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Morning, all.
Blogs is out of action so I’m covering this morning.
As some of you who follow me on Twitter will know, I have a long-standing disdain for Leeds United. It dates back a couple of decades to a pub in Harrogate and an incident with one of their fans who labelled me, “Harry Potter Speccy Twat”.
It’s fair to say, I didn’t take too kindly to that and I’ve been wishing the absolute worst for them ever since. And look, I’ve had a pretty good run of it…to the point, I’ve convinced myself I may have cursed them. If you’re going to get compared to a wizard, you might as well channel that energy. Right?
There was always something about Leeds I didn’t like. I reckon I suffered some form of PTSD off the back of all the FA Cup replays in the early 90s – no matter how many times you killed them, they just wouldn’t die – and then, of course, they fucked us twice during title run-ins in 1999 and 2003. Only after the latter, which happened the same year as ‘the incident’, did we turn a corner.
When Leeds visited Highbury in April 2004, it was personal. From my seat in the North Bank Upper, I felt like I was conducting Thierry Henry’s masterclass. On the way to a 5-0 win, each of the Frenchman’s four goals crossed a line through my unwanted alias. Harry Potter Speccy Twat.
“Electrifying, electrifying” was how Martin Tyler described Henry. It really was. That win will forever be one of my favourites at Highbury. We played with the strut of a team that was on the verge of winning the championship and Leeds looked like a side destined for relegation. Their fate was sealed not long after and for 16 years they remained mostly out of view, at one point dropping down to League One and flirting with administration. Oh, how I laughed.
When we did have to face them, the scripts for cup games were similarly satisfying. Leeds thought they had us beaten in 2011 only for Cesc Fabregas to deny them a giant-killing win with a…
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Author : Andrew Allen
Publish date : 2024-05-27 08:27:00
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