The Phil Hay Show

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leads pod. What we got for the new year there, Phil? What's in the locker? We've got a review

of the year, which just runs through pretty outstanding 12 months for Legion 8. Quite funny,

really, isn't it? It's been a grim year globally, but actually, anybody following Leads, it's been the year of your life. Give or take. We'll have

reflections on Spurs as well, where the intention is to write about Ilem Isley, who has been

rather outstanding this season. Head to Theathletic.com forward slash Leadspod to sign up now. Well, we'll have a look at 2020 in just a little bit.

First of all, let's reflect on what has been a pretty good Christmas week, all things considered.

Six points out of six, 23 on the board now, and Leeds looking pretty good for survival this year.

It was nine out of 12 as well, and I think the point that people were trying to make to cling to after that pace than at Old Trafford was that out of the four games, the three that Leeds really needed to win in terms of the bigger picture were Newcastle, Burnley and West Brom. I think like Bielsa said, on the day of the Man United game, you would rather have won that than anything else,

and you would have pretty much forgotten everything else to win over there. But when you

step back and see how the table's looking now, you do realise that they've been on the money

on the days where it really mattered. And 23 points now, which I thought it was interesting

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