Jermaine Beckford, a return or a player best left in the past?

A rumour surfaced today that Leicester would either release or transfer list Jermaine Beckford, and instantly Twitter exploded with people either wanting Leeds to sign him up or people doing their best to persuade Leeds to leave Beckford alone.
I'm a bit torn to be honest, the guy can score goals, plenty of goals when he's in the right mood, he can also be a lazy bugger that complaints and moans most of the time, and the "fun" part is, you never know which Jermaine you'll see.

Beckford will always be a hero to Leeds fans for his goal against Manchester United on January 3rd 2010 and for him scoring the goal that finally got us out of League One on a wonderful day in May 2010 - but if I'm honest I think we should let Beckford sign for someone else, I just can't see him being a 20-25 goalscorer in the championship, plus the whole taking players back who asked to leave is not really always the best idea, I fear he'd return with an attitude of him being bigger then Leeds since he's been in the Premier League and we haven't.

So, the verdict will have to be; Thanks for the memories Becks but our paths should probably not cross again, for the good of Leeds United and probably for you to... So Brian McDermott, please sign Billy Sharp!

MOT

Sign him up Brian!

Reports came out today that Aston Villa have decided to release former Leeds loanee Eric Lichaj when his contract expires next month. I remember Lichaj fondly from his time at Elland Road and would like to see him join the club in the summer.

Not only is he a good RB, he also has a killer last name, that's gotta count for something to right? He's also played quite a lot of Premier League games for Aston Villa since his Leeds days, so I think that us signing up Lichaj would show a bit of ambition - Whether Sam Byram leaves or not I still think Lichaj will be an important player at ER. Sam can be pushed forward, or maybe we could even allow the 19 year old a few rests during the season, luxury!

So Brian, get on the phone to Eric's agent and sign him up.

MOT

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Kind regards, Kim

Player of the year 2012/13

It's time for the final award of the easily forgetable 2012/13 season - and this time it's the big one, player of the year.

As every other Leeds fan I've been very impressed by Sam Byram and also gave him the young player award (http://aroundmyleedsunited.blogspot.dk/2013/05/young-player-of-year.html) but for me there is only one guy who deserves player of the year, and he deserves it for several reasons.

• I'm confident that without his many goals prior to his sale we'd be playing League One come August
• I think everybody will agree that our promotion hopes, slim as they were, totally vanished when he left
• We've all, almost, realised what a class goalscorer we had after seeing his replacement being worse then Billy Paynter

The sale of Becchio ruined our season, and if I disliked Warnock before the sale for his idiotic comments about Becchio, it doesn't compare to my hate towards him now, not only did he sell our top scorer (and top 10 of all time), he also "managed" to do it in a crap deal and get Morison and very little £'s for him, crazy stuff.

A well deserved player of the year in my humble opinion, now it's time for us to look forward to the new season and hopefully better times ahead, thanks for reading during the season - best fans in the world!

MOT

Young player of the year

It's time for young player of the year and it's pretty obvious that it can only be Sam Byram. I'm not sure how many Leeds fans knew who this kid was 12 months ago, but I'm pretty confident that every Leeds fan knows him now.

Sam has had an amazing season, he's played in every game but that last two and have been one of our best and most consistent performers, it's very clear that we have a wonderful player on our hands, whether he is still here after the summer transfer window we'll see, but I really hope so, this guy is, in my humble opinion, a future Leeds captain.

So, young Sam, thanks for a great season, it's safe to say that apart for TOMA and Warnock fucking off you been one of the only highlights!

Marching on together

Game of the year 2012/13

It's time for the second award of the season and this time it game of the year, this game had it all, a new start after Warnock, a win, safety from promotion and a very unlikely hero.

The game I'm talking about is our home game against the Owls from Sheffield, a local derby with extra attention on it due to a supposed Leeds fan running onto the pitch at Hillsborough and hitting Owls keeper Kirkland and the game was also a early kick off for perhaps the same reason.

A few of the Danish Whites were present at Elland Road and the texts I got at half time were not to positive as we were down 0-1. In a few minutes in the second half Luke Varney suddenly decided to score two great goals and give Leeds a lead, and allthough the final 25 minutes were very hard to get through we did it! A win for Leeds and a win for new manager Brian McDermott, but most of all a win for the great fans who had endured so much agony during the season, I'll admit that the tension was so hard on me that I actually shed a tear at FT, I guess thats just how much passion I have for our club.

Congrats to Luke Varney, this will probably be the first and last time you're mentioned in one of my award blogs.

Marching on together

McDermott doing it for Redders.

Goal of the year 2012/13

It's been a forgettable season for Leeds United, the highs have been few and far between so my awards for Player of the year, Young player of the year, Goal of the year and match of the year have been quite easy, I hope to have a harder time finding them next season.

I'll start out with Goal of the year, and could it be anything else then the Argentine Becchios goal against Chelsea? No it could not.

The goal had it all, great play from defence to attack and a clinical finish as we knew and loved from Becchio, furthermore it gave us belief that we'd actually beat Chelsea out of the cup, if only for 30 mins, all in all a great goal and a nice memory to have.. Who knows when we'll be able to meet/beat Chelsea again?

The goal also came just a few days before the, supposed, GFH Capital revolution was to begin at ER, well, we're still waiting but enough about that.

Congrats Luciano on your last goal of the season for Leeds.

Marching On Together