A trip to Bournemouth on bank holiday weekend – what could possibly go wrong? For Leeds an awful lot, it turns out. Unlike 1990, there was no torching of beach huts or post-match punch-ups, and anything but a prolonged promotion party. This visit only deepened relegation concerns and culminated in the Leeds players standing hands on hips, feeling the white heat of the away support who made their anger plain. What on earth is going on, was the gist of their animated line of questioning. “You’re not fit to wear the shirt,” they sang after this latest alarming collapse.
En route to a humiliating 4-1 defeat Andrea Radrizzani, Leeds’s majority shareholder, seemingly could not resist the temptation to respond to criticism. “I am responsible for this shit,” he said mid-game, in response to a direct message on social media. At least there was no dressing it up.
