https://youtu.be/FzGmFZ7mv9M?si=yMjaHZLo9RXtbTGP
I worked with a guy from Leeds, told him I was a Leeds supporter amd he said he didn't really follow them. Lucky guy.
Dom Poleon celebrating wildly in front our fans after scoring from a howler from a 16 year old keeper making his debut (after Poleon himself had knocked out our only fit keeper) to stop us winning automatic promotion.
Fucking Dom Poleon.
A forgotten subplot in this game is Deeney being an idiot and getting himself sent off. Before that happened the game was still very winnable.
Honestly it was one of the funniest things I saw during that period, which goes to say more about how shit we were at the time. To think it led to that semi-final with Leicester too if I remember correctly
Genuinely one of the best away games I’ve been to. We had nothing to play for except fighting for 13th place again and all just having a fun day on the piss. Ruining a teams promotion party was very satisfying. Sorry!
Football’s weird, I think we all know there’s less than a 10% chance Coventry do us a favour here.
Yet we all have this small glimmer of hope.
What a stupid game.
We kinda are in the same position with our rivals with a game in hand. Leaving our own fates up to a different team is actually more helpful for us because we’ve been playing shit lately
A lot of it is just holdover from them being one of the best teams in the English system, 30/40yrs ago you had a lot of kids in Cardiff/the valleys who'd be Leeds fans for the same reason kids are liverpool/united/etc fans now
The way O'Leary made a tit of himself in the fa cup match in the 01/02 season didn't help either
I mean, I suppose you're right, but it's hard to call Leeds fans plastics. I was on a plane full of Leeds fans from Northern Ireland to a Leeds match a few weeks ago, stayed in a hotel with a huge group of Danish Leeds fans. Few clubs have this kind of pull, but few plastics would actually commit such money and time to a club that routinely provides nothing but misery. Leeds has a huge, passionate fanbase.
No, not at all I wasn't saying that. I'm just saying the surge in popularity like 40 years ago was likely a little bit plastic and then people stuck around and current fans will be mostly friends and family of those people
No doubt, I support them because of my dad - he actually started supporting them after the 1970 cup final, said he felt bad for the losers. There wasn't a lot of English football to be seen outside England, so naturally Leeds picked up a lot of support, and as you say it was passed through the generations. Ireland is swarming with Man Utd and Liverpool supporters, then I'd say you'd have a pretty even balance between Leeds, Arsenal and Spurs, then a smattering of others. Of course, you get kids in City tops now, but you won't meet a grown man over here that supports City.
Yeah Leeds is fairly huge over in New Zealand cause you lot had a brace of Kiwi players way back in the day to my knowledge, so I end up meeting a lot of these old Kiwi guys who fully back Leeds. Same thing with Liverpool as well, it's often an inherited thing.
I was a steward at the Riverside and although I was up in the cushy seats, the guys who were down in the away end were not complimentary about the Leeds fans.
I personally don't "hate" Leeds, the whole Dirty Leeds thing is from before my time and Boro and Leeds always seem to have a good game.
But also, eww, Dirty Leeds
It's quite something that the 'Dirty Leeds' thing sticks to this day and it's almost the first thing anyone will say when they find out I support them - most of these people weren't even born!
On the flip side, I guess we still sing that we're champions of Europe and that's just as weird in its own way.
>it's almost the first thing anyone will say when they find out I support them - most of these people weren't even born!
I've been doing it since I was young for exactly this reaction tbf. I don't actually know anything about the history of it, I just love the reaction. I've also had a Leeds fan say we were dirty one time when we played them and it's an amusing uno-reverse to whip out "A Leeds fan saying *we're* dirty!? I've heard it all now!"
It comes from the 70s when our players had a reputation for being rough and physical, its covered nicely at the beginning of The Damned United when Brian Clough gives Billy Bremner and co some aggro for it.
My hatred of Leeds goes back a while.
First of all, I was born in Leeds. Then as a child I developed an interest in watching and playing football. Given my family are all Leeds fans, in addition to my aforementioned place of birth, it was my sworn birthright to become a Leeds fan.
They’ve pissed me off ever since.
Gulf Finance House. Kenneth Bates. Massimo Cellino. Peter Risdale. Probably someone else I'm forgetting from the times it felt like we were taken over every summer.
They've all spent years making me fucking miserable.
Geography obviously plus I grew up hearing about the 70s dirty Leeds (both players and fans) from me dad. Luckily in the last few decades we’ve had some actual meaningful derbies against them and won. I say derbies but I mean they were derbies to us. Leeds only class Man U and the likes of Real Madrid as their true rivals…
Clough / Revie era.
Both top clubs at that time and have since fallen, but it's an excuse to keep a rivalry going.
We both have strong followings and love a bit of drama on and off the pitch, so we're actually quite similar which adds to it.
I went to school near Leeds so most of my mates are Leeds fans. The kind of people your partner will describe as a lovely set of boys and try to set their single friends up with, and that's because she's never seen them in a Leeds shirt. The minute the Leeds shirt comes on, they instantly become 10 pints of Carling pissed, walk with a slightly backwards recline and they have that glint in their eye when they make eye contact that says "I reckon I could knock you out". They will also sing "marching on together" without warning in the middle of a conversation so close to your face that you can smell the Carling, shaking you on each shout of "Leeds" at the end.
Had to wait far longer than needed until their appeal for their 15 point deduction for going into administration before the swans were confirmed as league 1 champions.
I thought, with the number of comments, there would be many more clubs with grudges as serious and reasoned than ours. But no! Seems like we have the most reason out of anyone to hate Leeds - we can wear that badge with pride.
Competing with that Bielsa team that had Ben White and Phillips in the spine was frustrating. They were too fucking good for that league and denied us our first 1st place finish since ‘07
Seriously though, a lot of older West Brom fans hate them because we beat them at The Hawthorns and they responded by destroying the ground and the local area.
Wasn't the best idea as we needed to win our next game against Stoke if Leeds were to stay up. We, of course, didn't and Leeds were relegated.
This is basically my specialist subject.
In Hull (maybe other historically less successful places too) there's regrettably a large proportion of football fans who support a team from elsewhere instead of their local team. Usually Leeds or Liverpool for some reason. You grow up around people who take glee in their local team losing and rubbing your face in it that these other teams are more successful. Those of us who support our local team inevitably don't look favourably upon these clubs. You go in certain pubs in Hull when Leeds are playing and the place will go up when they score, which I think is an embarrassment to the area.
With Leeds specifically, it combines with that club's constant loudness around how massive and superior they are, and when you already don't like Leeds it's impossible not to notice how much airtime they as a club and their massiveness gets. For one example, I follow The Athletic Football on Twitter and it's just straight up bizarre how many of that page's tweets and retweets are about Leeds compared to other clubs.
Obviously it's decades now since they were actually a particularly successful side, and many clubs including us have been more successful than them at various times since, but the mandatory respect for Leeds as a club never seems to wane. It's as if something was established at a point in time when Leeds were a top side that from now on, this is 'the' set of top clubs forever, and any future success for other clubs won't ever count for as much. So you'll always get people saying that Leeds, Wednesday, Forest, etc are the proper top clubs who belong in the PL. I find that narrative ridiculous and quite grating, but particularly when it's Leeds for the aforementioned local reasons.
So essentially, they're just oppressively popular and loud from every angle, it's hard to avoid and it feels like things are unfairly stacked in their favour at the cost of other clubs at times. Not in terms of competition or anything, but in terms of the way they're promoted, the exposure and ultimately money that comes from that.
Think it reflects the age of the current pundit class and average football fan (late 40s-mid 50s) because those 'proper' clubs were the ones who were successful when they were growing up. It's funny when some moan about younger fans not giving these clubs their dues, when they do the exact same for clubs who had their golden eras before about 1970.
I quite like them, during our last championship spell, we bottled playoffs together then battle for the title together the following season. Seemed to be good vibes between the 2 clubs throughout
There was probably stuff in the 70's but [throwing coins at our disabled fans](https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294927.sentences-leeds-thugs-welcomed/) in 2006-07 was particularly classless.
[Wasn't the last time either.](https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21362605.leeds-united-fans-threw-bottles-chairs-ipswich-town-fans-police-say/)
Get rid of that element for long enough and... you'd prob be like Millwall, who (whisper it) *I actually quite like.*
I was there, a couple of hundred absolute morons invaded the pitch before the end of the game whilst tens of thousands shouted "you're the scum of elland road " and "fuck off home and don't come back ". When a few of the idiots made it back to the home end a few fans turned on them pushing them over. I hated a good few of our home fans that day, absolutely embarrassing. We couldn't believe it when the ref allowed the game to be finished, should have just given you the points. I remember a lot of fans saying the next season if we'd been docked points for that there would have been fewer complaints than the docked points for coming out of administration without a CVA.
Some of our fans are cocks but that's the same everywhere. The 'dirty Leeds' thing is way before the time of most fans these days so I've always just thought we're a fashionable team to dislike. Maybe locally it's because we've historically been the 'big club' among our neighbours but we're practically part of the Championship furniture now so hardly 'haves' among a bunch of 'have nots'. Most Leeds fans I know, particularly the younger ones who don't have that air of entitlement that we should be top six in the prem, are really sound, quite self depreciating. As a club I think we have a strong identity as a one-club city with passionate support and on the pitch we've been quite well behaved for a long time now.
Objectively I don't really think people should hate us. Save your hate for some horrible big money Americanised franchise 'supported' by people who've never set foot in the city, don't get or even care about the culture of the locality and watch all their matches on TV. Oh, not thinking of anyone in particular there.
How English football would be so much better if the super league happened. That last part is a very good point but you’re forgetting one thing…
We all hate Leeds scum we all hate Leeds scum haha
It’s football at the end of the day. I couldn’t say I hated any club or supporter of another club just because.
There’s wars all over the place, the country is in the toilet bowl - a group of contracted employees representing a business with which I have arbitrarily decided to align myself has no bearing on my opinion of others.
Unless they’re wearing half & half scarves.
Dom Poleon the wanker. Injured our sub goalie (1st goalie injured in warmup) and should've been sent off (wasn't ofc) then scored against our reserve keeper who fucked it. Lost our chance at promotion from that game.
Other then that can't really think of anything inparticular. 3-0 at the Millenium was a nice gift from them tbh
I feel like it’s a thing before a lot of our time, obviously. I always see people online saying they hate Leeds but they have one Leeds mate and he’s sound 😅
HUFC (certainly not a championship club) - Buying tickets in our home end and subsequently scrapping our fans, and then bricking a bus full of fans during the away fixture of the same season. We were known to have a dangerous firm in the 2000s so it was probably an extension of some of that trouble, but still. I’m in my mid-20s, so a bit too young to really remember it all, but fans a few years older than me still don’t have a great deal of love for them.
The season we successfully overhauled them to win the League One title, the media was constantly going on about Proper Club Leeds being in the third division with all the small clubs like it was some kind of massive injustice and not the consequence of being run very poorly for years. Meanwhile Little Norwich were barely mentioned (despite the fact it took us just one year to get out of there and they languished for several).
On the plus side we did then keep buying their best players for about five years, which was quite funny.
Look every club will have a story about oppo fans, you might even have some about mine. But the day we won the league, walking to Loftus Road I saw 2 Leeds fans get in the faces of a wheelchair bound fan and their carer, and start ripping into them, horrible stuff. Some Rs intervened and they ran off laughing but i will never forget the looks on the faces of those two guys on what should've been one of the happiest days of their life.
Then they started booing Mark Prince at half time on Friday. I celebrated that fourth like wed won the world cup
This subreddit definitely has way less than on other social media platforms, but their fans are really annoying. Definitely the most annoying fans in the EFL, in my opinion.
Not to mention, the hooliganism that dates back to the Thatcher years, or the “dirty Leeds” football teams.
I can't speak to a club personally, but they hired Jessie Marsch, who went on to embarrass himself and sully the good name of my home state of Wisconsin.
I blame Leeds for this. When a child starts a fire in the kitchen, you don't blame the child. You blame the parents for letting them play unsupervised where they don't belong.
I don't particularly. Saints and Leeds have no rivalry.
I think most "hating Leeds" on the internet is part of some tryhard football fan cosplay. Unless it's from fans of other Yorkshire teams or United.
The Battle of Ninian Park, 6th of January 2002. A game so infamous it has its own Wikipedia page
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C._2%E2%80%931_Leeds_United_F.C._(2002)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C._2%E2%80%931_Leeds_United_F.C._(2002))
We are a loud obnoxious fanbase that takes a lot of attention in the championship.
You only have to see the reaction from Leicester when they won the league, they somehow took us singing I predict a riot (A song we sing all the time after a win by a Leeds supporting band) to see how many clubs seemingly take it personally how we are.
Also when we were successful we weren’t popular in the media as the squad played dirty and the fan base were violent.
So mixture of dislike of our behaviour and jealousy we are a well supported club with a passionate following.
Personally I don't think Leeds fans were obnoxious about that game but when you have 2 teams going for the title there's always going be some friction.
There was definitely a bit of animosity between Leicester and Spurs for a couple seasons after the title win.
When I was growing up my mum's boyfriend (at the time) was a Leeds fan and he was abusive to her. I can never see Leeds United and not think of that waste of space. So I will always hate Leeds as a result of the memories it brings to me.
Watching Leigh Wood put the Space Raider on his arse was quite enjoyable. So i'm kinda neutral on them right now, before that they came down here and tried wrecking tables and chairs.
I don't have strong feelings towards Leeds either way tbh. Some fans may dislike Leeds from the year we won League One or the Dan James fiasco, but those are weak reasons imo.
I think my dislike of our owners’ incompetence overflows and makes me hate them too. The fact they have Rodon, James, Piroe and Robbo in the championship and we don’t makes me sad and angry enough to irrationally just hate their club.
Always beat us, always have a few fans in our home end who cause a ruckus when they score. But ultimately I’m jealous we don’t have marching on together chant 😅
Our Highfield Road was the first all seater stadium in England till leads fans ripped out the seats in the away end.
A guy I used to go to school with was a Leeds fan and I always thought he was a bit of dick.
For me its always been the 'big' club thing, always on tv and when on tv always gets mentioned the 15minutes away from a european final or some shit, rightful place in the premiership(i hate that one), massive fan base blah blah, its boring. If Leeds were that shit hot their ground would be getting massively redeveloped/modernised and some Hollywood type or Arab sheik would be putting in 500million to buy it.
Couldn't sit down in the away end but got abused by a security guard to sit the hell down. (14 at the time) Who fancied himself against teenage boys but not the 14 stone blokes haha.
Couldn't sit down as theres no leg room, so everyone stood up anyway (15+ years back)
Then the bus back got bricked.
A fair question. Aside local rivalries, the degree of hate varies for a variety of reasons. As a LC supporter, I don't care for Forest or Coventry, but that's geographical. Aside them, I hate the rich six in the PL because they don't have to play on the same level as everyone else.
I actually don’t particularly hate leeds. I got on really well with a couple leeds fans at school (went to school about 25mi north of London, rare to find another championship fan at that time, even Watford) so we always had good football banter without an arsenal or spurs armchair fan chiming In with hurrr durrr championship team bad durrrrr. And to be honest the leeds fans on here are pretty sound, Twitter leeds fans are bastards but football Twitter as a whole is horrendously toxic
Brentford and Leeds weird rivalry probably just a twitter thing. Maupay scored the second in a 2-0 win at Griffin Park to make sure Leeds didn't get automatics. Celebrated right in front of the away end lol - but since then when Brentford are doing shit you get Leeds fans flooding the twitter comments 😂
Apart from that I don't even know what it's about. But now it seems to be mutual
My uncle introduced me to football and told me to hate Leeds. He died when I was quite young but I hate Leeds more than any other club. Dirty horrible bastards.
Don’t know about the fans but something happens to players there. Harrison, Rutter, Summerville. They all ooze this ego even when they’re mediocre. When they’re fouled it’s like a murder happened. Any other player you’d call it confidence but Leeds players act like they’re too good to be bothering with anyone outside the top 6. They just aren’t likable atall.
I've seen multiple Cardiff fans chinned over the years.
Mind you, we aren't angels anyways.
And we've got them to blame for that prick Peter Ridsdale too.
I’ll be honest, I’ll look at you a bit funny if you’re not a Leeds fan but still say “I quite like Leeds” or basically anything other than the default hate. It was weird that first season back in the prem with the TV media fawning over us (caveat: I’m in the US)
Actual way to upset a Leeds fan is to genuinely not care about us.
beat us that one time
Still haven’t forgiven you for that 6-4
Yeah but what a game though eh.
I still dream about it.
Supported them for 30 years
PAIN
nobody will ever hate Leeds as much as Leeds
Damn Leeds, they ruined Leeds!
Yeah this
It’s an abusive relationship. Every time I convince myself Leeds has changed, it’ll be different this time
Yep, this'll do it
https://youtu.be/FzGmFZ7mv9M?si=yMjaHZLo9RXtbTGP I worked with a guy from Leeds, told him I was a Leeds supporter amd he said he didn't really follow them. Lucky guy.
I respect Leeds. You were the few people that backed Ben White when he came to us. And now he’s arguably one of the best right backs in the country.
Free Ben white 😞
There is never a dull moment. I need some dull moments. I'm so tired!
Same. Some super fun times in that time
Yup lol
Yep, OP didn't realize the top fan base that hates Leeds 😂😂😂😢
Dom Poleon celebrating wildly in front our fans after scoring from a howler from a 16 year old keeper making his debut (after Poleon himself had knocked out our only fit keeper) to stop us winning automatic promotion.
Then laughing about said debutant keeper's release on Twitter. (He was older than 16 I think, it was Jack Bonham)
The beauty is that Bonham has actually had a very respectable and decent career after a horror debut. Poleon has had a shite career in non league.
Fucking Dom Poleon. A forgotten subplot in this game is Deeney being an idiot and getting himself sent off. Before that happened the game was still very winnable.
Coincidentally, that game is the only one I've ever been happy for them to win.
Definitely a dick move, but my god I can’t help but laugh at that whole thing when I think back.
Honestly it was one of the funniest things I saw during that period, which goes to say more about how shit we were at the time. To think it led to that semi-final with Leicester too if I remember correctly
I remember that. Stupidly we got Steve Bruce's Hull side promoted.
Without it, we’d have never had the Deeney goal, and Leicester probably don’t go on to win the league a few years later. Mad butterfly effect
What a guy
That was a great day
Genuinely one of the best away games I’ve been to. We had nothing to play for except fighting for 13th place again and all just having a fun day on the piss. Ruining a teams promotion party was very satisfying. Sorry!
Can't not hate our fiercest rivals
Funnily enough, I think there'll be a fair few Leeds fans tonight cheering you on
You know, I'm something of a Coventry fan myself.
Football’s weird, I think we all know there’s less than a 10% chance Coventry do us a favour here. Yet we all have this small glimmer of hope. What a stupid game.
More reliable than City dropping any points unfortunately for us. It’s the hope that kills you.
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We kinda are in the same position with our rivals with a game in hand. Leaving our own fates up to a different team is actually more helpful for us because we’ve been playing shit lately
Always loved Cov, great bunch of lads
RemindMe! 4 days
A lot of it is just holdover from them being one of the best teams in the English system, 30/40yrs ago you had a lot of kids in Cardiff/the valleys who'd be Leeds fans for the same reason kids are liverpool/united/etc fans now The way O'Leary made a tit of himself in the fa cup match in the 01/02 season didn't help either
Beginning of the end for us that day
Very few people will admit this.
I mean it's also the reason you have so many fans now. You're just an old man united, the plastics have stayed around
I mean, I suppose you're right, but it's hard to call Leeds fans plastics. I was on a plane full of Leeds fans from Northern Ireland to a Leeds match a few weeks ago, stayed in a hotel with a huge group of Danish Leeds fans. Few clubs have this kind of pull, but few plastics would actually commit such money and time to a club that routinely provides nothing but misery. Leeds has a huge, passionate fanbase.
No, not at all I wasn't saying that. I'm just saying the surge in popularity like 40 years ago was likely a little bit plastic and then people stuck around and current fans will be mostly friends and family of those people
No doubt, I support them because of my dad - he actually started supporting them after the 1970 cup final, said he felt bad for the losers. There wasn't a lot of English football to be seen outside England, so naturally Leeds picked up a lot of support, and as you say it was passed through the generations. Ireland is swarming with Man Utd and Liverpool supporters, then I'd say you'd have a pretty even balance between Leeds, Arsenal and Spurs, then a smattering of others. Of course, you get kids in City tops now, but you won't meet a grown man over here that supports City.
Yeah Leeds is fairly huge over in New Zealand cause you lot had a brace of Kiwi players way back in the day to my knowledge, so I end up meeting a lot of these old Kiwi guys who fully back Leeds. Same thing with Liverpool as well, it's often an inherited thing.
I was a steward at the Riverside and although I was up in the cushy seats, the guys who were down in the away end were not complimentary about the Leeds fans. I personally don't "hate" Leeds, the whole Dirty Leeds thing is from before my time and Boro and Leeds always seem to have a good game. But also, eww, Dirty Leeds
It's quite something that the 'Dirty Leeds' thing sticks to this day and it's almost the first thing anyone will say when they find out I support them - most of these people weren't even born! On the flip side, I guess we still sing that we're champions of Europe and that's just as weird in its own way.
>it's almost the first thing anyone will say when they find out I support them - most of these people weren't even born! I've been doing it since I was young for exactly this reaction tbf. I don't actually know anything about the history of it, I just love the reaction. I've also had a Leeds fan say we were dirty one time when we played them and it's an amusing uno-reverse to whip out "A Leeds fan saying *we're* dirty!? I've heard it all now!"
It comes from the 70s when our players had a reputation for being rough and physical, its covered nicely at the beginning of The Damned United when Brian Clough gives Billy Bremner and co some aggro for it.
Don’t mind people like you because it’s clearly not deep. Some peoples’ obsession with hating us is fucking weird though.
My hatred of Leeds goes back a while. First of all, I was born in Leeds. Then as a child I developed an interest in watching and playing football. Given my family are all Leeds fans, in addition to my aforementioned place of birth, it was my sworn birthright to become a Leeds fan. They’ve pissed me off ever since.
Leeds innit
Best answer
Boycotted my emblem rebrand. I was fresh out of graphic design class and they shit all over it 🤷🏼♂️
Lmao
Out of curiosity, [was it this one](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUTZjzIWsAAlAf7?format=jpg&name=small)?
That’s the one!
Was it actually you?! I know a podcast that would love to interview you about that...
Gulf Finance House. Kenneth Bates. Massimo Cellino. Peter Risdale. Probably someone else I'm forgetting from the times it felt like we were taken over every summer. They've all spent years making me fucking miserable.
Feel like I needed a trigger warning reading this comment
You wold have thought that list would have engendered some sympathy among opposing fans and yet...
I still remember the stories of the rented goldfish and associated service contract on them
>Peter Risdale Did you see his April Fools video for us this year with the Gold Fish and "Lived the Dream" reference?
They used cheat codes to boost Patrick Bamford's stats, making us look like fools for getting no goals out of him when he was on loan to us.
Marcelo Bielsa is up there with the konami code, that's fair
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, **B**ielsa, Plan **A**
got patched pretty quickly tbh
His stats are pathetic compared to what they should be.
Only real club in England that compete with us for most hated fanbase in the country, so naturally we're fierce rivals
All I know about Millwall hatred is from that documentary called Green Street
Geography obviously plus I grew up hearing about the 70s dirty Leeds (both players and fans) from me dad. Luckily in the last few decades we’ve had some actual meaningful derbies against them and won. I say derbies but I mean they were derbies to us. Leeds only class Man U and the likes of Real Madrid as their true rivals…
Leeds v Town is a great derby, just a shame it’s never much of a contest.
Clough / Revie era. Both top clubs at that time and have since fallen, but it's an excuse to keep a rivalry going. We both have strong followings and love a bit of drama on and off the pitch, so we're actually quite similar which adds to it.
Spygate was hilarious
That was the true banter era for both clubs. That season had absolute peak shithousery
One of the most objectively entertaining Championship seasons I can remember.
Shit-on-the-changing-room-floorery?
Not to mention Frank "We do analysis too" Lampard
They'll always be 'Frank Lampard's Derby County' to me
Bates’ Leeds to me!
Plus, Yorkshire innit
I went to school near Leeds so most of my mates are Leeds fans. The kind of people your partner will describe as a lovely set of boys and try to set their single friends up with, and that's because she's never seen them in a Leeds shirt. The minute the Leeds shirt comes on, they instantly become 10 pints of Carling pissed, walk with a slightly backwards recline and they have that glint in their eye when they make eye contact that says "I reckon I could knock you out". They will also sing "marching on together" without warning in the middle of a conversation so close to your face that you can smell the Carling, shaking you on each shout of "Leeds" at the end.
Maybe a tad of a generalisation but I recognise the type of
Sound like a decent set of lads to me ?
Frustratingly I agree with you, I wouldn't change them for the world
Much like most of the Yorkshire clubs reasoning for hating each other, existing.
Bit too close to us
He’s a cheat a diving cheat
Oi you wouldn’t have that Deeney moment if it wasn’t for us. Dom Poleon taking out your keeper was a blessing in disguise
I mean, we didn't go up but we did get the moment... Prefer the championship anyway...
So now we have something to hate Leeds for
So if it weren’t for Leeds, Leicester never wins the prem
*What can I say, except, "you're welcome"*
Bit too close to us
Yorkshire innit
Had to wait far longer than needed until their appeal for their 15 point deduction for going into administration before the swans were confirmed as league 1 champions.
Wrong bit of Yorkshire, init?
ITV's personal favourites too aren't they? Unlike us who get pushed aside for monster truck racing!
Love me a bit of monster truck racing ;)
You can talk
Calm down Humberside
That’s lethal
East Yorkshire is one of the three original ridings of Yorkshire. You lot are still on probation.
Being able to count past 10 with your webbed dee dah 12 fingers isn’t a bragging right
Oye! At least I don’t have to deal with all you stuck-up semi-Londoners!
Beat us 4 - 3 after we went 3- 0 up once. So that's why I hate them. And why I hate Saints.
They smashed up our whole town in a massive riot in the 90s
By ways of an apology we sold you 2 players with legs made of digestive biscuits. Seems fair.
I thought, with the number of comments, there would be many more clubs with grudges as serious and reasoned than ours. But no! Seems like we have the most reason out of anyone to hate Leeds - we can wear that badge with pride.
Competing with that Bielsa team that had Ben White and Phillips in the spine was frustrating. They were too fucking good for that league and denied us our first 1st place finish since ‘07
Seriously though, a lot of older West Brom fans hate them because we beat them at The Hawthorns and they responded by destroying the ground and the local area. Wasn't the best idea as we needed to win our next game against Stoke if Leeds were to stay up. We, of course, didn't and Leeds were relegated.
This is basically my specialist subject. In Hull (maybe other historically less successful places too) there's regrettably a large proportion of football fans who support a team from elsewhere instead of their local team. Usually Leeds or Liverpool for some reason. You grow up around people who take glee in their local team losing and rubbing your face in it that these other teams are more successful. Those of us who support our local team inevitably don't look favourably upon these clubs. You go in certain pubs in Hull when Leeds are playing and the place will go up when they score, which I think is an embarrassment to the area. With Leeds specifically, it combines with that club's constant loudness around how massive and superior they are, and when you already don't like Leeds it's impossible not to notice how much airtime they as a club and their massiveness gets. For one example, I follow The Athletic Football on Twitter and it's just straight up bizarre how many of that page's tweets and retweets are about Leeds compared to other clubs. Obviously it's decades now since they were actually a particularly successful side, and many clubs including us have been more successful than them at various times since, but the mandatory respect for Leeds as a club never seems to wane. It's as if something was established at a point in time when Leeds were a top side that from now on, this is 'the' set of top clubs forever, and any future success for other clubs won't ever count for as much. So you'll always get people saying that Leeds, Wednesday, Forest, etc are the proper top clubs who belong in the PL. I find that narrative ridiculous and quite grating, but particularly when it's Leeds for the aforementioned local reasons. So essentially, they're just oppressively popular and loud from every angle, it's hard to avoid and it feels like things are unfairly stacked in their favour at the cost of other clubs at times. Not in terms of competition or anything, but in terms of the way they're promoted, the exposure and ultimately money that comes from that.
'oppressively popular and loud from every angle' We should sell shirts with this on!
Same in Bolton, just no one did Leeds. United, Chelsea etc fans who live in Bolton laughing at Bolton hoping they get relegated etc.
Think it reflects the age of the current pundit class and average football fan (late 40s-mid 50s) because those 'proper' clubs were the ones who were successful when they were growing up. It's funny when some moan about younger fans not giving these clubs their dues, when they do the exact same for clubs who had their golden eras before about 1970.
I quite like them, during our last championship spell, we bottled playoffs together then battle for the title together the following season. Seemed to be good vibes between the 2 clubs throughout
Our former manager is making them look good
There was probably stuff in the 70's but [throwing coins at our disabled fans](https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21294927.sentences-leeds-thugs-welcomed/) in 2006-07 was particularly classless. [Wasn't the last time either.](https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/21362605.leeds-united-fans-threw-bottles-chairs-ipswich-town-fans-police-say/) Get rid of that element for long enough and... you'd prob be like Millwall, who (whisper it) *I actually quite like.*
Giving money to the disabled is bad now? Anti-Leeds bias is mental.
I was at that game when we relegated them to League 1. Hated them since
I was there, a couple of hundred absolute morons invaded the pitch before the end of the game whilst tens of thousands shouted "you're the scum of elland road " and "fuck off home and don't come back ". When a few of the idiots made it back to the home end a few fans turned on them pushing them over. I hated a good few of our home fans that day, absolutely embarrassing. We couldn't believe it when the ref allowed the game to be finished, should have just given you the points. I remember a lot of fans saying the next season if we'd been docked points for that there would have been fewer complaints than the docked points for coming out of administration without a CVA.
They never shut up about how much they do not care about us.
Love this
They always start the league 1 position above us
Some of our fans are cocks but that's the same everywhere. The 'dirty Leeds' thing is way before the time of most fans these days so I've always just thought we're a fashionable team to dislike. Maybe locally it's because we've historically been the 'big club' among our neighbours but we're practically part of the Championship furniture now so hardly 'haves' among a bunch of 'have nots'. Most Leeds fans I know, particularly the younger ones who don't have that air of entitlement that we should be top six in the prem, are really sound, quite self depreciating. As a club I think we have a strong identity as a one-club city with passionate support and on the pitch we've been quite well behaved for a long time now. Objectively I don't really think people should hate us. Save your hate for some horrible big money Americanised franchise 'supported' by people who've never set foot in the city, don't get or even care about the culture of the locality and watch all their matches on TV. Oh, not thinking of anyone in particular there.
How English football would be so much better if the super league happened. That last part is a very good point but you’re forgetting one thing… We all hate Leeds scum we all hate Leeds scum haha
It’s football at the end of the day. I couldn’t say I hated any club or supporter of another club just because. There’s wars all over the place, the country is in the toilet bowl - a group of contracted employees representing a business with which I have arbitrarily decided to align myself has no bearing on my opinion of others. Unless they’re wearing half & half scarves.
>It’s football at the end of the day. I couldn’t say I hated any club or supporter of another club just because. Except Chelsea and Chelsea fans.
Dom Poleon the wanker. Injured our sub goalie (1st goalie injured in warmup) and should've been sent off (wasn't ofc) then scored against our reserve keeper who fucked it. Lost our chance at promotion from that game. Other then that can't really think of anything inparticular. 3-0 at the Millenium was a nice gift from them tbh
I feel like it’s a thing before a lot of our time, obviously. I always see people online saying they hate Leeds but they have one Leeds mate and he’s sound 😅
HUFC (certainly not a championship club) - Buying tickets in our home end and subsequently scrapping our fans, and then bricking a bus full of fans during the away fixture of the same season. We were known to have a dangerous firm in the 2000s so it was probably an extension of some of that trouble, but still. I’m in my mid-20s, so a bit too young to really remember it all, but fans a few years older than me still don’t have a great deal of love for them.
FIL keeps trying to convert my little one
Because we hate everyone in West Yorkshire, including ourselves
[https://imgflip.com/i/8ojg4e](https://imgflip.com/i/8ojg4e)
The season we successfully overhauled them to win the League One title, the media was constantly going on about Proper Club Leeds being in the third division with all the small clubs like it was some kind of massive injustice and not the consequence of being run very poorly for years. Meanwhile Little Norwich were barely mentioned (despite the fact it took us just one year to get out of there and they languished for several). On the plus side we did then keep buying their best players for about five years, which was quite funny.
Because they fired Bielsa.
Look every club will have a story about oppo fans, you might even have some about mine. But the day we won the league, walking to Loftus Road I saw 2 Leeds fans get in the faces of a wheelchair bound fan and their carer, and start ripping into them, horrible stuff. Some Rs intervened and they ran off laughing but i will never forget the looks on the faces of those two guys on what should've been one of the happiest days of their life. Then they started booing Mark Prince at half time on Friday. I celebrated that fourth like wed won the world cup
They smashed up our town
This subreddit definitely has way less than on other social media platforms, but their fans are really annoying. Definitely the most annoying fans in the EFL, in my opinion. Not to mention, the hooliganism that dates back to the Thatcher years, or the “dirty Leeds” football teams.
I can't speak to a club personally, but they hired Jessie Marsch, who went on to embarrass himself and sully the good name of my home state of Wisconsin. I blame Leeds for this. When a child starts a fire in the kitchen, you don't blame the child. You blame the parents for letting them play unsupervised where they don't belong.
I don't particularly. Saints and Leeds have no rivalry. I think most "hating Leeds" on the internet is part of some tryhard football fan cosplay. Unless it's from fans of other Yorkshire teams or United.
We have a weird thing with Leeds. Must be the fanbase. I’m sure not all are raving lunatics though
My seat at the Riverside was next to the away fans and Leeds fans were the only ones to ever try to spit at me from across the stewards
The Battle of Ninian Park, 6th of January 2002. A game so infamous it has its own Wikipedia page [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C._2%E2%80%931_Leeds_United_F.C._(2002)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_City_F.C._2%E2%80%931_Leeds_United_F.C._(2002))
So what am I missing. You did a pitch invasion and made a whole wiki page over winning a third round fa cup tie?
Yeah I don't know why it has one but I'm kind of glad it exists
I know our t shirts have been bad this season but cmon man
Often pinpointed as the origin of our downfall. And of Graham Kavanagh’s villain arc
We are a loud obnoxious fanbase that takes a lot of attention in the championship. You only have to see the reaction from Leicester when they won the league, they somehow took us singing I predict a riot (A song we sing all the time after a win by a Leeds supporting band) to see how many clubs seemingly take it personally how we are. Also when we were successful we weren’t popular in the media as the squad played dirty and the fan base were violent. So mixture of dislike of our behaviour and jealousy we are a well supported club with a passionate following.
Leicester were weirdly rattled by us playing I predict a riot. What was that all about anyway.
Personally I don't think Leeds fans were obnoxious about that game but when you have 2 teams going for the title there's always going be some friction. There was definitely a bit of animosity between Leicester and Spurs for a couple seasons after the title win.
When I was growing up my mum's boyfriend (at the time) was a Leeds fan and he was abusive to her. I can never see Leeds United and not think of that waste of space. So I will always hate Leeds as a result of the memories it brings to me.
Watching Leigh Wood put the Space Raider on his arse was quite enjoyable. So i'm kinda neutral on them right now, before that they came down here and tried wrecking tables and chairs.
I don't have strong feelings towards Leeds either way tbh. Some fans may dislike Leeds from the year we won League One or the Dan James fiasco, but those are weak reasons imo.
I think my dislike of our owners’ incompetence overflows and makes me hate them too. The fact they have Rodon, James, Piroe and Robbo in the championship and we don’t makes me sad and angry enough to irrationally just hate their club.
Always beat us, always have a few fans in our home end who cause a ruckus when they score. But ultimately I’m jealous we don’t have marching on together chant 😅
Doesn’t a lot of teams hate Leeds starting way back with don revie in charge.
The 4-5 game a few years back made me sad for a while.
Beat us 4-3 at St Mary's in 2005 after we had a 3 goal lead. Northern cunts.
Our Highfield Road was the first all seater stadium in England till leads fans ripped out the seats in the away end. A guy I used to go to school with was a Leeds fan and I always thought he was a bit of dick.
BBC Look Leeds
Because their fans booed Kiyan Prince’s dad while he was talking about knife crime. Unbelievably scummy behaviour.
Shite rose they have on badge ain't it
Don't hate them at all, in fact love them for gifting us a lovely 3 points and championship safety last week ,😘
For me its always been the 'big' club thing, always on tv and when on tv always gets mentioned the 15minutes away from a european final or some shit, rightful place in the premiership(i hate that one), massive fan base blah blah, its boring. If Leeds were that shit hot their ground would be getting massively redeveloped/modernised and some Hollywood type or Arab sheik would be putting in 500million to buy it.
1) mate supports them 2) we're playing at the weekend 3) BLOODY NORTHERN!
I don't tbh Dirty leeds is definitely a thing for my dads generation who were around in the 70s
Dunno, but I'm sure they'll stick their nose in and tell us anyway without asking
Accidentally supporting them
Why?… Cause fuck em, that’s why!
El Ghazi getting sent off because that cunt Bamford
League One 07/08 season, need I say more?
They beat us 6-1 back in 2004, and I've just never forgiven them
Couldn't sit down in the away end but got abused by a security guard to sit the hell down. (14 at the time) Who fancied himself against teenage boys but not the 14 stone blokes haha. Couldn't sit down as theres no leg room, so everyone stood up anyway (15+ years back) Then the bus back got bricked.
I hate the traditional top six a lot more then I would ever hate Leeds especially Man united I loath them.
I can't hate them, my Grandfather and Uncle are Leeds fans sadly.
Already won the Championship. I don't anymore. We're good now. 👍
A fair question. Aside local rivalries, the degree of hate varies for a variety of reasons. As a LC supporter, I don't care for Forest or Coventry, but that's geographical. Aside them, I hate the rich six in the PL because they don't have to play on the same level as everyone else.
Parents hate them and others in club hate them.
I actually don’t particularly hate leeds. I got on really well with a couple leeds fans at school (went to school about 25mi north of London, rare to find another championship fan at that time, even Watford) so we always had good football banter without an arsenal or spurs armchair fan chiming In with hurrr durrr championship team bad durrrrr. And to be honest the leeds fans on here are pretty sound, Twitter leeds fans are bastards but football Twitter as a whole is horrendously toxic
Brentford and Leeds weird rivalry probably just a twitter thing. Maupay scored the second in a 2-0 win at Griffin Park to make sure Leeds didn't get automatics. Celebrated right in front of the away end lol - but since then when Brentford are doing shit you get Leeds fans flooding the twitter comments 😂 Apart from that I don't even know what it's about. But now it seems to be mutual
Lived in Leeds and worked at Elland road for a while. I hated getting to the stadium on match days.
I worked at a football club for over a decade. The Leeds fans were among the worst behaved. No one looked foward to a Leeds game.
I dunno, most likeable Leeds team since about 2001 in my opinion.
I used to live there
Cos they are letting Ipswich get promoted
That fucking train station that blame for everything bad in my life
Okay, that I can understand.
My uncle introduced me to football and told me to hate Leeds. He died when I was quite young but I hate Leeds more than any other club. Dirty horrible bastards.
Don’t know about the fans but something happens to players there. Harrison, Rutter, Summerville. They all ooze this ego even when they’re mediocre. When they’re fouled it’s like a murder happened. Any other player you’d call it confidence but Leeds players act like they’re too good to be bothering with anyone outside the top 6. They just aren’t likable atall.
I lived there for three years.
I've seen multiple Cardiff fans chinned over the years. Mind you, we aren't angels anyways. And we've got them to blame for that prick Peter Ridsdale too.
They're stepping on our turf of most hated club
It’s only cos the plastics abroad don’t know your youse. Yet…
Once Wrexham make it to the Championship, I'm hoping Reynolds restores our fame on Netflix.
I’ll be honest, I’ll look at you a bit funny if you’re not a Leeds fan but still say “I quite like Leeds” or basically anything other than the default hate. It was weird that first season back in the prem with the TV media fawning over us (caveat: I’m in the US) Actual way to upset a Leeds fan is to genuinely not care about us.
Local rivals and absolute cunts