100 Years Of Leeds United

Author : Daniel Chapman
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785784316

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100 Years of Leeds United by Daniel Chapman Pdf

UPDATED TO INCLUDE ALL THE ACTION FROM THE CLUB'S TITLE-WINNING CENTENARY YEAR. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH LEEDS UNITED 'Every up and down at Leeds United. Essential reading.' Phil Hay The definitive history of Leeds United's first century. 100 Years of Leeds United tells the story of a one-club city and its unique relationship with its football team. Since its foundation in 1919, Leeds United Football Club has seen more ups and downs than most, rising to global fame through an inimitable and uncompromising style in the 70s, clinching the last Division One title prior to the Premier League's inauguration in 1992, before a spectacular fall from grace at the start of the 21st century. United finally restored their top flight status after a sixteen-year wait with an unstoppable promotion campaign in the club's 100th year; the transformation under manager Marcelo Bielsa fittingly reminiscent of those instigated by Howard Wilkinson and Don Revie decades earlier. In 100 Years of Leeds United, Chapman delves deep into the archives to discover the lesser-known episodes, providing fresh context to the folkloric tales that have shaped the club we know today, painting the definitive picture of the West Yorkshire giants.

Author : Dave Tomlinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781445645124

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Leeds United: A History by Dave Tomlinson Pdf

The complete and definitive history of the Whites.

Author : James Buttler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1912101076

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100 Years of Leeds United Managers by James Buttler Pdf

Author : Phil Hay
Publisher : Seven Dials
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781841885186

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And it was Beautiful by Phil Hay Pdf

UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE 2021/22 SEASON THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER The behind-the-scenes story of the Marcelo Bielsa revolution at Leeds United and their first season back in the Premier League after sixteen years of hurt. FEATURING FRESH PERSONAL INSIGHT FROM MARCELO BIELSA On 27th February 2022, after 170 matches in charge, promotion to the Premier League and some of the most exhilarating football the English game has ever seen, Leeds United parted company with their most beloved and successful manager in a generation: Marcelo Bielsa. His parting gift was to embrace the crowds of adoring fans who turned up to say thank you as he left the club's training ground for the final time. In And it was Beautiful, The Athletic's Phil Hay chronicles Leeds United's glorious first season back in the top flight - which saw them finish ninth - after a chaotic sixteen-year absence. Phil pulls back the curtain on the hallmarks that now define the Marcelo Bielsa era, from his gruelling training schedule - including his infamous 'murderball' sessions - to innovative tactical methods that elevated Championship regulars into Premier League stars. Bielsa performed miracles, turning football into high art and making an extraordinary cultural impact on the city of Leeds. The result is a unique and fitting tribute to a Leeds United icon.

Author : Caroline Gall
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Service Crew by Caroline Gall Pdf

Paris, 1975; Chelsea, 1984; Birmingham, 1985; Bradford, 1986; Bournemouth, 1990. Many of the most shocking incidents in British football history have involved the hooligan followers of one club: Leeds United. For 40 years they have run riot across the country, punching their way to international notoriety, yet they have remained the most secretive of all mobs. Journalist Caroline Gall spent two years interviewing participants from several generations to piece together the first ever history of the gangs, from the Shipley Skins to the youths of the present day. The apex of this hooligan army was the Service Crew, who adopted their name from the service trains they used instead of the heavily policed 'specials'. They emerged as the casual era dawned and, against the violent backdrop of the Miners' Strike, quickly became feared by their terrace foes. The police eventually launched Operation Wild Boar to take down the ringleaders, only to convict a small number of relative fringe players. Service Crew examines racism at Leeds, chronicles some of the worst incidents of football-related disorder in modern times, and charts the effects of drugs and the rave scene on the hooligans. It is the definitive story of football's most vilified fans.

Author : Dave Simpson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781446488119

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The Last Champions by Dave Simpson Pdf

When the Leeds United players celebrated winning the championship in April 1992, they had no idea how momentous the occasion was. Manchester United, losers at Liverpool that Sunday afternoon, had now gone 25 years without winning the league. Howard Wilkinson's side, promoted just two seasons ago, could bring back the glory days to Leeds. But Wilkinson would prove to be the last English manager to win the league. In 1992, football changed beyond all recognition. The Last Champions explores the roots of that success and the amazing cast of characters who came together to fashion the triumph. As in his acclaimed book The Fallen, Dave Simpson's quest to catch up with the protagonists of the era, from the visionary Sergeant Wilko, top scorer Lee Chapman and unsung heroes like Mike Whitlow and Carl Shutt (not forgetting Eric Cantona), sees him unearth some extraordinary untold stories. And he finds that The Last Champions were also the last ordinary people to win the league, before the Premier League saw skyrocketing wages, billionaire foreign owners and the dictates of television taking the game away from the fans. It is the brilliantly told story of the end of an era.

Author : Jon Howe
Publisher : Pitch Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785318837

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The Only Place for Us by Jon Howe Pdf

Leeds United's Elland Road home is full of intrigue, character and formidable acoustics, yet it started life as a barren and featureless patch of land surrounded by coalfields. The Only Place For Us is the fascinating history of the stadium and its changing local environment, revealing the background stories behind Elland Road's most famous features and characters, and the astonishing events it has witnessed. Along the way there have been fires and gypsy curses mixed with cherished memories including the diamond floodlights, the West Stand façade and escapee pantomime horses. Using forensic research, insiders' insights, archive photographs and fans' memories, Jon Howe retraces a historical journey full of tragedy, nostalgia and improbable innovation, to show how Leeds United's home ground became one of Europe's most feared football grounds. Through triumph and adversity, neglect and redevelopment, Elland Road has emerged as a prominent, modern stadium that's still alive with history. This is its unique story.

Author : Ian Dobson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0993431402

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The Square Ball by Ian Dobson Pdf

The best of the first twenty years of the popular Leeds United fanzine

Author : Dave Tomlinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781398114203

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Leeds United in the 1980s and 1990s by Dave Tomlinson Pdf

The story of Leeds United from 1980 to 2000 when the club crashed and burned and then rose from the ashes to become the last First Division champions, before approaching the Millennium full of expectations for their dynamic young team.

Author : Rob Bagchi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909534846

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The Biography of Leeds United by Rob Bagchi Pdf

A warmly written history of Yorkshire's biggest football club! In The Biography of Leeds United, Telegraph journalist and lifelong fan Rob Bagchi writes the story of this famous club and chronicles a century of history that will educate, entertain and inform both old and new supporters. Packed with fresh stories about and from former players, managers and the money men, as well as the fans, the book is an affectionate and insightful portrait of a football club like no other. Leeds United were founded in 1919 to revive professional football in Yorkshire's biggest city following the expulsion of their fragile and bungling predecessors, Leeds City. A century on from their formation, a club that makes a virtue out of its many ups and downs in its own anthem, has endured a turbulent existence of crushing disappointment and conflict tempered by extraordinary, often mercurial, success. When United mark their centenary in October 2019, vivid recollections of their greatest days, the three league championships, FA Cup, League Cup and floodlit memories of nights of European glory will be celebrated throughout the vast fanbase. Elland Road icons John Charles, Billy Bremner, Jack Charlton, Peter Lorimer, Norman Hunter, Eddie Gray, Tony Currie, John Sheridan, Gordon Strachan, David Batty, Eric Cantona, Gary Speed and Lucas Radebe played for teams that were both revered and reviled, contributing to the club's fame throughout the world. Don Revie's team of the Sixties and Seventies propelled the club and city to unprecedented heights. But when they reached the top, they failed to plan and there was nowhere to go but down. The theme of the past five decades has been the struggle to get back, a story of great adventures, fleeting splendour, relegation and defiant, hard battles against authority, owners and self-sabotage.

Author : Dave Tomlinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781398108417

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Leeds United in the 21st Century by Dave Tomlinson Pdf

The story of Leeds United’s roller coaster ride through the 21st century from Champions League semi-finals to financial mismanagement, boardroom wrangles and relegation – and hope of their eventual return to the top tier.

Author : Adrian Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1839753609

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Leeds United by Adrian Taylor Pdf

A humorous compilation of a lifelong Leeds fan's journey following the "Mighty Whites." Sharing a whole host of life's tales with a clear focus on Leeds' nervous and exciting fight to reach the Premiership in their Centenary year.

Author : David Peace
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571246076

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The Damned Utd by David Peace Pdf

One of Mike Atherton's 'Top Ten Best Sports Books' in The Times In 1974 the brilliant and controversial Brian Clough made perhaps his most eccentric decision: he accepted the Leeds United manager's job. As successor to Don Revie, his bitter adversary, he was to last only 44 days. In one of the most acclaimed novels of this or any other year, David Peace takes us into the mind and thoughts of Ol'Big'Ead himself, and brings vividly to life one of post-war Britain's most complex and fascinating characters.

Author : Gary Edwards
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785312595

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Fifty Shades of White by Gary Edwards Pdf

Fifty Shades of White is Gary Edwards's fifth book; and he returns with more fabulous, rib-tickling tales that come with half a century of following one of the most talked about football clubs in the world. Like the time he was asked to accompany a four-and-a-half-foot tall monk with a large hearing aid, who hadn't previously left his abbey for 25 years, to a Leeds United game as part of a BBC documentary. Or the time he escaped from hospital, still in his hospital gown and attached to a catheter, a blood bag, several needles and with two tampons stuck up his nose to travel 70 miles up the A1 in a thunderstorm for a relatively meaningless Leeds game at Darlington. There is a fascinating, controversial and hilarious insight into Leeds United's former owner Ken Bates, gleaned from being a special guest at his birthday and Christmas parties for eight consecutive years. Fifty Shades of White gives a unique fan insight into the club and a life devoted to Leeds United.

Author : Rob Bagchi,Paul Rogerson
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845138073

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The Unforgiven by Rob Bagchi,Paul Rogerson Pdf

In 1961, when Don Revie became manager of Leeds United, they were a struggling Second Division club. By 1974 they had won two League Championships, the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (twice), the FA Cup and the League Cup; players like Jack Charlton and Billy Bremner were household names. Yet this was a team that inspired neither admiration nor grudging respect, but rather a deep and visceral loathing – matched only by the bellicose devotion of their own supporters. The undeniable artistry of players like striker Allan Clarke was overshadowed by a ruthless professionalism, epitomised in the scything tackles of Norman Hunter. Still, when Revie’s Leeds United side were let off the leash – the 7-0 humiliation of Southampton is enshrined in Match of the Day mythology – their brilliance was compelling. At the heart of their outlaw status was the eccentric personality of Don Revie himself. Clad in his lucky blue suit, a man for whom team-building meant rounds of carpet bowls, here reigned less a football manager than, in his own estimation, the ‘head of the family’. The aftermath of the Revie era is explored, including Brian Clough’s infamous 44 days at the helm of the ‘Damned United’. The Unforgiven is the definitive history of the most defiantly unconventional team in British football.