From his flat above a sweet shop Marcelo Bielsa has masterminded Leeds’s return to the top flight. Now his search for perfection comes up against much stronger opposition
The small crowd gathered outside Marcelo Bielsa’s modest terraced home counted down the minutes until the door opened and the man set to re-energise this season’s Premier League emerged into an overcast July evening. Eventually, their patience was rewarded. Suddenly, a beaming Bielsa was no longer inside his one-bedroom flat above a sweet shop but down in its stone-walled back yard, exchanging elbow bumps and posing for selfies with his adoring neighbours in the Yorkshire market town of Wetherby.
It took some time for a member of the Leeds manager’s backroom staff to coax the 65-year-old into a hatchback and head to Elland Road for a long-awaited promotion party.
Continue reading…From his flat above a sweet shop Marcelo Bielsa has masterminded Leeds’s return to the top flight. Now his search for perfection comes up against much stronger oppositionThe small crowd gathered outside Marcelo Bielsa’s modest terraced home counted down the minutes until the door opened and the man set to re-energise this season’s Premier League emerged into an overcast July evening. Eventually, their patience was rewarded. Suddenly, a beaming Bielsa was no longer inside his one-bedroom flat above a sweet shop but down in its stone-walled back yard, exchanging elbow bumps and posing for selfies with his adoring neighbours in the Yorkshire market town of Wetherby.It took some time for a member of the Leeds manager’s backroom staff to coax the 65-year-old into a hatchback and head to Elland Road for a long-awaited promotion party. Continue reading…
