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It might have taken 270 minutes of eleven a side in one week, but Leeds United Women are working out that they still want more from this season.
Leeds United 1-5 Crystal Palace: Please stop
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Lads, whatever you’re doing, please stop.
Leeds United 2-1 Nottingham Forest: Just right
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Game feel, and Luis Sinisterra, made a game that could have been so fraught feel so good.
Wolves 2-4 Leeds United: Good time for a good time
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The worst thing a team can do in a relegation battle, especially one as crowded and narrow as this, is relax. This game was not relaxing.
Leeds United 2-2 Brighton: The initiative
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The source of Elland Road’s anger was not in how this game was played, but in how this game came to be played this way.
The Yorkshire roar
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The FA wanted to make football a success in the north. Leeds, writes Moxco, was a problem.
Central League Fever
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Suddenly, everyone in Leeds wanted to watch association football. So, writes Moxco, the club found a way for people to do just that.
A kiss back to Leeds: photos by Hannah Platt
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Hannah Platt’s photos of Leeds, chronicling a city that in their pictures is always doing something, even if it’s something very still or very silly.
New trend: smacking a bouncing ball
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This is what Leeds need. A ball bouncing back to Rutter when he messes up, so he can smack the rebound in properly.
Chelsea 1-0 Leeds United: The fix
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This is what relegation scraps are like, and they’re like this for weeks. And then it’s summer.