Got 2 tickets for the friendly game next Thursday as probably cheaper than getting them for a home game!!
Going from Luton early morning and get to Alicante by midday and meeting an old member of the board, Marshy, who lives out there. Few beers in the afternoon sun and Elche is only 15mins drive from the airport. Kick off at 2030 Spanish time so back to the airport by midnight for 3hrs kip before the flight back.... all within 24hrs!
Flights only £140 return in total for me and the boy and tickets are only a tenner. Never seen us in Europe and maybe only chance for a few years yet!
Elche is the 20th biggest city in Spain and has the 5th biggest airport.... and a theatre and church etc.
Famous people from Elche include an architect, microbiologist and some tennis player bint I've never heard of.... unbelievably 3 eyed pilot Douglas Bader and all 6 of the Chuckle Brothers lived here in between the war and theatre shows....
The ground looks lovely and a big open air stadium probably full of Leeds fans!! 😉🙈👍
Usual squad minus Rasmussen, Adams, Aaronson, Drameh and Sinesterra....
I'll even give a weather forecast as Lord Sunnyflaps can't predict what is happening out of his own fkn window! It'll be a balmy 67°F / 19°C.... Scorchio ☀️☀️☀️☀️
I'll give a report on my return.... 👍☀️🍻
I hope klich doesn't go, or Ayling for that. Such a big part in best seasons we have had for 20 years. They deserve a good send off from Elland Rd, in fact bring berra and Pablo back for a game at the end of the season so they can have a proper send off and not one that was done in front of 8000 of us in that covid game.
Don't know whether to read much into this but....
Klich brought over the trophy that we had won straight after it had been lifted.... surely Coops should have brought it over? Klich then waved to us as if to say goodbye rather than celebrate winning it....
Great servant if he's on his way. Very nearly left us after a couple of crap seasons and then suddenly found his feet when we had a load of injuries at the start of the season v Stoke and Forest....
Yes we looked rusty and looked overworked in training. Too many players looked knackered at the final whistle even though most only played 30/45 minutes.
Loads of our fans there which made for a great atmosphere in our end.... couldn't believe how young most of the fkn NON STOP singing lunatics were. Where the fk do they get their money!? 💵😂
The car park within the stadium before the game was packed with singing and drinking Leeds fans.... there was a big presence of gun toting Spanish police but not even a hint of trouble. I'm sure the riot cops were gutted about this as were just snarly, staring with itchy trigger fingers around their truncheons!! No banter at all....
Leeds fans came out with a classic new song about Sticky Vicky, the renowned Benidorm 'actress'....
For those who don't know her give her a Google. Basically she puts various items ranging from ping pong balls to razor blades up her fanny to hundreds of cheering drinkers in Benidorm bars throughout the summer 🙈😂🙈😂
She actually married either the Chief of Police or the mayor of Benidorm.... you can just imagine the posh functions she had to go to where unsuspecting businesspeople asked what she did for a living!! 🙈😂🙈😂
Happy birthday to young Stan
Good report TC. I hope the next 2 warm up games are better we were shocking but half that team won't play v citeh.
Don't know how to treat this game....
We've played a La Liga side away and won.... but we were crap first half and will lose heavily to Citeh if we play like that!
Robles made a great save to keep us in it but his kicking and footwork were awful....
I hate Ayling at CB but he played better there than at RB....
Our 2 left footed CBs didn't look comfortable together....
Hjelde was shocking at LB but always had 2 up against him....
Roca was poor and kept giving the ball away....
For some reason Forshaw seems to think that since he last came back he's a creative player now.... he most certainly isn't but at least tried. I can see him picked ahead of Roca when Adams is back....
Greenwood, Geldhart, Rodrigo and Harrison didn't touch the ball all game but all combined to set up our goal! Greenwood was awful and kept getting caught on the ball....
Perkins got injured more time than he touched the ball.... literally!
Was looking forward to seeing Gyabi but he was crap first of all but did improve towards the end of the game....
Joseph did have a couple of good runs and does look like he has a chance....
Drameh did a job but nothing special ala Little Willy....
Great day and our fans were unbelievable behind the goal.... would love to know how many 👏
Great to see us in Europe and winning a trophy and don't mean to sound negative as we fkn won.... Elche are bottom of La Liga though and tore us apart at times in the first half.
We were a lot better 2nd half without stringing many passes together!
Fkn nightmare that Klich scored a worldie in the last minute as that will mean he carries on shooting from anywhere into Row Z in games that matter! 🙈😂
Lovely open air ground and wore a tshirt in the first half while England suffered frostbite....
The players were excellent afterwards coming over to the fans, especially Ayling and Marsch 👏👏👏👏
We are champions, champions of Europe....
Will pen a report and ratings tomorrow when back.... at airport now for 3hrs sleep and check in.
Think we'll have to sleep with one eye open as a big ferral family are on rugs, 2 piissheads are arguing and a VERY effeminate and camp bloke is marching up and down whilst talking loudly into his phone waving his fkn arms about!! 🙈🤬😲
I know how to treat my boy for his 18th birthday....
FT: 1-2
Second half we started like the first, slowy (after 10 -12 mins) we came into it a bit more. The first real piece of quality from us led to the equalizer from Joffy (played in well by the combo of Greenwood & Harrison).
Our defence continued to struggle, but at least we made a more of contest of it. At 60mins we had numerous subs and it actually looked like most of them they missed out on TC's booze party.
Still nothing to get too exited about, but Klich scored a beauty & the young lads looked decent and were up for it.
Couldn't make out it for sure, but it looked like Perkins picked up a knock and couldn't run freely.
Defence needs plenty of work on it, having 2 leftfooters at CB didn't help and both fullbacks (Ayling & Hjelde) were poor.
Great winner from Klich. TC will be going mental, watching us lift a trophy.
HT: 1-0 down
Half decent performance from the team in white (not us).
This was a shambles of a performance, just awful.
We could have been 3 or 4 down against an admittingly top notch side.
The defence was a total mess and they cut through us at will.
Our players look like they are complete strangers to each other.
Summerville off injured after a few minutes.
Can only hope TC has taken our lads out on a pub tour or a sangria festival.
Still even when pissed they should perform better.
I've just seen you in the crowd TC with your leeds shirt and shorts on shivering away, I told you it would be cold but did you listen.
7 minutes in and crysencio is injured ffs.
Leeds shirts everywhere and one piissed up fan said we've sold 3500 tickets!!
Sure that can't be correct.... 🤔😲👏👍
Had a very stereotypical Spanish day here in Alicante and Elche with castanets, Flamenco dancing and quaffing vino out of a jug with a very small neck....
....the reality is that on an overcast day we had an Italian pizza at lunchtime and are now in McDonald's on an industrial estate near the ground!! 🙈🤬😉😲
Bring back cnutism to the board!
FFS BB, I've just seen this and been panicking for the last 5mins looking at our website etc and what the fk is going on.... I now regard you as low as Lord Freezingcock 🤬🙈😂👏🖕🥊🤔😲
How do that effect tv10
Elche game pushed back to 9th December due to ticket demand!
Getting those nerves now!! Cannot wait to see our game!
Best of luck TC and safe travels mate.
a chilly 64F, 76.343453456345% chance of showers 6mph SE breeze so make sure you bring an overcoat (double it up as a pillow for the airport).
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3-2 Them (im in a bad mood)
Best most detailed and accurate MDT you have ever pend