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EastStandUpper
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Arcane facts, dubious insights and unjustly confident opinions on Leeds United Football Club.
When is Nitin Kumar on?
December 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Good playlists?
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Smith is decent, I’d say… the other two aren’t the level required.
December 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Nah, Australia will still be batting…!
December 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Well, half wrong… #lufc are still in the thick of it. But it least we’ve stopped writing them off.
December 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Always thought “Pulsar” was a Sight of You homage…

open.spotify.com/track/2OyuU9...
Pulsar - Edit
open.spotify.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
… that said, it was a horrible shot from Smith.
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Revolution 1
Dear Prudence
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Everybody's Got Something to Hide
Martha My Dear
Helter Skelter
Cry Baby Cry
Don't Pass Me By
Sexy Sadie
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
December 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Looks like Alan Brazil...
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There's the firing line and there's the firing squad... there's a section of our fans who can't wait to get rid and will use the smallest indiscretion as the bullet. I honestly don't get it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Back-of-a-fag-packet maths, but I'd say our failure to be higher up the table is: 50% budget for players, 30% how we used that budget, 20% manager's set up, tactics, in-game decisions. Injuries also a factor but that comes into the first, really.
December 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
.... they did the year before, though. The same investment on 5 players as we've just spent on 10. Only Raphinha made a consistent impact.
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Sort of... but let's not forget 2021/22, when we were happy to pin our failures on recruitment and injuries. He never managed to turn James into a striker...
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
C'mon. When we signed James Justin, did you think, "yeah, that's our business done, good job everyone!"
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
That's a conversation for another time, though... I just get frustrated at the microfocus on Farke rather than the hand he's been dealt.
December 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
In the last four games, he’s changed the systems three times mid-game, including two subs at HT in one, and used subs/system shift to come from behind to grab a point in the last two… is that stubbornness?
December 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's the PS5 thing again... "Why didn't he move Bogle 5 yards deeper in the 69th minute?"
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Still seeing the "70-min subs" thing... have people been asleep for the last 10 days?
December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I was actually thinking, “the 70-min change might work here” as they were running out of ideas and we needed to create more threat from our possession…
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM