It is Liverpool on Saturday and Liverpool, for Leeds, can mean beginnings and endings. Brian Clough’s reign kicked off with a Community Shield against Bob Paisley’s team. Billy Bremner was sent off for fighting and it didn’t get much better than that for Clough in a 44-day stay. Leeds’ current spell in the Premier League started at Anfield, a 16-year exile ended in spectacular style as Marcelo Bielsa’s cavaliers went down 4-3, the high-speed excitement enough to put Leeds in the unfamiliar position of being the neutrals’ favourites.
Some 17 months later they returned to Anfield. The excitement was of a different kind, the six goals all scored by Liverpool. Bielsa’s man-marking system was falling apart; it transpired there was a reason no one else played like that. It was not quite the end for the Argentinian, who limped on for one more game, but there was no way back.
