Robert Walker

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871 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

6 Apr 2043
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings6 Apr 2043

Anthony Butler scores twice — 8.74

Two goals and a mark of 8.74 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market6 Apr 2043

Steven Bailey has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Leeds United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad6 Apr 2043

Robin Roefs has been here 12 seasons

457 appearances across 12 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Boardroom6 Apr 2043

The scrutiny sharpens at Leeds United

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Leeds United is running low.

Squad6 Apr 2043

Robert Walker keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Leeds United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market6 Apr 2043

Edward Moore raises the bar for Leeds United

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Leeds United heard it as anything else.

Squad6 Apr 2043

Words at Leeds United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bashir Humphreys is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad6 Apr 2043

Louie Barry in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Leeds United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match4 Apr 2043

Anthony Butler sends Leeds United past Everton

It finished 2‑0, and it was Anthony Butler’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leeds United.

In brief

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The Leeds United Courier

14 Apr 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Apr 2042

Bashir Humphreys damages knee ligaments — 15 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 15 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad14 Apr 2042

A one-man rearguard from Robin Roefs

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match14 Apr 2042

Leeds United up to position 3

73 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings14 Apr 2042

Vinnie Hayward, 34, rolls back the years — 7.98

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings14 Apr 2042

Nobody could get near Steven Bailey

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad14 Apr 2042

Robert Walker says Leeds United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad14 Apr 2042

Tempers go at Leeds United

Robin Roefs was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match12 Apr 2042

Leeds United come up short against West Ham United

West Ham United left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market14 Apr 2042

Anthony Butler wants more than Leeds United are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

In brief

798 Edition

The Leeds United Courier

11 Nov 2041
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Nov 2041

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alfie Cresswell

95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Leeds United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match6 Nov 2041

Nicholas Martin sends Leeds United through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Nicholas Martin obliged against Crystal Palace. 3‑2 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Leeds United.

Squad11 Nov 2041

A day Nicholas Martin will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad11 Nov 2041

A one-man rearguard from Joshua Cooper

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings11 Nov 2041

Louie Barry, 38, rolls back the years — 7.98

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.98 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad11 Nov 2041

Robert Walker: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Leeds United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market11 Nov 2041

Steven Bailey wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Leeds United hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Player ratings11 Nov 2041

Ninety minutes of Nicholas Martin at his very best

Marked 9.36. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Leeds United.

The terraces11 Nov 2041

The crowd has taken to Benjamin Reid

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief