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@AllLoveLeeds @jamiemkemp @DirtyLeedsPS I did too; I was surprised at how good they were compared with the Thomas Frank version of Brentford who got a 0-0 at ER when we were last in the Prem (2023) ... but don't get me wrong, both games were awful

@jamiemkemp @DirtyLeedsPS Actually thought Brentford passed it round their central midfield really well first half - often a box midfield

Brentford played 83 long passes v #LUFC last night - the most by a visiting team at Elland Road since Phil Parkinson's Bolton in February 2019. Another pretty unwatchable (top level) football match. Invisible midfields, passing round or over and never through... just bland.

@henrywinter @MJwhites1 Would you concede though @henrywinter that there is zero chance of IFAB and PGMOL listening to Farke? I think journalists have more influence than #Lufc managers have, and have ever had

@MJwhites1 Often around the hour mark but also occurs after subs. Farke been very good on this - hope IFAB and PGMO listen to him

Tactical time-outs an increasing problem in football. A few PL clubs do it. Even England have done it. Caoimhin Kelleher may have genuinely been injured - he was able to play on - but Leeds United’s frustration at the disruption was understandable. They were building, had brought on subs and then the game paused. Daniel Farke already raised concerns earlier this season. Gianluigi Donnarumma went down and Manchester City players went to touchline for instructions. Farke asked the fourth official if he was going to do something. Officials’ hands are tied at the moment. Teams getting round rule for outfield players to go off for 30 seconds after treatment. Now goalkeepers used for tactical timeouts. IFAB has discussed a nominated outfield player going off for 30 seconds if a keeper has treatment. But concern that a keeper could genuinely have been injured. Possible solution is for players to be stopped from going to the touchline during stoppages or ordered to stay in the centre circle.  Be interesting to see whether World Cup refs clamp down. It’s seeking an advantage by breaking up opposition’s flow, by giving the manager an opportunity for instructions and also it’s time-wasting - and there’s enough of that spoiling games.

@squadnos So did Gary Numan's 'Cars', in its second week on the chart in 1979, on its way to number one. 20-3

Newcastle United's Lewis Hall made the same move last summer

Today's date represents the number change made by Ian Harte of Leeds United in 1999 - both Leeds and Tottenham Hotspur undertook major tidy-ups that summer museumofjerseys.com/2023/08/29/mat…

@PremiershipYrs David Hopkin

Friday Frivolity. I'm looking for an unsung hero. Dependable, underappreciated, solid, forgotten; any of those can apply. From your club or from another one. The ONLY rule is they must be from the Premiership era, 1992-2007. Okay, I'm all ears.

@3Retro_Football The best individual performance I've ever seen? Well, this one. How close the result? How big the comeback? How dominant the player? How high the level? If anyone can name a game in which one player scored 5 in a 5-4, top tier victory having been 0-3 down, they can claim it.

Who remembers when #LeedsUnited's big Aussie striker Mark Viduka put #Liverpool to the sword with a stunning four goal haul in a 4–3 win at Elland Road. Pure Barclays heritage, that’s not a just a MOTM performance, that’s cult hero status secured 🫡 What’s the best individual performance you’ve ever seen? 👀👇

@henrywinter Nothing in the ceremonial county of Yorkshire is being used. That's the thing that needs attention. If it's because there isn't a good enough, modern enough stadium, that goes all the way back to the fact that Thatcher hated sport, and she and her devotees hated the North.

Old Trafford was ruled out as a Euro 2028 venue because building work on a new stadium would supposedly be well underway. Fans, Uefa were disappointed. Walking along Sir Matt Busby Way feels a pilgrimage, even for those who aren't disciples of Manchester United ... 1/2

@SchmeltsHerring @DaleJohnsonBBC @lufcstats Exactly. Struijk was taught by Bielsa not to complain. Sometimes it's costly, and worse than that there is never any footballing benefit in not whingeing to the ref.

@DaleJohnsonBBC @lufcstats This is a prime example of us not pressuring officials enough. If the players protest it enough, VAR will check it. Our honesty is being punished. A more cynical team will have got the penalty because they will have made enough fuss for VAR to check.

Leeds should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 loss at home to Sunderland. Sunderland's Luke O'Nien placed "his arms around the neck of Pascal Struijk in a clear non-footballing action." The KMI Panel unanimously voted it a VAR error. #LUFC bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

@lufcstats That was his chance... Johnson's 4th bookable offence

@cm0102legends non-white nets were tinpot; delusions of grandeur.

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

@LBFlyawayhome London

Some non-fiction for you today. You can only pick one. Which one? (Please would you favourite this post, even if you don’t reply, or the algorithm will bury it) 🙏

@irishlondoner @TWO_Librans @jamestaylor1 All bar 15 clubs voted for it. Sheffield Wednesday voted against it

@TWO_Librans @jamestaylor1 Which incidentally all the other clubs voted for on the basis that it would never happen to them…

No real football fan wants to see a club like Wednesday #swfc with a further points deduction next season. What we want is for a certain club to be charged with 117 offences.

@WelsbyElton ...like being told by [insert eg of 90s boy band] that modern music is rubbish - the dislikable underpinning philosophy of the modern game ("dark arts" etc) and several of its least attractive key features (long throws, overly physical jostling at set plays) etc were once his

He's not alone...

@1968Tv And here is tournament in full, for those who want to relive all the matches 🤩 footballia.top/competitions/w…

@1968Tv youtube.com/watch?v=o90__y…

@celticfanzone @WelsbyElton Saw #YorkCity vs #Arsenal 1985. York took the lead in the 90th minute. It didn't occur to them to run the clock down. They even won another corner and didn't play it short, they crossed it into the box.

@WelsbyElton I was in hospital recently and caught the West Ham v Wolves game from 1974 about 8am. 5-2 to the Hammers, good honest end to end football. Didn't once see either team play along the back line.

I record footy from the 70s and 80s on ITV4 every morning.Good,honest and attacking.Wouldn't have a clue about possession.

@AllanSansome @Zonal_Marking @ESPNFC Perhaps it feels like that and I have some sympathy, if it does (feel like that). But an objective measure would be to look at whether or not goalscoring is reducing as a result - and it definitely isn't (so at least there are countervailing factors) researchgate.net/publication/38…

@Zonal_Marking @ESPNFC Add in the fact that only 1 team is above 2 goals per game and it’s hard to see why you wouldn’t to do more to encourage a more attacking game.

Pleased to have been anti-'crowding the keeper at corners' before it was cool. This was for @ESPNFC seven years ago today. In my view IFAB is too reactive, and specifically too reactive to what is happening at the top level. espn.co.uk/football/story…

@mikekelly26 @lufcstats Properly worrying isn't it. Fulham A and Man City A were games where we convinced ourselves we were unlucky to lose late on!

@lufcstats West Ham 1-0. Forest 1-1. We’re fucked 🤣

@WelsbyElton Did you ever discuss Best with Jack Charlton, @WelsbyElton? In Big Jack's autobiography, he makes it clear Best's lack of longevity and later attitude should count against him when considering the all-time "greats". Interested to know if he ever expressed his view in conversation

1 Maradona 2 Cruyff 3 Pele 4 Best

@OptaAnalyst A mean value for a ranking is nonsensical

Premier League Fixture Difficulty: Next 5 Games

@Crj777777 @AwayDays_ Well I love that but I preferred state to stat. It's not so much a stat as a fact

@AwayDays_ Stat*

When the Millennium Stadium hosted finals whilst Wembley was being rebuilt 😍