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Leeds not getting outplayed in any game, and that's enough for me.  Lost to two wilier teams that were happy to counterattack, rather than build anything significant.  Need to be approaching those games like the City game, I'd have thought.  Phillips a massive loss at present. 

We will never forget any of their contributions.

The contributions have been notable mainly because of the scarcity of previous instances. 

Their second red was flagged as soon as the chap came on. He had a yellow after 15 seconds and was like the gunslinger in the old West - you could seem him itching for a row.

Reminds me of that 1979 Intermediate Final between Killashee and whoever beat them - the same thing happened, and we found out afterwards that the sub had been so incensed (with management) at not starting the game, that he vowed to get sent off as soon as he had been introduced.  And thus it happened ...

Hold on... could it be....  do you think it's possible...??

Angelo =  TONY FEARON ?

Do you know what ....

A big table of small people ... that's the issue. 

Rice warmed up in the qualifier against Moldova with 15 mins left (and 2-0 up), but wasn't brought on.  It was that close.

He wasn't even in the squad you mad eejit.

Sorry, I'm raving ...

Rice warmed up in the qualifier against Moldova with 15 mins left (and 2-0 up), but wasn't brought on.  It was that close.

Surprising not to see Obafemi involved. Callum O'Dowda has to be lucky to still get the call, he doesn't seem to have progressed hugely

He has had a long-running injury problem and didn't play enough last season.

Berlin Noir series worth a read? I think some lads on here talked about them before.

Absolutely, you will not be disappointed.

+1, but start at the start, even though they do jump around a bit in time. 

Bit of a thriller there, Laureleye. 

Am enjoying the new Sky adaptation of the 'Perry Mason' yarns - seems to have drawn influences heavily from the recent German 'Babylon Berlin' adaptations.  Recommended ... if you like that sort of thing. 

Interesting to see that Barnsley played out of their skins again last night and won at Griffin Park, after beating Forest at the weekend, and avoiding the drop - that seemed very unlikely a month ago, and emphasises that their excellent performance at Elland Road was not a fluke. 

Ye may have a word with Deportivo La Coruña. Dropped to third tier after some dizzy heights 15 yrs ago.

I remember Leeds beating them over two very tight legs in a Champions League quarter final in 2001 - how things change. 

Queen were c***ts. Apartheid-propping up soup takers, music for people who hate music.

Bono's performance during Bad changed Ireland. It was quite shocking to see an Irishman get up there in front of the world without the merest trace of self doubt, and demonstrate in plain terms that U2 were the greatest band in the world. It was a remarkable, life changing performance, simultaneously full to the brim with anger and joy. He nailed it in outrageous fashion.

The decade of change in Ireland that was to follow started at that moment.

You could say the exact same about u2. Music for the brown shoed shirt tuckers.

You can say what you want, but you'd be wrong. U2 came from punk and evolved through new wave into the most vital band in the world, branched into blues, folk, dance and club music, and then pushed back the boundaries of what was possible in a live setting with Zoo TV. They were raw, they were explicitly political, they were highly literate and clued in to world around them, they were loud as hell and for 13 years, which is damn sight more than the vast, vast majority of artists, they were undeniably f**king brilliant. And from the mid-1980s on and particularly from Live Aid on, they were a towering presence over not just Irish and world popular culture, but over Irish life and society in general.

Ireland was largely an insular, backward little country up to the mid 1980s where deference to power and establishment was everything. By the end of the 1980s, we were smashing it in popular culture and sporting terms in a way we never had before and even while emigration continued, there was an energy beginning to surge through the country that had never been there before. Irish people started to look defiantly outwards in their worldview rather than inwards and within a short time the deference to establishment power had gone, and all the dirty little secrets of the past were coming out in the wash. By 1995 Ireland was a much, much different place than it had been a decade earlier, more confident, more open, more dynamic, more willing to face up to its past. That decade was the biggest era of change in this country since 1913-23 and U2, like the success of the Irish football team that followed them, cannot be divorced from that.

I think you are correct in what you say there.

Jees, that was a hard earned win for Leeds. They looked busted at the end.

Correcto Shane.

As bad performance as I can recall under Bielsa, but the result was huge. Outplayed by Barnsley - who I felt sorry for - and we were on the ropes for most of the second half but I'll take it.

One more point will do it.

This is the one I was dreading - local derby against a team with nothing to lose, fighting for their lives (and their careers).  Really missing Phillips, already.