The Super(ish) Leeds United Thread

[Cunny Funt]

Congrats Leeds on promotion. Still hard to believe a club of their size and tradition has stayed 16 years away from the Premier league.

[brokencrossbar1]

Good to see Leeds back up....can't beat having another Manc hating club in the top division!  We will give you back Milner next season once you get yourselves settled back up!  For Boots and Rufus et al great stuff!

[gawa316]

Good to see Leeds back up....can't beat having another Manc hating club in the top division!  We will give you back Milner next season once you get yourselves settled back up!  For Boots and Rufus et al great stuff!

Congrats to Leeds but Milner is going no where!

[ONeill]

You only have to look through the first few pages of this thread to see the journey they've been on.

Good to see them back.

[laoislad]

Congrats Billy Boots

[Mourne Rover]

Rufus started the thread during a bleak time in 2007 and a few other elderly contributors including this one are there on the first page. It's been a long tough road and it's brilliant to be back where we belong. Bielsa is nothing less than a genius and, with a decent recruitment policy, is capable of making quite an impact in the premiership. The entire squad deserves enormous credit so, after being put through an emotional wringer from the financial collapse almost 20 years ago to the agonies of last season, a glass of the finest Malbec - Argentinian obviously - awaits.

[Sportacus]

Glad they're back.  They're a big club and fixtures like Leeds and United will be great.

[sid waddell]

Leeds have a mystique that very few other clubs have. That 1960s/70s team is one of the all time legendary teams in football history. They were bastards but they were beautiful bastards. It's great to see them back in top division and it'd be amazing to see them back up there challenging for the title. They have impeccable taste in bitter rivals.

[BennyCake]

Leeds certainly paid for their season or two spending above their means, with 16 years in the footballing wilderness.

[Capt Pat]

It is good to see Leeds back in the top flight. It is strange that they stayed outside of the premier league for so long.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

Great to see them back, likes of them and Forest brings a bit extra to it all imo.

I was the same last year with Villa though their stay could be short lived...

[From the Bunker]

In 16 years, 2 months, 7 days since relegation LUFC has had:

410 second tier games
77 third tier games
15 points deducted
16 managers
5 owners
4 playoff fails
1 administration
1 stadium sale

Ye've been through thick and thin

TAKE US HOME LADS 🙏
💛💙💛💙

[seafoid]

Great to see Leeds overcome their heebie jeebies and make it back to the top division. Bielsa did a superb job.

[Denn Forever]

Time to believe. 

[Mourne Rover]

Leeds have not exactly had a brilliant record when the pressure has really be on over recent years so to have firstly promotion and then the championship confirmed on consecutive days when we did not actually play was a wonderful experience. Derby will probably have to give us a guard of honour tomorrow as another little bonus.

The figures provided by The Bunker earlier may be slightly outdated as 13 seasons in the championship at 46 games each works out at 598, three in league one is 138 and we have had another ten play-off fixtures for a total of 746 matches since we were last in the premiership. It has been a journey and a half but Bielsa has taken us home.