For 3 years I have brought Marcelo his favourite tea and biscuits from Argentina 🇦🇷 & Chile 🇨🇱. I always left them on the door handle of his flat, knocked and left. Today he called at my house to say thank you and goodbye. It meant the world to me. Adios amigo 👋🏻
#lufc
#bielsa
This tweet is approved by the Lorimer family who wanted to share Peter’s final moments at Elland Road after his funeral yesterday. May he Rest In Peace 🏴💙💛🤍
#lufc
#scotland
#peterlorimer
Marcelo Bielsa steers Uruguay past Brazil to the SF of the Copa America and while the whole place goes nuts he seeks out Raphina and does this. Find me a better person in football. Vamos Uruguay y viva Bielsa 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🩵🖤
#lufc
#bielsa
I needed 15 others so I cld buy myself a Bielsa bucket (min order 16).. 70 lovely people came forward, so I ordered the lot… They arrived today. Kids & I wanted to do something fun with them before they all get collected. Gracias señor 🪣
#lufc
#bielsa
#Newells
And it’s a wrap. 3-1 to La Celeste, same scoreline as his first competetive game at Leeds in fact - the famous demolition of Stoke
Loved my trip. Hope I haven’t bored anyone. I’ll sign off with this pic. Was so nice to see him back at it. Goodnight from Montevideo! 🇺🇾
#bielsa
Mad dash to the game is in full swing:
Left Calgary at 0330 this morning BST...
Flew: Calgary-Heathrow ✈️
HEX: Heathrow-Paddington 🚈
Tube: Paddington-KX 🚇
LNER: Kings Cross-Leeds 🚅
Match: Elland Road 1630 ⚽️
Stay tuned 😂
#tilltheworldstopsgoinground
#lufc
#mot
@LUFC
Down in Chile and caught up with my friend for a coffee. Gabriel was Personal Assistant to Marcelo & we had a lovely time reminiscing about his 3.5 years in Leeds, which he truly loved.
#lufc
#bielsa
VAR has just robbed football of one of THE great moments. I am actually devastated for Coventry fans. Put it in the bin never to be seen again
#COVMUN
#VAR
I started this year with just one wish - to finally get to Rosario and watch Newell’s Old Boys play at Estadio Marcelo Bielsa. Today is the day! Being collected at 2pm in Buenos Aires and taken by 2 great Argentinian friends - & I can’t wait!
#newells
#lufc
#bielsa
Here goes on another epic journey to Elland Road. Currently 7,291 miles away in Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
✈️ Santiago-London 👨🏼✈️
🚇 LHR-Kings Cross
🚄 Kings Cross - Leeds
🚌 Leeds-Elland Road
⚽️ 1945 KO 🤞🏻
#mot
#lufc
#alaw
@LUFC
A remarkable performance and result against the world champions in their own back yard.
Last 2 games:
Uruguay 2 - 0 Brazil
Argentina 0 - 2 Uruguay
Marcelo Bielsa - the master - he used to manage Leeds United you know.
#Uruguay
#Argentina
#ARGURU
#lufc
Regardless of the rights & wrongs:
We loved the man unconditionally
We never celebrated promotion
We never enjoyed the PL first season
We won’t get to say goodbye
That’s why this hurts so much. He gave us so much but we never said thank you
Viva Bielsa 🇦🇷
#lufc
I took my great friend (and the biggest
#newells
fan north of Rosario)
@ModernLepra
to the game on Tuesday night. He got to meet his hero, And It Was Beautiful 😊
#lufc
#bielsa
Just watching the match with my boy. He’s in Leeds, I’m 7,000 miles away in Chile 🇨🇱 on the iPad next to him. He’s very excited, & so am I. Love our club 💙💛
#ononon
#lufc
#mot
There is no Leeds fan with a bigger love for Marcelo Bielsa than me. What he did for our club was truly remarkable. The bickering must end now & we shd look back fondly on his time with us. Well done everyone for surviving this torrid season. Onwards to the next. MOT
#lufc
💙💛
Such is the state of the railways this weekend I’m thinking of travelling to West Ham on Sunday morning via Holland 🙈 Not very green though is it 🤯
#lufc
#mot
This gent and his son spotted my
#lufc
shirt and asked me for a photo at the top of Sugar Loaf just now. Asked all about Mr Bielsa “el loco” & wished us well for the run in. They are all following us in Rosario 🙏🏻
#footballfamily
#newells
#nob
#mot
#alaw
💛💙❤️🖤
It’s a wrap. Big weekend of bucket collections over. Met some lovely people, rcvd some very unnecessary but lovely gifts (one gent even paid for my 🪣) & had fun chatting to the bemused passers by. 🪣‘s now heading as far as Seoul & Toronto I’m told. Cheers all, been fun
#lufc
** Bielsa Bucket **
I’m desperate for a replica for my bar. Looked everywhere & failed but I’ve now found the orig manufacturer but it’s minimum order of 16…
They’d cost £80 each (zero profit being made)
So I need 14 more buyers - is anyone interested !?
#lufc
#bielsa
🪣
Bit of
#lufc
history here on my trip to Johannesburg. Lucas’s first ever shirt on which we managed to spell his name wrong 😆🤦🏼♂️ Game would have been 1994 I think
@lufcstats
? MOT from South Africa 🇿🇦
Sunrise over Brazil as I was finishing my rest on my way down to Argentina last night. Very long flight time almost 14hrs. Just getting stuff sorted in the hotel for another a trip to Rosario for the Newell’s game tonight. Super excited again!
#newells
#lufc
Most of my mates don’t understand why I rage at modern football so much. Here it is. It’s also the reason I hugely admire Marcelo Bielsa. The modern game is utterly rancid & deplorable. In the middle of his competition Marcelo takes the time to give us his views 🫡 Great thread
Every football fan should spend 2 minutes watching this video.
Bielsa talking about the current state of football. Very poignant as we watch the worst European Championship of our generation
Re Archie Gray leaving Leeds
I don’t know the profit rules fully - I have better things to do. Aren’t they to stop clubs like Man City and Newcastle buying all the good players just for fun? Instead Leeds have to sell a home grown starlet just to exist?
F-ck that 🤬
#lufc
Morning from Santiago. On my way over to Montevideo for Uruguay 🇺🇾 v Chile 🇨🇱 tomorrow night at Estadio Centenario. The first World Cup 2026 qualifier of Marcelo Bielsa’s new reign
#WorldCup
#Bielsa
#Uruguay
#lufc
🧵
This blows my mind - Marcelo Bielsa made Mr Radrizzani very wealthy. Turned his £45M into £400M (on paper). What followed shd have been serious investors and a stadium rebuild with AR President for life if he wanted. Instead of that he sacked him and, well, here we are 🤯
#lufc
Sunrise as viewed from the flight deck of BA 250 last night. We were close to the Azores on our way home from Chile when I took this, about 8.5 hrs into our 14 hr journey
Another
#lufc
mad dash....
Not a super fan (it’s just work) but today:
Seoul, South Korea 🇰🇷 0215... arrived London 1450.... 8,852km..
HEX & tube LHR-Paddington-KX
LNER KX 1633 - (ETA) Leeds 1852
Car to Elland Road hoping to meet sister there at 1930 🙏🏻🤞🏻
#mot
#alaw
What a night that was… Could barely watch the penalty at the end… 🙈 Was lucky enough to say bem feito (well done!) to Rapha after the game 🙌🏻 🇧🇷
#lufc
#mot
As soon as I get my first flight back to Chile again I’ll bring a suitcase of these home and post on here. First come first served. I won’t make a penny, just do it for fun. All Leeds Aren’t We 👍🏻
#lufc
Good morning all, it’s Wednesday and my approximately 11,684 mile journey from Leeds to Wembley is underway..!
Cross Gates-Leeds-King’s Cross-Heathrow-Shanghai-Heathrow-Paddington-Wembley
Let’s go! 💙💛
#lufc
#mot
🚉🚄🚇🚈🛫..🛬..🇨🇳..🛫..🛬🚇🏟️⚽️
@peteneville65
Very helpful and informative thread. Thank you for taking the time Peter. As someone in another ‘legacy’ & once cherished career I really feel for you and your colleagues.
The biggest group of
#LUFC
fans we've taken to the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa ✔️
Last night, Leeds fans from England, Ireland and Norway joined us in Rosario for the Sarmiento game.
Great to have you guys, thanks for visiting the famous Newell's Old Boys ❤️🖤
Lovely to see this train on my way to Heathrow this morning.
What a player John Charles was for
#lufc
and then
#Juve
after his British record transfer to Italy in 1957
Just a friendly reminder to all
#lufc
season ticket holders that if you don’t attend 80% of the games this season they’ll strip you of your ticket. Never mind that they’ve sold most of the team eh, just turn up and be grateful 😂🙉🙈
A lot of
#lufc
fans will recall Harvey Sharman who was our physio for nigh on 15 years. Great to see him at the World Series game last night... Still Leeds!
#mot
#lufc
#
Just been to Elland Road to pick up tomorrow’s Peter Lorimer tribute programme & stopped by his pub for old time’s sake on the way home.
#lufc
#lorimer
#mot
It might be his birthday but I suspect I know what Mr Bielsa will be doing this evening… It’s Rosario derby day, a derby like no other. Vamos Newell’s y feliz cumpleaños señor!🎈
#lufc
#bielsa
Things I never thought I’d find myself doing prior to September 2018 probably included staying up till 02:30 on a Wednesday night to watch Uruguay v Nicaragua in a friendly…😅 Viva Bielsa 🇺🇾
#Uruguay
#Bielsa
Been made so welcome tonight. With huge thanks to the guys who run this account and have become such great friends along the way. I hope it’s will be the first of many visits! 🙏🏻
A friend of this account
@JamesMRowlands
finally made it to the Estadio Marcelo Bielsa for a
#Newells
game tonight.
#LUFC
fan James was welcomed at the stadium by a number of Newell's fans whom he has befriended in recent years due to Bielsa's close links to both clubs.
As we prepare to face them on Sunday here’s the team sheet from the last time we played Tottenham at Elland Road signed for me by Mr Bielsa the next day after he had said goodbye to his players at Thorp Arch. What an almighty mess it’s been since then.
#lufc
Very well done whoever assembled this montage. So, so moving. One could ‘almost’ forget what a giant he was on the rugby field after the direction life took him subsequently. A legend through it all right to the very end. RIP
Repatriation duties for me today to Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩 New destination for both me and our 787 fleet. Long old way, expecting >15hrs flight time on the way home.
My club have literally kept me going this horrible year. They’ve been utterly brilliant and I can’t thank each & every one of them enough for their efforts. Out of the darkness & into to light, we are Leeds 💛💙
#mot
#lufc
(photo credit YEP)
Good morning from Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 Just the sort of place the
#ESL
had in its sight that for its ‘big 6’ games I’m sure so I thought I’d give my new t-shirt a spin therefore 😊 Looking forward to the match later
#lufc
#LEEMUN
So, Charity Shield aside, Leeds have played at Wembley (inc Cardiff) 4 times in my lifetime and never even scored a goal, let alone won. This HAS to change right??
#lufc
“You are from Leeds..? Leeds United... wow... how is Mr Bielsa doing? I read good things & football people here all talk about him & Leeds.... I heard he had the players clearing up one day....”
In a small steak house in Montevideo!
We’re not famous any more 👊🏻
#lufc
#mot
Absolutely no idea how
#lcfc
didn’t have that sewn up long before our late late show but what I do know it that it was an absolute privilege to be there tonight. ‘Limbs’ doesn’t even come close. What an atmosphere. Don’t get that in the Premier League 😜
#lufc
My word, just read that it’s 20 years ago this week since England rugby’s finest hour. What a team, what a match and what a time to be a pilot on a SYD layover! The entire squad signed the print of our aircraft Sweet Chariot on board for me. Memories to grow old with 🏉👨🏼✈️✈️
I needed 15 others so I cld buy myself a Bielsa bucket (min order 16).. 70 lovely people came forward, so I ordered the lot… They arrived today. Kids & I wanted to do something fun with them before they all get collected. Gracias señor 🪣
#lufc
#bielsa
#Newells