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for Leeds United

Rating Summary based on 116 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		57
  • 4 Stars
    		49
  • 3 Stars
    		6
  • 2 Stars
    		3
  • 1 Star
    		1

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  • Are they fun to watch?
  • Physical Effort
  • Quality of attack
  • Quality of defence
  • Quality of management
  		• 4.1
  		• 4.2
  		• 4.3
  		• 3.9
  		• 4.4

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  • 62 of 62 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 5 spacemonkey

    Member since 16/02/2001

    Reviews written: 83

    5 Stars Marching all the way to the title. 10/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages We're great

    Disadvantages Disadvantages There are none

    *UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM* Ok, how very surreal. After a couple of months on Ciao, I finally get round to writing about my team of choice - that is of course, the mighty whites of Leeds United. Being a Leeds lad born and bred, it's inevitable that I was gonna follow United, and I have done since I was about 8. Like most fans, I remember my first game (v Southampton at Elland Road, 2-1 win. Chapman needed to score to equal the club record for most consecutive goalscoring games. Needless to say he didn't). I've been through promotion from the old Division 2, The excitement of a league title just 2 ... more
  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    PhilS

    5 Stars Leeds United's Champions League Campaign 2000.01 21/10/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Getting to the semi finals

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None!! - it was that good

    The season of 2000/01 proved to be the most memorable for many years. The main talking point is the teams Champions League campaign in which the squad managed by David O'Leary reached the semi-finals. Despite being draw in the 'group of death' in both the 1st phrase and the 2nd phrase Leeds managed to beat major european teams such as AC Milan, Lazio and Deportivo. ~Group Stages~ In the 1st group stage Leeds were drawn in the same group as AC Milan, Barcelona and Beskitas. Leeds faced possibly their toughest games in the group - Barcelona away. The result Leeds came away with proved it as they ... more
  • 96 of 96 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Manu_Patel

    5 Stars Young useful team 23/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages They are better than on paper, brilliant manager and they have a good squad.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Need another striker and the squad are mostly young so need a bit of improving and need more experience.

    David O'Leary took over from George Graham and carried on from his success at the club taking the club further and last season he took them to the Champions League semi-finals and now his team are Premiership contenders. The squad all played a part last season and all worked their socks at times, especially in the big games, they always keep plugging away. But sometimes they do suffer from complacency after the big games and against the smaller teams last season they either thrashed them or got beaten. But the young squad are still learning the game and they have had some unfortunate injures ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mrpaella

    3 Stars Writing on the Wall for Reid 31/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Recent Champions League Semi-finalists

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Heavy debt burden

    ORIGINALLY WRITTEN May 2001 Growing up in Yorkshire in the 1960s and 1970s was quite boring. My father and his friends supported Leeds United whilst I supported my hometown club of Hull City. Leeds had a fearsome team at the beginning of the 1970s. The team consisted of: Gary Sprake, Paul Reaney, Terry Cooper, Jack Charlton, Billy Bremner, Norman Hunter, John Giles, Peter Lorimer, Paul Madeley, Allan Clarke and Mick Jones. Gary Sprake was also goalkeeper for Wales. His most famous moment came when he threw the ball into his own net at Anfield. He was later sold to Birmingham City. Paul Reaney ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    thehud

    4 Stars The Beautiful Game 30/03/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great excitement

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Ultimate disappointment

    In case you're somehow not aware of this (and if you'd been shipwrecked on some South Sea island for this last forty years, there may be just the one or two of you out there), the United football teams of Leeds and Manchester are just a touch akin to a red rag to each other, with the biannual confrontation between the two sides constantly being among the most keenly anticipated and bitterly contested of footballing confrontations. The battle brings out the best (and worst) in the two sets of gladiators and at times over the years blood has been drawn and the referees' books have overflowed ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Gavin6

    5 Stars O Learys barmy army 23/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages See op

    Disadvantages Disadvantages See op

    This team is a nice alternative if you want to support a team in another country but you do not want to support Man U and want some success. They havent done anything good yet but when you talk about Leeds the word "potential" is used all the time. Lets see why... Managed by David O'Leary, a former Arsenal favourite, they have a great young manager who puts across a good image for a club that is going places and needs positive press at a time when several of their players are involved in a high profile court case. He has shown that he knows what he is doing and has produced a team that has ... more
  • 39 of 40 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mikeydred

    5 Stars The Most Boring Team in The Top Flight 13/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Young Talented Team, Excellent Manager and Coach and Good Board

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The Court Case

    Having just watched Leeds play Liverpool I can totally justify the title of this op. Before I’m set upon by hordes of the White Rose Club’s supporters , I’d probably best explain myself before blood is spilt. As you know, and can see, I’m a particularly auld git, and as such can remember the 1970s, when the old first division was dominated by Leeds managed by Don Revie. Revie had produced a revolution at the club, changing their strip to the now familiar all white (so they would look like Real Madrid), and producing a team that was capable of winning the top flight , the old First Division ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Carrow_Road_Canary

    5 Stars Stars for the future 27/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Strength in depth, youth, experience, good manager, ambitious chairman

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Inconsistent

    Leeds United have been predicted by many as the team who will be the biggest threat to Manchester United in years to come. They have an ambitious chairman, a very talented manager and the strength in depth in their squad which is now required to be a top side. THE CHAIRMAN PETER RISDALE, 55 – Peter Risdale is a very ambitious chairman who is prepared to put money into the club in order to gain success. He has shown this with the purchase of Rio Ferdinand for £18million, a world record fee for a defender and a British record for any player. However he is sensible and will not go spending ... more
  • 22 of 22 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Padds

    3 Stars From Despair to Where 22/04/2003
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Still got some really talented young players, debt being reduced and still in the Premiership

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Best to forget this season, money still an issue

    At the start of the season not many people would have put money on Leeds United being involved in a relegation dogfight in the Premiership. Following an appearance in the Champions League semi-finals just a few years ago and a mass of highly paid stars, Europe should have beckoned, but this season is one that their fans will want to forget. It has indeed been a turbulent year for Leeds. So far they have lost two managers, one chairman and several players. While some may call that careless, as a PLC they find themselves £70 million in the red. This is despite the selling of Rio Ferdinand to ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dave27

    5 Stars At last the 2001 show 01/10/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Brilliant, young squad

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Can turn nasty

    When George Graham took his thirty pieces of silver (or whatever it was) to head south from his new found stronghold in Yorkshire to the glittering lights of North London and White Hart Lane in late 1998, Leeds United’s first choices for manager were either former captain and midfield inspiration, Gordon Strachan, or Leicester City’s effervescent young manager, Irishman Martin O’Neill. When the Elland Road club were not allowed to pursue their interests in either man, chairman Peter Ridsdale instead turned his ambitious eyes upon an existing member of the Leeds United staff, David O’Leary, who ... more
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