Leeds United v Chelsea - FA Cup Semi Final Match Thread

[weasel]

Probably because Leeds United is my home city football club, and I want the best opportunity for that football club to win. Probably even more so in fact than any current Leeds fans who decided to adopt the club, rather than say following a club based on where they grew up and/ or have lived most of all of their adult life.

Anyway, presumably DF is exempt from your ( sanctimonious) lecture about the morality of trusting players in big games, given that he publicly criticised Perri and then dropped him ?

Oh, hang on a minute - that's different because Farke is not a Leeds fan that you simply want to have a dig at on a forum......

Oh well the 90%+ of us fans on the forum that weren't born in the shadow of ER should all f*ck off. If I called you a halfwit I would be being generous.

[Orange Box]

I came on here to wish Leon and Kev and anybody else going to the game tomorrow a safe journey and a good day out whatever the result.
Seems I’ve got the wrong thread.

[Barlow Boy]

I came on here to wish Leon and Kev and anybody else going to the game tomorrow a safe journey and a good day out whatever the result.
Seems I’ve got the wrong thread.

Crazy mate, but thank you anyway

[CHAPELALLMAN]

Just to be clear - the only people who I have filtered are those who harass and are abusive.

Of course they will never reciprocate with the filtering ( the best solution for both ) because then they wont be able to be abusive, or to respond obsessively to everything I post, whether I read it or not.

[CUSSIE01]

To anyone lucky enough to be going to Wembley tomorrow ignore all that stih about how well we’ve done just getting to the semi’s and to just enjoy the day, absolute bolloc*s. Nobody remembers semi-finalists, sing your heart out, wave the flag, scream yourself hoarse and if we win treat it like your last day on earth.
Hug everyone near you, ring all your friends and laugh cos they weren’t there. Life is too short and days like this too few and don’t forget your mate Cussie when you get tickets for the final.

[weasel]

Hope they are checking birth certificates and getting current proof of address from all our fans tomorrow. Wouldn't want any of those fans that adopted our club to get in.

[The Subhuman]

Hmmm the man who weekly boasts of how many people he has filtered/blocked/cancelled objects to the cancel culture at univerities.

It is all right when he does it, but wrong when it happens to some nebulous person at university.

cencorship is OK when he does it, but frowned apon when others do it.

Unbelievable!!!!

What Chapel is doing is not censorship...

[Cjay]

Oh well the 90%+ of us fans on the forum that weren't born in the shadow of ER should all f*ck off. If I called you a halfwit I would be being generous.

If some on here had their way only the opinions of match going fans would be relevant anyway.

[Irish Ian]

What Chapel is doing is not censorship...

Dot dot dot


Go on we await your wisdom with baited breath.

What sage words has thou for us the great unwashed?

Play Gnonto?
Niall Huggins?

[BlackHillsPaul]

Just want to wish all Leeds Supporters attending the match at Wembley tomorrow safe travels!! Sing your lungs out and help us advance. Cmon you Whites! MOT!!

[weasel]

If some on here had their way only the opinions of match going fans would be relevant anyway.

Indeed.

Whatever people's reasons for supporting the club, wherever people live, whether they go to matches, watch via a dodgy stream, listen on the radio - it matters not we are all fans. Some of our US fans are very knowledgable ( not all and you know who you are).

A shame someone feels the need to attack fans as not being 'worthy' fans just because they have a different opinion.

[weasel]

Just want to wish all Leeds Supporters attending the match at Wembley tomorrow safe travels!! Sing your lungs out and help us advance. Cmon you Whites! MOT!!

Safe travels back to Leeds, anyone going anywhere else should be exterminated at the earliest opportunity.

[BlackHillsPaul]

Safe travels back to Leeds, anyone going anywhere else should be exterminated at the earliest opportunity.

I shouldn't laugh at this....but I'm going to. Because this idea that if you are not from Leeds somehow you are a lessor supporter is absolute SHITE!!!

I've been a supporter of DC United in MLS for 30 years. But I've never lived there. I lived in Michigan until I retired. And Michigan is about 700 miles from the Nation's Capitol. But the local DC Supporters welcomed me with open arms. In fact, when I would travel to DC for matches, I was always invited to stay in the home of one of the Supporters Group Leaders. THAT'S how you treat out of town supporters. You don't tell them they are lessor because they don't live there.

[Barlow Boy]

If some on here had their way only the opinions of match going fans would be relevant anyway.

That’s very true.

Anyway, I’m off to Wembley, see you later

[Ken Pow]

Have a great day out BB and others going to Wembley. You'll do the club proud and I hope the players do too.

[Sean_Nile]

What Chapel is doing is not censorship...

when Andrew Lawrence made his penalty joke some bigger star who had the same agent said if you don't get rid of him you are no longer my agent, then the comedy clubs refuse to book him. There goes his livelyhood.

Katie Hopkins has had similar experiances getting soldout venues cancelled because people dont like her politics

Same happened to Ben Bankas the canadian comedian loses gigs over Rene Good.

It is all about giving somebody a bad name, and all these examples are of the left not liking what the right has said.

Now to make public that you have blocked someone or multiple people, is in actual fact a statement these oeople should not be listened to. It is a cry to the moderators and to the other members to bar or ignore a certain person that you dont happen to like.

I dare say that being blocked is one way of tarnishing a person's reputation... Chapel blocked him, he must be bad and disruptive.

I just don't get it that he takes so much delight in announcing he has blocked someone, unless it is just performative and is seen as a civic duty.

Give a dog a bad name and hang him is an English proverb. Its meaning is that if a person's reputation has been besmirched, then they will suffer difficulty and hardship. A similar proverb is he that has an ill name is half hanged.

This is getting tiresome... its as if we are not going to Wembley

[Sean_Nile]

So many fans from leeds and elsewhere giving predictions. I wonder what AI has to say. Not just any AI but a computer situated in Leeds for surely only it can give an honest prediction.

Here is what SLUT (Super Leeds Ultimate Truth) computer has to say. Computers are dispassionate. cold and calculating.

If you treat betting markets like a giant, noisy brain… then Betfair is one of its clearest thoughts. Prices move as money flows, and money tends to follow informed opinions. Here’s what that crowd is whispering before kickoff at Wembley:

Market view (approximate consensus, including Betfair-style exchange pricing):
Chelsea around 2.05 odds (~49% implied chance)
Leeds around 3.5–3.7 (~27–29%)
Draw roughly 3.5 (~25%)

Translated into plain football language:
Chelsea are favourites… but not dominant ones. This is closer to a coin toss.

Now layer in the context the market is reacting to:
Recent form and sentiment are pulling in opposite directions. Chelsea are still priced as favourites, but they’ve been sliding badly, losing multiple games without scoring and even changing manager days before the match.

Leeds, meanwhile, arrive unbeaten in several matches and full of momentum, which is why a lot of tipsters and Betfair analysis pieces lean toward them as value or upset potential.

So the “crowd brain” splits into two layers:
The cold numbers still say Chelsea most likely winner
The sharper/value angle says Leeds are underpriced and dangerous.

If you force a single prediction purely from the odds… the crowd picks Chelsea.
If you read between the lines of where money and analysis are drifting… it smells like one of those days where Leeds upsetting Chelsea would not shock the market at all.

Chelsea are the favourite on paper…
Leeds are the favourite if you consider momentum.

[Cjay]

That’s very true.

Anyway, I’m off to Wembley, see you later

Safe journey

[Barlow Boy]

Safe journey

Cheers mate, just at our first stop at Milton Keynes.

[SnifferClarke]

The sun is shining , a great day to be a Leeds fan !

2-1 to Leeds after extra time. MOT