The future of Leeds United looks a little brighter after the Football League agreed to meet club officials next week. Serious doubts linger whether the club will start the new League One season as they are still awaiting their 'golden share'. However, after receiving all the necessaryinformation from Leeds' administrators KPMG, the League have agreed to meet club officials in a bid to resolve the club's precarious position.

This is great news for all Leeds fans and hopefully will allow the club to make some new signings before the start of the new season.Although it does not give players much time to bed in it would be great to finally see some new blood join the club in our quest to get back to the Championship.

With the Leeds players on their pre season tour in Germany it has come to light that the players are still awaiting payment of wages for over six weeks while the administration side of things are being sorted out.

The Professional Footballers' Association has called on Leeds United to pay their players their outstanding wages. The summer saga regarding the club's ownership has meant Dennis Wise's squad have gone six weeks without pay. With Ken Bates winning the second round of bidding for the club, PFA representative Mick McGuire has urged Leeds to stump up the cash.

"It's an absolute mess and it needs to be resolved urgently because the players are reaching the end of their tethers," stated McGuire. There are funds around so there needs to be some common sense to make sure the players get their wages. It's getting on for six weeks now and you cannot expect… Read more

Leeds United chairman Ken Bates is buoyant on the club's future now that they have been given a 'clean start'. Bates is back in control of the club after administrators KPMG accepted his consortium's offer in the second round of bidding.

Former Chelsea supremo Bates has hit out at those who have delayed him gaining control, stating the club have missed out on a number of targets as a result. However, Bates remains hopeful and believes there are plenty more fish in the sea for manager Dennis Wise to sign as Leeds begin life in League One.

"Leeds were in a mess when we took over - the Peter Ridsdale era and the last board were incompetent but now we've got a clean start and a clean sheet of paper. It's a big club - it's not at the moment but it will be - and we can take it… Read more

Leeds United's administrators, KPMG, have put the Elland Road club up for sale. The decision from KPMG comes after HM Revenue and Customs revealed it is owed £7.7million by Leeds and would contest chairman Ken Bates' takeover of the club. Club creditors had accepted an offer of 1p-in-the-pound from Bates which would see him buy back the club and pull The Whites out of administration.

But HM Revenue and Customs are unhappy with the deal proposed by Leeds United Football Club Ltd. Leeds may be barred from starting the League One season as the situation was not set to be resolved until the start of September. However as a result KPMG have now acted by welcoming new offers for Leeds, and have set a deadline of 5pm on Monday for bids to be received.

"We are putting the club up for sale and offers must be in by 5pm on… Read more

Leeds kicked off their pre season with a game in Dublin last night against Shelbourne and emerged 2-0 winners. A total of 21 players were used by Leeds including 7 trialists with one of theses David Prutton ex Southampton scoring the second in the 76 minute.In the first half Robbie Blake had opened the scoring with a trademark free kick from the edge of the area.

Other trialists on view included Russell Fry ex Hull City, James Mullen ex Man United youngster, Curtes Weston who was the youngest player ever to play in a FA Cup Final with Millwall in 2004, Graham Coughlan ex Sheffield Wednesday captain, Leon Constantine ex Port Vale and Paul Boertine ex Derby County. All the squad played for 45 minutes and Dennis Wise & Gus Poyet said they were very pleased with the run out after their first week back training.

Once again there was a large… Read more

On Saturday 7th July Leeds will play Shelbourne at Tolka Park Dublin with a kick off time of 7.45pm. The last time Leeds came to Ireland was in 2003 so it gives Irish fans the chance to see Dennis Wise's men on home soil.Although Leeds played in Limerick last season it was mainly reserve and youths players that were in action so this is a chance to see what players will tog out for the 2007/08 season.Tickets can be purchases from Ticketmaster or direct from Shelbourne football club.

The League 1 fixtures came out today and Leeds kick off the season with an away tie at Tranmere Rovers on Saturday August 11th. Unfortunately there are not the glamour fixtures we were used to some season back but never the less the club will be making it's annual trips again with Huddesfield Town on December 8th being one the members may choose. This will be decided at our AGM which will take place before the start of the season and all members will be informed of the date for this in the near future.

Fixtures 2OO7/2008

Saturday, 14 July 2007
Friendly Match
York v Leeds, 15:00

Saturday, 28 July 2007
Friendly Match
Burnley v Leeds, 15:00

Tuesday, 31 July 2007
Friendly Match
Darlington v Leeds, 19:30

Saturday, 04 August 2007
Friendly Match
Wigan v Leeds, 15:00

Saturday, 11 August 2007
Coca-Cola Football League One
Tranmere v Leeds, 15:00

Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Carling Cup
Macclesfield v Leeds, 19:45

Saturday, 18 August 2007
Coca-Cola Football League One
Leeds v Southend,… Read more

On Saturday week last Basil met his match in Mullagh Church when he walked down the aisle with his lovely bride Patricia Cahill.The reception was held in the Bellbridge House Hotel in Spanish Point and a mighty day was had by all. Take a look at the pictures in the gallery of their special day. Best Wishes to you both from all your friends at Ennislusc.

Ryanair have announced that from November they will have a three times weekly flight to Leeds / Bradford from Shannon Airport. This is great news for us Leeds fans and just mayby Kevin Green's letter to Michael O Leary got him thinking of opening this new route. Well at least that's what Kevin says.

The flight days are Tuesday, Thursday and Sundays with flight times yet to be finalized. While this might not suit some of our plans we could fly out on Saturday mornings it the times allow and could return via East Midlands if we so wishes. At least we now have the opportunity to fly direct to Leeds ,something we never thought would happen. The only disappointment is were not in the Premiership but we can dream! Thank you Mr O Leary for listening.

The opening of a new Etap Hotel in Leeds has given us another option when going over for games. It's 10 minutes walk from the City Centre and offers great value at £32 per night for ensuite accommodation with satellite TV and a buffet breakfast. This is a big saving on our present option of The Queens and as they say a change now and again is no harm. However as always we'll leave it up to the members to decide their preferred option.

Also it should be note that Paul and Angie of The Prince Of Wales pub have made 12 bed available to our members if they wish to stay at a nominal cost. This is a very kind gesture by our good friends who visited us last weekend and enjoyed the crack during the Fleadh Nua weekend in the company of Slim Corry, Mike McNamara, Kieran and Kaki… Read more

On Saturday next the 2nd June our very own Basil Whelan will walk down the aisle in St Mary's Church Mullagh and into married life with Patricia Cahill by his side. Afterwards there is a reception in The Bellbridge Hotel Spanish Point and Basil has extended a warm welcome to any members and their partners to come along to the evening reception.

Then on Wednesday 6th June in far away Sorrento Italy our good friend and fellow member Enda Howard will wed Marguerite "Mags " Murphy from Clarecastle. Howardy being a staunch Eire Og follower says that the Red & Bandage are the only boys for him and that Mags will never get him to shout for The Magpies.

All in the club wish both couples every success in life and look forward to seeing them on some of our trips in the future.

Our good friends Paul and Angie who run the Prince Of Wales pub in Leeds are over in Ennis for the weekend and looking forward to meeting up with many of the gang who they have met over the years when the club goes to Leeds.On Monday they are going fishing with clubmember Jimmy Allard who is an international fly fisherman and as avid fishing people they are really looking forward to this part of the trip. Bring plenty of sandwiches as Jimmy loves his food as we well know from our trips.
They also told us that they will now after all be staying in The Prince of Wales and in fact are doing major renovations to the pub.We all look forward to seeing the new look Prince when we travel over for our first Division 1 fixture in November.

Derby County 2 Leeds United 0

In what was a meaningless match for both sides Leeds finished the season with a defeat and 10 men. Wise gave a chance to some of the younger players notably Robert Bayly, Seb Carole, Jemal Johnson who were in the starting 11 with Tom Elliott,Jonny Hewson and Fabian Delph on the bench. All made appearances during the game but unfortunately Bayly saw red for an attempted head butt after he was involved in a bad tackle.

Goals from Darren Currie on 45 mins and one from Tyrone Mears on 86 mins gave Derby a deserved victory and a place in the play offs. The 1,500 Leeds supporters sang all during the game and at the end gave a standing ovation the the players for their efforts.Nice to see the fans still love the club and next season we will need them more than ever.

At 3.15pm today our faith was finally sealed and our worst fears were realised when our beloved Leeds United went into administration. Football League rules state any club entering administration is to be docked 10 points.
As we had 10 points immediately deducted it means that any slim chance of staying up were finally gone up in smoke. Some consolation is that there will be no further points deduction when we play in League 1 next season so Leeds will start off with a clean slate.

Shortly after the appointment of Administrators the business and assets of the club were sold to another company called Leeds United Football Club Limited ( Leeds)whose investors have been introduced by Ken Bates. Complicated I hear you say.Richard Fleming, joint administrator and KPMG restructuring partner, revealed Leeds' debt totalled £35million.

Fleming told KPMG's website: "We were asked by the board of directors to advise Leeds United… Read more

Southampton 1 Leeds United 0

Despite playing with 10 men from over an hour of the game when Alan Thompson was sent off for violent conduct Leeds nearly snatched a valueable point but were hit by a sucker punch in the 86 minute by Bradley Wright Phillips. With Hull scoring in injury time vs Stoke City courtesy of ex Leeds player Nick Barmby it was a bad day for the boys from Elland Road. Leeds had chances during the game via Healy ,Cresswell and Richardson but in the end the sending off combined with tired legs sunk Wises Boys.

Leeds United 1 Ipswich Town 1

Yet another cruel late goal had dire consequences for Leeds with Alan Lee's 88 minute goal from a corner all but sending Leeds down to Division 1 for the first time in their history. With Hull winning away to Peter Ridsdale's Cardiff courtesy of a Dean Windess strike Leeds are now three points behind Hull but more importantly 9 goals worse off.Sunday next sees Leeds away to Championship play off chasers Derby County with Hull home to Plymouth so barring a miracle Leeds are dead and relegated.

Things started well for Leeds when Creswell headed home on 12 minutes following a Healy cross but there after they seemed to be nervous.With the Ipswich supporters chanting "Going Down" when news of Hull scoring came through it only led to more nerves on behalf of the players and supporters. And sure enough on 88 minutes our worst fears… Read more

Colchester 2 Leeds United 1

Two goals in the last eight minutes,one in injury time by Colchester's top scorer Jamie Cureton in the 91st minute dented Leeds homes of Championship survival. Having gone ahead in the 54min with a wonder goal from Eddie Lewis who picked up the ball in his own half and left three Colchester players in his wake before hitting a powerful shot past keeper Gerken, Leeds where eyeing up three points when disaster struck.

After the goal it was all Colchester but Leeds seemed to have weathered the storm until a free kick from Karl Duguid was headed home by Chis Iwelumo thanks to artocious defending by an absent Leeds back four. Dennis Wise would have been delighted with a point but when substitute Hogan Ephraim whipped in a cross in injury time there was Cureton to squeeze it home beyond a stranded Ankergren. With Barnsley shocking Birmingham… Read more

Leeds United 1 Burnley 0

With David Healy wearing the captain's arm band after Jonathan Douglas was give a five match ban for reaching 15 yellow cards and also being sent off after the Colchester game for foul and abusive language it was a fired up United who took the field at Elland Road. In came Frazier Richardson, Robbie Blake and Richard Cresswell for Rui Marques ,Douglas and Tresor Kandol with Wise wanting his players to attack from the first whistle.

This they did and on 21 minutes the got their due reward when Alan Thompson crossed from the left and Matt Heath got on the end of it to head home passed Jensen. Three minutes later Richardson struck the bar with a fierce drive and on 35 min Thompson once again crossed and Heath was there again but Jensen made a great save to deny him his second of the afternoon.… Read more

Leeds United 2 Plymouth 1

In what was a remarkable day in the Championship Leeds have finally climbed out of the bottom three for the first time since November 25th last thanks to an 87 min winner from on loan centre back Lubomir Michalik.With Southend losing on Friday night and Barnsley losing at Ipswich a win would lift Leeds out of the relegation mire but they left it very very late once again. Leeds named an unchanged side from the Preston game and started brightly with Healy testing Luke McCormack in the Plymouth goal on several occassions.

However it was Leeds who were caught on the break when Hamosi outsprinted Frazier Richardson to a through ball from Ebanks-Blake and the midfielder gave Ankergren no chance with a low drive. Immediately Richardson was replaced by Alan Thompson as he seemed to be carrying a leg injury. Kishishev went to right back and it… Read more

Leeds United 2 Preston North End 1

DAVID HEALY finally transferred his magic touch from the international stage to club football last night to grab a dramatic last-minute winner for Leeds.The striker had been criticised for delivering when wearing a Northern Ireland shirt but going missing on his return to the domestic scene.But five goals in two games for his country this week convinced Dennis Wise to recall him.He repaid Wises faith in him 100% with an 89minute winner for the Elland Road boys.

It had all started badly for Leeds when after 5mins Callum Davidson won a loose ball in midfield and found ex Leeds player Danny Pugh out wide. He laid a clever pass into the path of Ormerod (another ex Leeds player), who was played onside by the lumbering Lubomir Michalik, and the striker drilled an angled finish past Casper Ankergren.It was sweet revenge for Ormerod, who broke a… Read more