Settle Down
David Batty's famous afternoon of fun at Roberto Mancini's expense started with a Sampdoria assault on Nigel Clough, and ended with a ball bouncing off Batty's head.
- By Rob Conlon
Pre-Season Week
What's This? Where Am I?
He was just some little kid with dodgy hair and a tracksuit, says Simon Walton, but his Elland Road debut has never been forgotten.
- By Rob Conlon
Cold Water
Dom Poleon, folding his arms and frowning in a stream, summing up the mood of a club in its first summer of being Cellino’d.
- By Rob Conlon
Cottbusted
If Dennis Wise wanted to create a siege mentality ahead of Leeds United’s first ever season in the third tier, the summer of 2007 went a long way to fostering that spirit.
- By Rob Conlon
Strikerate
I'm counting this goal because his 1991-93 goals are served with a joyful side of characteristic Batty rebellion, so I can.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
Laughing Offence
From ref Emilio Guruceta Muro giving out red cards in Spain, to Ecuador's version of Barcelona going mad in Toronto, Leeds' transfer business was the least of 1981's worries.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
A Critic of Leeds
The coverage given to Philip Naviasky is typical: Leeds fuming that know-it-alls don't recognise Leeds, but giving most column inches to one of the best artists in the city only after he dared to criticise his home town.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
Big John, John
"The boss is trying a new system," captain Gordon Strachan says to John Helm.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
Years & Years
Let's follow a very relaxed Howard Wilkinson on his busman's holiday, aviator shades fixed to his face as the team coach speeds from the hotel to training.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
4 x 4
This might be unprecedented. I've never heard of anything like it. It's also upside down.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
He Must Be Decent!
Peter Reid had a plan to cheer up worried Leeds fans: sign a Brazilian. But which Brazilian? That didn’t seem to matter.
- By Rob Conlon
Jollying Up Interest
The United players "sweated it out of themselves". Major Buckley's command was going to mean one thing above all: work. And monkey serum injections.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
Up Hills & Down Dales
Welcome to Pre-Season Week at The Square Ball. We're going to publish a bunch of stories about Leeds United's pre-seasons gone by.
- By Moxcowhite • Daniel Chapman
