Gary Powell

Leeds United fan - Marching on Together!

[Adonis Storr @theadelites]

When an #LUFC employee was found on a public footpath outside Derby’s training ground, the ‘spygate’ scandal was the main football story for weeks.

Leeds’ manager at the time - Marcelo Bielsa - was accused of not respecting English customs and culture.

One after another, pundits came out against Marcelo, from TalkSport to Sky to the papers.

Aware of the enormous backlash, Bielsa called an impromptu press conference.

Some people thought he might be resigning, or that he was sacked - such was the furore in the media that had been whipped up against him.

Instead, he admitted that Leeds had spied on every opponent that season; and then went on to give a PowerPoint presentation on all the information he had gathered on Frank Lampard’s Derby County.

There was no specific rule Leeds broke so the EFL fined Leeds £200,000 for a crime against the spirit of the game.

The spirit of football can be found - in case you’re wondering - tucked neatly under the layers of agents, betting sponsorships, state-funded sports-washing and dynamic priced tourist tickets.

Bielsa payed the fine himself.

The EFL subsequently brought in an ‘anti-espionage’ rule to stop clubs watching opponents train 72 hours before games.

Now that Middlesbrough have reportedly contacted the EFL after finding a Southampton spy watching them train ahead of the playoff semi-final, I look forward to the backlash.

I wonder if Southampton will face the same scrutiny and criticism that #LUFC and Bielsa did?

I wonder if Southampton will be fined, and if they are fined, I wonder if their manager Tonda Eckert would pay it himself?

The spygate scandal is unique no longer, but I doubt it will be the same.

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@georgebfc2 @TheSquareBall Shut up George. Tool.

[JW @JoeW192911]

⚪️ Fair play to Daniel Farke & Leeds. Many had him as favourite to be sacked first, but he has more or less secured Premier League survival. He has built a solid side and turned Elland Road into a place teams now fear going to. Huge credit for what he has done this season. #LUFC

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

Leeds United closer to European places than relegation. Things looking up rather than down for Leeds. What a job Daniel Farke has done since half-time at the Etihad. #LUFC

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@AFCWhyteleafe Congratulations to all at AFC Whyteleafe - still the best footballing side (apart from Worthing in the FA Cup) that we’ve seen in Jersey. A great club and well deserved.
Good luck in Step 3 fellas!

[JerseyBullsFC @JerseyBullsFC]

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[Legendsofleeds @legendsofleeds]

GIVEAWAY TIME🚨

We will give one lucky follower a photograph signed by 14 members of the 92 squad.

To enter:
- Follow us ✅
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Winner selected at random after the Wolves game 🔵🟡

#lufc #leeds #leedsunited #leedsleedsleeds #leedsfans

[Angela Wilson 🦚 @WILSONANGELAL]

Leeds fans… I need a favour 👀💙💛

Been stuck on 800 followers for ages now 😅

Help me push it to 1000 and I’ll return the love 🔁

Don’t let me down like a dodgy VAR call 😭

#MOT #ALAW #LEEDS #LUFC 💛💙🤍

[Adam Moczar @AdamMoczar]

⚡🇨🇵 Marine Le Pen:
“Those connected to Islamist Ideology must be stripped of their Nationality and expelled.

Radical Mosques will be shut down…and the Muslim Brotherhood will be dissolved…” The West must wake up!

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Brazil’s President Lula slams Trump:

“We can’t have someone thinking he’s the owner of the world and wakes up in the morning:

I'll take Greenland
I'll take the Panama Canal
I'll take Cuba
I'll take Venezuela
I’ll bomb Iran

Countries have sovereignty. And it must be respected.”

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@jessemarsch We stayed up despite you, not because of you.

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

We needed to take minimum 3 points from last 3 games - we’ve actually only taken 3 points out of last 18 available.
Dan James still sits on the bench.
Farke needs to go. #lufc

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@d_andradesport Everyone but Deal Town fans! 😉⚽️👊

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@Mofoman360 Yes

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@_AdvanceUK @Tom1984jenniso1 Britain should feel ashamed that this gentleman and war hero feels this way.
Enough is enough.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Walk around any British town centre. It's filthy, plagued with gangs of foreign men shouting in their own languages, harassing local women. I am sick of it. I have had enough. We have all had enough.

Why do we put up with it? What are they doing here? Why is nobody in politics talking about it? They'll all scream 'oh isn't Rupert a racist?!' I honestly don't give a shit. I really don't.

It's all true, and we all know it.

Britain didn't used to be like this. Ten, twenty, thirty years ago - it did not used to be like this. We've all seen how it's changed.

It does not have to be like this.

I remember working and living in London. It was the best city in the world. Vibrant, fun, safe, exciting, welcoming.

Now? Large parts are becoming a squalid slum - like so many of our towns and cities. Not just London, Birmingham or Manchester. But our once-charming little towns are going the same way, many already have. Others are well on their way...

Importing hundreds of thousands of young men from backward cultures that share none of our values - that hate women, disrespect women, mistreat women.

What did we think would happen, honestly? Is it a surprise that same poison is infecting our streets and communities? No. No, it is not.

These changes to our communities and our towns are not permanent, not irremediable, not inevitable.

It can be reversed. And it must be reversed.

Stop the flow. Deport the illegals. Remove those foreigners who add nothing, but take so very much.

I will continue to make these arguments in Westminster.

Starmer's too weak to say it, Farage is too scared to say it.

But it's time politicians were honest with the British people.

I have had enough. I want to live in a country where women can enjoy a Friday night out without the fear of being raped by somebody who should never have been in our country to begin with.

I want my country back.

[Gavin Geddes @GavinGeddes7]

@Inevitablewest This breaks my heart. What has this country become 😢🇬🇧 #BrokenBritain #TwotierBritain #LestWeForget

[John Bulkeley @bulkeley_john]

@Inevitablewest Nobody in the UK CAN argue with this man because he is so right. Listen to his words before it’s too late to save what’s left of your country.

[Gary Powell @Powelly8564]

@Inevitablewest This hero is so right.
We have to make sure that his generation are remembered for what they did for us and what they fought for.
So if you don’t respect the poppy and don’t respect the Union Jack, then fuck off!

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: British veteran breaks down live on TV over state of the country:

"Rows and rows of white tombs for what? A country of today? No, I'm sorry. The sacrifice wasn't worth the result.

I fought for freedom, and it's darn-sight worse now than when I fought."