Johnny

[Newell's Old Boys - English News @Newells_en]

Marcelo Bielsa's last interview before Uruguay departed for the World Cup is going viral as he managed to answer 6 QUESTIONS in 38 SECONDS, in typical Bielsa fashion.

[Leeds United Argentina @LeedsARG_]

Raphinha hablando sobre Liam Cooper y en como el ex capitán del Leeds lo ayudó en sus comienzos en el club.

Hermoso 🥹🤍

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

There are only 8 Reform MPs and they have a combined wealth of over £70,000,000.

They have consistently voted against every single improvement to workers rights and plan to scrap legal protections left right and centre.

They are funded by the bosses to rip up your rights.

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Leeds United 1975

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Gary McAllister in action for Motherwell

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

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David Boldero - FB

[LUFC_adventures @LUFC_adventures]

Special guest riding the bike in Uruguays World Cup video 🇺🇾⚪️🟡🔵
#lufc #leedsunited #uruguay #bielsa

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

A FOREIGN PM just told American media YOUR war isn't finished, and casually suggested deploying YOUR children into Iran to extract uranium.

NETANYAHU: "It's not over."

"You go in and you take it out."

REPORTER: "With what? Special forces from Israel? From the United States?"

NETANYAHU: "I'm not going to talk about military means, but what President Trump has said to me, I want to go in there."

"I think it can be done physically."

REPORTER: "How long?"

NETANYAHU: "I'm not going to give a timetable."

So a foreign leader frames the objective, avoids specifics on why, gives no timeline, and YOUR kids bear the burden. YOUR tax money pays for it. YOUR economy bears the cost.

This is Israel dictating YOUR foreign policy.

Push back against it.

[Billy Morris, Leeds Books @Yorkshire_Tales]

The Crying Game. 51 years ago tonight. Anyone recognise him? #Paris75

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…”

Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share.

This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating:

“Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight.

A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money.

A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive.

A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy.

A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages.

You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth.
More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea.

In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything.
They’re simply too poor to afford bail.

Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening.

Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s.

Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends.

Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years.

Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you.

And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster.

And you call Greenland badly governed?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world.
Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment.

‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’

When exactly was that, champ?
September 11?

Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU.

Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU.

Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years.

And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess.

You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy.

So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan.

The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth.

And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

Leeds fans in great form today 🤣

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

1992. Leeds United’s title victory parade

[The Premiership Years @PremiershipYrs]

So West Ham end their dismal season at home to Leeds United.

27 years ago this month, the two teams played out a frankly ridiculous game at Upton Park, which featured:

3⃣ Red cards 🟥
6⃣ goals ⚽️
2⃣ great 90s kits 👕

More of the same incoming?...

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Middlesbrough’s Wembley hoodoo continues 😣

Six times they’ve played at the national stadium and have failed to win on all six visits ❌

[Football Memories @footballmemorys]

Ian Baird in action for Leeds United

#LUFC #LeedsUnited #MOT

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

Granada TV Kick Off Match
November 1977
Manchester City 2-3 Leeds United
Commentator Gerald Sinstadt
#MCFC #LUFC

[Elland Back @EllandBack1]

Saints used Bielsa spy-gate as mitigating defence

Southampton Football Club attempted to leverage the Leeds United spygate scandal of January 2019 as part of its own legal strategy, arguing that the punishment being dished out to them was disproportionate when measured against the precedent set seven years ago. The comparison, on the surface, appears plausible, until you delve deeper! Leeds were only fined £200,000 for equivalent conduct, (which Marcelo Bielsa insisted on paying the fine personally from his own pocket), but a closer look reveals fundamental differences.

The original spygate controversy erupted when it emerged that Leeds United had been spying on opponents throughout the season. The story dominated football headlines for weeks, largely because of the response from Marcelo Bielsa and his now-famous press conference in which he delivered a 70-minute PowerPoint presentation, explaining his philosophy on preparing for matches. He admitted openly to spying on opponents, arguing that it constituted a legitimate form of preparation, that did not fundamentally alter the competitive balance of matches. The story was so prominent that it would have been virtually impossible for any individual working within professional football to remain unaware of it - or so you'd think!

Back in 2019 during the original spygate, Saints Manager Tonda Eckert was serving as assistant coach of RB Leipzig's Under-19 side in Germany. Given the prominence of both the story and of Marcelo Bielsa himself, a respected manager whose methodologies are studied and admired by coaches throughout the world, it seems reasonable to suggest that a young, ambitious coach in Eckert's position, WOULD have been acutely aware of the saga unfolding in English football.

As we know, on the continent, the practice of observing opposing teams during training or preparation sessions is permitted. Leeds used this very defence during their own spygate proceedings, so it's not surprising that Southampton recently did the same; however, it was deemed that "there was, on the part of the Respondent [Southampton], a contrived and determined plan from the top down to gain a competitive advantage in competitions of real significance by deliberate attendance at opposition training grounds for the purpose of obtaining tactical and selection information."

It didn't help their cause that they initially provided misleading information regarding the circumstances under which footage was obtained, only altering their position and entering a guilty plea after being presented with concrete evidence that contradicted their original account. This stands in marked contrast to Leeds, who acknowledged their conduct openly and transparently from the outset. Bielsa made no attempt to conceal what had occurred!

The Independent Disciplinary Commission found that young interns (like Will Salt) felt pressurised into spying when they knew it was morally wrong, with findings stating "In addition to the sporting sanctions a reprimand is considered appropriate in the present case because of the way in which junior members of staff were put under pressure to carry out activities which they felt were, at the least, morally wrong. Such staff were in a vulnerable position without job security and with limited ability to object to, or resist the instructions given to them."

[B. @InvertTheWing]

Premier League Predictions:

1. Manchester City
2. Arsenal
3. Liverpool
4. Chelsea
5. Tottenham
6. Newcastle United
7. Everton
8. Manchester United
9. Crystal Palace
10. Aston Villa
11. Brighton
12. Fulham
13. West Ham
14. Nottingham Forest
15. Sunderland
16. Brentford
17. Bournemouth
18. Burnley
19. Wolves
20. Leeds United

[The League Magazine @Theleaguemag]

Gordon Strachan of Leeds United with the Championship trophy

[James Marshment @marshyleeds]

⚪️🟡🔵 Just how good a signing has DCL been for Leeds?

14 Prem goals - the joint highest scoring Englishman this season - and a gem of an opportunistic strike to win it on Sunday.

Some of the moodiest pundits around are also impressed.

@F365 | #LUFC

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