I can't see most of them ever getting over this!

<div class="postcolor" id="post-1278912">Damned United&rsquo;s biggest kicking
Rick Broadbent

We are Leeds and we know you are laughing. We are Leeds and we know the rest of you are up there on the moral high ground, pointing fingers at our terrible fans and listening to cosy love-ins on BBC radio as Peter Ridsdale, the Cardiff City chairman and former chairman of Leeds, denies all wrongdoing and tells how he shared a glass of champagne with his Hull City counterpart after the match that did for the club he supposedly loves.

But why do you hate us? Is it because of the one-eyed revisionists who remember Don Revie&rsquo;s team only as cynical Celts with the moral fibre of a Viking stag party and forget the mesmerising football they played? Is it because you remember the riots in Birmingham, Paris and Bournemouth but forget Liverpool in Belgium and England everywhere?

True football fans should feel deep sympathy for Leeds United. Why? Because our history is denied by those who refuse to acknowledge the greatness of Revie&rsquo;s Leeds and harp on about bribery, lucky suits and finishing second. Well poor old Jos&eacute; Mourinho and his &pound;200 million war chest should try doing the Double when you have to play the FA Cup Final on Saturday and the title decider on Monday. Leeds did that in 1972 and were called chokers.

Everyone has it in for Leeds. From the referee who failed to spot the offside against West Bromwich Albion in 1971 that robbed Leeds of another title and sparked the first pitch invasion to the one who robbed Leeds of the European Cup final in 1975 and sparked the first riot. Dirty, dirty Leeds.

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I know Leeds fans can be scumbags. I was at Dean Court in 1990 when Leeds got promoted to the top flight after a weekend of mayhem in Bournemouth. I visited my future inlaws that night and heard how some Northern knuckle-dusters had burnt a friend&rsquo;s beach hut and punched a friend&rsquo;s daughter in a bar. Awful, yes, but the football section of any bookshop is full of memoirs of sad, little men who spent the 1980s believing that they were military generals at Chelsea and West Ham United. Leeds were not alone in their casual misanthropy, so why hate us more?

And now that future generations will never know that Leeds mattered, the worst part is having our history misappropriated by the welk-eaters. Yes, Revie&rsquo;s Leeds could mix it with the best of them, but Ron &ldquo;Chopper&rdquo; Harris did not get his nickname because he had a fancy bike and Graeme Souness sometimes missed the ball. It was not all of them, either &mdash; I bet Eddie Gray&rsquo;s dog never even fouled a pavement &mdash; but the vilification of Revie has never been as objective as the treatment meted out to Brian Clough.

We are Leeds and you are laughing, but you wait until the Roman Abramovich era blows up in your face. You are just like us, really &mdash; passionate, partisan and utterly at the whims of the people you did not vote for. We did not ask Ridsdale to buy Seth Johnson or pay Gary Kelly &pound;40,000 a week until he is in pipe and slippers. We did not ask anyone to sell Elland Road and we certainly did not ask Alan Smith to say that he would stay in the event of relegation only to kiss his badge and bugger off to our bitter rivals.

Who do we blame? Ridsdale&rsquo;s board, a string of managers, underperforming players, Woodgate and Bowyer &mdash; it goes on.

So we are Leeds and we have been kicked to death. We have had one cup final in 32 years, a 3-0 defeat by Aston Villa in the Coca-Cola thingy that left Howard Wilkinson feeling &ldquo;emotionally disembowelled&rdquo;. We live on pain and the pompous tosh of our detractors. So goodbye from the emotionally disembowelled of West Yorkshire. And thanks for nothing.</div>

 

Brilliant.

Where is it taken from?

 

i heard it was from The Times on a Leeds board but surely not?!

 

:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

lets get the feckin violins out...

Perleeeeese...

(wnkr)

 

waccoe board

 

It's in today's Times nt

 

He seems to have forgotten they won the Premiership though?

I'd say Scarborough fans have a bigger shout than them when it comes to feeling sorry for themselves.

 

"From the referee who failed to spot the offside against West Bromwich Albion in 1971 that robbed Leeds of another title " I thought that was the linesman's job, but either way, does he think they are the only team that have ever had a bad offside call against them? Perhaps he'd like to look at the countless occasions David Batty stayed on the field when virtually every game I saw him in he should have been sent off. I'm sure I could find numerous ocasions when they had bad decisions in their favour.

 

Leeds haven't won the Premiership though?

It was the last Division 1 title before the Premiership

 

yep... like

6 mins of injury time

a disallowed goal for ipswich to keep them in the game

and a corner to re-start that was a goalkick


just 3 bad decisions in the last few minutes of one game by all accounts....

 

RE: Leeds haven't won the Premiership though?

It was the top tier of the football leagues in England & Wales at the time. Also, try telling a Frenchman the difference between the Premier league and the first division (in French btw). I tried but he kept looking at me like I was a simpleton.

 

RE: Leeds haven't won the Premiership though?

Try Division 3 -> Division 2 -> League 1, that'll really get him!