Head of Content Keith Ingham offers a rallying cry to all Lufc fans who are tired of having the club look like a laughing stock. Below you'll have the chance to voice your own opinion.
I'm usually a mild mannered person who occasionally 'rants' when needs be. On this occasion I'm giving genuine fans the opportunity to post comments after this article to show that Massimo Cellino has little support within the fan base of Leeds United AFC. I ask fans to put their thoughts on as a comment and I shall forward this article to the owner of OUR football club. This season has been the lowest point for me in a good number of years and I'm sick of the poor coaches, lies and mismanagement of our once mighty club. A single voice is ignored but thousands of them can't be. Time to go MASSIMO !!! Please be emotive with your comments but keep the language as decent as possible. Together, Stronger By Keith Ingham We All Love Leeds want to ask fans to voice their opinion but warn that any threats of violence etc will not be tolerated and your comments will be struck from the record.
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Steve levitt
2/12/2015 03:09:10 am
We are NOT Italian. Get to grips with Yorkshire or get out.
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2/12/2015 03:20:21 am
I'm a Leeds fan since we lost the 69/70 Cup Final, and as such I've gone through all the highs and lows.
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John hpugh
2/12/2015 03:23:10 am
Just give us our club back
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Rob
2/12/2015 03:31:03 am
laughing stock of a club now with Cellino and his pathetic 'celebrity' hangers on.Get some people in who understand football and get back to Italy.
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Ben
2/12/2015 03:34:47 am
All you need to do Massimo is put your money in, run the business behind the scenes, stop sacking managers and let them crack on!! Cant be that difficult can it? lol
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While I appreciate that you saved us from GFH (the only Arab investors without any money) please sell or if you don't put someone like Adam Pearson in charge and go and sit in your Miami pad you are clueless when it comes to running an English football club. Its embarrassing the way the club I have supported for over forty years is been run..
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Petter-André Johansson
2/12/2015 03:35:37 am
Through ups and downs, I've followed LUFC since 1988. The last 13 years have been very hard, but especially the last 5-6 years stand out. First, the Ken Bates era, of which enough has been said previously. Then the sale to GFH, and their catastrophic tenure as guardians of LUFC. You'd be forgiven for thinking that they wanted to kill the club off.
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Tom
2/12/2015 03:36:56 am
Never felt at such a low point supporting the club I love. The heart and soul of Leeds United is being ripped and many fans are at breaking point. Massimo Cellino has done nothing but make us a laughing stock since arriving at the club, never out of the press and the courts. The fans are turning on each other and don't enjoy coming to Elland Road anymore. Do everyone a favour and sell the club. We don't deserve this.
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2/12/2015 03:43:53 am
Scrp the ticket banding and make it £20 maximum, scrap the £5 increase on matchday and scrap the £5 pie tax. We are in a recession, leeds,are a very poor side at the minute and thousands are staying at home streming live game on the internet free of charge, but yet our club chooses to penlise the loyal fans turning up every home game. Also sort the queues out in the pavillion, you couldnt get drunk if you tried its so slow getting served and charging 0p extra for Heineken is embarassing, i wouldnt mind if it was export, come on leeds get it sorted before its too late
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gill
2/12/2015 03:45:22 am
What I don't understand is why buy a great football club and then try and wreck it ? Sacking managers before they have had time to establish themselves is simply plain poor business sense, and says more about the person hiring them than the managers themselves. Erratic, irresponsible and ineffective business decisions - and the crying shame is that its the players and the fans that suffer. Instead of criticising players and coaches for poor performances, its time to look in the mirror. Then "man up" and give our Club the respect it deserves.
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David Smith
2/12/2015 03:46:48 am
Respect is a two way thing, a little modesty should be applied and at a
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2/12/2015 03:46:59 am
The proof of the pudding was when PEARSON was running the club for the short period. Just shows that it IS possible to be normal when you have acommon sense football man at the helm.Good job you lost your yacht Mr Cellino,co's captain you ai'nt !
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gill71
2/12/2015 03:48:58 am
like most leeds united fans, i am feed up promises and lies made by cellino, like buy Elland Road, training ground, this is the lowest the club has been of supporting this great club, Cellino time to go, please for the sake of the club, fans, please sell up. and please no more promises. go go go
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Andy
2/12/2015 03:51:46 am
I have been a fan for nearly 40 years now , I am a season ticket holder going to all games both home and away but have never felt so distant from the team and owner as I do now and amazingly that even includes the Bates era.
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bob hayes
2/12/2015 07:04:16 am
need new players not owner
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Charlie Cairoli
2/12/2015 03:51:53 am
Cellino,
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Veni, vidi, victus sum.
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Stuart
2/12/2015 03:55:35 am
Please just sell up and for once in your life do the right thing for the fans and not for you!
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2/12/2015 03:55:37 am
i followed leeds for fifty years, the last few years have been awfull. do as i do , no more visits to LUFC till the .IYTY goes.
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Brian
2/12/2015 03:55:59 am
Its obvious that most Leeds fans have had enough. Those of us who have supported the club for over 40 years are finding the present state of the club too much to bear.
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cellino has had a try and has failed miserably ...he has no idea what leeds united is all about...bringing in 3 division players from italy..trying to pick the team..meddling.. petty jealousy...time to go cellino...do the decent thing and sell up to the
2/12/2015 04:06:58 am
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Steve Sykes
2/12/2015 04:08:41 am
It's not hard to understand the values of Leeds United, it's traditions and most importantly it's supporters, who through the past very turbulent years have stood side by side, week in week out to support their, yes their team.
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John D
2/12/2015 04:09:44 am
Not defending any Cellino, but anyone who wants to run and football club must be Mad.Throw millions at a club with unlikelyhood of ever getting the money back....look at Bolton. Personally if things were going better on the pitch, off the field wouldn't be such a problem and everyone would be looking forward to 3.00 Saturday.
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2/12/2015 04:14:29 am
Italian stallion, more like pathetic penis - time to go!
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Jonathan Davies
2/12/2015 04:14:57 am
The club does need stability and investment. Cellino has provided the latter, but has spectacularly failed on the former. This season I was full of optimism with Adam Pearson and Uwe Rosler on board and signings made. That fell apart when Massimo made the inexplicable decision to sack Rosler after 11 games replacing him with Evans who hardly has a better track record.
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Steve
2/12/2015 04:15:31 am
Looks like the curse has not left my beloved Elland Road, this is a Soap opera worse than East Enders because it is so sad, I travel throughout europe with my Job, I am asked where do you come from? Leeds!!! the Response is always Leeds United, we are still recognised for what we are, so please Massimo GO!!!!! SELL THIS CLUB!!!!!!
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paul wilde
2/12/2015 04:21:05 am
Mr Cellino, if i met you in the street i would not hesitate for one second.You make me sick with all your lies and bullshit i would just headbutt you,If i get arrested so be it.But it would be worth it
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Dave
2/12/2015 04:22:08 am
Cellino you are a liar and an imbecile. Get out of our club now! We are not a play thing, or a circus for you and your c list celebrity sycophants. We are not a vehicle for bullying of staff that are employed and then sacked on a whim (resulting in the countless court cases that keep mounting up. We are not a vehicle for seeing how many prosecutions you can rack up for tax evasion. We are not a vehicle for constant under investment, under mining of our best players when you want to launch a vendetta against them and sell them off. We are not a vehicle for moronic ideas like the pie tax, charging extra for fans wanting to attend games on the day of a match or for trying to prevent our loyal and passionate support attending away games. We are not a vehicle for you to constantly break contract agreements with sponsors, suppliers and the like that result in more litigation against the club. We are not a vehicle for drunken rants before, during or after matches. We are not a vehicle for petty squabbles, empty soundbites and the endless talk, (without proof), that you are investing in Leeds Utd with your own money and have made us debt free.
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Henry G
2/12/2015 04:24:46 am
Having supported LUFC since the 60's it is maddening to see the state the club is in currently, im not sure if its better or worse than the shambles Ken Bates created , maybe just different. Messimo took over the club thinking he could turn it around with his undoubted enthusiasm and imagined experetise, he knows nothing of english football but thinks he does, even worse he seems incapable of taking advice, all the potential of his takeover has vanished with knee jerk reactions to every setback. He must go for the sake of the club but there is now so much financial potential within football how on earth can you separate the genuine football people from the vultures that seem to gather round our wonderful club.
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JC
2/12/2015 04:26:31 am
I have been a regular visitor to ER, and also attend away games. I have experienced the highs, and the lows. At this moment in time I have experienced all I can describe as a complete joke. Quite a few fans call for stability, and improvement on the field. I would suggest these fans take a long hard look in the mirror, they would then see that the ones causing the instability is themselves. I have seen so many non stories being jumped upon, that at most clubs wouldn't be given the time of day. I have attended games on a regular basis since 1979, and I've been proud of our fans. Recently these "fans" seem to love to create and support drama. It is there so called fans that have created a state of embarrassment I feel today. I turn up on match days to support the club I love, others seem to think it's acceptable to slate the players. Doing so only dents the confidence of the players.
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Ian
2/12/2015 04:29:05 am
I hear the estimates of 30 million pounds thrown around a lot. And for buying the club, digging it out of the hole GFH left it in, and getting out from old preexisting lawsuits, it sure was needed and yes it is more money than I'll ever have to put in to the club. So you get credit for that.
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Couchio
2/12/2015 04:48:33 am
Cellino
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Nick
2/12/2015 04:52:28 am
I'm 46 now and followed Leeds as long as I remember. Never been so low about the club management and performances on pitch. Cellino needs to go now! He has infected the club from top to bottom with poor decisions killing passion and desire to succeed.
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Marc B
2/12/2015 04:52:38 am
Cellino....Get out of our club now. You are not wanted, liked or respected.....you are driving our club into the ground so please for the sake of all genuine Leeds supporters, please please please just sell up and close the door on your way out...
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rpatz
2/12/2015 05:01:07 am
From the first sacking of Brian mcdermott( the first time) in your first 24 hours at the club, it has been a non stop circus of bullshit. The appointment of hockaday, thru to the appointment of Steve Evans ( another convicted fraudster) we have never had any period of sustained succes on the grass, by this I mean a winning run of games.
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Timlufc
2/12/2015 05:15:27 am
Do you know what !!! Season Ticket holder on and off for over 30 years !!
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Billy
2/12/2015 05:20:09 am
Time to go I'm afraid , after the circus with Brian Mac you had your chance , and I'm afraid you've blown it . I don't like bullies Ken Bates was one and you're one , I don't like the way you treat people . You've treated us with arrogance you've lied and you rule with fear not respect . I can remember times when you'd have no idea who owners were , sadly those days are gone .
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Richard Addison
2/12/2015 05:31:10 am
Mr Cellino says he won't sell the club until it's safe from relegation. Has the thought occurred to him that the longer he stays at the club, the likelier relegation will be? For one brief moment this summer, when Adam Pearson was in charge, there seemed to be some order and structure to affairs at Elland Road and we looked like a proper football club. That seems like a sweet dream, a brief interlude, in the nightmare that has enveloped us. Time to go, Mr Cellino.
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Lewis Middleton
2/12/2015 05:40:27 am
Seeing my dad who has followed Leeds far and wide since he had enough money to get a train from Rotherham be as disinterested as he is now with the club should be a big enough wake up call for anyone. Me included in this, im 20 years old and should be buzzing for the weekend to see that famous white or yellow strip run out onto the pitch but im not, why? Many reasons but the main problem is the heart and soul has been ripped out of Leeds United. No class remains at the club its a shambles. Things need to change, the owner needs to change. You're not wanted Cellino its time to go.
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Daniel Hawkridge
2/12/2015 05:44:34 am
MASSIMO CELLINO - when you came to the club you promised us to get out of debt and make us a great team again. you have got us slightly out of debt but yet to see us owning our own stadium and training ground. as for our team, we are a laughing stock!! let the manager decide on the players, you have no managerial experience so let the pros do there jobs!! we are not an italian team, we are a yorkshire team, get a grip or get out!!!!!
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Gary E
2/12/2015 05:51:26 am
Massimo, the majority of the people should be ashamed of themselves on this, what respectful investor would come into Leeds and buy us after the way they all disgustingly treat owners, players, managers and anyone else that dares to question or do something they all dislike. It's a joke. Yes Cellino is not currently the greatest owner but he is by no means the worse, look at the owners at Bolton, Blackburn, Birmingham, Cardiff, Aston Villa and Newcastle, is this what fans want?
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So you think what's needed is for Massimo to have even more control?
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Gary E
2/12/2015 09:27:51 am
Excuse me? I called the fans cancer? yes that's correct please point me in the direction that I once stated anything of that kind. I said the fans are equally at fault for the sacking of managers, ridiculing and slating of players and manager/owners and should be partly held responsible for the nagative attitude and vibe around Leeds as well for performances on the field by players. You cannot just blame 1 person aka Cellino for everything, that both naive and stupid.
NorthernMisery
2/12/2015 01:14:46 pm
Gary is talking utter tripe. Cellino put money into Leeds United because it was in the sales purchase agreement that he was too stupid / high to read properly.
NorthernMisery
2/12/2015 01:10:54 pm
Sorry Gary. You're the worst sort of enabler.
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Rich
2/12/2015 01:28:18 pm
You don't speak logic, you're a fool, if you think Cellino is the right man to own us then you're a fucking idiot!
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"the fans try their hardest to get you out and abue you, your family and all sorts of stuff but stay strong and do you best to oust GFH, they are the real cancer at our club"
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darren
2/12/2015 06:08:52 am
Mr Cellino,
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Brad
2/12/2015 06:14:49 am
Been a Leeds Fan since I was 6 in 1968 - Messy-Mo is an Italian Playboy with more money than sense - the LAST thing we need. I mean no offence but PLEASE can we have our Club Back?!!! Leeds has become the Managers Graveyard !
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I backed cellino from day 1 , I cant any more If hes not going to sell cant we demmand the Football League to give him a Life Ban seeing there are other court cases been brought against him please think about this lets get the F L to do its job and do us a favour and get rid of this Cancer thats ruining our Proud Club
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Tim
2/12/2015 06:55:18 am
Massimo, thanks for your reinvestment which helped save the club from financial ruin. However after 42 years of loyal support I shall no longer be attending matches. Poor team, poor management and a total lack of empathy with the fans will only see us descending into League 1. Please sell up ASAP and leave.
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gelderd ender
2/12/2015 07:09:57 am
its run as a hobby like a toy we need help big time on the pitch the stadium is clapped out INVESTMENT a northern power house I think not that calender says it all leeds since 1966 if you didnt get down the ground by half one you aint going to get in very sad now
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Wakey White
2/12/2015 07:27:16 am
I am 70 and have been watching Leeds since I was 6. I stopped going to matches last season because I hate what this man is doing to our club so I voted with my feet (I just wish that more of you would do the same. the club would soon be up for sale) Please go Cellino so that I can come back to the club that I love.
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Grizzlyslapper
2/12/2015 07:55:07 am
The way that Cellino runs both his private and his professional affairs is shameful. From the starting point at his takeover you would have thought it pretty difficult for the great name of Leeds United to be dragged further down in the mud but this is the only area I can think of in which he has been a success. Please, please sell up.
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David
2/12/2015 08:24:09 am
Please please sell up and go back to Italy where you can avoid paying Tax and VAT to your hearts content.
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Karl major
2/12/2015 08:28:38 am
People laugh at the plight of our great club, you have embarrassed us, your methods are not appropriate to Yorkshire or Leeds United, please sell the club to someone who will restore the club to it's former glory. This is the English club with the most potential, the rich investors of this world would be interested if they were made aware. Please sell up and leave.
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8rs
2/12/2015 08:54:32 am
Way too many things have either gone wrong, been incredibly wrong, and illegal. Your inept and bewildering appointments of head coaches/managers beggars belief. Can you not get it into your head that its YOUR choice of coaches that is at fault?
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Dan Hill
2/12/2015 09:22:46 am
His hearts in the right place, he did save us financially. Personally, I like Massimo. Yes he's made some decisions I don't agree with, but I want him to stay.
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NorthernMisery
2/12/2015 01:08:18 pm
His heart is not in the right place. He's a complete narcissist who makes decisions (for the worst) on a whim. He is incapable of telling the truth and he's as bent as a nine bob note. He didn't save us financially, it's a myth. He loaned us money that at some point he will want back. Stop believing the lies.
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Paul
2/12/2015 09:23:58 am
Think we need to lobby the FL and ask for a life ban. Cellino is making mad decisions that are affecting the future of the club. All the court cases , industrial tribunals etc are of his making, but it is costing the club serious money. Money better spent on our threadbare squad.
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S Coley
2/12/2015 09:45:20 am
I cannot believe that anyone any longer thinks that Massimo Cellino has any future at Leeds United. Like many I was in favour of his ownership when He took and over and invested in the club. However his erratic behaviour, man management and his never ending fraud cases have made the club a laughing stock. Nothing will improve on the playing front until the club has consistent ownership with a long term plan on and off the pitch. You can't have one without the other.
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Paul
2/12/2015 10:35:32 am
What you don't realise had you had been a bit sensible you could have been a hero ...you are absolutely clueless to the might you had at your fingertips ...you have probably blown it ...hero to zero in a few months
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Jeff craven
2/12/2015 11:11:11 am
6 managers in 18 months say it all and that's before you mention bans, court cases and staff sackings. The man is the most amateurish owner in the entire football league
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David
2/12/2015 12:55:24 pm
massimo make a decision for gods sake.
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Coachking
2/12/2015 01:03:16 pm
Cellino. I despise you and your never ending disgusting lies and the way you publicly humiliate and belittle employees whether they be players or staff. You make me feel sick to the core that you have embarrassed our great club with your pathetic prejudices and self serving decisions. You are not fit and proper. You are a pathetic human being imposing your disgusting will onto our club. I have no respect for you. Take your money and just fuck off because you are not going to get the love here that you crave. And when you finally go and taken your stench with you I will look out for the court decision that sends you to that Italian prison cell where you of your kind belong.
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Dave Luke
2/12/2015 01:03:53 pm
I started supporting the great Leeds United in 1970 at the age of 9 when we really were "great". We were a club feared throughout European football.I purchased my first season ticket in 1977 & have had one ever since. In all those years watching the team I have never felt so low as this season watching a team crumble sometimes from the kick off. There is bad vibes throughout the club
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Northern Misery
2/12/2015 01:05:57 pm
I'm reiterating what I've said for over one year - Massimo Cellino is a crook. A convicted fraudster. A man of marked criminal tendencies, willing to use any means necessary to feather his own nest. He is a proven liar and habitually incapable of making logical decisions, either from a financial perspective, a club perspective or pertaining to managerial selections. The players he has signed are woeful and furthermore, he has given the club loans in exchange for equity so it will now cost any perspective buyer more to get rid of him. He is the worst sort of cancerous owner a club can have. It's a disgrace that this man is even allowed to enter a football club, let alone own one. It is time for this heinous piece of work to go forth and multiply on one of his many vehicles that he has attempted to defraud a government with. He treats people like crap and he's just generally a massive stain on football. I want him gone and I want his klingons like Terry George and his gormless, weird, possibly incestuous offspring gone too. I would rather Verne Troyer took a dump on the statue of Billy and let that steaming midget nugget run the club than leave a feckless, gormless moronic liar like Massimo alone to piss about with our club and ruin it beyond all repair. Cellino Out. Now.
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Allan
2/12/2015 01:17:25 pm
Mr Cellino
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Stu Hirst
2/12/2015 01:29:11 pm
34 years supporting. 20+ years travelling all over, as most have.
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Wayne
2/12/2015 01:36:59 pm
Massimo Cellino. Get out of our club. This will never work for you here, you just don't have a clue what you're doing
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FatBob
2/12/2015 02:11:38 pm
It's time to go Massimo, you know it, I know it, any sane Leeds fan knows it. You, have done more damage per year than any other owner we've had. I dread to think how much you'd do if here as long as Bates was. You, your sons, Terry George, not one of you has any idea how to run. Football club in England. Ever since 31st Jan 2014 when you so embarrassingly made your entrance you have been a stain on the club. Just do one, take your money and go. Before I, like many others, finally give up on this once great club.
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Keith Ingham
2/12/2015 03:18:26 pm
Just a massive Thank you to all that have made contributions to my article. With the article in the 'Mirror' alleging that Cellino will sell the better players in the squad in January it is time for all Leeds United fans to make a stand in whatever way they think necessary. If we do nothing we all will see our club end up in the mess that Blackpool FC now find themselves in. Together, Stronger.
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David Smith
2/12/2015 03:43:51 pm
Wow now that's really frightening. If Cellino doesn't sell up and our earlier comments might make him decide to dig in and take what he can while he can. No point in spending to watch our money frittered on his next tax evasion scheme. It might come to a fan boycott to be loyal to the Leeds United we love and one day will return.
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Tony
3/12/2015 12:23:02 am
How long will you keep hold of this football club when the attendance figure is a big fat zero, it may not come to this
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