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As seen in: The Square Ball: Leeds United Podcast, The Telegraph, FourFourTwo, BiggerPockets, Science 2.0, Summit Daily News, Beat Magazine AU, The State of The Arts.
Daniel Chapman • writer • Leedsista • My book is '100 Years of Leeds United, 1919-2019' • Links to everything here👇
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Connor Wickham ⭑ From A-Z since '92

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By Daniel Chapman Verified
| leedsista.com
This is part of my (eight year long, it'll fly by) attempt to write about every Leeds United player since 1992. For more about why I'm doing this, go back to Aapo Halme, and to read all the players so far, browse the archive here. Connor Wickham came to Leeds like a mirage of a better world, then became like everything else a slapstick component of the unfunny demise of Brian McDermott at the hands of the witless comedy of Gulf Finance House and Massimo Cellino.
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A tale of two Peacocks, part two: a new peacock unfurls its tail

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By Daniel Chapman Verified
| leedsista.com
In part one of this historical meander, I looked at the origins of The Peacock Inn and the Leeds & Ealand Turnpike Road diversion of the 1820s. It's much more interesting than that sounds! And you can go back to read that here. That article explained the naming of the pub and its surroundings — Islington, Beeston — and now we've got its doors open, let's look at why it gained a sibling: The New Peacock.
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A tale of two Peacocks, part one: why a peacock, why Islington and why Elland Road?

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By Daniel Chapman Verified
| leedsista.com
Maps are meant to explain your surroundings, but a historical map of the area around Elland Road stadium in Leeds can be a disorientating document. Some of the confusion is easily drawn over. The M621 motorway completely altered the landscape. Before that, there was a time when Lowfields Road wasn't there to connect Elland Road to the south and Gelderd Road to the north.
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