Author TimPM

For those that missed it, The Square Ball broke the news yesterday that Chris Sulley is no longer Leeds United's Academy manager. Sulley was appointed in March 2011 on a one year contract after a four month...

Increasingly fed up and apathetic fans could be forgiven for expecting Lucas the Kop Cat to have been thrown a shirt, or for the news to be of Leeds' first facilitation of another club's signing. Leeds,...

We've made a big deal of Leeds' finances this year. Finances have been key even for those not interested in this side of football. Leeds fans have become amateur accountants and economists with the years of...

Leeds are doing it right this time around - so long as the manager gets his way. After revealing his desire to talk contracts a week or so ago, Neil Warnock has added an update. He is holding 'provisional'...

Halloween came seven months early to Elland Road as Leeds United's Tuesday night jinx appears all too intact after a 7-3 drubbing at the hands of 20th placed Nottingham Forest. Having matched and even...

Neil Warnock summed up the mood after Leeds took away a 1-1 draw against West Ham in front of 33,366 yesterday tea-time: “I can't ask any more, they've given me everything. We've dominated two of the best...

Diving. It's something growing up I used to think was limited to weak-kneed Iberians... and Harry Kewell. Then as Leeds hobbled around like a light-headed crash victim in shock for the past seven years, it was...

Ken Bates has been anything but a happy bunny lately. If there was one thing that could be said for Ken, it was that the cheeky cockney chappy always had a mischevious (and to many, worrying) smile on his...

Last Thursday The Scratching Shed responded to Ken Bates' Wednesday radio address, acknowledging new evidence on the wages saga. For those who haven't shown an interest, here's the saga summarised: On...

Here at The Scratching Shed, we believe in healthy debate about the club we support. This needs facts to be acknowledged as they come available. Over the past couple of months we have referred thrice to The...