Strange Facts - Who would have thought it ?

[Selby White]

Winning managers -
Between Revie and Wilkinson 7 different managers were tried without winning anything.
Between Wilkinson & Grayson it was 9 managers.
Between Grayson & Bielsa it was 10 of them.

What next?

[Unbelievable Jeff]

An ex leeds player had a brother who was a hollywood movie star.

[Saxon]

Wales

Gary Sprake
Vinny Jones
Carl Harris
John Charles
Gary Speed
Terry Yorath
Tyler Roberts
Byron Stevenson
Aubrey Powell



Scotland

Billy Bremner
Pete Lorimer
Joe Jordan
David Rennie
David Harvey
Liam Cooper
Frankie Gray
Arthur Graham
Jimmy Dunne

One more Welshmen & nineteen more Scots.

In my time, Willie Bell, Jim Storrie, Bobby Collins, Eddie Gray, before my time, Tom Jennings.
Alan Curtis didn't make the 100, don't think Tommy Younger or Georgie Meek did either.

[Selby White]

If Jack Harrison scores we win.

The last 11 games Jack as contributed to the scoresheet we have gone on to win the match.

The last time we didn't win was first game of the season defeat (4-3) at Anfield in Sept 2020 (18 months ago).

Newcastle H 5-2
West Brom A 5-0
Newcastle A 2-1
Leicester A 3-1
Palace H 2-0
Sheff Utd H 2-1
Burnley A 4-0
Crewe H 3-0
Burnley H 3-1
West Ham A 3-2
Wolves A 3-2

[Mr Russell]

Players who played for the Leeds Reserves/Youth sides etc who never played for the first team

Murray Barnes - Australian National team player and captain during the late 70's/early 80's
Sami Hyppia - Finnish International and made his name at Liverpool
Mel Charles - Brother of John Charles, Swansea legend and Welsh international
Brian Close - England cricketer, Yorkshire legend
Tony Popovic - Australian International player, scored when Australia beat England 3-1 in England, played for Crystal Palace and current coach of Melbourne Victory
Tab Ramos - US International player and coach, played over 80 games for his country
Ned Zelic - Australian International player. sent off at Elland Road when he played for 1860 Munich
Jari Litmanen - Finish legendary International, played over 130 games for his country, legend at Ajax and played for Liverpool and Barcelona.

[psquithy]

Not a Leeds fact (but we were involved) - Port Vale are the only team in the English Football league to have beaten all of the other teams in a competitive match

https://www.sporf.com/port-vale-create- ... l-history/

[The Fonz]

Players who played for the Leeds Reserves/Youth sides etc who never played for the first team

Murray Barnes - Australian National team player and captain during the late 70's/early 80's
Sami Hyppia - Finnish International and made his name at Liverpool
Mel Charles - Brother of John Charles, Swansea legend and Welsh international
Brian Close - England cricketer, Yorkshire legend
Tony Popovic - Australian International player, scored when Australia beat England 3-1 in England, played for Crystal Palace and current coach of Melbourne Victory
Tab Ramos - US International player and coach, played over 80 games for his country
Ned Zelic - Australian International player. sent off at Elland Road when he played for 1860 Munich
Jari Litmanen - Finish legendary International, played over 130 games for his country, legend at Ajax and played for Liverpool and Barcelona.

One reject that had plenty of success after leaving but not in football is Nicky Byrne of Westlife.

[The Fonz]

Not a Leeds fact (but we were involved) - Port Vale are the only team in the English Football league to have beaten all of the other teams in a competitive match

https://www.sporf.com/port-vale-create- ... l-history/

Hadn't heard that before, great piece of trivia.

[johnh]

Players who played for the Leeds Reserves/Youth sides etc who never played for the first team

Murray Barnes - Australian National team player and captain during the late 70's/early 80's
Sami Hyppia - Finnish International and made his name at Liverpool
Mel Charles - Brother of John Charles, Swansea legend and Welsh international
Brian Close - England cricketer, Yorkshire legend
Tony Popovic - Australian International player, scored when Australia beat England 3-1 in England, played for Crystal Palace and current coach of Melbourne Victory
Tab Ramos - US International player and coach, played over 80 games for his country
Ned Zelic - Australian International player. sent off at Elland Road when he played for 1860 Munich
Jari Litmanen - Finish legendary International, played over 130 games for his country, legend at Ajax and played for Liverpool and Barcelona.

Plus Irish lad Paddy Stanley. I played with him in Leeds United Colts team. He went on to play (centre-half) for Leeds reserves but don't think he ever made the first team. Jack Charlton was first team CH. 1950's.

[Saxon]

Jimmy Lumsden springs to mind, although he did get 4 first team starts in 6 years at Elland Road.
Came down from Scotland about the same time we signed Eddie Gray, in fact after a bit of traveling as a player in Scotland and the lower leagues, he became Gray's assistant when Eddie took the Leeds managers job. He later hooked up with David Moyes at Preston as assistant and moved with him to Everton and Man united.