Drive into Leeds from the west and you cannot miss it. Elland Road. The gateway to a city. Twenty-five years ago they were a preparing to lift a league title there.
In recent times, things have been so bad at Leeds United, there must have been a temptation just to throw a huge blanket over it. Football can do that.
It can lift you and it can fill your heart. But it can embarrass you, too, and during their years in the wilderness — years of bad football and chaotic ownership — the people of Leeds learned to turn their heads away.