Graham Smyth
Chief Football Writer at Yorkshire Evening Post
Chief football writer at the Yorkshire Evening Post covering Leeds United. Ex Derbyshire Times/Sheffield Star and Worksop Guardian. Dad to four. Views my own.
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6 days ago |
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk | Graham Smyth
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowLeeds City Council have revealed how they came up with the number of 150,000 for Leeds United's Championship title parade. Daniel Farke, his squad, club officials and employees boarded three open top buses on Monday afternoon and travelled from Elland Road to the city centre where a one-mile parade route was lined with countless Whites supporters.
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1 week ago |
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk | Graham Smyth
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA number of Leeds United players depart for a promotion party in Las Vegas on Thursday but one will be flying 5,800 miles for some surprise TV work. All of the Leeds senior players, presumably barring 16-year-old Harry Gray, were invited to go on what has become somewhat of a tradition for promoted teams in English football.
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1 week ago |
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk | Graham Smyth
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowA pair of Leeds United title winners could add more silverware to their collection on Friday when the EFL makes an awards announcement. Daniel Farke masterminded a 100-point season, going 10 points better than his first campaign at Elland Road, to pip Burnley to the Championship title on goal difference.
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1 week ago |
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk | Graham Smyth
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowOne of the star performers of Leeds United's title-winning promotion season has opened up on feeling like giving up en route to the Premier League. Leeds celebrated their Championship title and promotion back to the top flight with more than 150,000 fans in the city centre on Monday and Ao Tanaka was front and centre on one of the three buses parading the one-mile route.
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1 week ago |
yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk | Graham Smyth
Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowPolice are carrying out enquiries into separate incidents that left two men with serious injuries during Leeds United's promotion parade. More than 150,000 people attended the parade to celebrate Leeds' Championship title victory and return to the Premier League, with fans taking up their positions along the route up to four hours prior to the buses arriving in the city centre.
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"We weren't allowed to publish until Leeds had won promotion. What he didn't want was that in any way, shape or form, anybody suggested that he was interfering in what Leeds were doing, what Daniel Farke was doing." #lufc https://t.co/mVxgYwq5G5
Leeds United's first black player Gerry Francis dies, aged 91 #lufc https://t.co/XCMeWWFl4L
Bueno, part 2. A two-pronged approach to landing Marcelo Bielsa as honorary president, a 16-minute phone call out of the blue and a promotion-linked stipulation that is so very, very Bielsa. #lufc https://t.co/mVxgYwq5G5
