Leeds fans and the excessive use of the word legend

Leeds fans are a passionate bunch and that's one of the things I like most in us, but sometimes some fans just get a bit carried away.

The last weeks have seen Ross McCormack heavily linked with Middlesbrough and this have made Twitter into a very strange place, people are tweeting the owners threatening to stop coming to ER if Ross is sold and demanding that David Haigh instantly gives Ross a new deal, a few things is wrong with that, first he'd be a pretty shitty businessman if he conducted his business on Twitter or took advice from any of us on there and two why say you'd not come to ER if Ross leaves, is he the one player to EVER be bigger then the shirt? Surely not.

Of other Twitter highlights there have been people stating they'd cry for weeks if Ross left and the classic "He's a Leeds United legend", fuck me.. We have fallen very very far if a player after 2½ years of Championship football s considered a Leeds legend, but I've realised in my two years on Twitter that it seems a Leeds legend is an easy thing to become in some fans eyes, for me there's only a few though and the latest one I'd consider calling a Leeds legend is Lucas Radebe. To call a player from our last seven or eight years a legend is, in my eyes, laughable, we might have had a few heroes in those years, Andy Hughes, David Prutton, Snoddy and Becchio, but legends no, not in my eyes.

Furthermore if Ross is sold, I think he'll go because Brian McDermott has a plan and another signing or two lined up, so I don't fear for the future even if "Leeds legend" Ross McCormack should leave the club.

The future is bright, the future is white.

And for those who can't remember what a real Leeds legend looks like, it's something like this;

 

Aidy, what are we going to do with you?

You might not believe me when I tell you this story, but a few years back in our 2009/10 promotion season I saw Aidy White play the game of his life against Oldham, a game in which he was given a standing ovation by the 17000 fans at ER that night.

I haven't really seen Aidy since then, he's been below average and that's being kind, he shows small glimpses of quality, his goal against Everton in last years Carling Cup being one, but apart from that I'll admit I've been left bitterly disappointed by him in recent years. After we fought so hard to keep hold of him last summer I suspected that NW or someone at Leeds had seen something in him that would suggest that he would be able to hold down a regular 1st team spot at the club, but no..

Aidy was in and out of the team last year and I doubt he'll feature much this season. Actually I kind of wish we had let him go last summer, I'm sure we can all agree that the link between him and Arsenal was a joke or something, but the link with Derby seemed real enough and I wish that it was them wasting their wage budget on him and not us.

One of Aidy's biggest problems (apart from being a very average footballer) is that we don't really know what his best position is, he's played both LB, LW and even RW in Leeds and none of them seem to fit him 100 % so what do we do?
If the interest from Blackpool is true and if they're really willing to pay between 250k-500k for him, I say; let him go. It hurts to see a academy player leave Leeds, but I can't see us ever getting anything out of Aidy White that we can't get out of 95% of our players.