Until The World Stops Going Round

This week: Little Liam throws his toys out of the pram, Weird Nigerian Twitter, Ratcliffe shames the shameless, Dyche is put through the Marinakis meat grinder.

Uh Oh: Rosenior is Angry

On Tuesday night Leeds came back from 2-0 down to claim an unlikely draw. Helped by some calamitous Chelsea defending, and an incredible Cole Palmer miss, Leeds were rightly delighted to get a point that keeps the tally ticking over. However, not everyone at Stamford Bridge was happy....

Liam Rosenior, who has definitely been promoted on merit, and not just because his BlueCo bosses want someone to act as a 'presentable' face for their talent farming project, bemoaned his players inability to hold off Leeds' comeback. But what really riled him up was when he talked about the build-up for Leeds equaliser; an accidental handball from Jayden Bogle, in the eyes of Rosenior, meant the goal shouldn't have stood. Ignoring the fact that it was completely innocuous, and that the Chelsea defence and goalkeeper were hilariously inept, Rosenior is factually wrong: it would only have been a foul if Leeds had scored directly from Bogle's accidental handball, but scoring a whole 12 seconds later is hardly direct, is it?

I can see why Rosenior is upset, though, even if he is embarrassing himself. He's obviously trying hard to impress fans and pundits alike, and shake-off the 'LinkedIn manager' tag (which he's absolutely OK with, by the way). 

I actually don't mind Liam, he seems harmless and he doesn't have the sinister, robotic quality that fellow cringe-merchant Mikel Arteta has. He reminds me of a kid on the first day of big school; all spruced up in his little outfit, but still looking a bit out of place. Bless him.

Weird Nigerian Twitter

Rosenior was hardly the only one angry after the events at Stamford Bridge. Those weird, big-six supporting Nigerian twitter accounts were out in force and praying for vengeance after Leeds had the temerity to leave London with a point. Obviously, I don't want to tar an entire population with the same brush - Nigeria did give us one of the great entertainers in Jay-Jay Okocha after all (plus, Twitter is hardly a barometer for sane opinions) - but, for some reason, those accounts always seem to be based in the west African country. It is quite possible that none of them are real people and one of Musk's bot farms is registered there. Still, very strange.

RATcliffe

This week Jim Ratcliffe managed to do what I assumed was impossible: he made Manchester United fans feel ashamed. Even the most brass-necked, glory-hunting (yes, I know they're shite now, but they weren't in the 90's when their fans conveniently began following them) Scum fans felt their cheeks flush red after listening to Ratcliffe's geriatric ramblings.

During an interview, Scum's animated corpse of an owner suggested that Britain had become 'colonised' by immigrants. A laughable and demonstrably false statement that is made even more egregious by the fact that those immigrants Ratcliffe has demonised paid £17 billion more than him in UK taxes. Not that it's hard to pay more than Ratcliffe's sum total of £0.

Of course, they'll be an army of boot-licking weasels who will defend Ratcliffe's divisive comments by suggesting that he's merely a patriot who is looking out for his country's best interests. I suppose this could be the case - after all nothing screams British patriot like accepting a knighthood before fucking off into tax exile. Why pay £4 billion in taxes that the country could use to fund schools and services, when you could just stick it in your own back pocket?

We may have our issues with the ownership at Leeds, but at least we don't have to deal with that loathsome prick.

Dyche Becomes Marinakis’ Latest Victim

In lighter news, Marinakis' Nottingham Forest meat grinder has chewed up and spat out yet another manager. This time the victim is Sean Dyche. I can't say I have much sympathy for Dyche; I've always thought he was a twat ever since Patrick Bamford recalled that Dyche considered him to be ‘over-privileged’ simply for bringing both of his parents with him when he signed on loan for Burnley. Perhaps the only way to earn Dyche's respect is if your Dad has died in a tragic mining accident.

Either way, it's good news for Leeds. Hiring 4 managers in a single season is hardly a recipe for success; we should know better than most after our last shambolic Premier League campaign.

The man Marinakis has replaced Dyche with is none other than Vitor Pereira. That's right, he's not only sacked Dyche, but he's employed one of the only managers who's actually had a worse Premier League season than him. We shouldn't count our chickens too soon, though; Pereira did turn Wolves around last year (albeit with Cunha and Strand Larsen at his disposal). The good news for Forest is that should things not work out with the Wolves reject, Graham Potter could always come in for a stint. We can but hope.

All in all it's been a very good week for Leeds - unfortunately that usually means despair is around the corner. A lacklustre performance in a 4th round FA Cup loss to Birmingham City, anyone?