The Mangle

Halloween’s a tricky one to costume. To stick by the British tradition of ghoulish, the American anything goes approach, or opt for the ‘sexy’ version of ghoulish, which essentially involves a...

You don't even know me/ you say that I'm not living right/ you don't understand me, so why do you judge my life? The issue of Elland Road boycotts has no doubt been playing on many of our minds lately....

I’ve been trying to write something for another publication on the current status of stuff at Leeds, due out in September, deadline mid-July. What I’ve quickly worked out is this challenge is...

We’re going to finish seventh. No, Dom Matteo’s bet-fishing column in the YEP, suggesting to the gullible that we’re still worth a punt for the playoffs was not outrageously far-fetched - just a...

For this Mangle I’ve been set a challenge by TSS’s good editor: to fulfil his own dream of writing a piece highlighting Ken Bates’ blatant narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) in a not overly-academic...

Leeds United: the business doesn’t market itself to potential future fans anymore – it’s content with the rolling income of a half-full stadium, complete with the attendant reduced police costs. There...

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...

…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 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...

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...