The Leeds Thread

[repeat_offender]

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/17h4crmagf11i15ys0rk9fx7l7/title/video-tribute-to-norman

Norman Hunter tribute video as ER celebrated his 70th birthday.

We made hard work of beating Yeovil but super Ross McCormack scored both goals.

Good on Frannie Lee for his contribution.

[Glasgow Loon]

Yeah was a nice touch.

We all wondered when it was played at Half Time on Saturday why the had asked Frannie Lee to do a video to Norman.

[Glasgow Loon]

The games on the 11th January away at Sheffield Wednesday and the 18th at home to Leicester are 12.15pm kick offs as they are on Sky.

[The Naitch]

Great win for Leeds down at Charlton today. Game was delayed due to the rain - Ross McCormack got all four goals. Surely Strachan has to take notice of that?!

[Glasgow Loon]

Highlights:-

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x170e3f_follow-weareleedsmot3-cafc-2-v-4-leeds-united-lufc-rossmccormack44_sport?start=1

[Glasgow Loon]

From the YEP:-

Ross McCormack became the latest leeds player to hit four goals in the game at Charlton. Leon Wobschall looks at the others who have done it.

Remember, remember the month of November... Ross McCormack certainly will.

As will the previous three Leeds United players who fired four-goal salvos ahead of the Scot’s four-some display at Charlton Athletic.

It was a happy Valley for McCormack amid the atrocious conditions in the capital as United secured a thrilling 4-2 win to head into the international break in rude health – which left visiting fans singing in the rain.

November’s darkening nights and the onset of winter may make it a grim month for many, but over the years, it’s had its compensations for the likes of Brian Deane, Alan Smith, Mark Viduka and now McCormack.

United’s current top-scorer became the first player to hit four goals in a game since veteran Brian Deane dined out at Queens’ Park Rangers’ expense just short of nine years ago on November 20, 2004 in a 6-1 triumph for United.

Then 36, Deane terrorised the R’s defence and more especially their harassed central defensive pairing of Georges Santos and Danny Shittu in a rare chink of light in what proved a pretty forgettable campaign.

The previous player before Deane left to milk the acclaim of the Whites multitudes after a four-goal showing was Rothwell lad Smith, in somewhat better times in terms of his relationship with fans of his boyhood club which turned seriously sour when he headed over the Pennines.

As in the case of Deane, Smith’s contribution was a noteworthy one in the context of an undistinguished campaign under Terry Venables, with the night of November 14, 2002 one to savour.

The fate of the Uefa Cup second-round tie with Israeli outfit Hapoel Tel Aviv was somewhat precarious after United claimed a slender 1-0 triumph in the first leg at Elland Road.

But Smith had other ideas with a superb four-goal salvo in a game played in Florence due to unrest over in Israel – and on a night which also proved memorable for Frazer Richardson and Matt Kilgallon, who both made their debuts. Just over two years earlier, the stage belonged to Smith’s United team-mate Viduka on a never-to-be-forgotten Saturday lunch-time in the autumnal sun on November 4, 2000.

It was the day that the Aussie international single-handedly put Liverpool’s defence to the sword in a sensational 4-3 victory in a front of an Elland Road full house, with the televised game also watched by millions.

That four-goal haul was the first time a United player had achieved that milestone in almost three decades since the prince of United goalscorers in Allan Clarke – just like Viduka – hit all four goals in a somewhat more straightforward 4-0 win over Burnley on April 3, 1971.

Clarke also found the net in United’s next home match against West Bromwich Albion.

But that proved memorable for all the wrong reasons with referee Ray Tinkler taking centre stage and playing the fateful hand to scupper Leeds’ hopes of lifting the Division One title as he overruled a linesman to allow a clearly offside goal to stand in a hugely controversial 2-1 win.

Of the 18 occasions in which a Leeds player has netted four times or more in one game, Clarke is one of just four to perform that feat two times or more.

The lethal finishing prowess of the man known universally as Sniffer was also displayed in a 6-0 hammering of Isthmian League hosts Sutton United in the most one-sided of fourth-round FA Cup ties at Gander Green Lane on January 24, 1970.

Sutton, the first amateur club to reach the fourth round of the cup in seventeen years, included in their ranks some teachers, a GPO engineer, a Billingsgate fish salesman, a jig borer and a panel-beater with Clarke displaying his own tradesman’s skill to down the minnows.

Along with Clarke, Gerry Kenny also hit two four-goal salvos for Leeds with his feats arriving in the space of just under nine months in 1941, in unofficial games in the Football League northern section with all official games cancelled due to World War II.

There remains just one man who has hit four goals in a game three times for Leeds with the player to take a bow being Scottish striker Tom Jennings, who held United’s scoring records until the irrepressible John Charles came onto the scene.

Jennings hit 112 league goals for Leeds, with his seasonal best tally standing at 35 in 1926-27 when he hit three successive hat-tricks, including back-to-back four-goal hauls in a crazy purple patch in the autumn of 1926.

His run started with a hat-trick in a 4-1 home win against Arsenal on September 25, 1926 and seven days later, he went one better with all four goals in a 4-2 victory at Liverpool.

That feat was the only time a Leeds player had hit four goals in a league away game before McCormack’s exploits on Saturday afternoon.

Jennings went onto emulate his four-goal showing on Merseyside just a week later with all United’s goals in a 4-1 Roses’ triumph over visiting Blackburn Rovers in a goalrush which saw him hit 19 goals in just nine matches.

All told, in official and unofficial league games, excluding friendlies, 14 players have achieved the four-goal milestone.

The list of those to also achieve that are headed by two of the club’s greats in Charles and Peter Lorimer, Leeds’ all-time record goalscorer.

Gordon Hodgson remains the only Leeds player to score five goals in a game – in an 8-2 slaying of Leicester City on October 1, 1938 – and he also hit four in a 4-4 draw with visiting Everton on February 26 of that year.

The remaining players to hit four Leeds goals in a match are John McCole, Len Browning, Arthur Hydes and Russell Wainscoat.

Full List of those who scored four in a game for Leeds

Ross mCcormack’s four-goal haul is the 18th time a United player has achieved that feat.

Here’s a list of the others:

Brian Deane - Nov 20, 2004: Leeds 6 QPR 1.

Alan Smith – Nov 14, 2002: Hapoel Tel Aviv 1 Leeds 4 .

Mark Viduka – Nov 4, 2000: Leeds 4 Liverpool 3.

Allan Clarke – Apr 3, 1971: Leeds 4 Burnley 0.

Allan Clarke – Jan 24, 1970: Sutton 0 Leeds 6.

Peter Lorimer, right, – Oct 3, 1967: Spora Luxembourg 0 Leeds 9.

John McCole –Sept 12, 1961: Leeds 4 Brentford 1.

John Charles – Aug 19, 1953: Leeds 6 Notts County 0.

Leonard Browning – Jan 13, 1951: Leeds 5 Southampton 3.

Gerry Henry – Nov 29, 1941: Leeds 5 Newcastle United 2.

Gerry Henry – Mar 14, 1941: Leeds 6 Doncaster 1.

Gordon Hodgson – Feb 26, 1938: Leeds 4 Everton 4.

Arthur Hydes – Aug 28, 1933: Leeds 5 Middlesbrough 2.

Tom Jennings – Dec 10, 1927: Leeds 5 Chelsea 0.

Russell Wainscoat – Apr 30, 1927: Leeds 6 West Ham 3.

Tom Jennings – Oct 9, 1926: Leeds 4 Blackburn 1.

Tom Jennings – Oct 2, 1926: Liverpool 2 Leeds 4.

[LCtang]

Was doing a bit of reading there and did you know that in the 2000/01 Champions League, Lee Bowyer was joint 2nd top scorer in the entire competition? This is pretty mind blowing stuff. Had a look at some highlights on YouTube and all I could find was pretty fluky goals, but still - LEE BOWYER.

[repeat_offender]

Was doing a bit of reading there and did you know that in the 2000/01 Champions League, Lee Bowyer was joint 2nd top scorer in the entire competition? This is pretty mind blowing stuff. Had a look at some highlights on YouTube and all I could find was pretty fluky goals, but still - LEE BOWYER.

I didn't know that but I do remember him in the form of his life while on trial for the attack on Safraz Najeib (which I think was that period). The effect the trial had on Woodgate on the other hand was markedly different.

Edited November 13, 2013 by repeat_offender

[Glasgow Loon]

Eddie Gray was inducted into the SFA Hall of Fame last sunday:-

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-legend-gray-recognised-by-scots-1-6240411

[Glasgow Loon]

Howard Wilkinson is 70 Today, a tribute from the OS:-

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/779y31zxtvmh1vawbffylj592/title/a-tribute-to-sgt-wilko

[TranentBRFC]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17jp9f_follow-weareleedsmot3-leeds-united-2-v-1-middlesbrough-23-11-13-lufc_sport

[Glasgow Loon]

Not a great game again but we are grinding out wins at the moment. Still 4 games at ER that have been won so at least the home form is good, if we could get the away form to match then who knows we will end up.

A tough lot of fixtures coming up from now till new years day:-

Sat 30 Nov Blackburn away

Wed 4 Dec Wigan home

Sat 7 Dec Watford home

Sat 14 Dec Doncaster away

Sat 21 Dec Barnsley home

Thu 26 Dec Blackpool away live on sky at 5.15

Sun 29 Dec Notts Forest away

Wed 1 Jan Blackburn home

[Glasgow Loon]

Ryan Hall has left the club by mutual consent:-

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/article/h3rla871xxx21keenqwij90ft/title/ryan-hall

[Glasgow Loon]

Extended highlights here:-

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17luxr_follow-weareleedsmot3-leeds-united-2-v-1-middlesbrough-highlights-lufc_sport

[Dryhorce]

Anybody think Leeds will be in for any Scots this year?Think that is what the clubs missing.The best Leeds team was full of them.And right now there is plenty of good young ones all round the clubs.Teams like Dundee United guys like Armstrong,Gauld and Robertson.Gauld would be out the price range.But maybe Armstrong would be affordable,United have been told to pay £300 000 plus for some player who played for them years ago who was with Huddersfield.Maybe Armstrong could be landed at the £2 million mark or less.Gary Mackay Steven is there to and has been linked with Leeds before.Great wee entertaining player with a lot of skill and tricks.Would light up the championship like Snodgrass did.

[Glasgow Loon]

http://supportersnotcustomers.com/2013/12/02/a-day-with-dirty-leeds/

From an ex cardiff fan.

[TranentBRFC]

http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/x180dnh_follow-weareleedsmot3-leeds-united-2-v-0-wigan-lufc_sport

[Glasgow Loon]

History was made on Wednesday night as Leeds United claimed their 1st ever League victory over Wigan Athletic at ER.

[The Naitch]

The away match at Yeovil has been moved to 12.15pm. That'll be an early start for anyone travelling to that.

[Glasgow Loon]

Dextor Blackstock away back to Forest and out for the season due to Knee operation. Shame as he had formed a good partnership with McCormack.

Also David Haigh's consortium is looking to get a 75% stake in the club:-

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/latest-whites-news/leeds-united-majority-stake-for-haigh-team-1-6306026