When Sunday comes - Leeds away

[dave.woodhall]

With a soupcon of bitterness.

https://heroesandvillains.info/2025/11/22/when-sunday-comes/

[Legion]

Done.

[darren woolley]

Great read Dave.

[dave.woodhall]

Great read Dave.

Daz.

[rob_bridge]

Great stuff Dave W.

The last post on a social media site that my (soon after and un-beknown to be departed) brother wrote in summer 2020 5 years and a few months ago was very simple.

'Leeds aren't a Big Club'

[cdbearsfan]

Sorry for your loss.

He was bang on. Fewer seasons in the top flight than Small Heath, as many league titles as Huddersfield, as many FA Cups as Coventry, as many League Cups as Norwich.

And everything they did win, they won by cheating. Absolutely Mickey Mouse.

[adrenachrome]

Only a soupcon?

If I didn't know any better, I would guess that you have encountered their fans when selling the fanzine.

A remarkable bunch, it must be said.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

The only big thing about Dirty Leeds is the size of their car window stickers.

[ldavfc4eva]

“ and they’ve got a manager who looks like the chief suspect in a Scandinavian psychological crime noir series”

Beautiful stuff Dave

[LeeB]

I like Leeds, that play off defeat at home to Derby was the single funniest game of football I've ever seen.

[The Edge]

And just to highlight Dave's point about Leeds getting a totally undeserved amount of media favouritism I just watched Sky Sunday Supplement to see how the journos see today's game going.
Low and behold they held a ten minute discussion about all things Leeds.
The only mention of Aston Villa was as "today's opponents" are Aston Villa. They then moved on to discuss Man Yanited (obviously). No surprises there then. I don't know why I expected anything different.

[Sexual Ealing]

Imagine how good it would've felt to hear them say, 'Aston Villa have picked up after a terrible start and are ticking along nicely." God, that would've been amazing.

[LeeB]

On a similar note, I've just been through the Guardian's match day feed and there's not a mention of our game at all, plenty of wobbling about Liverpool, the cockney derby and the Sheffield one, a game in Germany, Barcelona playing back home etc.

3 hours so far.

[Monty]

Imagine how good it would've felt to hear them say, 'Aston Villa have picked up after a terrible start and are ticking along nicely." God, that would've been amazing.

Tried it on the missus yesterday. Her eyes filled with tears and she just murmured "but you're not Henry Winter, I'm sorry, it's just not the same not coming from Henry."

[The Edge]

Imagine how good it would've felt to hear them say, 'Aston Villa have picked up after a terrible start and are ticking along nicely." God, that would've been amazing.

Have I missed something?