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I’ve been trying all season to work out what a football manager does in the Premier League now and how much it matters.
Bournemouth 4-1 Leeds United: The next letdown
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Even saving themselves from relegation won’t be enough to save Leeds United from this season.
Proposal: Leeds United players should acknowledge children
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A smile wouldn’t hurt!
Leeds United 1-1 Leicester City: Good at bad
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This isn’t about anyone demonstrating their birthright to success. It’s about being less bad than three other teams despite being as bad as them.
Proposal: Javi Gracia should tell us why Wilf Gnonto isn’t playing
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Wilf, if you’re reading this, blink once for ‘ankle still hurts’, blink twice for ‘this weirdo hates me’.
Joffy goes north
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He’s bruised, he’s sweaty, he’s doing just fine.
Fulham 2-1 Leeds United: Mistaken
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If Javi Gracia can’t find answers he’ll be sacked. But it isn’t him we should be asking.
Leeds United 1-6 Liverpool: Who thought this was a good idea?
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Leeds, locked rigidly into their fear, were gritting their teeth and hoping for something to save them from top level football.
Tight and tactical
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Don Revie was fed up of defending his players for defending. At Highbury in 1968, writes Moxco, they pleased everybody but him.
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The odd couple
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Moxco asks, what could Gordon Strachan and Vinnie Jones possibly have in common?
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