Tag: tragedy

Leeds news: Opinion – Tragedy for Leeds, comedy for their rivals
1 April 2025 Off

Leeds news: Opinion – Tragedy for Leeds, comedy for their rivals

By Total Football News

Football returned to Elland Road last Saturday afternoon following the final international break of the season – a historically ominous time for Leeds United.

Some Leeds fans – burdened by memories of springs past – were warning of the ‘Ides of March’, even during the Whites’ record-breaking February form.

By the end of that month, United were five points clear at the top of the Championship table, with third-placed Burnley

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Leeds United: ‘Promise of action over tragedy chants must be kept’
12 February 2025 Off

Leeds United: ‘Promise of action over tragedy chants must be kept’

By Total Football News

It will be 25 years this April since Christopher Loftus and Kevin Speight went to the UEFA Cup semi-final first leg in Istanbul and never came home.

Like all footballing tragedies, it was a loss that transcended rivalries.

Tributes poured in from supporters’ groups from across the globe and there was a terrible feeling of loss and anger that reverberated around Elland Road in the days and months after.

Those

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Chris Wilder: George Baldock tragedy has been ‘difficult’ for Sheffield United
17 October 2024 Off

Chris Wilder: George Baldock tragedy has been ‘difficult’ for Sheffield United

By Total Football News

Wilder initially signed Baldock on loan at Oxford United from MK Dons, where his career had been punctuated by a series of loans.

He went from that uncertainty to playing in the Premier League under both Wilder and his successor Paul Heckingbottom.

“Everybody admired how he went about his business, how his career went from where it did to being an international footballer, and just his general personality around the

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Stoke City supporters banned for tragedy chanting at Elland Road
27 March 2024 0

Stoke City supporters banned for tragedy chanting at Elland Road

By Total Football News

The force said the two men were in the away supporters’ section of the upper West Stand at the time, which is immediately above home fans.

Turner, 44, of Longport Road, Stoke-on-Trent, was fined £553 and ordered to pay £85 in costs and a £221 victim surcharge.

Lawton, 28, of Johnson Place, Stoke-on-Trent, was fined £120 and told to pay £85 in costs and a £48 victim surcharge.

Kevin Speight

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