We've had a lot more adversity in the last few weeks and people suffer.
The players suffer and the coaching team suffer, as well.
You have to take it in your own hands
and get that team spirit back to where it was.
Get back to a winning mentality and...
pick the players up.
We're showing that we're up for it,
we've put that behind us and we're ready to go again.
Come on Leeds! Come on!
Leeds United have had one
of the most extraordinary and eventful seasons in their history,
delighting and devastating their fans in equal measure.
They have failed to win automatic promotion to the Premier League
after finishing third in the Championship
and now face the prospect of the play-offs
for the right to play in the Premier League next season.
The final is at Wembley and worth £170 million,
making it the most lucrative fixture in world football.
My wife is a Leeds supporter, my two kids are Leeds supporters.
My cat, also called Leeds.
But I can be a little bit grumpy if Leeds lose.
That's my back there. I'm taking a picture of Billy Bremner
and my dad is taking a picture of me taking a picture of Billy Bremner.
Our supporter's club is Leeds United Supporters Club of Scandinavia: LUSCOS.
We have around 5,000 members.
All of us started to support Leeds
when Leeds was Super Leeds in the '60s and '70s.
We just grew up with English football, so that's just part of our blood.
A lot of people in Scandinavia, and Norway especially, are following an English team.
That's the home of football, that's in England.
And it's a very, very good atmosphere.
You know people, you go to a bar and talk for two hours
and never see them again.
But that's the friends. Friends for a couple of hours.
I think it's important that we get a little bit back on track now
after these two losses during the Easter weekend.
It's important that we get back on track, we have a good game against Villa
and then we'll just see how it goes.
It's important to have like a momentum going into the playoffs.
Come on, Leeds!
Villa is a very good team, they are very in form,
and we just have to be on our best.
Before the play-offs,
Leeds will play their final home game of the regular season
against in-form Aston Villa, who have also secured a play-off place.
It's a meeting between two giants of English football.
Both have been champions of England
and contested European Cup finals in their heyday.
When they talk of Mathews and Pele
Of Laughton and Finney and James
Like a whiskey in your belly
He will glow amongst those names
He will lead our lads to glory
He will lead our lads to fame
When they sing United's story
You will always hear the name
And the name was Billy Bremner
And we will never forget his deeds
He was made to play...
Two weeks ago, this game looked destined to be the moment
Leeds fans could celebrate their return the Premier League together.
But a shock home defeat to ten-man Wigan changed everything.
One-nil. Home to Wigan against ten men.
We self-destructed on the pitch.
At half-time we seemed to do some strange substitutions.
And seemed to just implode.
I was at Brentford as well,
and I think the psychological blow of Wigan
has just knocked us west.
I'm feeling it a week later and I'm sure the players are feeling it.
It's an important game against Villa today, to not lose.
A draw is fine. Just don't get whipped.
Something has to change. It needs some kind of spark
to get us out of this deep state of darkness and depression.
Fans from all over the world have travelled to Elland Road
for the Aston Villa game.
From Norway to Malaga, Malaga to Manchester
and then over here, so, you know.
What people do to follow their team is just fantastic.
If anyone would have said at the beginning that we would be P3
and we would go for the play-offs, I would sign blindly.
Owner Andrea Radrizzani has invited the players' families
to join the team before kick-off.
Alright, guys? How are you? Hello.
Leeds United against Aston Villa,
they meet in what could well be a dress rehearsal
for the Championship play-off final itself at Wembley in a few weeks' time.
Both teams are keen to impose their authority from the off.
The game quickly descends into a frenetic, bad-tempered affair.
This man is a disgrace.
Leeds players and fans feel decisions are going against them.
Elland Road is simmering.
The free-kicks, if it's 50-50, it's against us all the time.
In the second half, the temperature reaches boiling point.
Leeds United once again are involved
in one of the most controversial and talked-about incidents
in world football.
Still nil-nil and Kodjia does his best to put Cooper off
and he's come off worse off himself.
Leeds continue, there's no headwound so they're in their rights.
Leeds play on with a Villa player down.
And here comes Klich, Klich moving in off the left side,
cutting it back in and sweeps a low one past the keeper.
And Leeds, in controversial circumstances hit the front against Aston Villa.
Leeds one, Aston Villa nil. And Villa aren't happy at all.
There's a real melee here inside the penalty area at the Kop end.
There is confrontation everywhere. The game descends into anarchy.
But it's all going off, Villa clearly not happy that Leeds continued to play
after Kodjia had gone down.
Real controversy here at Elland Road.
And still the fights continue, and Bamford is claiming he's been struck,
and goes down inside the penalty area.
Dean Smith giving it the verbals to Pontus Jansson.
Leeds fans backing their players all the way here.
And it's a red card. El Ghazi's been shown straight red
for what looks to appear to have been the punch on Patrick Bamford.
Villa down to ten men, meanwhile, Bielsa giving out more instructions
to his captain Liam Cooper.
Kodjia back on his feet, and Bielsa absolutely apoplectic here
with his instructions, telling his side what they're gonna have to do.
What the fuck is going on?
Well, the goal's been given
but Marcelo Bielsa, well, he's giving out an instruction to his side,
nobody's quite sure what's going on here at the moment.
Bielsa makes an extraordinary call.
He demands his players allow Villa to score an equaliser, unopposed.
Surely not. And there they go.
The scenario does not go down well with the home crowd.
Albert Adomah, despite the best intention of Pontus Jansson defying orders,
is allowed to run the ball into the net.
Leeds were in front by a goal to nil and had been instructed,
in controversial circumstances, to give the goal back to Aston Villa
who celebrate.
Jansson in trouble with his teammates for defying orders.
It's an incredible moment,
one never witnessed before at Elland Road.
The game ends one-one.
The match has become one of the most unforgettable in Leeds United's history.
Exciting game. A lot of things going on, I mean sending offs, quarrels, fighting,
a Leeds goal and then we gave them a goal
and I mean, what can you say?
This final home game of the regular season
is a fitting opportunity for players and their families
to say thank-you to Leeds United's loyal fans.
We're Leeds and we're proud of it
We're not gonna stop coming here. We love it till we die.
Leeds, Leeds, Leeds.
Leeds now face a two-legged play-off semi-final against Derby County,
the club who accused Marcelo Bielsa of spying on them
in the infamous Spygate saga that blew up earlier in the season.
As Leeds prepare for the first leg at Pride Park,
the football world is now talking about the bizarre conclusion
to the Aston Villa game.
Leeds defender and Swede international Pontus Jansson
incurred the wrath of Bielsa
when he ignored his instruction to allow Aston Villa to score an unopposed goal.
I don't know, I just handled it how I thought it was right.
When you look back, maybe I should have let them score.
So, yeah, I don't know.
That's how I am and that's why I am here today,
I am doing what I think is right.
Kalvin Phillips and Barry Douglas approach Jansson about the incident.
Do you think we should have let Aston Villa score?
Absolutely not.
Second question.
Did you mean to kick the ball or did you mean to kick his foot?
- Here he is. - I was angry
and I tried to kick the ball away. But I missed it, so bad defending.
Bad defending, you've got to stand him up a bit longer.
Ask him. Ask him also, do you think we should have let them score?
Yeah 100%.
- 100%. - What, let 'em score?
Let 'em score.
It's controversial.
Everyone was so scared of me so they didn't play.
Have any of you seen Pat's eye this morning from the hit from El Ghazi?
- Where is he? - It's bloody massive, it's swollen.
- His eye? - Yeah, it's all swollen up.
In the same game, Leeds striker Patrick Bamford was accused of diving
to get an Aston Villa player sent off
and will hear the outcome
of a Football Association inquest later today.
A suspension could rule him out of the all-important play-off semi-finals.
I'm waiting to see whether I get banned or not.
It's just annoying because I wouldn't go down if he didn't touch...
I made a meal out of it,
but if he didn't touch me I wouldn't have gone down.
- Either way, though, there was a touch. - Yeah, I milked it.
Mate, you were rolling around on the floor, like.
- No, to be fair, I didn't go down, though. - Nearly poked his eye out, mate.
I didn't go down. I knelt down, holding my face
and the guy pushed me but he pushed me soft as shit.
But then like, but like he still made the attempt to do it, didn't he, El Ghazi?
So, it doesn't matter, at the end of the day.
It's like if you try to murder someone but don't kill 'em. You still get done.
You get done for attempted murder.
It's just the same.
Similar, he could have caught me. He could have ripped my throat out.
The Football Association reach a verdict.
Bamford is suspended for the first leg of the play-offs.
Attention now switches to the two-leg showdown with Derby County,
the biggest games in captain Liam Cooper's career.
Obviously we've had a lot more adversity the last few weeks and people suffer.
The players suffer and the coaching team, they suffer as well.
You can really see it.
Nobody really talks and that's when you've got to take it in your own hands
and get that team spirit back to where it was.
Get back to a winning mentality and obviously try and pick the players up
but obviously if the staff see that as well
they can hopefully pick themselves up cause we're showing that we're up for it,
we've put that behind us and we're ready to go again.
Very good!
We try and keep things as normal as possible,
so we want the atmosphere at Thorp Arch to be relaxed.
We've trust in Marcelo and his staff to date
so we don't want to suddenly change things.
We don't think there's any better man
to prepare the players for the playoffs than Marcelo
so the last thing they need is a dick in a suit turning up
and trying to give them some kind of management psychology about how to win.
So, that's not my role.
Look at what we've sacrificed, look how far we've come.
From that first day in pre-season to where we are now.
All the hard work, all the sacrifice for these next two games.
Let's just go and have a right go and what will be, will be.
If we fall short, we fall short.
But let's fall short giving it everything we've got
For our families as well,
they go through this shit, they get dragged through it all.
We come home in bad moods,
we come home and we don't want to talk to anyone,
for them definitely, for my fiancé and my little girl,
and all the lads' missus and kids and families as well.
I think if anybody deserves it, it's this team.
- Rammie! - Rammo!
Rammie, come, come.
Ah, there we go.
Everywhere, we're gonna be there We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!
Marching on together
It's not over until it's over is my new mantra. It's not over until it's over.
So, come on, we can do it.
Thousands of Leeds fans are watching the game
at a special beam-back screening at Elland Road.
Come on boys, let's go!
Come on, Derby! Come on, Derby!
Come on, Derby!
Leeds suffered a blow with the Patrick Bamford suspension,
but there is some good news:
Kemar Roofe is fully fit
and replaces Bamford for the first leg of the semi-final.
It's billed as Spygate revisited.
The headlines have been written, the detractors have had their say,
but really it's all about Leeds United turning back the tide of history
as they embark on a fifth play-off campaign in their history.
The previous four have all failed.
They come to Pride Park, a ground where they've already won this season,
to see if they can turn over Frank Lampard's Derby
and go home to Elland Road for the second leg with that all-important advantage.
We all hate Leeds scum!
It's a lively start from Leeds.
Dallas is caught late, advantage played, Harrison picks up the running
and that's a defence-splitting pass. In goes Roofe and he finds the corner!
Leeds United's top scorer picks up
where Patrick Bamford has had to leave off through his suspension.
Roofe has Leeds in front and this could be a massive step towards Wembley
and the Championship play-off final!
First blood to Leeds at Pride Park. Derby County nil, Leeds United one,
and the top-scorer Kemar Roofe does it again just when it's needed.
Just try not to worry You'll beat us some day
We beat you at home We beat you away
Stop crying Frank Lampard...
And that's full time. Leeds United have done it once again.
For the third time they've beaten Derby County and they've done it at Pride Park.
Kemar Roofe's goal divides the two sides at half-time in the tie.
They lead the play-off semi-final after the first leg
with a precious advantage.
It's Derby County nil, Leeds United one, as we all head back to Elland Road.
Super, Super Leeds!
In the history of the play-offs, every team
that has recorded an away victory in the first leg of the semi-final
has gone on to reach the final.
Destiny is in Leeds United's hands.
Four days later, Leeds face Derby in the second leg at Elland Road.
If Leeds avoid defeat, they will take on Aston Villa in the play-off final.
After a disastrous implosion at the very end of the regular season
Leeds are now hot favourites to make it to Wembley
and claim the final promotion spot.
We are Leeds We are Leeds, we are Leeds
We are Leeds, we are Leeds, we are Leeds
I'm sure, the boys,
they will do a good job, as I think they really deserve it.
We will go through. I'm confident we will go through.
If we play in the same way as the first game,
we'll punish these guys.
If Leeds win, I'll be really happy.
Na, na, na, na-na-na We are so proud
The closest we've been for years, isn't it, so we are going to do it.
Definitely two-one. That's my prediction. Two-one.
I think it's going to be two-one.
Two-one because, well, it's never easy with Leeds.
After years of pain and misery,
there is a real sense of hope building in and around the famous stadium
and a spectacular, rousing show of unity.
We love you Leeds, Leeds, Leeds
Everywhere, we're gonna be there
We love you Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!
Marching on together
We're gonna see you win
We are so proud We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds, Leeds, Leeds!
We all love Leeds We all love Leeds, we all love Leeds!
Leeds come out fighting.
Get off! Fuck off!
They win a free-kick in a dangerous position.
It's all about the delivery from Phillips. He drops it on the penalty spot,
it's pushed clear. Dallas arrives at the far post.
It's one-nil Leeds United.
Stuart Dallas has them in front on the night.
It's one-nil, but two-nil on aggregate
and surely that's too much for Derby to come back from.
Leeds United in utter ecstasy at Elland Road.
It's Leeds two, Derby County nil on aggregate and they really do believe
they're on their way to Wembley to take on Aston Villa
in the play-off final
All Leeds aren't we All Leeds aren't we
- All Leeds aren't we - All Leeds aren't we
Then, in the final minute of the first half, calamity and disaster.
Derby chasing down. Casilla has come all the way out.
What's he done? Somehow he's missed his kick,
left Cooper in it
and Berardi can't stop it from going in on the line.
Jack Marriott with his first touch has been gifted a goal
and given Derby hope here.
It's two-one to Leeds in the tie
but just before half-time Leeds were coasting.
Now there's real anxiety around Elland Road once again.
Got the goal, great atmosphere and then calamitous at the end.
I don't know what's going on. I've no idea what happened,
but someone has got to take charge of that.
They will come out now with their tails up.
We need this, we need this now, we need the crowd, build them up again.
We are Leeds!
They're gonna have a lot of momentum going now
and they're gonna have that confidence going forward into the second half.
Forty-five minutes away from it mate, so, yeah, we'll do it, we'll do it.
Come on!
Come on, come on, let's do this. Good lad.
It's the biggest 45 minutes in the last 15 years for Leeds United.
Avoid defeat and they will be at Wembley to take on Aston Villa
for the right to play in the Premier League next season.
They are in front but the nerves have kicked in again.
They've allowed Derby back into this tie. Two-one they lead on aggregate,
Derby having pegged them back to one-one on the night. Leeds need to stay strong.
One minute into the second half and Leeds are shaken to the core.
Into Wilson, he's got options either side and one of them's Mason Mount.
There's a chance to stab forward here
and he's beaten Casilla
and Derby County lead two-one on the night.
It's two-two on aggregate.
It may be level but momentum is swinging away from Leeds United,
directly into the hands of Derby County.
Two-two overall, the vast majority of the second half still to play,
but Leeds have big questions to be answered here.
Have they resolve here to dig it out and go again
and reclaim the lead in the tie?
It's two-two overall.
Leeds, Leeds are falling apart again
Yeah, there we go.
Why can't he connect? Connect with it!
- That could have been it. - How can he miss that?
How can't he connect with it? I don't understand.
Still poised at two-two on aggregate, Dallas with a chance to shoot.
Goes for goal and it's blocked and saved well by the keeper.
Hernandez with the drive. He's claiming handball.
That's not going to be given
and Leeds United feel a decision has gone against them again.
We're fighting, Leeds. We're fighting again. Come on!
Derby have got Leeds on the back foot again as they enter the penalty area.
Mason Bennett is looking for it here,
he's been fed and he's been pulled back by Liam Cooper.
He disagrees with the referee, he's going to take a caution
but more importantly, a chance for Derby County to go ahead in the tie
for the first time.
Locked at two-two, they have a penalty
and Kiko Casilla is the only barrier between Harry Wilson
and Derby taking the lead in the tie. It's three-two on aggregate
and nobody can quite believe it other than Derby County,
and maybe not even them,
that Leeds are imploding
in front of their own fans' eyes here at Elland Road.
It's three-one to Derby on the night, it's three-two to Derby on aggregate.
Have Leeds got anything left in the tank to try and rescue their season
which is running away from them as it stands?
The fans do what they can to energise their jaded team.
Let's go again, Leeds! We go again! Again, Leeds!
Nice chip ball into Harrison who picks up the running.
Dallas goes beyond him.
He'll need an option and Dallas might well be it just yet.
He receives it from Klich. Dallas goes in, sends in a curling shot at the Kop End
and he's beaten the keeper Roos and Leeds United are back in it.
It's three-three on aggregate, they trail three-two on the night,
but Stuart Dallas has stepped up when he was needed most. New hero.
Elland Road goes absolutely berserk, they believe once again.
The play-off final could still well be in their hands. Three-three overall.
Who says this tie is dead?
Leeds looked dead and buried but they've fought back once again.
Three-three on aggregate.
Stuart Dallas provides the goods just when they were needed.
Loose challenges, but here's Ayling coming forward.
Chance for him to shoot from the angle.
Another chance for Leeds to have taken the lead in the tie.
Berardi seems to have been fouled there as he takes the ball over halfway.
They have another nibble at him
and Berardi is knocked to the floor and then flies in.
Oh, he's in trouble here.
Berardi could be seeing straight red if not a second yellow.
He's not going to take any further part in the play-offs
and is that the moment
where Leeds United's play-off hopes have really gone up in smoke?
Berardi has seen red
and makes a disconsolate, if not angry, walk off the pitch at Elland Road.
Berardi sent off, smashes the tunnel.
Leeds down to ten men with just moments left in the game here.
- Here we go with Leeds United - Come on!
We're gonna give the boys a hand
Stand up and sing for Leeds United
They are the greatest in the land
And every day, we're all gonna say
We love you Leeds
Leeds
And that is the moment that sees Leeds United confirmed
to another season in the Championship.
...we love you Leeds
Leeds
Marching on together
We're gonna see you win
We are so proud
We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds
Leeds
We've been through it all together
And we've had our ups and downs
We're gonna stay with you forever
At least until the world stops going round
And every day, we're all gonna say
We love you Leeds
Leeds
And everywhere, we're gonna be there
We love you Leeds
Leeds
Marching on together
We're gonna see you win
We are so proud
We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds
Leeds
We are so proud
We shout it out loud
We love you Leeds
Leeds
Well, to me, it was a very, very good season...
with a bad end.
But I suffered much more after the weekend, personally.
I was prepared this time, I don't know why, I was prepared.
At the end, the last six to eight weeks, they were exhausted.
In that moment we need to put more love. More love.
Yes, it's true that the 46 games are really tough.
- But the last two months... - Yes.
...we needed to put more love. More love.
Decisions now need to be taken.
Does Andrea have the ambition and financial clout
to continue bankrolling another attempt to take Leeds United home next season?
Obviously, when you have such a defeat, it's very hard to take.
It lasts for a while. Still there.
And you start to ask yourself what you should have done differently.
And, I don't know.
I mean, at the end there are circumstances, events
that could have happened differently,
like if the post of Tyler Roberts against Sheffield United goes in,
we win that game and nobody is talking about how players are tired mentally.
So, I think it's human to build excuses, to find excuses
and that is something I want to change in this club
because I don't want to see excuses.
I hear a lot of rumours about me selling the club or leaving.
Absolutely no way.
Those who know me well know how much I'm determined to reach what I want.
I'm like a child in this way.
I really want to get it done
and I want to achieve my goals all of the time, in everything I do.
I also understand
that the opportunity to run this club and make this club big is massive,
so I will not be afraid to open the club to other partners
if this helps the mission.
So, I want to be the guardian of this club and the leader of this club
but I will not be closed-minded and not accept other parties.
In the last eighteen months, I think, we have received many interested parties
approaching the club to invest in the club or buy the club.
I rejected all of the options to buy the club because I don't want to give up.
But I listened to everyone who was happy to join me
and make this club bigger.
I don't exclude
that maybe soon, I will open the door
to one or two partners to help this club to become bigger.
What does the future now hold for coveted stars
such as Kalvin Phillips, Kemar Roofe and Pontus Jansson,
whose performances this season have attracted admiring glances
from top-flight clubs?
We have to sell some players
and unfortunately the finances of the last three years
or the balance of the last three years of the club are showing big losses
and we could be possibly penalised
with the deduction of points by the league.
So, in order to not be penalised,
to not have this risk, we need to sell some players.
But, technically at this moment we could have all of the money of this world,
but we have a financial fair play regulation that doesn't allow us
to invest in players, so even if I inject one billion we could not use it.
So, we need to stick with this restriction
and try to be smart and have a competitive team anyway,
and I think that's what we will do.
Will Marcelo Bielsa stay for a second term
and orchestrate another bid to guide Leeds all the way to the Premier League?
There is no doubt that Marcelo is a great coach.
There is no doubt that he engaged very well with the fans and the city
and he became very quickly an icon of this club
and he has done well for this club.
I wanted him because we needed a leader
who was able to change the culture of this club.
In only one year, he did it.
But at the same time he needs to change in something
and let go a little bit
and maybe lower the level of stress.
So, it depends on him
if he wants to stay, but it also depends on us.
I think we want to sit down with him and understand what is his vision
and I think we all deserve another chance
because we can't leave this job unfinished.
Marcelo is a man of mystery.
So, with most managers I've worked with you'd have been absolutely sure
on what their intentions were.
With Marcelo, he'd been so focused on the season,
he hadn't wanted to talk about the year ahead
and we admired that characteristic in him that he was focused on the job in hand.
So, obviously when the season finished, Victor, Andrea and I sat down with him
and it got off to a good start
because he immediately started talking about
what went wrong and how he wanted to fix it.
I totally trust Marcelo's ideas and I totally trust Marcelo's methodology.
He's the most clever man that I have met in my life
and not only about football.
It wasn't an easy conversation.
We discussed how we were going to strengthen the team.
We discussed how we were going to manage
within the constraints of financial fair play.
So, he wanted a clear picture of what were going to be the tools
that he was going to be able to employ.
He wanted to have clear direction
on the continued renovations at Thorp Arch,
which is a personal obsession.
It was a bit like the first meeting
and it re-instilled my belief that he is the man to get us up.
Because he said, "I know where we got it wrong, I know what we need to fix."
Hello.
Marcelo, good afternoon. How are you, sir? Nice to see you.
I have been working here in Leeds for a year.
And there are many things that happened to me this year,
that have given me nice surprises.
I am responsible for the sporting results
and for the management,
which is the most important thing I do.
I have received the support of Victor Orta and the chairman.
They have allowed the plan that we have devised to be realised.
I really appreciate that they promised what they could fulfil.
Regrettably, the goal we pursued, we did not reach.
That takes weight off everything we did.
Of course, we should provide the promotion of the team.
But anyway, this was not possible,
and we all suffer for this,
especially me, because I'm responsible.
I was very sad that the team did not go up,
because so much effort from so many people
that work and love the club
and this workforce,
this human tide that accompanies the team all year,
deserved a...
a different ending.
I am very grateful that I was able to be here this year
and I hope that I can also complete a second year.
I am proud to be part of an organisation like this one.
The really good news is
that today we will be able to announce
that Marcelo will be with us for next season.
Fantastic.
Which we are obviously delighted about.
- Okay. - Thank you.
- Gracias. - Thank you.
The goal for next season is automatic.
We are not dicking around with the play-offs anymore.
The season might have ended in heartache and despair,
but Leeds United has its soul back.
Bielsa has restored hope and pride to a football club and a city.
The club's ownership, management, players and supporters
are united once again.
The sleeping giant has awoken
and the revolution has begun.
Next season, in their centenary year,
Leeds United will once again try to take the club,
the fans
and city home
to the Premier League.