Leeds United are to begin their search for a new manager after current boss, Neil Warnock, confirmed at the weekend that he won't stay at the club unless they achieve a miraculous promotion to the Premier League. With Leeds currently languishing 10th in the Championship and without a win in four games, the chances of them clawing back a seven-point deficit over sixth-place Leicester to make the playoffs is highly unlikely and the new owners are already looking at next season for the big push.
Luton Town players celebrate (Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)
Bradford City and to a lesser extent Swansea City reaching the Capital One Cup final was in keeping with that competition's recent habit of providing a few surprises. In addition to the shocks the Bantams and others had already caused in this year's edition, just last season second-tier Cardiff City reached the final, while semifinalists Crystal Palace had dumped out Manchester United along the way.
Aaron Lennon of Tottenham Hotspur (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)
As eight time winners, Tottenham Hotspur's history is entwined with that of the FA Cup's. In recent years though, the club's connection with the famous old trophy has been tinged with heartbreak.
Since last winning the tournament in 1991, Tottenham have reached and lost six semifinals.
Over the weekend, Chelsea fell 1-0 to Brazilian side, Corinthians, in the Club World Cup final, and now must immediately rebound for their Capitol One Cup clash against Leeds United.
The visitors' return flight from Japan was delayed due to "noise restrictions over night-time take-offs from Tokyo" as The Observer reports, and manager Rafa Benitez will be hoping it does not affect his side as they take on their former rivals for a chance to make the League Cup semifinals.
There isn't much better than a really dreadful miss, and almost nothing better when it's a Leeds United player. Leeds may have comfortably beaten Southampton in the League Cup on Tuesday, but the match should be remembered for one of the worst misses we have ever seen. Even manager Neil Warnock admitted as much: "I [.
On Friday night Sheffield Wednesday met Leeds United in a fiery Yorkshire derby full of ferocious tackles and debatable refereeing decisions. Everything that is good about occasions like this was ruined by one Leeds fan who slapped an unsuspecting Chris Kirkland across the face.
Nowadays, in the English game as soon as the media get one sniff of racist abuse or the actions of violent fans, everything is blown out of proportion and the press hit the panic button.
In an evening of upsets, Leeds United knocked in-form Everton out of the Capital One League Cup while Wigan claimed an emphatic win at West Ham and 10-men Sunderland overcame Milton Keynes Dons away from home.
At Elland Road, Neil Warnock's Leeds side took an early lead through Aidan White and summer signing Rodolph Austin doubled that advantage in the 69th minute.
Robbie Rogers has a new place to play until this winter.
Rogers was loaned Thursday from Leeds United to League One side Stevenage, where he will play
for former Colorado Rapids manager Gary Smith. The loan extends until the end of 2012, at which
point he will return to Leeds.
It appears Robbie Rogers' brief tenure with Leeds United could be coming to an end.
The U.S. national team midfielder has been placed on the club's transfer list, manager Neil
Warnock said. Rogers signed with Leeds as a free agent in December after five years with the
Columbus Crew.
Twiggster is back again with all the Leeds United news what there is of it! Still no news of
take over progress but never the less, a full show again this week! Andy Lonergan is sold, but we
have news of a new midfielder arriving at our club at the end of the month and an interview with
him. Lots of interviews this week including Neil Warnock and new boy Adam Drury, ahead of the
preseason games which kick off this Friday!
Here at OTP we like to bring you the breaking news as it arrives. So we are fairly sure that the
above photo is hard evidence that Martin O'Neill and Leeds United chairman Ken Bates met up and
travelled to Elland Road to discuss the manager's job. Not sure Neil Warnock will be too happy.
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Leeds United boss Neil Warnock looks set to add another midfielder to his squad with news that the
Yorkshire club has tabled a bid for SK Brann midfielder Rudolph Austin.
With former Derby midfielder Paul Green already in the ranks, Warnock is searching to rebuild a new
spine in order to push for Premier League promotion this season.
Better late than never! Waiting for this show is sometimes like waiting for news of the Leeds
takeover! But your favourite Leeds United online show is finally here, with news of a new signing
and and interview with him and also Neil Warnock's thoughts about his new signing as well as pre
season thoughts and Leeds United!
- MESSAGE TO SPURS: STAY AWAY. MESSAGE TO MARK HUGHES: DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
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- Five Year Flashback: Paladini and Caliendo Prepared to Sell QPR
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- The Draw Was Made today for the First Round of the League Cup ("Capital One" Cup)
- The New TV Money
- 1958 Video: QPR Vs Southampton||
- Sports Witness: - Everton threaten legal action over David Moyes links to Tottenham
Hotspur
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Signy on His Football Career
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- Birthday Today for Ex-QPR Bob Hazell
- The Draw Was Made today for the First Round of the League Cup ("Capital One" Cup)
- The New TV Money
- 1958 Video: QPR Vs Southampton||
- Sports Witness: - Everton threaten legal action over David Moyes links to Tottenham
Hotspur
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- Birthdays Today for Nigel Spackman Chris Kiwomya
- Birthday Yesterday for Neil Warnock (This Time last year, under Warnock, after 15 games, had 16 points.
"I'm afraid you've gone and caught me in a state of undress"
Skip back to last Friday evening. Leeds vs Sheffield Wednesday. Some gibbon charges onto the pitch and strong-arms Wednesday 'keeper Chris Kirkland in the face, leaving him poleaxed and in need of treatment.
Following the 1-1 draw between Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday in which a Leeds fan invaded the pitch and shoved Wednesday keeper Chris Kirkland in the face, Leeds manager Neil Warnock underplayed the incident by accusing Kirkland of milking the incident and going down too easy.
As Warnock writes in his column for the Independent, he did this without actually seeing the incident himself.
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United et al!
Paddy Kenny played for Queens Park Rangers for two seasons, helping them get back into the
Premier League. This summer, however, the popular player was given a shove towards the door at
Loftus Road when new manager Mark Hughes brought in Robert Green.
Kenny moved to Leeds to be reunited with Neil Warnock, and Green let in five goals during his
home debut against Swansea.
- Forty Years Ago Today: Gordon Jago's Promotion-Winning QPR Kicked off the Season
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- One More Week: THEN John Terry Finally get his Day in Court.
Robert Green, England's back-up goalkeeper at Euro 2012, has decided to sign with QPR and will
become a Rangers player on July 1st when his West Ham deal expires.
Green leaves the Hammers after arriving at Upton Park in 2006 and racking up over 200
appearances for the club.
During his time at West Ham, Green established himself as the number one choice as well as
earning himself regular England call-ups.
- Chelsea Staffers Damage The Champions League Trophy!
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- The Season Begins!
Okay, let's get this out of the way quickly, before we move onto altogether more relevant
matters. Joey Bartons sending off at Manchester City was a pretty stupid piece of behaviour, for
which he has been severely punished. There. That wasn't so bad, was it? Bartons media profile has a
tendency to overshadow everything in its wake up these days, but this does his employers something
of a disservice.
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Joey Barton did NOT Play yesterday for Fleetwood - Four Year Flashback - "ABC Loan Repaid in
Full" - Six Year Flashback: The New Season Opens - with Gary Waddock's
QPR Losing at Burnley: Match ReportsQPR Team: Paul Jones; Bignot, Stewart, Rose,
Milanese; Ainsworth, Lomas (R Jones 66), Rowlands (Donnelly 79), Cook; Ward; Czerkas (Bircham 71).
Federico Macheda has returned to Manchester United following yet another disappointing spell
away on loan. The season before last he went to Sampdoria where he got just 16 games and scored
only 1 goal in a season which saw the Italian club relegated.
Last season Neil Warnock brought him to QPR in the January, only to be sacked last than a week
later, leaving Kiko to play in six games in all competitions.
Hopefully the last time I will have to mention Neil Warnock, as he has pretty much said he is quitting ASAP. No wonder, after a terrible loss at home last Saturday has moved the play off places almost out of reach. Get thee GONE, Colin!Other topics covered in the show are international call ups for several LUFC players, some disappointing U.
[O]ur three and a half years of existence as awebsite have seen us occasionally dabble in the spirit of mindless speculation in analysing the squad of a promotion chasing club toassess thereadinessfora possible step up in level the following August. Previous studies have covered the Queen's Park Rangers of Neil Warnock, a Nigel Adkins led Southampton and West Ham under Sam Allardyce.
I've been trying to come up with different ways to visually represent results. I like this one.
That both Benitez and Houllier were in charge for six seasons allows for a straightforward
comparison, even if we don't count the first 12 games of 1998-99 because of the ill-fated
Evans/Houllier managerial pairing.
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_________________________________________________________________________ - The Various Tony Fernandes Investments/Financial Interests
- Two Ex-QPR Birthdays: Peter Reid and Robbie Steiner
- Anton Ferdinand supposedly Set for Charity Game on Sunday (in Ghana)
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- Ongoing QPR Transfer Rumour Thread
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Changing the way things are done at Loftus Road
The challenge facing Mike Rigg is to build an infrastructure that is fit for purpose.
QPR's Arthur Jefferson and Albert Smith
Flashback: Who's Who
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- Seven Year Flashback: Steffan "Paper Bags" Moore Joins QPR
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MIRROR - Shepherd's Bush Green: QPR expect to land England keeper next week
Star will have his medical after Three Lions' final group game and is set to agree a £40k a week
free-agent move to Loftus Road
Mark Hughes is confident of landing England keeper Robert Green on a free transfer next week.
