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Recorded on Sunday morning in the immediate aftermath of Leeds United’s 4-1 home win over MK Dons, the ninth episode of The Square Ball’s 2009-10 season brought Dan Moylan, Michael Normanton, Daniel Chapman (Moscowhite), and Paul O’Dowd (Oddy) together for what became one of the most eventful episodes of the run.
White Watching covered three fixtures from a pivotal week in the promotion race. An away win at Carlisle United — 1-3 to Leeds, with Luciano Becchio scoring twice and Max Gradel once — had set a positive tone. The mood shifted with a 3-2 defeat at Gillingham, a match in which a Richard Naylor own goal contributed to Gillingham’s tally, though Becchio and a late Jermaine Beckford penalty brought Leeds back to within one. The week closed with the MK Dons result: four goals, two of them Beckford penalties and one each from Becchio and Gradel, with three MK Dons players dismissed and a sense among the panel that the promotion push was back on course.
The episode digressed into the statue of Billy Bremner outside Elland Road, where a recent restoration had produced a ginger tint in the bronze — a detail the hosts found both baffling and faintly appropriate for a player whose hair colour had been a defining feature. Barry George’s rumoured status as a Leeds United supporter was also noted in passing.
The main feature concerned an encounter between Ken Bates and supporters at Lorimer’s Bar — a confrontation reported in some detail and treated by the hosts as a window into the chairman’s relationship with the fanbase. The incident, as described and examined, illustrated the distance between the ownership and supporters that had characterised the Bates era. Connected to this was a discussion of the 10 for Ken campaign, which was encouraging Leeds supporters to award the chairman the maximum score of ten out of ten in official surveys — a form of ironic protest that was generating traction online. Hull City’s relegation from the Premier League was noted briefly before the episode closed with previews of the upcoming fixtures at Charlton and at home to Bristol Rovers.
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