Brevity was among the facets Leeds United fans seemed most taken with when Michael Skubala began holding court after Jesse Marsch’s sacking. The American, quite helpfully for the media, would not be afraid to explain everything in the finest detail at press conferences.
While dates and diagnoses on injuries to key players were invaluable, there were many times Marsch would go off-script. Questions about form or the dressing room would tumble into philosophy and Mother Teresa or Mahatma Gandhi.
It could all be quite pleasant, jovial colour when the going was good, but as poor form set in and waits for wins extended, there was less and less patience on the terraces. Long tactical examinations which landed on the same keywords every week would grow wearisome when there was patently little changing on the pitch, where it all mattered.
