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Derry Alli

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Leeds having a wee jab at this horrific take:

 

Concerning that a significant amount of football pundits and journalists are viewing it as sexism. Pundits seem to feel that their views should be above criticism. That's quite clearly a shit take and Leeds have poked a wee bit of fun at it. The amount of people that are turning it into a gender issue online is concerning.

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I don't think it's a terrible point tbf, although I know nothing about how fitness works. Bielsa's teams supposedly run out of steam but he won the league in the season his team got an unprecedented break. Folk can say that everyone else got one too, but Leeds were clearly the best team in the Championship and the big thing stopping them from winning the league was largely negated by Covid.

Obviously they didn't only win the league because of it though.

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Before lockdown kicked in, Leeds were on a run of 5 wins on the bounce heading into the final 9 games of the season. They won the league by 10 points and were automatically promoted by 12.

To say that they wouldn't have achieved this without the lockdown break is just lazy journalism based on previous assertions that Bielsa's teams tire out. They simply didn't look like doing so before lockdown. 

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I don't know if it's sexist - it probably depends on whether they've called out anyone else for bad Leeds takes - but tweets like theirs will inevitably mobilise the [emoji636][emoji1022]󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 faction of Twitter.

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Before lockdown kicked in, Leeds were on a run of 5 wins on the bounce heading into the final 9 games of the season. They won the league by 10 points and were automatically promoted by 12.
To say that they wouldn't have achieved this without the lockdown break is just lazy journalism based on previous assertions that Bielsa's teams tire out. They simply didn't look like doing so before lockdown. 
They'd won five out of six by that stage the season before though, so it's not much of an indication that they wouldn't collapse.
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3 minutes ago, accies1874 said:
6 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Before lockdown kicked in, Leeds were on a run of 5 wins on the bounce heading into the final 9 games of the season. They won the league by 10 points and were automatically promoted by 12.
To say that they wouldn't have achieved this without the lockdown break is just lazy journalism based on previous assertions that Bielsa's teams tire out. They simply didn't look like doing so before lockdown. 

They'd won five out of six by that stage the season before though, so it's not much of an indication that they wouldn't collapse.

Well, it is. Winning the previous 5 games before lockdown without conceding a single goal flies in the face of, 'they won the league due to covid' and wouldn't have done so without the break which is was the pundit is stating.

It's a nonsense and lazy statement from the pundit because last season.

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