Something went missing when he was replaced by Kidd, and I’m not just saying that because of his links with Manchester United.”The team shattered 6-1 at Fratton Park in Reid’s final, disastrous game in charge has shown signs of the old panache. They might have beaten Chelsea and Manchester City, while their 3-2 victory over Fulham was as if the last two disastrous years had never been.There are still shadows hanging over Gray, not least the fact he is not properly qualified to coach the club. Had we won that game, the whole perspective of Leeds United would have been altered.” The best was not the run to the European Cup semi-final two years ago. In 1973 he saw Leeds attempt a treble of the Championship, Cup-Winners’ Cup and FA Cup. Thirty years later the treble they might achieve is relegation, administration and the sale of their few survivors from the O’Leary years.”This is not the worst I’ve felt, that was coming back from Paris after the European Cup Final of 1975, knowing we had been cheated.

In all these years he has missed one game – a friendly in Toronto in 1968 and that because he could not get a flight from Madrid.He has seen so much but unlike so many fans whose support teeters on the edge of fanaticism, Edwards has a sense of perspective. He has been watching Leeds as long as Gray has been associated with the club and his experiences are recounted in a book called Paint It White – the title derives from his refusal as a painter and decorator to deck out anything in red. Yes, the club “was essentially spending money it didn’t have”, he admitted recently. When it was doing most of the spending, Gray, who was never close to the Irishman, was third in line, behind O’Leary and a man who supplanted him as first team coach, Bryan Kidd.Just as Newcastle recovered their post-Keegan equilibrium only through Sir Bobby Robson, who queued for tickets to see Jackie Milburn play in the 1951 FA Cup final, so it needed Gray, a Glasweigan steeped in Leeds United since he made the first of his 442 appearances for the Yorkshire club in 1965, to oversee the revival.Should O’Leary blow a kiss towards the Revie stand this Boxing Day, Gary Edwards will be there. However, his reception will be considerably less than that of another messianic figure who came within an ace of breaking Manchester United’s hold on the Premiership but whose legacy was heavy debt and memories of what might have been.
Kevin Keegan’s name was chanted from every corner of St James’ Park when he returned for the first time in February 2002.

The Manchester City team bus nosed its way into the stadium through a Geordie sea for an FA Cup tie and Keegan blew kisses to the vast stand his team had paid for.O’Leary, now at Aston Villa, will get precious little of this; his legacy is far more questionable. His insistence that he was unaware that he was spending £70 million of someone else’s money still rings hollow 18 months after Peter Ridsdale dismissed him following a terse five-minute conversation.Eddie Gray was more direct. The ghost of Christmases past stalks Elland Road this afternoon. David O’Leary laughed when asked if he imagined he could return to Leeds United with his held high. But injuries deprive the West Indies of Chris Gayle and Corey Collymore..

On the 2001 Ashes tour of England, a memo to the Australian team relating theories from Chinese warrior Sun Tzu’s The Art of War became public when it was placed under hotel doors of reporters as well as players. Similar incidents have happened during series against New Zealand and South Africa.”I will continue to do that [write letters],” Buchanan said during Australia’s training session before today’s third Test against India.* Brian Lara, who was hit on the left arm in the nets on Wednesday, has been passed fit to play for the West Indies against South Africa in the second Test in Durban today. John Buchanan, the Australian coach, said yesterday that he had no regrets about sending critical letters to his players and that he would continue to do so despite theirbeing frequently leaked to the media.
Buchanan, in a letter to the players, accused them of being “soulless” and of an “immature performance” after the unexpected four-wicket loss to India in the second Test in Adelaide. He also accused them of being distracted by “dealmaking and sponsorships”.Buchanan’s letters have a history of getting into the media. I feel like a British fighter, I am a British fighter and that is good,” Greenberg said He is still only 21.. But Greenberg touched down in round two when he rushed forward, eager to please the cameras and the crowd, and left his chin open to a quick counter.”All heavyweights get knocked down That is a fact.