Warm greetings from Romania!
Been supporting Leeds since 2000 and am one of those types that watches our matches with a LUFC scarf around my neck and praises the team in all my social and professional circles.
Allow me to share a story of my first and only visit (so far) to ER.
As you might imagine, it's not very easy financially to visit ER from my part of the world, but where there's a will there's a way. I talk fondly of Leeds Utd with my workmates and while I have changed a few jobs over the years, the reaction of my colleagues were always the same:
1) At first they would make fun of my unwavering support for a team that until recently was in the second tier of football
2) After a few weeks pass and I keep them updated about the going-ons at Leeds, they start to understand they're dealing with a fan that knows many Leeds united stadium chants and history of the club so they start to take kindly to Leeds
3) They start asking about the recent Leeds results or end up casually following the results by themselves
Back in 2018, my workmates actually chipped in and bought me a plane ticket to Leeds for my birthday, so that I can go see the last game of the season at home (We were playing QPR and I would get to see live a wonderful opening goal by Kemar Roofe with a bicycle kick)
Since there are o direct flights to Leeds from my area, what I actually got was a ticket to Sheffield airport with a low-cost flight.
I was accompanied by my brother and when we landed, we sat patiently in line at the passport checkpoint.
When we reached the bloke that was ding the passport check, he asked us for how long we are visiting and where are we staying. So i replied we're staying in Leeds.
Mind you, this was a Sheffield man in a Sheffield airport we were talking to. So when he heard that we were staying in Leeds he raised his gaze from our passports and asked us why are are visiting Leeds.
So I answered him: "We're going to see the best football team in the world, sir, Leeds United."
The look on his face was quite shocked as he took a moment and then replied with a grumpy tone "Might not let you in for that."
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Lovely trip, lovely win that day.
Cheers mates.
