Leeds’ stumble doesn’t diminish potential of club or Bielsa’s team | Daniel Taylor

Outsiders who remember Leeds’ misdeeds down the years may have enjoyed their 3-1 defeat to Norwich but it would be fascinating to see Marcelo Bielsa’s side in the top flight

OK, it is probably too late to be making a fuss now. More than 40 years too late, in fact. Yet I have always found it peculiar, to say the least, that when Billy Bremner had his punch-up with Kevin Keegan in the 1974 Charity Shield, the Football Association thought it perfectly normal to ask Sir Matt Busby, legend of Manchester United, to be part of its three-man disciplinary panel.

Unless, of course, you could imagine the modern-day equivalent and Sir Alex Ferguson being invited to pass judgment when, say, the football authorities get round to deciding what punishment, if any, Leeds should face for the spying missions launched by Marcelo Bielsa’s operatives on opposition training grounds this season.

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