This is what Leeds United means to me - YEP letters

FROM: Ian Edmondson, YEP reader and Leeds United supporter
Leeds United's FA Cup win is one treasured memory for fans.Leeds United's FA Cup win is one treasured memory for fans.
Leeds United's FA Cup win is one treasured memory for fans.

We asked YEP readers what Leeds United means to you. However long you’ve been supporting the club, we want to know why being part of the Leeds United family is such an important part of people’s lives.

Here, reader and supporter Ian Edmondson explains why Leeds has been a passion for nearly 60 years. To share your love of all things Whites, email yep.newsdesk@ypn.co.ukI can still remember the first Leeds United team I watched at Elland Road as a young boy, back in the early 1960s when they were in the old Division Two.

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Sprake: Reaney, Bell, Bremner, Charlton, Hunter, O,Grady, Weston, Peacock, Collins and Johannson.

Since then the various teams that have represented the club have provided so my personal memories and milestones in my life.

In the FA Cup I can remember crying over the defeat to Liverpool in 1965. Watching Eddie Gray’s final to Chelsea in 1972 the year I left school and started work. Winning the Centenary Cup Final against Arsenal.

In Europe I remember the Fairs Cup, as it was then, and games against teams such as Ferencvaros, Real Zaragoza and Juventus. I also remember been chased through Leeds by Celtic supporters on the afternoon before the European Cup match in 1970.

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Who will forget the pride of reaching the European Champions final against Bayern Munich or the feeling we were robbed by a biased referee.

I was also privileged to go to the game against the Barcelona team of Cruyff and Neeskens and I remember coming out of Elland Road wedged between people with my feet not touching the ground, hoping against hope they didn’t part until I got to the bottom of the steps.

Even in the bad times when then team was relegated to Division One and all the subsequent years in the Championship they are still my team.

I must admit I didn’t think I would ever see the team play in the Premier League again and having got there my next dream is that they can make Europe again.

It doesn’t have to be Champions League, the Europa Cup will be just fine as long as I can see the name of my team back where it rightly belongs.