Glory or meltdown? Leeds United on the verge of greatness and only level heads will do

Marcelo Bielsa’s second season in charge at Elland Road has featured the same relentless pursuit of perfection that took them so close to promotion to the Premier League last season.

The way it all ended in the Argentine’s inaugural campaign can be summed up in a single word – heartache.

Yet, armed with the wisdom of that experience and the knowledge that theirs is the club to whom disaster can so easily visit, Leeds fans still believe. They believe more than ever.

Whether or not they sit right at the top of the Championship, Leeds have been the best team in so many quantifiable ways before they were stopped in their tracks along with the rest of football by the coronavirus pandemic.

There are many reasons why opposition managers have queued up to extol the virtues of Bielsaball.

There is a book to be written on the various ways in which Bielsa’s peers have attempted to voice what it is that makes Leeds so good, why it was so difficult to play against them and why a defeat to United is no disgrace.

Their energy, their movement, their intensity, the unique man-to-