Marching on together
Leeds United.
One of the most famous clubs in British football history.
Champions and winners of titles and trophies in England and in Europe.
Leeds have one of the largest, most passionate fanbases
in world club football.
Despite now plying their trade in England's second division,
The Championship.
Yeah, yes!
At the turn of this century, Leeds went from Champions League heroes
to the brink of extinction within a few seasons.
Disastrous financial mismanagement and a series of off-field scandals
left the club in ruins.
Since then, new owners and managers
have tried to revive the sleeping giant.
Until now, all have failed.
But there is new hope
in the shape of ambitious, Italian entrepreneur
Andrea Radrizzani.
His goal is to rebuild the club
and fulfil the demands of a worldwide fanbase
and get Leeds United back into the Premier League,
the most prestigious football competition in the world.
This is a story that plays out in one of the most extraordinary seasons
in this remarkable club's history.
This is Take Us Home: Leeds United.
Pizza margherita.
Ciao, auf wiedersehen!
Impossible bets is what he specialises in.
Turning the table to his favour.
It takes guts; energy, which he has plenty of; stamina.
With that he made a lot of money. I keep telling him
- not to waste it on bloody football. - Mmm, I'm unstoppable.
Because football doesn't make any money.
So he said, "You don't trust me?"
I said, "Yeah, I trust you. You are a smart, young entrepreneur."
I will show him the opposite.
And I said, "Please, for your kid who loves football,
make sure he doesn't hate it when he's big enough to understand
that you wasted all your fortune behind."
Andrea Radrizzani was born in Milan and created his fortune,
an estimated £450 million,
after founding his own global investment company,
specialising in trading television sports rights.
So, I left Milan in 2003.
I went to... to Shanghai, then Tokyo, then Singapore.
Then I started to share my time between Singapore and London,
so I've been away more than 15 years, 16 this year.
And then this year I decided to come back to Milan for one year
to stay here with my family so that my son can learn Italian
and go to school here for the first year of school
and kindergarten. He's only three years old.
And then... So, my family is here
and me, I'm up and down between London, Leeds and Milan.
We have a deal with the wife, with Nedine, that if we get promoted,
we're going to move to Leeds for one year.
Andrea bought a 50% stake in Leeds United in January 2017
before completing a full buy-out five months later.
Hey.
You still awake?
So I told them, this is our football pitch. Right?
- Yes. - Where is your goal?
Okay. Show him which football shirt you use when you play.
Look, even this one.
- This one is your favourite, ah? - This one.
This is your favourite.
I like to make money, of course. When I work, as a consequence,
I think my reward is to make money and be profitable.
I take risks, I like to. I like to, because at the end it is like a game.
One day, I'm going back to the dust like everybody,
so money doesn't count.
I like to invest in things that give me adrenaline
and business is one of them.
Football is one of them. So, I enjoy that.
You're really against my investment in football.
No, I'm... I'm not against, I think that doing it...
The risk is very high.
...alone, it took a lot of courage and maybe a little bit too much.
That's all. I'm saying that you could've done it
with a team, a group of investors.
Yeah, but nobody is full of crazy ideas.
- That's true. - They follow after you're successful.
I thought there were a lot of crazy guys in Leeds!
- When you deliver, they follow. - I thought in the town of Leeds
there were enough crazy people for football.
It's a club that is perfectly suited for a one-club city.
It's a club that embodies the city
and attracts the interest and captures the interest of everybody.
It's an incredibly loyal city and that loyalty has persisted
despite there being so many occasions
when the crowds could've dipped to a worrying level,
as has happened to other clubs across the country.
But the support always seems to be there and it's always ready to come back.
And I think it is an institution that the city needs,
the city will always need and will always flock to.
For the amount of fans that go to Elland Road on a weekly basis,
and the numbers they get,
and the people from around the world who are watching it live
from every country around the world, it's unbelievable.
We're a big city who wants one team in it.
Every other big city has a couple of teams in,
so there's a divided support, whereas Leeds, everyone's Leeds.
It's truthfully my religion.
That's what I say to my kids.
They say, "Mum, are you going to football again?"
I'm like, "Yep, it's my religion. I'm off praising, I'm off to church."
We are Leeds!
It reinvigorated my life. My focus, it's all Leeds now.
I work, yeah, I have children.
I have family and then I have Leeds. Leeds United.
To me, what it means to be a Leeds fan is camaraderie,
family, emotion, passion, one-team city.
All Leeds, aren't we? All Leeds, aren't we?
Andrea bought a club that had suffered a humiliating fall from grace.
Under legendary manager Don Revie, Leeds established themselves
as a dominant force during the 1960s and '70s.
Leeds United, all in white, against the Gunners, Arsenal.
Jones as he kicks to Allan Clarke, who heads it in!
On the pitch, captain Billy Bremner was their leader.
They became England's top team
and were feared and respected across the whole of Europe.
Jack Charlton, Bremner... Oh, beautiful goal!
What a superb goal by Bremner!
After Revie left to become England manager in the mid-seventies,
Leeds had over a decade in the doldrums
before returning to be crowned English champions again in 1992.
At the turn of the century, they became a force in Europe again
and reached the Champions League semi-finals in 2001.
But, after over-spending and financial mismanagement,
Leeds went into freefall.
A fire sale of their greatest talent was inevitable.
Rio Ferdinand became Britain's most expensive player
when he moved to bitter rivals Manchester United for £30 million.
And Leeds were forced to sell stars
like Robbie Fowler, Jonathan Woodgate and Harry Kewell.
You were never quite sure where the next crisis was coming from,
whether the people who were in charge of the club could manage the crisis.
What many considered the most exciting young side in England
was ripped apart.
Leeds were relegated from the Premier League in 2004
and dropped to the third tier three years later.
New owners and managers have come and gone.
Their long-suffering fans, convinced they are a cursed club.
But after 15 years in the wilderness,
hope is returning to Elland Road.
In terms of a city and a club being combined,
or the potential for it to be combined, there's not another city like it.
Andrea is someone who throws himself in literally the deep end
and he goes, and he grabs everyone.
He's someone very approachable
and he likes to have contact with people.
So, either if it's someone really high
or someone who has the job as the janitor,
or in the kitchen, that's cooking,
he goes and he greets them. He says, "Thank you."
For him it's important, because everyone brings value to the club.
Everyone works together for the same cause
and I think it's very important
that they can feel that they can speak to him as well
and he's not someone "up there," because he's not that type of person.
When Andrea came in, I didn't know much about him,
to be quite honest, but there were no skeletons.
You know, you search, you have a look,
and you thought, "Wow, this guy seems clean."
I have to say, we've been through a very dark era with the former owners,
but Andrea, the new owner and his team that've come in
have been very outward-focused.
Andrea's first move
is to recruit a Premier League-quality management team
to put Leeds back on track both on and off the pitch.
Spaniard Victor Orta was recruited
from Championship rivals Middlesbrough and appointed director of football.
Victor is now responsible for assembling a squad
capable of challenging for promotion to the Premier League.
In all the headlines, in all the history that they are making,
obviously, like a crazy football fan,
I know the history about this kind of club.
And it was a big challenge for me to arrive to a club like Leeds United
to try to get back to its real position, that was the Premier League.
When you meet Victor, you understand his knowledge on scouting.
I think he's a database. He's very knowledgeable about everything.
Andrea has recruited a CEO with a Premier League pedigree
in former West Ham managing director, Angus Kinnear.
It's the best job in football.
I genuinely believe it's the best job in football if we can take Leeds United
back to where they belong. I don't think there's a bigger challenge or prize.
It's a club with such fantastic history, such fantastic potential,
so I didn't think twice about it.
With Victor and Andrea, we over-index on Latin American and Hispanic passion.
I'm definitely the boring Anglo-Saxon
who tries to steer through the middle path.
It's a fantastic work environment, it's a...
they're friends as well as colleagues.
I think we all want to achieve success together
and I think, with the skills, we're actually well-balanced.
The way that you work with Victor and with me is...
Victor tries to spend money, I try to save it and make it.
And we don't speak about football after the games.
That was a critical mistake from last year.
Last year was the new management team's first full season in charge.
It was a steep learning curve as Leeds finished 13th in the Championship.
The board decided more change was needed at the very top.
The search was on for a new, world-class head coach.
One that could transform the club.
Andrea and Victor suggested his name as somebody we should be looking at.
I had a wry smile, because neither of them lack ambition,
but sometimes, their ideas aren't rooted in reality.
He's not motivated by money or comfort.
He is motivated by big challenges.
It's the way he handles himself, and how honest he is,
how much of a great manager he is.
I think he's one of the best managers in the world.
In the early '90s, an ex-player of Argentinian side Newell's Old Boys
returned to his former club and transformed their fortunes.
After winning two league titles, he remains a legend to this day.
For the Newell's fans, he is an idol, a God to us.
He is like a synonym for teacher.
A teacher that I had for seven or eight years
in the youth team of Newell's and the first team of Newell's.
A person who taught us a lot.
A person that makes the whole team want to be a manager.
To lead, to live and breathe football.
Marcelo Bielsa brought pride and passion back to Newell's Old Boys.
Newell's, carajo! Newell's!
Carried shoulder-high by his players on winning the 1990 league title,
his defiant and expletive, "Newell's, carajo!"
remains the fans' war cry to this day.
He went on to become one of the most respected coaches in world football,
leading Argentina to Olympic gold in 2004,
transforming Chilean football as national coach,
and again at a club level with Athletic Bilbao.
His admirers are many,
including Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola
and Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino,
who Bielsa signed as a thirteen-year-old at Newell's Old Boys.
Marcelo Bielsa has a vision of life which is admirable.
The principles that he applies to his day-to-day life.
There is an enigma about him.
He creates an aura, surrounded by pupils,
otherwise known as disciples,
and that creates a cult personality.
Victor and I went over to Buenos Aires.
We sat in a hotel with him for effectively twelve hours.
What we found very quickly was he's not a man who wanted to be sold to.
We felt that were going to have to explain to him the vision and potential of Leeds,
but he got that straight away. He understood it.
He is a person that likes to focus on goals
that aren't easy to achieve.
Things that are easy bore him.
He is interested in difficult challenges,
challenges that have a lot to do
with the heart that he can put into them and the people that he works with.
Regarding Leeds,
it's a great English football team that is not great right now.
In his imagination he saw
Leeds returning to be of the greatest clubs in England.
And this motivation, this goal,
definitely encouraged him immensely to try and achieve it.
In going for Bielsa, I think it was an admission
that they needed to bite the bullet with the head coach.
They needed to find somebody with that track record,
with that proven ability,
or at least that kudos and that aura
that could get a hold of the club and change the culture of it,
change the way in which they played, gain the respect of the players,
which I think at times over the years has definitely been an issue.
One of my jobs was to get the contract signed and agree the commercial terms
and one of the frustrating things was I couldn't get him to talk or debate
or engage in that subject at all.
He looks closely at all the details of every club he manages,
not only the sports part of Leeds as a club.
He studies the people, he studies the city,
he studies everything about Leeds as a city.
Where the people like to go, what they read,
how people move through the city.
If Bielsa does not fall in love with a city, he will not go.
Bielsa did not go to manage Leeds for just the football club.
Bielsa went to manage Leeds for the city as a whole.
Even though we were only in Buenos Aires for 24 hours,
we shook hands knowing that he was going to be
the next Leeds United head coach
but not knowing what the contract would contain.
I considered the strength of the institutional sports project.
I analysed the sporting possibilities
and that made me make the effort
to be the one they chose in the end.
As managers, we have no choice
but to impose what we think,
because we can't convince
by proposing something that we don't believe in.
He comes with the nickname "El Loco"
and because you only have the chance to read about him
and to analyse him in that way before he arrives,
you have this picture of a crazy individual, in no way level-headed,
a loose cannon who could do anything at the drop of a hat.
But I think in the flesh and in practice,
obsessional is the word. He wants things to be right.
I think he's great. I think he's honestly one of the best in the world.
He had a great impact on me and I hope he promotes, honestly.
He's single-minded in a way that very few head coaches I've seen before are.
He keeps the players at arm's length, he keeps the media at arm's length.
He strikes me as a guy who has nothing on his mind,
at any stage of the day, apart from football.
It's been his life for a long time.
All of us were like, "Well, wow.
We're about to work a whole season for one of the best managers."
Everybody speaks so highly of him,
so, straight away, no matter what he wants done
you're saying, "Yeah, yeah, absolutely. No problem."
I thought this could be a spectacular failure or be spectacularly brilliant.
Do my homework, start to think, "Wow this guy's a bit different.
People are talking about him in quite a special way."
Probably the most honest guy that I've ever met in football.
He was very, very obsessed with no cheating, never cheating, never,
try to be honest every time you are on the pitch.
Marcelo was very, very specific on the additions we needed to make
and was actually much more focused on
what he could get out of the existing squad
and so the players that he said would step up,
players who might have been written off by the fanbase,
like Liam Cooper and Kalvin Phillips, they were specific players
that Marcelo said, "I'll make them the best in the league."
What do you think of him, Gran?
What, Bielsa?
Oh, I think he's lovely.
No, I'd love to bump into him. He walks around Wetherby sometimes.
I'm always going to get the bus and go to Wetherby see if I can see him.
I heard he goes in Costas.
I'd like to bump into him and say, "I'm Kalvin's grandma."
He was going to Huddersfield as well.
- I was going to Huddersfield first. - And Leeds, yeah.
Yeah. I went to Huddersfield first but I didn't like it, did I?
- No. - I went to one training session - "Nah."
He wanted to go to Leeds. Leeds were interested at the same time, weren't they?
And his heart was at Leeds, wasn't it?
I had like a six-week trial and...
Scored a few goals, didn't he, and then didn't score.
Scored like five goals in three games and then got signed,
and then didn't score for the rest of the season.
I've always liked Phillips
but I was always unsure if Phillips was going to develop.
You know, he's still young but he's not 18-19 anymore,
so he's in that sort of era now of, right, I'm gonna be early twenties.
Being a local lad, you know, he knows what we're all about.
He knows what the fans are about.
And he is a fan. So, he's on the pitch doing it for us and for the team.
When players come in on loan, we've had a lot over the years,
they don't know or feel what we feel about Leeds,
but Phillips, for me, does, because he is.
I think he wants Leeds to be where they belong
and I think he's Leeds through and through.
He's like me when I was young, Kalvin; he's just a dead down-to-earth kid.
I've played with Kalvin for four years now
and he is a great young lad. He's got everything to become a top, top player
and it's all about his application.
If he applies himself, he can go on to do massive things in the game.
Obviously, he's a Leeds boy as well, he supports Leeds United like myself
and other players and it'll be great for him,
especially being Leeds born.
It'd be an unbelievable achievement. And he's got the world at his feet
and to do it at a club he supports and he's been at all his life,
it'd be unbelievable for him.
He'll be like me. He'll want to do well and make his family proud
and make his loved ones proud and that's the way it should be.
At the end of the day, we are all people and we're all normal people.
You get caught up in this stereotype: "Oh, he's a footballer,
he's a young lad. He's doing this, he's doing that."
But at the end of the day we want to be successful
and we want to get the best out of ourselves like all footballers do.
He is a good person.
The values that he transmits are encapsulated by the fact
that he's more concerned about the wellbeing of other than himself.
He generously helps people
and he is humble enough to accept help.
These two things combined make him an example for us all.
We've got a really good base of local lads.
It's just... and he's doing the right thing,
it seems, giving them little minutes here and there,
like develop them so in a couple of years' time
we should have a good base of players as well as Phillips.
Yeah, English-based Yorkshire lads.
The way he's working with players is improving the whole team, definitely.
There's not one player now
- that I'd say is a weak link for us. - No.
Very good. Very good!
He's a coach to whom you can give the talent
but he always improves the talent, improves the capacity of the player.
There are a lot of examples in his career where he developed players.
He is very demanding. The way he plays demands a lot from you
in terms of effort, in terms of cardio capacity.
I've seen some of the players going off the pitch vomiting, absolutely exhausted.
But after, when you're playing, you fly. You absolutely fly.
His work this summer has been meticulous to the nth degree.
The players have been in at Thorp Arch through pre-season for 12-hour days,
in at eight o'clock in the morning, leaving sometime after seven o'clock.
He didn't go as far as he did at Lille where he had accommodation
and bungalows built at their training ground
so the players could sleep, but they've been there all hours.
Obviously, you can see his reputation.
Yeah, he's kind of crazy when you look at him from the outside
and he is kind of crazy when you're with him at the time.
I don't know if it's because
I don't understand the language that he's speaking.
- Phillips! - I'm sorry!
Absolutely fastidious about body fat. Luke Ayling spoke to us
and said that he considered himself to be a pretty skinny, lean player
but Bielsa's first advice to him was to lose four kilograms.
Every morning, we're trying to make weight, which can get tiresome.
You know, you come home and you just want to have a little take away or something,
you can't be bothered to cook,
but then you think, "Ah, I've got to weigh in, in the morning."
We are a very young squad but I think,
coming under the new regime and stuff, it's sort of, it's made the lads
become experienced whilst still being young
and we're very lucky in the way that we have got a young team
which is willing to learn.
He's just, he's a breath of fresh air, really.
Since he's come into the club I've acted like a sponge.
I started making notes, actually,
just on things that I'm learning and taking from him.
The way he used to tell us
that the best way to defend is to keep attacking.
The best way to get the victory
is to score more goals and more goals and more goals.
He has raised everybody's game.
This is not just the players. The players, the staff, in the offices, even the fans.
Everybody is right now very switched on,
clued on or trying to understand what he's doing.
But really just giving extra.
I felt, number one, that he's doing the biggest,
most important thing one single individual can do
with a club of the stature of Leeds United.
He's changing the culture of the club.
For me, he's a reminder that football is not about the results.
Football is about enjoying the work that you put in, the day to day,
enjoying the people that you cross paths with.
When you've made the type of commitment we'd made to secure Marcelo,
it would've been very short-sighted to not give him the tools he felt were needed
to get us promoted. He takes a very measured and sensible approach,
so rather than being a manager who makes, you know,
who has a list of ten players he wanted to sign,
Marcelo was very, very specific on the positions that needed to be strengthened.
And then, when Victor presented him with the options
he was very specific on the choices he wanted to make.
So, actually,
it felt like we were working in tandem and in partnership with the manager
rather than it can often feel like you're working against them
to secure targets which were really going to strengthen us.
So, I think the buys that we made showed ambition,
they required financial commitment,
but I think they were pretty judicious as well.
Leeds decide to invest heavily in a proven marquee striker,
Patrick Bamford, who signs from promotion rivals Middlesbrough
in a deal worth up to £10 million,
the club's most expensive signing for 17 years.
He says, "Leeds really want you." He said, "Bielsa," he says,
"I'll tell you now, he's crazy, he's got something about him
but he's one of the most respected managers in the world."
And he said he is, they've had, they've been looking at different strikers
and he said he's pointed out that you're the one he wants.
I said, "Okay," I said that, obviously I'm smiling down the phone
I'm like alright, okay, I said, "I don't think Middlesbrough will let me go."
Victor had worked with him before
but when we met him we knew he was just what we needed.
He was somebody who wanted to play for Leeds United
and shoulder the burden of being the club's number nine.
He wanted to be the first-choice striker.
Patrick, he's arriving in the key moment for our one key player of the season.
And then Victor, obviously, and he gave me a big hug and embraced me
and he was like, yes, finally. He said, I remember exactly what he said.
He said, "If I wasn't before
I'm definitely now the most hated man in Middlesbrough."
He was like, "I just stole their main guy."
And, yeah, there were the documents to sign.
I remember he took me to see the gaffer.
All he said to me, tapped me on the shoulder: "Good luck,"
and I was like, cheers.
Left-back Barry Douglas, who helped Wolverhampton Wanderers
gain promotion to the Premier League last season,
signs in a three-million-pound deal, too.
It can be a daunting experience walking into a new dressing room
but what I will say is the guys here were really open.
Not just with me. With new staff, with other players,
so it was really easy to adapt quickly and get to business and feel involved.
I met Victor in Birmingham.
We just had a bit of lunch, a bit of a chat about football,
nothing too serious or formal.
It was more a get-together
and see how their plans were for this year
and, yeah, kind of went from there.
I was optimistic and happy with what the journey was going to bring
and the challenge ahead, so, yeah, we signed for Leeds.
The Championship is a gruelling 46-game season
and is considered one of the toughest football competitions in the world.
The teams that finish first and second
are automatically promoted to the Premier League.
The teams finishing third to sixth must enter a play-off series
with a one-match final played at the iconic Wembley stadium in London.
The winners of the play-off final are promoted to the Premier League,
which is worth around £170 million.
It is the most lucrative sporting fixture on the planet.
Leeds' first game of the Championship is at Elland Road against Stoke City,
who played in the Premier League last season and are favourites to finish top.
Coming up first game against Stoke, it's one those where you think,
"They've just come down. Are they gonna do us in?"
First game of the season, if it's four or five nil,
what's gonna happen there, Bielsa, what, five games in goes?
What normally happens is we'll get off to a good start,
and then before Christmas we'll absolutely mess it up
and finish 14th, which could happen.
A point against Stoke in the first game of the season
would be a good start to the season for me.
They are number-one favourites to go straight back up, aren't they?
With the money and the players that they've got and they've retained.
I think the best we can hope for, in all honesty, is a draw.
It's the start of the season. I'm always optimistic.
We've got Marcelo, who's just come in.
I like what I see and what I've read.
He's giving me visions of Don Revie.
Deciding that Stoke are our biggest rival
before the competition has started is a little bit risky,
but naturally they are a powerful rival.
Well, obviously we all want to get promoted,
we all want to go back to the promised land.
It's time we got back to where we should be.
Very, very nervous prior to Stoke.
It was exactly the fixture I wouldn't have chosen to have.
I thought they'd be the strongest team in the division.
I'm a pessimist.
I'll be optimistic after the last game of the season.
I'm superstitious that way. Yes, sir. Thank you. Next please.
- A little bit tense but... - We can do it, we have faith.
- We're gonna go up. It's their time. - Leeds forever.
- They can do this. - Come on.
Number two: Luke Ayling.
Number three: please welcome Barry Douglas.
Leeds United has a new king. He's from Argentina.
As Marcelo Bielsa makes that first walk down the tunnel
to get the full Elland Road experience.
34,000 here packed and expectant.
Will Leeds be mid-table mediocrity once again?
Or will their new leader take them to real promotion potential?
They are up against Stoke City, the promotion favourites
and we are about to get underway.
From the first whistle, Leeds tear into Stoke...
Early chance for Leeds. Roofe so close.
Beaten away by Butland and scrambled clear by Stoke.
Somehow, it remains nil-nil.
...and look a side transformed from last season.
Saiz for Leeds.
Klich is onside. This is the chance... and he scores!
And Mateusz Klich gets Leeds United and Marcelo Bielsa
off to the dream start after just fifteen minutes.
What a start. They lead one-nil.
Bielsa has a vision for how the game should be played
and his players are actioning his plan to perfection.
Alioski has Hernandez, Hernandez is going to strike and it's in at the near post!
Leeds United are now two up against Stoke City.
Hernandez celebrates and they simply cannot believe
what they are seeing here.
At half-time, it's two-nil and this has been an outstanding start
for Marcelo Bielsa and this Leeds United side.
At the start of the second half, Stoke begin to compose themselves.
Oh, that looks clumsy, and a penalty awarded.
And Afobe straight down the middle halves the arrears.
Stoke are back in it.
Last season, Leeds might have buckled after such a setback.
But this is a new Leeds United.
Barry Douglas to deliver. In goes Cooper, oh, what a header!
And Liam Cooper the captain steps up
just when the skipper is needed to restore a two-goal advantage.
Leeds United now three-one ahead against Stoke City.
What a start for Leeds United.
They have absolutely crushed Stoke City by three goals to one.
Massive, massive that was,
I haven't seen Leeds United like that for years.
I thought we played really well today. I was a bit surprised.
With the team they picked, I didn't fancy our chances
but they really excelled, so yes, I'm very pleased.
Great result. Fantastic. Couldn't have imagined anything better.
- Great game, played very well. - Three points, second in the league.
We're going up!
I think it shows what happens when you've got a world-class manager.
You know, that team, with the exception of Douglas,
was available to us all through last season,
and, you know, some of those players, I've never seen them play like that before.
Liam Cooper looked like a different player.
Roofe looked superb. Phillips was awesome in that midfield.
I don't know what he's done over the last six weeks, but it's paying off.
I didn't expect that. I'm really looking forward to the rest of the season.
It was a beautiful day. The performance was outstanding.
The crowd was sold out and was fierce. Elland Road was properly fierce.
And... it was the best feeling, coming away thinking,
"Hang on, this is going to happen."
And after the momentous Stoke victory,
Leeds' start to the season begins to truly lift off.
Next in their sights, Derby County.
Hernandez, into the Poland international Klich.
He's lining up one...
Oh, what a strike! And that's two in two for Mateusz Klich
and he gets Leeds off again to the perfect start.
Alioski, a drifting cross, up between them goes Roofe...
Oh, that's an imperious header!
And Kemar Roofe gets his season off to a scoring start.
Leeds take on and dismantle promotion contender after promotion contender.
Norwich City are trounced at home.
Oh, lovely move, this. Here comes Alioski. And he's driven it through the keeper!
This could well be the result that makes the rest of the championship
sit up and take note. Leeds United could well be the real deal
as they head towards life in the Premier League under Marcelo Bielsa.
The most valuable thing is the happiness that we are able to provoke
in those that struggle to find happiness
in other ways away from football.
Mid-September and Leeds take on Preston North End at Elland Road.
It's an opportunity for home fans to enjoy the Bielsa-inspired,
all-action style that is fast becoming their trademark.
Leeds are in again here...
Tyler Roberts at the Kop end looking to lob home...
Oh, what a way to open your account for Leeds United.
Tyler Roberts with a really calm and composed finish over the keeper.
There really is no stopping them now.
Saiz, looking for Klich.
Roberts alone in the centre and he's got a third!
Two for Tyler Roberts.
Leeds United cruising to a three-nil victory
and they are showing every bit of their promotion credentials once again.
The board believe it, the players believe it
and now the Leeds United supporters are believing it as well.
We're top of the league We're top of the league
We're Leeds United We're top of the league
After eight games,
Leeds are undefeated in the Championship and top of the league.
But there is a long, twisting road ahead.
And what is about to unfold
will be one of the most dramatic seasons in this club's history.
- Should we have let Aston Villa score? - Absolutely not.
What the fuck is going on!
We're Leeds United We'll spy where we want
Leeds United, we're top of the league
We're top of the league We're top of the league