went back up and won the last ever 1st Division Title under Wilco.
I could go on but most in here will know what we’ve been through since then. Some great times and some mad times.
But we all put ourselves through it and stick with the club. I can’t understand anyone who changes alliances at any point in their football supporting life.
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I remember you saying how you used to talk to Raich Carter when he was managing, great that you're still going strong
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Jonty (U4614)
posted 1 day, 17 hours ago
Cardiff was one of few matches I've ever left early from.
Driving back home to Watford along the M4 with every other firkin Watford fan was the worst journey ever.
Wembleyt at Green Man meeting Jonny LA, same as you with the match, took strange train route home (from Wembley central) sat opposite another Leeds fan, got talking, where are you from?
Gibraltar.
You're not on 606 are are you?
yeah GBZ Gibraltar White.
What a small world.....been mates ever since.
Millwall I was in Helsinki, found a bar, full of firkin Chelsea fans, just such a let down.
Derby.......that felt like end of teh world, Lampard and team rubbing our faces in it (we deserved it for all the banter we gave them) and then the Amazon documentary with that slow version of MOT just showed all the emotion, the unbelievablness of it all unravelling before us and the was it, Bielsa would leave.
The rest they say was history for Bielsa.
So, it's about time eh.
I ant a double header, Leeds win the playoffs and Dallas Stars win the Stanley Cup1
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"Wembleyt at Green Man meeting Jonny LA"
What a memory for me!
Got to meet Jonty and others from the old BBC606 site and enjoyed spending time with Jonty thereafter.
Had one fan bring me stuff from the Elland Road shop and his teenage daughter insisted on bringing me a gift. Sadly he passed away within a year or two of that.
My first but not my last experience of the generosity of fellow Leeds fans.
Not easy being a Leeds fans for over 50 years now but wouldn't change it for anything.
MOT!!!
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Jonty (U4614)
posted 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 31 minutes ago
For the record - I’ve been going since the old Scratching Shed was the place to be. Stood behind the wall if I could get there.
Definitely seen the ups and downs. Was at the famous West Brom offside game. Watched Arsenal come and beat us, winning the league in the process. Witnessed us winning the Fairs Cup with the flick of a coin.
Watched in awe as we beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final and was distraught the next year when we battered Sunderland and lost 1-0.
Brides at times but too often Bridesmaids.
Then the years of mediocrity after demotion to the second division and the elation when we went back up and won the last ever 1st Division Title under Wilco.
I could go on but most in here will know what we’ve been through since then. Some great times and some mad times.
But we all put ourselves through it and stick with the club. I can’t understand anyone who changes alliances at any point in their football supporting life.
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I remember you saying how you used to talk to Raich Carter when he was managing, great that you're still going strong
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Not Billy Hampson?
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Dennis - Always Leeds - Always Loyal. (U23086)
posted 3 hours, 12 minutes ago
comment by Jonty (U4614)
posted 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 31 minutes ago
For the record - I’ve been going since the old Scratching Shed was the place to be. Stood behind the wall if I could get there.
Definitely seen the ups and downs. Was at the famous West Brom offside game. Watched Arsenal come and beat us, winning the league in the process. Witnessed us winning the Fairs Cup with the flick of a coin.
Watched in awe as we beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final and was distraught the next year when we battered Sunderland and lost 1-0.
Brides at times but too often Bridesmaids.
Then the years of mediocrity after demotion to the second division and the elation when we went back up and won the last ever 1st Division Title under Wilco.
I could go on but most in here will know what we’ve been through since then. Some great times and some mad times.
But we all put ourselves through it and stick with the club. I can’t understand anyone who changes alliances at any point in their football supporting life.
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I remember you saying how you used to talk to Raich Carter when he was managing, great that you're still going strong
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Not Billy Hampson?
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Did you ever go to watch Leeds City ?
posted on 15/5/24
comment by LIW We’re Going Up As f@ck@ing Champion... (U8453)
posted 2 hours, 11 minutes ago
comment by Dennis - Always Leeds - Always Loyal. (U23086)
posted 3 hours, 12 minutes ago
comment by Jonty (U4614)
posted 2 hours, 2 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 31 minutes ago
For the record - I’ve been going since the old Scratching Shed was the place to be. Stood behind the wall if I could get there.
Definitely seen the ups and downs. Was at the famous West Brom offside game. Watched Arsenal come and beat us, winning the league in the process. Witnessed us winning the Fairs Cup with the flick of a coin.
Watched in awe as we beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final and was distraught the next year when we battered Sunderland and lost 1-0.
Brides at times but too often Bridesmaids.
Then the years of mediocrity after demotion to the second division and the elation when we went back up and won the last ever 1st Division Title under Wilco.
I could go on but most in here will know what we’ve been through since then. Some great times and some mad times.
But we all put ourselves through it and stick with the club. I can’t understand anyone who changes alliances at any point in their football supporting life.
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I remember you saying how you used to talk to Raich Carter when he was managing, great that you're still going strong
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Not Billy Hampson?
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Did you ever go to watch Leeds City ?
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Not me. Leeds and Yorkshire Amateurs. Our kid played for YA’s for a few years.
Too young for Leeds City but I did have a trial for Leeds City Boys.
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Jonty (U4614)
posted 7 hours, 42 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 31 minutes ago
For the record - I’ve been going since the old Scratching Shed was the place to be. Stood behind the wall if I could get there.
Definitely seen the ups and downs. Was at the famous West Brom offside game. Watched Arsenal come and beat us, winning the league in the process. Witnessed us winning the Fairs Cup with the flick of a coin.
Watched in awe as we beat Arsenal in the FA Cup final and was distraught the next year when we battered Sunderland and lost 1-0.
Brides at times but too often Bridesmaids.
Then the years of mediocrity after demotion to the second division and the elation when we went back up and won the last ever 1st Division Title under Wilco.
I could go on but most in here will know what we’ve been through since then. Some great times and some mad times.
But we all put ourselves through it and stick with the club. I can’t understand anyone who changes alliances at any point in their football supporting life.
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I remember you saying how you used to talk to Raich Carter when he was managing, great that you're still going strong
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😜
posted on 15/5/24
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 2 days, 1 hour ago
Too young to attend the first playoffs but not too young to be broken hearted when it looked like John Sheridan had got us promoted only for Peter Shirtliff a centre back scoring two late goals.
I was there in Cardiff for the playoff final defeat against Watford. Blackwell picked an awful teamsheet. The only match I have ever attended drunk. Leeds were truly awful that day. Terribly long journey home on a minibus with the rest of the crowd craving more beers and an Indian meal. I just wanted to be at home crying into my pillow.
I was there at Wembley against Doncaster. All those Leeds fans at one end of the stadium and a tiny amount at the other end made bigger by Leeds hating fans turning up for Doncaster. Donny were all over us in the early exchanges but we somehow got through first half ok. A better second half but lost to the solitary goal just after half time. Remember the pain sat in little chef on the way home full of Doncaster fans.
I was there against Millwall in the east upper. The place exploded when Ben Parker crossed for Becchio to make things all square but jimmy Abdou scored a winner and we had lost again.
And yes back there again for the crazy Derby semifinal. To have beaten them easily 3 times in the season and be 2 goals better off heading into halftime Wembley seemed inevitable until we let them back in with indecision from cooper/casilla. The second half was truly bonkers with the red mist descending over Berardi again.
Match ticket in the apple wallet ready for Thursday!
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Glass definitely 99% empty, Kebab! Did you attend any of the great games, where we actually won, or have you just been very, very very unlucky?