Dirty Leeds Get Clean?
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- Created: Monday, 06 July 2020 22:54
- Written by Christopher Morley
With the fiscal state of football again making the news, & perhaps the best-known example of such mismanagement reaching its centenary year & being on the cusp of automatic promotion back to the promised land, helped by a 3-1 win at fellow former Premier League stalwarts Blackburn on Saturday), what better time than now to take a metaphorical walk past the imposing statues of both Don Revie & captain Billy Bremner outside Elland Road. Permanent reminders of former glories, & a time when the men in white were far from pearly…
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