Almost two months have passed since Javi Gracia pulled on a Leeds tracksuit for the first time, but he remains very much a stranger in his adopted city.
“I don’t have time for anything away from football,” says the interim manager tasked with saving Leeds from relegation. “I spend 12 hours a day at the training ground and, apart from speaking to my family on the phone and watching football on television, the rest is dinner and sleep at the hotel. I don’t relax. I live stressed; I feel the stress inside.”