Welcome to today’s daily Leeds United comment column, which looks at some sources of comfort in difficult times.
Let’s keep it short today, we don’t need to reference the growing campaign to make Leeds United join the other 91 league clubs in understanding the importance of transparency: the only people who can’t see this now are our glorified fund manager and his cohorts, this campaign will be won, of that there is no doubt.
Equally timing dictates we shire away from adding to the growing sense of Grayson pushing at his limits as the wobble becomes a small jelly factory. It’s not that I don’t understand the new questioning of Grayson (I’m ahead on that a little), I simply think that Tranmere Rovers away tomorrow is such an important game that 48 hours worth of restraint wouldn’t go a miss (although before the IGWT remnants start my position remains what it has been since the blog started, that of no point considering alternatives to this L1/lower CCC standard manager even if we miss out on promotion whilst Bates and cohorts are restraining our potential).
So what should we be looking at today? Well in order to install a little lift in the spirit I suggest we focus our short missive on a positive aspect of our recent trials and tribulations, the growth of original thinking and talent within the Leeds United supporter family. Ignoring my grammatically incorrect misery we start with the writers that make Clarkeonenil what it is, Graeme Garvey and his experience, Darragh Mullen and his youthful exuberance and the pool of occasional writers that we have used. Equally we pay homage to The Scratching Shed, where whilst our two blogs might see the footballing side from opposite extremes there is no doubting the quality of effort on the presentation front (and the interaction with fans) that has been achieved on that site. Finally on the “nearly every day” blogs we have From Europe to Yeovil which occupies well a middle ground of enthusiasm and realism.
In the “occasional postings” section of the Leeds United blog range lives Keep Fighting, which shows what taking your time to produce good thoughtful writing can garner, I’m a fan of the stuff there. Equally we have The Beaten Generation, the original blogger whose genius “Visit Beeston” output is the mainstay of the revival of the Square Ball magazine. We also had for a small period Armchair White but his output seems to have waned recently. Of course no reference to blogs would be complete without our friends at Love Leeds Hate Bates whom without life would be much duller.
All of the blogs referenced can be accessed via the blogroll, I heartily recommend that whilst the promotion race puts us through the shredder you visit these new institutions, there is something for every opinion and every mood contained within the LUFC blog world and that has got to be more useful than flogging the dead horse of forums.
