TMB30: Manchester United 2-1 Leeds United | League Cup Semi Final 1 | 10th Feb 1991

The Square Ball: Leeds United Podcast

The Square Ball

Sports, Unknown, Leeds United, Lufc, Comedy, Soccer

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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30 years ago today, a titanic physical battle took place at Old Trafford, with the Whites two games from Wembley. A heavy pitch contributed to an opening goal by Lee Sharpe, who treated the waving masses to a corner flag shimmy. With levisolicitors.co.uk/thesquareball

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0:00.0	It's February 10th on the matchball 30 with Levi Solicitor's 10% off your legal fees
0:09.5	Levi Solicitor's.co.uk forward slash the square ball. Hello, I'm Dan Moylan and I'm
0:14.2	joined by Michael Normanton. Hello. And Moscow white Daniel Chapman. Hello. We're at
0:19.0	Old Trafford today. Boo hiss. Theatre of dreams. Not on your nelly. Not even full. Nope.
0:25.9	Shite. That's what it is. 34,000 there today for this. I've got semi-final. What's going on?
0:30.7	Not only full of scumas, but full of strange simpletons as well behind, but on the far
0:35.5	touch line when the ball goes out of play, they're all waving. Why were they all waving at one point?
0:39.2	Is it just because it's on telly? Yeah, they were excited to be on television. So whenever there's
0:43.0	a, don't you remember that trend? Whenever there was a throw in, the people behind the person
0:47.7	taking it would wave, because they knew they weren't going to be on TV. But like everyone was
0:51.4	doing it within about a 30 meter radius of where the throne was being taken from.
0:55.2	We didn't have mobile phones in those days. There wasn't YouTube. Everybody wasn't filmed every
1:00.8	second of the live. So it's a big novelty to have a camera pointed at you, even if it was 150 yards
1:06.4	away. Bless you, sport. Hi, pathetic. Come on, young lad. Get on board with this one.
1:12.0	Yeah. So Old Trafford is the, is the destination today for the match ball 30. League Cup semi-final
1:17.2	straight off the back of Lee Chapman's horrific facial injury. And obviously there's no way he's
1:22.3	going to make this. Well, Wilkinson said that if anyone has a chance of playing in these
1:26.7	circumstances, and you can always tell it's serious when somebody's talking about circumstances,
1:31.9	then it's Chapman because he has a lot of mental courage. Otherwise known as he's a fucking idiot
1:37.2	because he played. You do get a brief glimpse of his face before the game and he's had some
1:42.5	stuff applied to it with cuts, but you do just look at it and you think you cannot head a football
1:46.9	with all that going on. It will just burst open. It's not even going to go bandage on.
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