Who would try to make sense of this league? In any normal year 90 points or above would have cemented your promotion. We can no longer rely on form to make prediction on how games will turn out, since it has become a regular occurance that teams near the bottom of the table are beating teams at the top.
At times like these that folks turn to gypsy curses to explain bad luck or inexplicable results, perhaps Don Revie has ingrained this mentality into the fans. Did he not burn the orange strip that Leeds wore when they lost to Stoke, and this phobia has resurfaced in the modern day hatred of the rhubarb and custard kit that has come to be associated with losses. We lost because our players have become barbie dolls... Hollywood has emasculated them. Remember Farke and the pink dressing room at Norwich... what were those mind games all about if not to gain some psychological advantage.
The Don had a deep-rooted fear of feathered birds and he urged the club to scrap its owl badge and shake off the nickname 'The Peacocks' - as he believed they were bad luck. Well that rules out the second away strip because it has a peacock motive woven into it... blatant disregard by the 49ers who don't know the history. Don even had his lucky blue suit, which he always wore to important games... and fans wear their lucky socks or scarves in the hope of a win.
It is not the team selection, the tactics of the manager, the strength of the opposition that determines the outcome of a game but the yellow sun in the blue sky surrounded by white clouds the colours of Leeds United that raises hope against all odds, and not the apophenic friend who had a dream of a tractor pulling a horse box with the racehorse Bielsa in it, and emblazoned on the side of the horse box was King Power Racing... Bielsa owned by King Power, it was a sign and an omen...and the tractor out in front well he said you know what that means?
