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6-0. It was 5 at half time.

I think I actually saw a video of the goals on Instagram this morning,

and I was struck by how I couldn't remember any of them,

which I think explains how the rest of that day went.

It was a good day, right?

My main memory of the 90 minutes was at 5-0, turning to the guy beside me and going, what do we do now? Like, what are we meant to do for the next? All the jeopardy's gone? What do we do for the next 65 minutes? It's actually felt a little bit like that recently, and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, but winning two games on the spin and thinking, we're probably going to stay up and we get to go to a cup semi-final. It's the whole like it all ends so quickly. Yeah. It goes from, like we talked about it last year and talked about it whenever Leeds got promoted in 2020 it just goes from being all, everything's on the line and then one day it's just over and you sort of, it just goes from being, all, everything's on the line, and then one day,

it's just over, and you sort of, it passes you by almost. I suppose it didn't really last year, but it feels like we're nearly there. Yeah, I was saying when we were in Ireland, I thought it'd be like, I was really confident of staying up, and I thought it'd be like the last two promotion seasons, where it feels agonising, and then you look back when it's all over and go,

that was actually really comfortable.

I actually... and I thought it'd be like the last two promotion seasons where it feels agonising and then you look back when it's all over and go, that was actually really comfortable. Actually, the agony hasn't come yet. Maybe it's still to come, I don't know, but it feels like you've got five games left to make it super comfortable. Well, Farca's been talking about recently, though, hasn't you, about getting this monkey off you back, the idea that Leeds always do with the hard one. We don't actually have to

if we don't want to.

But it's not normal

to go out and just, when Leeds won the league by 10 points in 2020, that's not a normal thing to do. It's not normal to be in a relegation battle and then just go and win at Old Trafford for the first time in a generation

and then win the game after that

and then, you know, going to the last five games

potentially comfortable. go and win at Old Trafford for the first time in a generation and then win the game after that

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