End of the chapter
It feels like it’s been in the post since mid-October, but the worst was finally realised at Leeds United yesterday after two years of poor decisions caught up with the club. Last year’s final-day escape proved to be a small delay in the inevitable conclusion once the Whites stood by Jesse Marsch through the World Cup break.
Hindsight is all we have in situations as seismic as this for a football club and if failing to refresh Marcelo Bielsa’s squad in summer 2021 lay the groundwork for this demise, persisting with the American was the ultimate hammer blow. Marsch oversaw a run of two wins across 17 games between late August and his February 5 finale: these were the straws which broke the camel’s back.
