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Marching on together

Leeds United.

One of the most famous clubs
in British football history.

Champions and winners of titles
and trophies in England and in Europe.

Leeds have one of the largest,
most passionate fanbases

in world club football.

Despite now plying their trade
in England's second division,

The Championship.

Yeah, yes!

At the turn of this century,
Leeds went from Champions League heroes

to the brink of extinction
within a few seasons.

Disastrous financial mismanagement
and a series of off-field scandals

left the club in ruins.

Since then, new owners and managers

have tried to revive the sleeping giant.

Until now, all have failed.

But there is new hope

in the shape of ambitious,
Italian entrepreneur

Andrea Radrizzani.

His goal is to rebuild the club

and fulfil the demands
of a worldwide fanbase

and get Leeds United
back into the Premier League,

the most prestigious football
competition in the world.

This is a story that plays out
in one of the most extraordinary seasons

in this remarkable club's history.

This is Take Us Home: Leeds United.

Pizza margherita.

Ciao, auf wiedersehen!

Impossible bets is what he specialises in.

Turning the table to his favour.

It takes guts; energy,
which he has plenty of; stamina.

With that he made a lot of money.
I keep telling him

- not to waste it on bloody football.
- Mmm, I'm unstoppable.

Because football doesn't make any money.

So he said, "You don't trust me?"

I said, "Yeah, I trust you.
You are a smart, young entrepreneur."

I will show him the opposite.

And I said, "Please,
for your kid who loves football,

make sure he doesn't hate it
when he's big enough to understand

that you wasted
all your fortune behind."

Andrea Radrizzani was born
in Milan and created his fortune,

an estimated £450 million,

after founding his own
global investment company,

specialising in trading
television sports rights.

So, I left Milan in 2003.

I went to... to Shanghai,
then Tokyo, then Singapore.

Then I started to share my time
between Singapore and London,

so I've been away
more than 15 years, 16 this year.

And then this year I decided
to come back to Milan for one year

to stay here with my family
so that my son can learn Italian

and go to school here
for the first year of school

and kindergarten.
He's only three years old.

And then... So, my family is here

and me, I'm up and down
between London, Leeds and Milan.

We have a deal with the wife,
with Nedine, that if we get promoted,

we're going to move
to Leeds for one year.

Andrea bought a 50% stake
in Leeds United in January 2017

before completing a full buy-out
five months later.

Hey.

You still awake?

So I told them,
this is our football pitch. Right?

- Yes.
- Where is your goal?

Okay. Show him which football shirt
you use when you play.

Look, even this one.

- This one is your favourite, ah?
- This one.

This is your favourite.

I like to make money, of course.
When I work, as a consequence,

I think my reward
is to make money and be profitable.

I take risks, I like to. I like to,
because at the end it is like a game.

One day, I'm going back
to the dust like everybody,

so money doesn't count.

I like to invest in things
that give me adrenaline

and business is one of them.

Football is one of them.
So, I enjoy that.

You're really against
my investment in football.

No, I'm... I'm not against,
I think that doing it...

The risk is very high.

...alone, it took a lot of courage
and maybe a little bit too much.

That's all. I'm saying
that you could've done it

with a team, a group of investors.

Yeah, but nobody is full of crazy ideas.

- That's true.
- They follow after you're successful.

I thought there were
a lot of crazy guys in Leeds!

- When you deliver, they follow.
- I thought in the town of Leeds

there were enough crazy people
for football.

It's a club that
is perfectly suited for a one-club city.

It's a club that embodies the city

and attracts the interest
and captures the interest of everybody.

It's an incredibly loyal city
and that loyalty has persisted

despite there being so many occasions

when the crowds could've dipped
to a worrying level,

as has happened
to other clubs across the country.

But the support always seems to be there
and it's always ready to come back.

And I think it is an institution
that the city needs,

the city will always need
and will always flock to.

For the amount of fans that go
to Elland Road on a weekly basis,

and the numbers they get,

and the people from around the world
who are watching it live

from every country around the world,
it's unbelievable.

We're a big city who wants one team in it.

Every other big city
has a couple of teams in,

so there's a divided support,
whereas Leeds, everyone's Leeds.

It's truthfully my religion.

That's what I say to my kids.

They say, "Mum,
are you going to football again?"

I'm like, "Yep, it's my religion.
I'm off praising, I'm off to church."

We are Leeds!

It reinvigorated my life.
My focus, it's all Leeds now.

I work, yeah, I have children.

I have family and then I have Leeds.
Leeds United.

To me, what it means
to be a Leeds fan is camaraderie,

family, emotion, passion, one-team city.

All Leeds, aren't we?
All Leeds, aren't we?

All Leeds, aren't we?

Andrea bought a club that had
suffered a humiliating fall from grace.

Under legendary manager Don Revie,
Leeds established themselves

as a dominant force
during the 1960s and '70s.

Leeds United, all in white,
against the Gunners, Arsenal.

Jones as he kicks to Allan Clarke,
who heads it in!

On the pitch, captain Billy Bremner
was their leader.

They became England's top team

and were feared and respected
across the whole of Europe.

Jack Charlton, Bremner...
Oh, beautiful goal!

What a superb goal by Bremner!

After Revie left to become England
manager in the mid-seventies,

Leeds had over a decade in the doldrums

before returning to be crowned
English champions again in 1992.

At the turn of the century,
they became a force in Europe again

and reached the Champions League
semi-finals in 2001.

But, after over-spending
and financial mismanagement,

Leeds went into freefall.

A fire sale
of their greatest talent was inevitable.

Rio Ferdinand became
Britain's most expensive player

when he moved to bitter rivals
Manchester United for £30 million.

And Leeds were forced to sell stars

like Robbie Fowler, Jonathan Woodgate
and Harry Kewell.

You were never quite sure
where the next crisis was coming from,

whether the people who were in charge
of the club could manage the crisis.

What many considered the most
exciting young side in England

was ripped apart.

Leeds were relegated
from the Premier League in 2004

and dropped to the third tier
three years later.

New owners and managers
have come and gone.

Their long-suffering fans,
convinced they are a cursed club.

But after 15 years in the wilderness,

hope is returning to Elland Road.

In terms of a city and a club
being combined,

or the potential for it to be combined,
there's not another city like it.

Andrea is someone who throws
himself in literally the deep end

and he goes, and he grabs everyone.

He's someone very approachable

and he likes to have contact with people.

So, either if it's someone really high

or someone who has the job as the janitor,

or in the kitchen, that's cooking,

he goes and he greets them.
He says, "Thank you."

For him it's important,
because everyone brings value to the club.

Everyone works together
for the same cause

and I think it's very important

that they can feel
that they can speak to him as well

and he's not someone "up there,"
because he's not that type of person.

When Andrea came in,
I didn't know much about him,

to be quite honest,
but there were no skeletons.

You know, you search, you have a look,

and you thought,
"Wow, this guy seems clean."

I have to say, we've been through
a very dark era with the former owners,

but Andrea, the new owner
and his team that've come in

have been very outward-focused.

Andrea's first move

is to recruit a Premier League-quality
management team

to put Leeds back on track
both on and off the pitch.

Spaniard Victor Orta was recruited

from Championship rivals Middlesbrough
and appointed director of football.

Victor is now responsible
for assembling a squad

capable of challenging for promotion
to the Premier League.

In all the headlines,
in all the history that they are making,

obviously, like a crazy football fan,

I know the history
about this kind of club.

And it was a big challenge for me
to arrive to a club like Leeds United

to try to get back to its real position,
that was the Premier League.

When you meet Victor,
you understand his knowledge on scouting.

I think he's a database.
He's very knowledgeable about everything.

Andrea has recruited a CEO
with a Premier League pedigree

in former West Ham managing director,
Angus Kinnear.

It's the best job in football.

I genuinely believe it's the best job
in football if we can take Leeds United

back to where they belong. I don't think
there's a bigger challenge or prize.

It's a club with such fantastic history,
such fantastic potential,

so I didn't think twice about it.

With Victor and Andrea, we over-index
on Latin American and Hispanic passion.

I'm definitely the boring Anglo-Saxon

who tries to steer through
the middle path.

It's a fantastic
work environment, it's a...

they're friends as well as colleagues.

I think we all want
to achieve success together

and I think, with the skills,
we're actually well-balanced.

The way that you work
with Victor and with me is...

Victor tries to spend money,
I try to save it and make it.

And we don't speak
about football after the games.

That was a critical mistake
from last year.

Last year was the new management team's
first full season in charge.

It was a steep learning curve as Leeds
finished 13th in the Championship.

The board decided more change
was needed at the very top.

The search was on for a new,
world-class head coach.

One that could transform the club.

Andrea and Victor suggested his name
as somebody we should be looking at.

I had a wry smile,
because neither of them lack ambition,

but sometimes,
their ideas aren't rooted in reality.

He's not motivated by money or comfort.

He is motivated by big challenges.

It's the way he handles himself,
and how honest he is,

how much of a great manager he is.

I think he's one
of the best managers in the world.

In the early '90s, an ex-player
of Argentinian side Newell's Old Boys

returned to his former club
and transformed their fortunes.

After winning two league titles,
he remains a legend to this day.

For the Newell's fans, he is an idol,
a God to us.

He is like a synonym for teacher.

A teacher that I had
for seven or eight years

in the youth team of Newell's
and the first team of Newell's.

A person who taught us a lot.

A person that makes the whole team
want to be a manager.

To lead, to live and breathe football.

Marcelo Bielsa brought pride
and passion back to Newell's Old Boys.

Newell's, carajo! Newell's!

Carried shoulder-high by his players
on winning the 1990 league title,

his defiant and expletive,
"Newell's, carajo!"

remains the fans' war cry to this day.

He went on to become one of the most
respected coaches in world football,

leading Argentina
to Olympic gold in 2004,

transforming Chilean football
as national coach,

and again at a club level
with Athletic Bilbao.

His admirers are many,

including Manchester City coach
Pep Guardiola

and Tottenham Hotspur manager
Mauricio Pochettino,

who Bielsa signed as a thirteen-year-old
at Newell's Old Boys.

Marcelo Bielsa has a vision of life
which is admirable.

The principles that he applies
to his day-to-day life.

There is an enigma about him.

He creates an aura,
surrounded by pupils,

otherwise known as disciples,

and that creates a cult personality.

Victor and I went over to Buenos Aires.

We sat in a hotel with him
for effectively twelve hours.

What we found very quickly was
he's not a man who wanted to be sold to.

We felt that were going to have to explain
to him the vision and potential of Leeds,

but he got that straight away.
He understood it.

He is a person
that likes to focus on goals

that aren't easy to achieve.

Things that are easy bore him.

He is interested in difficult challenges,

challenges that have a lot to do

with the heart that he can put into them
and the people that he works with.

Regarding Leeds,

it's a great English football team
that is not great right now.

In his imagination he saw

Leeds returning to be
of the greatest clubs in England.

And this motivation, this goal,

definitely encouraged him
immensely to try and achieve it.

In going for Bielsa,
I think it was an admission

that they needed to bite the bullet
with the head coach.

They needed to find somebody
with that track record,

with that proven ability,

or at least that kudos and that aura

that could get a hold of the club
and change the culture of it,

change the way in which they played,
gain the respect of the players,

which I think at times over the years
has definitely been an issue.

One of my jobs was to get the contract
signed and agree the commercial terms

and one of the frustrating things
was I couldn't get him to talk or debate

or engage in that subject at all.

He looks closely at all
the details of every club he manages,

not only the sports part
of Leeds as a club.

He studies the people,
he studies the city,

he studies everything about Leeds
as a city.

Where the people like to go,
what they read,

how people move through the city.

If Bielsa does not fall in love
with a city, he will not go.

Bielsa did not go to manage Leeds
for just the football club.

Bielsa went to manage Leeds
for the city as a whole.

Even though we were only
in Buenos Aires for 24 hours,

we shook hands knowing
that he was going to be

the next Leeds United head coach

but not knowing
what the contract would contain.

I considered the strength
of the institutional sports project.

I analysed the sporting possibilities

and that made me make the effort

to be the one they chose in the end.

As managers, we have no choice

but to impose what we think,

because we can't convince

by proposing something
that we don't believe in.

He comes with the nickname "El Loco"

and because you only have
the chance to read about him

and to analyse him in that way
before he arrives,

you have this picture of a crazy
individual, in no way level-headed,

a loose cannon who could do anything
at the drop of a hat.

But I think in the flesh and in practice,

obsessional is the word.
He wants things to be right.

I think he's great. I think he's honestly
one of the best in the world.

He had a great impact on me
and I hope he promotes, honestly.

He's single-minded in a way that very few
head coaches I've seen before are.

He keeps the players at arm's length,
he keeps the media at arm's length.

He strikes me as a guy
who has nothing on his mind,

at any stage of the day,
apart from football.

It's been his life for a long time.

All of us were like, "Well, wow.

We're about to work a whole season
for one of the best managers."

Everybody speaks so highly of him,

so, straight away,
no matter what he wants done

you're saying, "Yeah, yeah,
absolutely. No problem."

I thought this could be a spectacular
failure or be spectacularly brilliant.

Do my homework, start to think,
"Wow this guy's a bit different.

People are talking about him
in quite a special way."

Probably the most honest guy
that I've ever met in football.

He was very, very obsessed
with no cheating, never cheating, never,

try to be honest
every time you are on the pitch.

Marcelo was very, very specific
on the additions we needed to make

and was actually much more focused on

what he could get out
of the existing squad

and so the players
that he said would step up,

players who might have been
written off by the fanbase,

like Liam Cooper and Kalvin Phillips,
they were specific players

that Marcelo said, "I'll make them
the best in the league."

What do you think of him, Gran?

What, Bielsa?

Oh, I think he's lovely.

No, I'd love to bump into him.
He walks around Wetherby sometimes.

I'm always going to get the bus
and go to Wetherby see if I can see him.

I heard he goes in Costas.

I'd like to bump into him and say,
"I'm Kalvin's grandma."

He was going to Huddersfield as well.

- I was going to Huddersfield first.
- And Leeds, yeah.

Yeah. I went to Huddersfield first
but I didn't like it, did I?

- No.
- I went to one training session - "Nah."

He wanted to go to Leeds. Leeds were
interested at the same time, weren't they?

And his heart was at Leeds, wasn't it?

I had like a six-week trial and...

Scored a few goals, didn't he,
and then didn't score.

Scored like five goals
in three games and then got signed,

and then didn't score
for the rest of the season.

I've always liked Phillips

but I was always unsure
if Phillips was going to develop.

You know, he's still young
but he's not 18-19 anymore,

so he's in that sort of era now of,
right, I'm gonna be early twenties.

Being a local lad, you know,
he knows what we're all about.

He knows what the fans are about.

And he is a fan. So, he's on the pitch
doing it for us and for the team.

When players come in on loan,
we've had a lot over the years,

they don't know or feel
what we feel about Leeds,

but Phillips, for me, does,
because he is.

I think he wants Leeds
to be where they belong

and I think he's Leeds
through and through.

He's like me when I was young, Kalvin;
he's just a dead down-to-earth kid.

I've played with Kalvin
for four years now

and he is a great young lad. He's got
everything to become a top, top player

and it's all about his application.

If he applies himself, he can go on
to do massive things in the game.

Obviously, he's a Leeds boy as well,
he supports Leeds United like myself

and other players
and it'll be great for him,

especially being Leeds born.

It'd be an unbelievable achievement.
And he's got the world at his feet

and to do it at a club he supports
and he's been at all his life,

it'd be unbelievable for him.

He'll be like me. He'll want to do well
and make his family proud

and make his loved ones proud
and that's the way it should be.

At the end of the day, we are all people
and we're all normal people.

You get caught up in this stereotype:
"Oh, he's a footballer,

he's a young lad.
He's doing this, he's doing that."

But at the end of the day
we want to be successful

and we want to get the best
out of ourselves like all footballers do.

He is a good person.

The values that he transmits
are encapsulated by the fact

that he's more concerned about
the wellbeing of other than himself.

He generously helps people

and he is humble enough to accept help.

These two things combined
make him an example for us all.

We've got a really good base
of local lads.

It's just...
and he's doing the right thing,

it seems, giving them
little minutes here and there,

like develop them
so in a couple of years' time

we should have a good base of players
as well as Phillips.

Yeah, English-based Yorkshire lads.

The way he's working with players
is improving the whole team, definitely.

There's not one player now

- that I'd say is a weak link for us.
- No.

Very good. Very good!

He's a coach
to whom you can give the talent

but he always improves the talent,
improves the capacity of the player.

There are a lot of examples
in his career where he developed players.

He is very demanding.
The way he plays demands a lot from you

in terms of effort,
in terms of cardio capacity.

I've seen some of the players going off
the pitch vomiting, absolutely exhausted.

But after, when you're playing, you fly.
You absolutely fly.

His work this summer
has been meticulous to the nth degree.

The players have been in at Thorp Arch
through pre-season for 12-hour days,

in at eight o'clock in the morning,
leaving sometime after seven o'clock.

He didn't go as far as he did at Lille
where he had accommodation

and bungalows built
at their training ground

so the players could sleep,
but they've been there all hours.

Obviously, you can see his reputation.

Yeah, he's kind of crazy
when you look at him from the outside

and he is kind of crazy
when you're with him at the time.

I don't know if it's because

I don't understand the language
that he's speaking.

- Phillips!
- I'm sorry!

Absolutely fastidious about body fat.
Luke Ayling spoke to us

and said that he considered himself
to be a pretty skinny, lean player

but Bielsa's first advice to him
was to lose four kilograms.

Every morning, we're trying to make
weight, which can get tiresome.

You know, you come home and you just want
to have a little take away or something,

you can't be bothered to cook,

but then you think, "Ah,
I've got to weigh in, in the morning."

We are a very young squad but I think,

coming under the new regime and stuff,
it's sort of, it's made the lads

become experienced
whilst still being young

and we're very lucky in the way
that we have got a young team

which is willing to learn.

He's just,
he's a breath of fresh air, really.

Since he's come into the club
I've acted like a sponge.

I started making notes, actually,

just on things that I'm learning
and taking from him.

The way he used to tell us

that the best way to defend
is to keep attacking.

The best way to get the victory

is to score more goals
and more goals and more goals.

He has raised everybody's game.

This is not just the players. The players,
the staff, in the offices, even the fans.

Everybody is right now very switched on,

clued on or trying to understand
what he's doing.

But really just giving extra.

I felt, number one,
that he's doing the biggest,

most important thing
one single individual can do

with a club of the stature
of Leeds United.

He's changing the culture of the club.

For me, he's a reminder that football
is not about the results.

Football is about enjoying the work
that you put in, the day to day,

enjoying the people
that you cross paths with.

When you've made the type of commitment
we'd made to secure Marcelo,

it would've been very short-sighted to not
give him the tools he felt were needed

to get us promoted. He takes a very
measured and sensible approach,

so rather than being a manager
who makes, you know,

who has a list of ten players
he wanted to sign,

Marcelo was very, very specific on the
positions that needed to be strengthened.

And then, when Victor
presented him with the options

he was very specific on the choices
he wanted to make.

So, actually,

it felt like we were working in tandem
and in partnership with the manager

rather than it can often feel
like you're working against them

to secure targets
which were really going to strengthen us.

So, I think the buys
that we made showed ambition,

they required financial commitment,

but I think
they were pretty judicious as well.

Leeds decide to invest heavily
in a proven marquee striker,

Patrick Bamford, who signs
from promotion rivals Middlesbrough

in a deal worth up to £10 million,

the club's most expensive signing
for 17 years.

He says, "Leeds really want you."
He said, "Bielsa," he says,

"I'll tell you now, he's crazy,
he's got something about him

but he's one of the most respected
managers in the world."

And he said he is, they've had,
they've been looking at different strikers

and he said he's pointed out
that you're the one he wants.

I said, "Okay," I said that,
obviously I'm smiling down the phone

I'm like alright, okay, I said, "I don't
think Middlesbrough will let me go."

Victor had worked with him before

but when we met him we knew
he was just what we needed.

He was somebody
who wanted to play for Leeds United

and shoulder the burden
of being the club's number nine.

He wanted to be the first-choice striker.

Patrick, he's arriving in the key moment
for our one key player of the season.

And then Victor, obviously,
and he gave me a big hug and embraced me

and he was like, yes, finally. He said,
I remember exactly what he said.

He said, "If I wasn't before

I'm definitely now the most hated man
in Middlesbrough."

He was like,
"I just stole their main guy."

And, yeah,
there were the documents to sign.

I remember he took me
to see the gaffer.

All he said to me,
tapped me on the shoulder: "Good luck,"

and I was like, cheers.

Left-back Barry Douglas,
who helped Wolverhampton Wanderers

gain promotion
to the Premier League last season,

signs in a three-million-pound deal, too.

It can be a daunting experience
walking into a new dressing room

but what I will say
is the guys here were really open.

Not just with me.
With new staff, with other players,

so it was really easy to adapt quickly
and get to business and feel involved.

I met Victor in Birmingham.

We just had a bit of lunch,
a bit of a chat about football,

nothing too serious or formal.

It was more a get-together

and see how their plans were
for this year

and, yeah, kind of went from there.

I was optimistic and happy
with what the journey was going to bring

and the challenge ahead,
so, yeah, we signed for Leeds.

The Championship is a gruelling
46-game season

and is considered one of the toughest
football competitions in the world.

The teams that finish first and second

are automatically promoted
to the Premier League.

The teams finishing third to sixth
must enter a play-off series

with a one-match final played
at the iconic Wembley stadium in London.

The winners of the play-off final
are promoted to the Premier League,

which is worth around £170 million.

It is the most lucrative
sporting fixture on the planet.

Leeds' first game of the Championship
is at Elland Road against Stoke City,

who played in the Premier League last
season and are favourites to finish top.

Coming up first game against Stoke,
it's one those where you think,

"They've just come down.
Are they gonna do us in?"

First game of the season,
if it's four or five nil,

what's gonna happen there,
Bielsa, what, five games in goes?

What normally happens
is we'll get off to a good start,

and then before Christmas
we'll absolutely mess it up

and finish 14th, which could happen.

A point against Stoke
in the first game of the season

would be a good start
to the season for me.

They are number-one favourites
to go straight back up, aren't they?

With the money and the players
that they've got and they've retained.

I think the best we can hope for,
in all honesty, is a draw.

It's the start of the season.
I'm always optimistic.

We've got Marcelo, who's just come in.

I like what I see and what I've read.

He's giving me visions of Don Revie.

Deciding that Stoke are our biggest rival

before the competition
has started is a little bit risky,

but naturally they are a powerful rival.

Well, obviously
we all want to get promoted,

we all want to go back
to the promised land.

It's time we got back
to where we should be.

Very, very nervous prior to Stoke.

It was exactly the fixture
I wouldn't have chosen to have.

I thought they'd be the strongest team
in the division.

I'm a pessimist.

I'll be optimistic
after the last game of the season.

I'm superstitious that way.
Yes, sir. Thank you. Next please.

- A little bit tense but...
- We can do it, we have faith.

- We're gonna go up. It's their time.
- Leeds forever.

- They can do this.
- Come on.

Number two: Luke Ayling.

Number three:
please welcome Barry Douglas.

Leeds United has a new king.
He's from Argentina.

As Marcelo Bielsa
makes that first walk down the tunnel

to get the full Elland Road experience.

34,000 here packed and expectant.

Will Leeds be mid-table mediocrity
once again?

Or will their new leader
take them to real promotion potential?

They are up against Stoke City,
the promotion favourites

and we are about to get underway.

From the first whistle,
Leeds tear into Stoke...

Early chance for Leeds. Roofe so close.

Beaten away by Butland
and scrambled clear by Stoke.

Somehow, it remains nil-nil.

...and look a side transformed
from last season.

Saiz for Leeds.

Klich is onside.
This is the chance... and he scores!

And Mateusz Klich gets Leeds United
and Marcelo Bielsa

off to the dream start
after just fifteen minutes.

What a start. They lead one-nil.

Bielsa has a vision
for how the game should be played

and his players
are actioning his plan to perfection.

Alioski has Hernandez, Hernandez is going
to strike and it's in at the near post!

Leeds United are now
two up against Stoke City.

Hernandez celebrates
and they simply cannot believe

what they are seeing here.

At half-time, it's two-nil
and this has been an outstanding start

for Marcelo Bielsa
and this Leeds United side.

At the start of the second half,
Stoke begin to compose themselves.

Oh, that looks clumsy,
and a penalty awarded.

And Afobe straight down the middle
halves the arrears.

Stoke are back in it.

Last season, Leeds might have
buckled after such a setback.

But this is a new Leeds United.

Barry Douglas to deliver.
In goes Cooper, oh, what a header!

And Liam Cooper the captain steps up

just when the skipper is needed
to restore a two-goal advantage.

Leeds United now three-one ahead
against Stoke City.

What a start for Leeds United.

They have absolutely crushed Stoke City
by three goals to one.

Massive, massive that was,

I haven't seen Leeds United
like that for years.

I thought we played really well today.
I was a bit surprised.

With the team they picked,
I didn't fancy our chances

but they really excelled,
so yes, I'm very pleased.

Great result. Fantastic.
Couldn't have imagined anything better.

- Great game, played very well.
- Three points, second in the league.

We're going up!

I think it shows what happens
when you've got a world-class manager.

You know, that team,
with the exception of Douglas,

was available to us
all through last season,

and, you know, some of those players, I've
never seen them play like that before.

Liam Cooper
looked like a different player.

Roofe looked superb.
Phillips was awesome in that midfield.

I don't know what he's done over the last
six weeks, but it's paying off.

I didn't expect that. I'm really looking
forward to the rest of the season.

It was a beautiful day.
The performance was outstanding.

The crowd was sold out and was fierce.
Elland Road was properly fierce.

And... it was the best feeling,
coming away thinking,

"Hang on, this is going to happen."

And after the momentous Stoke victory,

Leeds' start to the season
begins to truly lift off.

Next in their sights, Derby County.

Hernandez,
into the Poland international Klich.

He's lining up one...

Oh, what a strike!
And that's two in two for Mateusz Klich

and he gets Leeds off again
to the perfect start.

Alioski, a drifting cross,
up between them goes Roofe...

Oh, that's an imperious header!

And Kemar Roofe gets his season off
to a scoring start.

Leeds take on and dismantle promotion
contender after promotion contender.

Norwich City are trounced at home.

Oh, lovely move, this. Here comes Alioski.
And he's driven it through the keeper!

This could well be the result
that makes the rest of the championship

sit up and take note.
Leeds United could well be the real deal

as they head towards life in
the Premier League under Marcelo Bielsa.

The most valuable thing is the happiness
that we are able to provoke

in those that struggle to find happiness

in other ways away from football.

Mid-September and Leeds take on
Preston North End at Elland Road.

It's an opportunity for home fans
to enjoy the Bielsa-inspired,

all-action style
that is fast becoming their trademark.

Leeds are in again here...

Tyler Roberts at the Kop end
looking to lob home...

Oh, what a way
to open your account for Leeds United.

Tyler Roberts with a really calm
and composed finish over the keeper.

There really is no stopping them now.

Saiz, looking for Klich.

Roberts alone in the centre
and he's got a third!

Two for Tyler Roberts.

Leeds United cruising
to a three-nil victory

and they are showing every bit
of their promotion credentials once again.

The board believe it,
the players believe it

and now the Leeds United supporters
are believing it as well.

We're top of the league
We're top of the league

We're Leeds United
We're top of the league

After eight games,

Leeds are undefeated in the Championship
and top of the league.

But there is a long, twisting road ahead.

And what is about to unfold

will be one of the most dramatic seasons
in this club's history.

- Should we have let Aston Villa score?
- Absolutely not.

What the fuck is going on!

We're Leeds United
We'll spy where we want

Leeds United, we're top of the league

We're top of the league
We're top of the league