Mark Richardson

One of my favourite ever photos. Mum, Grandma & Nana. Amazing ladies and mothers. Thank you for always being there. Rest in peace Grandma. Love you 🙏✌️❤️

🌼 Open from 11-4 tomorrow for records & coffee. Easter markets in @ThePieceHall & the forecast isn’t too bad 🤞 Hope you can join us x 🔝🎶🍪☕️✌️🍺🍷🙏💥

Yesss. What a thriller @LUFC Wembley Come on Leeds!! 💙💛🤍#MOT

🤩 WE'RE GOING TO WEMBLEY!!

Can we go back to the 80s/90s please? I really hate how everything is now. I miss how life was, how people were. The music was better, the films were great. I miss blockbuster video and the days of no social media. Times were so so much better.

@ATRightMovies ‘One battle after another.’ Average at best .

💥 The beautiful @ThePieceHall Nothing else like it in the world. Blessed to be here every day providing music, coffee, beer, bakes & sanctuary. We’re open every day over bank holiday weekend. Pic by @aaron_casserly_stewart 👌 🔝🎶☕️🍪✌️🍺🍷🙏💥

I feel sad because we’ve lost community and respect. Slow Sundays, local pubs serving the community. Nature, been outside. Low expectations and pride in what we do. Radio, playing records, gathering round the tv for a must watch film. Everything is too fast, fake and expensive 😢

We’ve lost two weeks of premier league football to watch pointless friendlies. Absolute waste of time….🤷🤷

@PaulEmbery A time when pubs were heartbeat of villages & towns. Friends, sports teams, jukebox, a good pint. It barely exists now due to cost, lifestyle & social media/smart tv. I own a bar & young people don’t drink. It’s not worth staying open late as there’s no one around after 8pm 😢

When I was growing up, pubs would often be rammed until closing time (not so much during the week, but certainly at weekends). The bell for “last orders” would usually spark a rush to the bar. These days, even the most popular pubs seem to start emptying out around 8.00-9.00pm, including on Fridays and Saturdays. Has anyone else noticed this phenomenon? Is there a reason for it?

Leeds will never forget 😜 Some love being show for Marcelo Bielsa for his time in charge of Leeds United 🟡 @LUFC

Riley Ross, a young #LUFC fan who was once pictured hugging Marcelo Bielsa at a Leeds match in 2020, met his hero again today at the Uruguay team hotel. What a moment ❤️❤️ (via @ashleigh_rosss)

If Bielsa has never managed your club, you won't ever get the feeling this man creates. A bonafide genius, and a fucking wonderful human to boot. That 3 and a half year period he was with us will live with me forever, the best of times. Just gutting it fell apart so fast 🥰🥲

@theadelites To This day I can’t forget the tirade of Abuse Bielsa got for this. And meanwhile there’s cheating, time wasting, rule breaking, spitting, VAR, financial breaches left right & centre going on and it’s just brushed over!

In 2019 #LUFC’s then manager Marcelo Bielsa sent a scout to watch Derby train ahead of their upcoming fixture. The scout stood on a public footpath and took a few notes. The modern equivalent of a dark ages witch hunt followed, spurred on by hyperbolic pundits. Keith Andrews accused Bielsa of not giving a damn and not adapting to the culture of England. In fact, Bielsa explained in a 45 minute impromptu press conference that he cared too much. In the extraordinary presser, Bielsa broke down a tactical analysis of Derby - showing that he had amassed such an unprecedented amount of information and statistics on them - that the training session the scout watched could give him no extra information that he didn’t already have. Bielsa explained that he sent the scout anyway because if he didn’t do everything he possibly could - within the rules - to help Leeds win, then he would feel irreconcilable guilt. And after spy gate had been investigated by the EFL - and Leeds were found to be in breach of the “spirit of the game” and fined £250,000 - Bielsa refused to let #LUFC pay and instead paid it out of his own pocket. What was that Keith Andrews said about Bielsa not giving a damn and lacking respect? Today, the ‘spirit of the game’ has never felt less vague. Was it in ‘the spirit of the game’ to drag Bielsa’s name through dirt on every show throughout the spy gate scandal? And where is the ‘spirit of the game’ now, with football club-owners-cum-charlatans taking fans for a ride on their get-rich-quick schemes of stripping a community’s cherished possession of its assets and selling to the highest bidder? Where is the spirit of the game in agent payments and state-funded sports-washing? Or in the ceaseless betting advertisements that ruin lives? Or Man City’s 115 charges and the PSR hypocrisy that fails to create a level playing field - PSRs sole reason for existence? Is VAR in the spirit of the game? Is making away supporters travel 100s of miles at midnight in the spirit of the game? I’m not sure I have ever seen, I’m not sure I’ll ever likely see, a more erroneous use of the term and law being applied to punish a club. Those few weeks in 2019 were bizarre. The media made an avalanche out of a snowflake and pundits and wannabe coaches got paid to lambast Bielsa from the rafters. And after hearing about how Marcelo has revolutionised the game wherever he went and was idolised by the world’s best coaches. And after seeing Leeds United become “everyone’s second team (for the first time in the club’s existence)”- these pundits and analysts finally had a reason to tear Bielsa down off that pedestal and they did so with relish. They talked of Bielsa in the scathing tones usually only reserved for war criminals. Yet his only crime was that he sent someone to stand on a public footpath and watch a football team train because if he didn’t he’d feel guilty. It was a ridiculous moment for the culture and the irony was compounded when Leeds and Bielsa won the FIFA Fair Play Award for letting Aston Villa score a goal in another bizarre story for another time. If anyone embodies ‘the spirit of the game’ it is Marcelo Bielsa - or at least, football would be lucky to embody his spirit. The Argentine will be back in the country this month as his Uruguay side play England. Tonight, Keith Andrews returns to Elland Road as manager of Brentford. A timely reminder of what Andrews’ said about Bielsa during spy gate ⤵️

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@JenniferSey I love films of all genres but this was all over the place & really don’t understand the hype. Yes some beautiful cinematography but really baffled with how this won best film.

It's hard to describe how much I hated this movie. The whole thing makes Hollywood egomaniacs feel like they are the resistance when in reality they are the rich people, wearing single use $20,000 outfits, talking down to staff, OD’ing on Ozempic and generally being the most resource-consuming, selfish, narcissistic people on the planet. But ok, sure, you’re revolutionaries in Chanel and Balenciaga with a face full of filler and Botox!

@cm0102legends Often debate this. All the nets now are identical and not anywhere near baggy enough. Those at Elland Road were ace. And Mexico 86!

Who misses when teams had their own unique goal posts and nets?

Just ridiculous the premier league. It’s not sport anymore 🥱

13th March, 1996 Remembering all the victims and those injured in the horrific Dunblane Primary School Massacre Please never ever forget these innocent wee bairns and their teacher 😢 ❤ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙏

@TheCinesthetic I saw it in the cinema in 1995. A masterpiece of film making, couldn’t move in my seat for the entire film. They don’t make films as good as this. Brutal, incredible acting and script, terrifying.

Imagine watching the “What’s in the box?” sequence for the first time in a packed theater in Se7en (1995), the realization hitting the audience a beat early and the room going silent as it lands. Absolutely insane.

Does anybody ever go back to their old street and the house they grew up in just to remember how things were back then?