On a barmy summer night 1,741 days earlier, the Leeds United squad celebrated their promotion to the Premier League. It was supposed to be a party 16 years in the making, marking the end of the club’s longest-ever top-flight exile, but the global pandemic had other ideas.
That night, a handful of staff members, players’ families and media were present in Elland Road as the players’ cheers and the pops of champagne corks echoed around an empty stadium.
