The Square Ball Podcast.

Welcome to the West Stand, our brand new show that's out Monday and Friday.

Very first edition of this, we've got a very special guest,

as we are going to be welcoming guests from across the world of Leeds United

journalists commentators ex-players all that kind of thing.

Dan Moylan with Michael Norman said and today's special guest from Opta it's Johnny

you're right. Thank you very much. Thanks having having my aunt. Privilege to be the first one.

First up, where can people find you?

JR Cooper 26 on Twitter.

And you are writing stuff as well on behalf of Opta, we can find that around the place so people look at your

social profiles they'll find what you've been writing yeah opter analyst as well

with sort of our like sister partner we call it yeah I just did one today

actually about 20 years of the championship.

So Simon Walton gets a few references.

If anyone, yes, if Balesa gets a photo and yeah, have a read.

Johnny, tell us about the trends from last season from a alleged United perspective then you've crunched the numbers

this is what you do with Opta number crunch I believe that's it your official job title number cruncher

yeah yeah what have you crunched from last year then what were the sort of big headline take away things from

last year? Well I think I tried to look at the positives because I felt like last year there were

a lot of positives obviously it ended not very well on my birthday which was the

playoff final

turn 30 so it's a good start many happy returns thank you very much indeed good day

...