Leeds, Money, and Misery Me: Twenty Years of Hurt, 23 Mistakes and the Tale of TOMA...

Dave Tomlinson's new book about Leeds United
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In his third and most ambitious book to date, “Leeds, Money, and Misery Me” (published by AuthorHouse UK), author Dave Tomlinson offers readers a searching narrative covering the catalogue of disasters that crippled Leeds United Football Club over a span of two decades.

“Leeds, Money, and Misery Me” takes a poignant look into the hopes and dreams of one of the most committed sets of fans in Europe and the men who let them down and abused their trust. It covers an extraordinary period in the history of British football — when money drove a revolution — and shines a light on important themes and trends such as racism, commercialism and globalism.

In the book, Tomlinson discusses the financial albatross that dogged the club, as well as the controversies, legal disputes and misjudgments by the men in charge and the impact of their eccentricities and egos. As the subtitle suggests, the book picks out the 23 most crucial mistakes and what might have happened if they had been avoided.

“It tells the real and fascinating story of a club that reached for the stars, over extended itself and imploded,” says the author. “This book is more about the off field side of the club than the playing side. It’s written with a passion for Leeds United but also points out with stark objectivity the faults that were made by so called stewards.”

‘It’s not the despair... I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.’
Talk to any fan of Leeds United and you’ll hear the same thing. Just as things start to look like they're going to work out, the optimism is suddenly snatched away, leaving only a miserable, desperate emptiness.
It’s hard being a fan of Leeds United and this last 20-odd years has been REALLY hard. In a way you can’t understand unless you’ve lived through it.
I wrote this book to explain what it’s like being a fan of Leeds United, the Damned United, daring to dream, living the dream, enduring the nightmare.
The lot of the United fan is not a happy one, but still they come, week in and week out, hoping that this will finally be the year, but recognising in their objective moments the improbability of that dream.
Mistakes were made along the way, there always are, but the ones that were made at Leeds were more crucial than most and did far more lasting damage. I’ve picked out the most telling of these, the 23 Mistakes and what might have happened if they’d been avoided. This could so easily have been a very different tale if a wiser course had been followed. But that would have been far, far too simple for the many-headed beast that is Leeds United Football Club!
This book tells the tale of the last two decades, the hopes and dreams of one of the most committed sets of fans in Europe, the men who let them down and abused their trust.
It is a story that you have to read, whether you’re a fan of the Whites or not.