So, what is going on exactly?

We are now a few months into the GFH Capital ownership of Leeds United, and we know as much as we did under Bates, if Bates' regime was like North Korea, I guess GFH's is like Iraq under Saddam.

We're told nothing and it seems like Salem Patel and David Haigh are going thier own ways and are not really sure on what they're doing or of what GFH want to do with the club.  Rumuors surfaced a few weeks ago that the club was back up for sale, but again, we haven't been told anything. Then the media said that a guy was close to buying the club, but again, we're not really told anything.

I'm getting sick of it to be honest, our club is a laughing stock, thank god for Blackburn being more of a joke - I don't need a billionaire buying Leeds and us "buying" a promotion and later a title like Man City have, but I demand stability and some sort of ambition now, not more lies and propaganda placed in the media from owners, manager or whoever feel they want to defend the owners actions.

Get new owners in, find a proper young manager, give youth a chance and lets see where that takes us - we, the fans, really as the banner say don't deserve this shit anymore. I want openness and clarity from the club and a proper plan of their ambitions, if the ambition is to stay in the championsship, fine, but let us know, no more of this, "this is our year" shit, we're starting to sound like Liverpool.

So Haigh and Patel, sell up and leave and please make sure you take Ken Bates with you out the door, just drop him out of the airplane somewhere around Monaco on your way back to Dubai or whereever you want to go!

Leeds United and the Norwich obsession

When I first became a Leeds fan back in the early 90’s the games I looked forward to and was told about were the games against the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. Games with a history, games that meant everything, to fans of both Leeds and our opponents. 

Leeds United and the fall from grace is a well known story and games between us and the teams we compared ourselves to became few and far between, which also meant that the rivalries died out a bit, however I do believe that the clubs mentioned miss us in the Premier League, I base this on the fact that whoever they play they waste no time in singing: “We all hate Leeds scum”, apparently that is the only thing the “big clubs” can agree on, they hate us – but don’t worry, the feeling is mutual.

Until I joined Twitter I actually still thought of those clubs as our big rivals and as the clubs we aspired to be, but it seems that quite a few people on Twitter think that out rivals these days are Norwich, Wigan, Huddersfield and Millwall? I can live with Huddersfield as they’re a local rival and also with Millwall because they’re a sick bunch, but really fellow Leeds fans, Wigan? Norwich?

I realise that Norwich in recent years have managed to get quite a few of our better players and that Wigan are in the Premier League for 8^th year running, but still, to see them as our biggest rivals and have more focus on them and their games (or any other games then Leeds for that matter) is just pathetic in my opinion. That I can see Norwich's starting 11 and a swipe at Becchio, Howson, Snoddy or Bradley Johnson written or retwettet before I see anything about Leeds seems wrong to me, we're all quick enough to make fun of other fans who are more concerned by other teams then their own but it should go both ways I think.

For me Leeds are as big a club as Liverpool or Manchester United, we’ve just suffered a massive fall, but that’s no reason to change rivals and creating rivalries with the so called “tin pot clubs”, if anything that just makes us a “tin pot club” ourselves.  

If you look at Twitter Leeds/MOT/any Leeds player and other Leeds related stuff is trending almost every week, so why do we lower ourselves and compare us to small teams? If anything we should keep the “original” rivalries going so the “big teams” are prepared for us when we return, our fans are among the best in the country which we’ve proven time and time again when playing either Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs, Manchester City or however in the cups – So let’s leave this weird “Norwich obsession” behind and focus on Leeds United and our march back towards the top of English football.

MOT