Leeds United '92: View From The Stands Part 3

Last updated : 26 April 2017 By Yorkshire Evening Post

No 3 PHIL BEETON

Leeds United Supporters' Club and regular at Elland Road through the decades

 
"Dare I say it, I was 39 back then. I wish I still was now.

I had just come back from the Sheffield United game at Bramall Lane. 

We’d won there 3-2 in probably one of the more bizarre games I’ve seen and then Liverpool beat our friends in the afternoon. 

We were watching that on the television and that’s when we knew we had won the title on that particular Sunday. 

I think I had got back home to watch it and I was quite calm and collected because with Leeds United you never take anything for granted. 

It was nice to get back into the title-winning routine. 

The previous two titles were with the Don Revie team and you came to expect it more from them than you did in 1992, although I have to say that Howard Wilkinson did a fantastic job with that squad and the team there. 

To win the title was no less than they deserved because he put together a squad that just played to their maximum and they got the results. 

It gave the city a huge lift because we had quite a few years in the doldrums but we got a promotion a couple of years before and then established ourselves before going on to win it. 

It was just fantastic and it also meant we were back in Europe. 

We didn’t build on it but Leicester haven’t built on theirs have they, so things haven’t changed much in football over the years."