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The podcast’s second birthday coincides with Simon Grayson’s third anniversary in charge, and Dan Moylan, Michael Normanton, Daniel Chapman (Moscowhite), and Paul O’Dowd (Oddy) celebrate both in episode 42 — though the football has been unkind.
White Watching covers four matches. Boxing Day at Derby produced a 1-0 defeat: sluggish, forgettable, and entirely in keeping with Leeds’s festive tradition. New Year’s Eve at Barnsley was bleaker: a 4-1 collapse, Ricardo Vaz Tê scoring a hat-trick (16′, 51′, 72′) with Davies adding a fourth in between. Becchio pulled a consolation back at 90+1′, and Snodgrass went off injured shortly before the window opened — an exit the show treats with some well-placed suspicion. Burnley at home then produced a comeback from one of the strangest routes: Trippier was sent off at 28′ for Burnley, Charlie Austin still put them ahead at 69′, but an own goal at 88′ and McCormack deep into injury time turned it into a 2-1 Leeds win. Dan had backed Burnley at 36-to-one before kick-off and spends approximately two minutes trying not to brag about the return. Finally, the FA Cup tie at Arsenal brought Thierry Henry off the bench as a substitute; he scored, the media devoted the following week to the romanticism of it, and Andros Townsend on loan from Spurs was the bright spot for Leeds — the kind of direct winger that had been absent since Gradel left.
Transfer news is substantial. Andy Keogh has gone back to Wolves, Danny Pugh has been signed permanently for a reported £500,000, Townsend is here for now, and Robbie Rogers has been signed from the MLS, subject to a work permit snarled in considerable red tape. Rogers has his own fashion line, an online journal reviewing films, and a Twitter account that once used the word “Nando’s” three times in succession. The show finds all of this irresistible.
The third section is a full review of Simon Grayson’s three years. The consensus is honest: best manager since relegation from the Premier League, working under conditions that made consistency structurally impossible. His failure to sort the defence is acknowledged; his development of Tom Lees and Aidy White is credited; and the show makes the case that whoever comes next will inherit the same structural problems.
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