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5 minutes ago, LV said:


That’s pretty much the only pre-season Skybet Haaland special I don’t put on 

 

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Ah man. He was on a brace earlier this season and Pep hooked him bang early and I was raging. As it turns out, completely pointless because he'll probably have it in by Xmas.

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https://theathletic.com/3619546/2022/09/27/football-sleazebuster-ferguson-leeds/

 

Bean was invited to work for Cellino as a consultant after the Italian took control at Elland Road in 2014 and, as he points out, there are good reasons the relevant chapter in his forthcoming book is called The Madhouse.

“It was a surreal experience. There were a lot of funny and humorous times and he could be a very charming and charismatic bloke. But he also had another side. It was just a madhouse.”

You want to know how mad?

Cellino had such a complex against the number 17 that he had the seats at his former club, Cagliari, taken out and replaced with 16B.

At Leeds, the owner also wanted to get rid of anything purple because he considered it bad luck.

“They used to have various pennants in the boardroom, from the days when Leeds were playing in Europe,” says Bean. “We had to take them down if any of these pennants, from clubs all over Europe, showed any purple.

“Plus, I’ll never forget the night I got a phone call from Cellino because he had found out the goalkeeper, Paddy Kenny, was born on May 17. He was ranting down the phone that 17 was unlucky for him and we would have to get rid of him. I was thinking, ‘This is barmy’. But I couldn’t talk him out of it. He said he couldn’t risk having Paddy Kenny at the club.”

A lot of football people have superstitions. With Cellino, however, it went to another level.

“The maddest story was the time he wanted a Mini for his son,” says Bean. “I had a contact who arranged cars for the players and he managed to get a Mini that was the only one of its type in the country. We got it from a specialist in Mayfair. Everything was sorted. I let Cellino know the car was being delivered that Friday. ‘No’, he said, ‘it can’t be delivered on a Friday… Friday is a bad-luck day for delivering cars’. As I keep saying, it was a madhouse.”

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