As goalkeeper, Nigel Martyn knew what this pre-match bluster meant. "If they think they can score four, Deportivo must have singled me out," he said.
25 years ago in the Champions League — Deportivo La Coruña vs #LUFC
The pressure on Rio Ferdinand was so intense that, after conceding a free-kick, he smashed the ball against the advertising hoardings.
He wasn't protesting against the referee so much as the idea of another seventy minutes of this to come.
Depor vs #LUFC
As goalkeeper, Nigel Martyn knew what this pre-match bluster meant. "If they think they can score four, Deportivo must have singled me out," he said.
25 years ago in the Champions League — Deportivo La Coruña vs #LUFC
...this was also the game when Bellusci took this free-kick away from Lewis Cook
But I'm still in too much of a good mood from Monday to let his patronising little pat on Cook's cheek bring me down now
The next thing you know Giuseppe Bellusci is flat on his back, his arm upraised, and Marco Silvestri is panicking.
'What was he — what did he just do? Why is he on the floor?'
'It's Bellusci.'
'And why is Silvestri being sent off?'
"Bellusci.'
#LUFC
Nobody respects their old myths anymore.
In West Yorkshire, nobody ever did.
#LUFC just needed a team to go there and show how we felt about it on their pitch, while their captain was tantrumming on the grass, nothing wounded but his maloriented pride.
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From 2015/16, featuring some of my finest impressions of Steve Evans.
"Tactically," Evans said. "Tactically, we've got it right today."
And #LUFC lost 2-1 to a team in 20th, managed by Neil Warnock.
A beautifully framed photo by Michael Regan here. We can see Bruno Fernandes from the back, complaint to all and sundry about one thing or another or everything. His left arm is outstretched and above it we can see James Justin, one eyebrow raised, looking at Fernandes like he’s crazy
James Justin’s raised eyebrow here stands for all of us when this twerp starts going off
And that’s why the second #LUFC goal on Monday night was so, so sweet
I wrote about it —> www.leedsista.com/manchester-u...
Nobody respects their old myths anymore.
In West Yorkshire, nobody ever did.
#LUFC just needed a team to go there and show how we felt about it on their pitch, while their captain was tantrumming on the grass, nothing wounded but his maloriented pride.
A Leedsista badge pinned to my coat, and another badge I’ve had for ages and ages that is white with black letters, reading: LEEDS NORTH OF MANCHESTER
Being at Old Trafford to see Leeds win in the league was one thing, but getting this goal notification about Dario Del Fabro scoring for Picerno against Cosenza while I was there? If Carlsberg did Monday nights etc etc
What a night for things happening and going on
#LUFC
David Beckham went into hiding. Paul Ince locked himself away in the hotel.
David Batty, meanwhile, was in the bar, watching a replay on television, cringing at Kevin Keegan confidently predicting he'd score.
#LUFC
As we wait for #LUFC Wembley ticket news, here's FA Cup allocation 1950-style, for a 5th round tie:
To buy tickets for the cup game, you had to turn up in person and pay nine pence to get into a reserve match at Elland Road the week before.
(I'm not trying to give anyone any ideas!)
A shiny gold sticker respecting the the classic 1990s Merlin Premier League sticker dimensions, showing the blue, gold and white Leedsista ball logo. It's photographed lying in some grass
A shiny holographic sticker respecting the the classic 1990s Merlin Premier League sticker dimensions, showing the World-wide Friendship Through Soccer ball logo. It's photographed lying in some grass
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Congratulations to this Leedsista sticker on fourteen months and counting of excellent adhesion
FA Cup ticket allocation, 1950s style:
#LUFC persisted with a money-spinning scheme of selling cup tickets to supporters on condition they'd first paid nine-pence at the turnstiles to see a reserve game the week before.
Before #LUFC played Cardiff in the 5th round at Elland Road, three Welsh schoolboys waged a 'Battle of the leeks'.
Forming a relay team, they 'made nearly a dozen trips to the centre of the pitch with either a garlanded leek or the flag of Wales'.
If the Peacocks of 1950 could overcome Arsenal, they'd reach the FA Cup semi-final.
And that could mean, it was reported, another trip to London, if the semi-finals were moved to Wembley.
About #LUFC going cup crazy:
History, economic power, contemporary events. Those are things Jesse Marsch swore his #LUFC would overcome.
One point at Old Trafford made a point that he, and we, were wasting our time all that time, using the wrong tactics to fight the wrong battles.
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From February of 2022/23 — to celebrate Michael Skubala's promotion with Lincoln City, let's go back to the time he took #LUFC to Old Trafford:
"I think my passing has been overlooked," Batty said. "I like to play passing football."
He was less bothered by his image off the field, as a crossword-solver who was reading the Chronicle of the 20th Century.
"No," he said. "I got bored during the 1950s and gave up."
Kenny Dalglish, the story went, had never forgotten playing alongside Batty in John Charles' and Bobby Collins' testimonial at Elland Road in 1988, and trusted him to run his midfield the way he wanted.
That was enough to tempt David Batty away from #LUFC —
After three hours, all I wanted was for Pascal Struijk to blast his penalty past the 'orrible oik who'd gone in their goal and get the Peacocks to Wembley.
And I got what I wanted in the end, so all was well that ended well.
#LUFC
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About #LUFC vs West Ham
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I'm grateful for the #LUFC stoppage time collapse because it turned this match back towards cup football purity and, while it might not have been romantic, it developed an outsized mental dominance that ensures it won't be easily forgotten.
Thank you @maxrushden.bsky.social and @barryglendenning.bsky.social for the calming pre-FA Cupping chat about #LUFC this afternoon
It's on this video, from 2h19m45s
www.youtube.com/live/5v9jfvS...
Next week #LUFC can hand Dan James a laptop full of shot-data analysis, remind him of his triple play-off pain and the scar running down his brow, give him a brick and ten minutes and let him get it all out of his system.
Typical Chelsea letting us down by only getting seven
"We were very pleased when we heard #LUFC would be our opponents," said Victor. "They are the weakest team in the competition, and we've got the easiest draw."
25 years ago, Leeds United vs Deportivo La Coruña: