Seven Years Of Lies: More Than Just A Hashtag Gary January 17, 2012 Leeds United 26 Comments Turning seven seems to have caught the imagination of the Leeds faithful just now. Perhaps the horrors of the era have reminded us of the David Fincher film of the same name. At age seven you’re...
Leeds fall to homecoming party-piece Gary January 10, 2012 Match reviews 45 Comments Are you interested in getting some of the best FA Cup betting odds for the upcoming final? Make sure you head to bwin today for all of your FA Cup betting! How utterly predictable. To be honest, it...
The Mangle: Running the asylum Gary January 8, 2012 The Mangle 13 Comments By the fans, for the fans. The ultimate dream, right? Right? With the fans at the helm, there could be no danger of the hidden agendas, the ignoring of the need for a competent playing staff, or the...
The Mangle: So this is Christmas… Gary December 15, 2011 The Mangle 2 Comments …and what have we done? Well, evidently not so much, if the sort of league position you tend to hover around is the meter of doing summat. A decidedly non-Leeds mate of mine can’t mention our club...
The Mangle: Bitter Suite Gary December 2, 2011 Leeds United, The Mangle 13 Comments The Gary Speed Suite. Well, we’ve been told for so damn long about what top-of-the-range facilities are being put together as part of the Great Beeston Project – so what a massive honour, right? Not so...
United honour Speed with Forest stroll Gary November 30, 2011 Match reviews 25 Comments If Barnsley faded into insignificance after the act due to Sunday’s galling turn of events, there was a sharpened focus on this one, as the eyes of the nation were upon us. The planned Speed commemorations...
Whites better Burnley… badly Gary November 21, 2011 Match reviews 11 Comments Hello and welcome to one of the more belated match reports in the history of The Scratching Shed. It seems somehow appropriate to be lagging behind - it almost feels like we were offered the O’Brien-related...
The Mangle: Ken Bates, Man of the Moment Gary November 21, 2011 The Mangle 14 Comments Austerity, austerity, austerity: it’s all we hear these days, banging into our skulls like a claw hammer on a piece of string or Ken’s regular Yorkshire Radio diatribes. A not unintentional link, as you...
The Mangle: An Ugly Wife Never Strays Gary November 2, 2011 The Mangle 4 Comments Bear with me on the metaphor. The ugly wife in question is the crap footballer on your team’s books. You’d quite like them to stray to be honest, but if never is a little strong, they’re pretty...
The Mangle: Time to give up the Premier League dream? Gary November 1, 2011 The Mangle 19 Comments About six weeks or so ago I considered writing a piece about whether we should assume a point has passed where we’re never going to be back in the ‘big time’ again, and just accept some sort of joyous...