The following season, 2000-01, saw Leeds embark on an against-the-odds run to the last four of the Champions League, even if Bakke’s first contribution to that campaign was one he’d rather forget.
The talent of that group was so big.” Champions League scare We made a mistake and suddenly Andy Cole scored and we were six points behind. That team should have won the league that year. “The team was flying in Europe, going to Russia, to Rome, to Turkey. “That season was like an adventure,” Bakke remembers. He was voted the club’s Young Player of the Year at the end of his first season in England, helping Leeds finish third in the league and reach the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup. Other clubs were interested in Bakke, who grew up an Everton supporter, but manager David O’Leary’s plans for building a youthful side and making the Norwegian a key figure within it sold him on Elland Road. He was just 21 when he left his hometown side to join Leeds in 1999, having been spotted the previous summer starring for a talented Norway squad that finished third at the Under-21 European Championships. We had a good night.”īakke began and ended his playing career with Sogndal IL and now manages the club. I think they were surprised to see me there. “I knew they were there so I turned up,” Bakke says. In walked Eirik Bakke, the high-energy Leeds midfielder of the early 2000s, poised to join them in celebration. Then the Leeds fans saw what at first they might have mistaken for an apparition brought on by the heady combination of beer and promotion-induced euphoria. After 16 years away – 16 years of near misses, financial mismanagement and second-and third-tier football – the result confirmed Leeds were back in the Premier League.
On the evening of July 17, they gathered at their local pub, jubilant and disbelieving following West Brom’s shock 2-1 defeat to Huddersfield. Sogndal, a municipality in the west of Norway, counts a handful of ardent Leeds United supporters among its modest population of around 12,000. Turds.Exclusive: Today's Sheinelle Jones opens up about directorial debut in powerful documentary better than county ground though where george best scored 6 in 1 game lol but i have took penalties at half time on both pitches and scored 2 out of 3 against reserve keeper, used to be season ticket holder for 8yrs but stopped going, only go to trouble games now as no atmosphere and its robbery price to watch shit players who i lap when they are running on the park and are shitfaced in the clubs on a friday night b4 a home game. shit ground no fans shit ground no fans lol.
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Its shat owned by council they play rugby on it and all sorts, its same ground as newcastle same designers built it but its only single tier on 3 sides so holds 7600 approx aparently if we had beat grimsby in payoff final a few yrs back to get into championship they were gonna double tier the 3 shit stands so they were all like the west stand, making capacity 12000 but midweek would be dead and would need decent away following to full it, currently most teams get only south stand about 800 tickets but big teams like leeds get half the family stand with a row of stewards inbetween fans lol gives them about 1200 tickets.