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The seventh episode of The Square Ball’s 2009-10 season brought together Dan Moylan, Michael Normanton, Daniel Chapman (Moscowhite), and Paul O’Dowd (Oddy) to work through a week of contrasting results and mounting squad concerns during the promotion run-in.
White Watching covered two fixtures. A dispiriting home defeat to Millwall — goals from Steve Morison on eleven minutes and Shaun Batt with ten minutes remaining completing a 2-0 win for the visitors — left Leeds beaten at Elland Road at a time when every point mattered. The counterpoint arrived with a narrow 1-0 away win at Norwich City, Chris Martin’s late goal securing a result that kept Leeds in contention at the top of League One.
The Talking Points section turned to the squad’s loan situation, which the panel felt had become unwieldy. Gary McSheffrey, Sam Vokes, and Sanchez Watt — who had earned the nickname Dirty Sanchez from the panel — were all examined in terms of the balance they were adding and what their continued presence suggested about the depth of the first-team squad. Patrick Kisnorbo’s fitness was a source of concern, with the possibility that an Australia World Cup campaign could affect his availability for the following season. Neil Kilkenny’s form also received attention.
The panel gave time to the Transparency in Football campaign, which was gaining traction in supporters’ circles, and acknowledged the tenth anniversary of the deaths of Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight, the two Leeds supporters killed in Istanbul in April 2000 before the UEFA Cup semi-final against Galatasaray. The Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Final was also briefly noted.
The episode’s main feature was Delusional Idiots — a regular segment dedicated to football’s most reliably self-deceiving figures. Roy Keane, Harry Redknapp, France manager Raymond Domenech, Sol Campbell, referee Jeff Winter, and Neil Warnock were all inducted through a combination of hubris, selective memory, and managerial self-mythology that the panel clearly relished cataloguing.
The episode closed with a farewell to Tresor Kandol, whose time at Leeds United had come to an end. The hosts reflected on what his spell at the club had represented, however briefly, to supporters who had cheered him on during a difficult period in the club’s history.
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