Leedsista Libre

From January of 2019/20 — just after losing to Sheffield Wednesday, Bielsa's Leeds were off to QPR, with Millwall encroaching on our promotion-chasing heels: The question for Leeds United is, how to exist in hell? To sign the players we want, win the games we want, sing the songs we want? It's what Marching on Together means — a turn inward to ourselves. We can't escape hell, but we can turn our b...

From the start of 2018/19, the match that made what Leeds did to Stoke City actually feel real: Frank Lampard has perfected the in-game suit, the respectful soundbite, and the pensive touchline stance; as Marcelo Bielsa beamed kindly at him at full-time, like a vet about to do what's best for Lampard's favourite pet, Frank looked shocked.   Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka...

Another from this time in 2018/19, when Marcelo Bielsa was asked afterwards about heart attacks. "When you change the destiny of the game in the last seconds, you have to take into account (that) hazard." Quite so, Marcelo, quite so.   Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United , the fil...

Back to Christmas 2018, and a day only football can give you. Humans have done a lot of damage to this planet over millennia. But over the last 150 years some humans have kicked a football into a net at just the right moment and made it all feel like a price worth paying.   Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the b...

Written and recorded in 2019, about a game from December 1991 that gives a rare glimpse of Howard Wilkinson's great Leeds United midfield — Gordon Strachan, Gary McAllister, David Batty, Gary Speed — in their title winning form.   Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United , the film Do...

From 2017, and possibly still relevant now — an essay I wrote about how neglecting Leeds United's past for so long means there is a lot of catching up to do, and that conversations about the merits of one player or another quickly veer into disbelief that Bobby Collins or Jack Charlton or numerous others weren't publicly acknowledged somewhere at Elland Road already.   Leedsista Libre is a free po...

It's too easily forgotten, I say, that Jesse Marsch took Leeds United to a cup final. This is from December 2022, when the Festa d'Elx trophy was at stake, and nobody knew if a draw meant penalties, a dance-off, competitive hot dog eating or what.   Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds Un...

I know Bielsa will always love Newell's the most, and one football fan to another I respect that he'll never change. But dear me Leeds must run them close. Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads of things at The Square Ball, where I was als...

A match report from 2018/19, when Leeds United 'won' the fairest game of all time after someone put Mateusz Klich in charge and Marcelo Bielsa had to battle Pontus Jansson to put the world to rights. Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads o...

An essay from 2017 when the Thomas Christiansen era was unravelling, Jay-Roy Grot was not scoring, and Andrea Radrizzani's response to defeat at Brentford was to order a lorry-load of white flags. Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads of t...

A report on a game from February 2020, when everything about promotion was going wrong, and Leeds went to Nottingham Forest and even more went wrong. But wasn't this what we'd signed up for? Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a writer, of the book 100 Years of Leeds United, the film Do You Want to Win?, and of loads of things...

Tony Currie was a symbol of the post-Revie transformation of Leeds United from a clinical winning machine to something more relaxed, and much less effective. Nicer hair, taller floodlights, no more trophies. But what Don Revie had drilled into his players, they now drilled into Tony Currie. Leedsista Libre is a free podcast by Daniel Chapman, aka Moxco/Moscowhite for stupid internet reasons. I'm a...