Leeds United '92: View From The Stands Part 1

Last updated : 26 April 2017 By Yorkshire Evening Post

YEP reporters Phil Hay and Lee Sobot canvassed the opinions of four fans across the generations who lived the emotions of that title-winning campaign: 

 

No 1 DAVE CARRINGTON

Head of Leeds United Supporters' Trust and a regular at Elland Road in 1991-92

"I was 17 but I remember it like it was yesterday.Football was great and it was that coming of age time where I had moved out, I was starting to find my own feet and I’d got my driving licence.

The whole country was changing then – not just football – it was music scenes and youth culture, everything was awesome to be honest.

I wasn’t at the Sheffield United game. I was an apprentice at that time – always in between Newcastle and Leeds – but whenever I was in Leeds I went to the games.

I was too young to drink – legally – but I remember that weekend, we were doing some electrical work at the Brotherton Library at Leeds University. We went to the Little Londoner pub which has gone now but we went there to watch the game and into town afterwards.

I remember the celebrations were mental and we ended up in a club called Gallery into the small hours of the morning. It was a hell of a day and a hell of a weekend.

I had grown up in the 1980s when Leeds United had not had a lot of luck. 

We had been up and down and we had become accustomed to dross football.

You got used to it but then it started to build up as we came towards the 1990s and we got promoted and then finished fourth.

You saw that progression and then we won the league which gave us a feeling that I have never experienced since."