Focusing on the media’s Leeds obsession could lose Whites game v Fulham
Leeds United haven’t won in London in 15 attempts since 2018 and this run will not go on forever, probably.
So much has been made of our form in the capital, to the degree that when we play a London side Sky Sports delight in bringing up a big graphic with lots of red L’s on it.
We play Fulham at Craven Cottage on Friday night and once again this hoodoo has been the talk of most major news outlets this week.
This myth about us not winning in London was perpetuated by our recent loss against West Ham as we had absolutely no luck at the London Stadium.
It was almost like our players were cursed, Bamford couldn’t finish and the officials weren’t our friends.
We have a chance to put this record behind us and we simply must take it but that shouldn’t be our focus.
Fulham have some dangerous players and we can’t the ‘occasion’ get the better of us as we will lose.
Bamford being available is a huge boost but Fulham are sixth in the Premier League form table and we can’t take them lightly.
For context, we are dead bottom.
Fulham won at Anfield recently after all, so they are no mugs and some will have them down as favourites on Friday night.
If we go into the game thinking about this record, it has the chance to dominate our thinking when we need to focus on the task in hand.
Fulham are good, but beatable.
There is a reason they are so far down the table even if Scott Parker has got them firing on all cylinders.
We need to focus on beating Fulham, not ending some hoodoo that can be put down to nothing more than either being outplayed by better sides or bad luck.
We should breeze past a team of Fulham’s quality and we have the ability to if we focus on the game and beating a poor side, not ending some record that the media are obsessed with.
In other Leeds United news, Jeff Stelling has made a mouthwatering transfer claim about this £30million-rated player linked with Leeds.