, Leeds United, even more mistrust up at Elland Road?

Leeds United, even more mistrust up at Elland Road?

In today’s Yorkshire Evening Post [online], reporter Phil Hay leads with a column looking at the culture of mistrust resonating through the club and events surrounding the withdrawal of Leeds’ ‘Suspect Six’.

It seems that an email from the club did the rounds at Elland Road warning that any staff found guilty or responsible for leaking the club’s information of the ‘Sicknote Six’ would be disciplined for gross misconduct, a charge in the workplace that can lead to instant dismissal in some cases. Hay argues that the actual ‘injuries’ suffered by those Leeds players and their subsequent withdrawal from the Charlton game was the face of the controversy, but not everything about it. Hay says that the leaking of this sensitive information [as deemed so by the club],

“The leak was symptomatic of a wider culture of disharmony at Leeds, a culture which threatening emails won’t change.”

Hay then goes on to cite other incidents that have led to this bubbling and seething cauldron of disharmony, mistrust and malcontent. In this list he includes, the sacking of Steve Thompson, the Antenucci contract situation and, what the fans have suspected all along, that Neil Redfearn is being played as a patsie, a stool-pigeon. Hay goes on to say that the canker of discontent is spreading through the whole club, seeping deeper into its heart and soul.  Hay mentions the staff at the club and how they too are demoralised, despite the protestations emanating from the club itself via chairman Andrew Umbers. Hay says,

“But it’s extremely easy to find others who are demoralised by political division. They might not say so to Umbers or Cellino but they say it to us.”

With the club in turmoil, both on and off the pitch, is it any wonder that disgruntled employees, sick of the obfuscatory ‘smoke and mirrors’ techniques employed up at Elland Road, are spilling the beans and refusing to clear up the mess.

Ah well, it’ll soon be the season’s ends an then the madness will dies down…won’t it?

 

 

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