Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 14: Coelho K-O | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome along to another Friday of fun and games with Nick and his Portuguese Wolves, who have made a good start to life in the Premiership so far, including a win at Old Trafford. Can they keep up the good work? Here’s Nick with the latest from the Estadio Molineux…

After taking three attempts to get into this division, my aim before a ball was kicked was to merely stay up, so you can imagine my pure delight at sitting 8th in the table after 12 games. Let us see what this week has in store…

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 10: Africa Enters Europe | @Matt_C_Wills

Hello to you – I’ve named the first part of Season 4 as ‘Africa Enters Europe’ as last season we won the FA Cup, which would allow Leeds to compete in the Cup Winners Cup, but we managed to pull a second place finish in the league out of the hat, giving us a shot at the Champions League. It is not about cans of Xmas favourite aerosols being inserted into the orifices of 80’s power ballad rockers, Europe. If you were expecting the latter, this is not the blog for you.

Anyway, Season 4 is about to start and we find out who stands between us and at least 6 games against Europe’s finest. It could have been worse with Monaco, Inter and Dortmund lurking.

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 13: Bye bye Bully | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome along to season four, where Nick and his men have finally made it to the Premiership at the third attempt! They’ll need to step it up a gear to survive though, so what can Nick do with his squad to make it capable of staying up?

I’m straight to work after losing the FA Cup final, releasing Carlos (one of my keepers), and Eduardo’s contract was almost up, but at least I manage to get something for him…

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 12: Third time lucky? | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to the finale of season three with Nick and his Portuguese imports (plus Steve Bull). They’re in the automatic promotion spots with eleven games left, and still going strong in the FA Cup, so how will it all unravel? here’s Nick..

Here’s the situation. As much as I’d like to finish top, City show no signs of losing (unlike in real life at the minute), so it looks like it’ll be a fight for second with The Brum, although we should probably keep one eye on Coventry…

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 8: The Secret Diary of Adimole | @Matt_C_Wills

Welcome back to another part of the saga that is my journey to glory with my Leeds team made up from players across the African continent. So far, we’ve been fair to middling. We can score, but we also can’t defend.

Here’s how we left things last week, reaching for the top, but can we keep it up?

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 11: Trafford trip | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome back for another week with Nick and his Portu-Wolves, who after a mini blip at the start of the season are now flying high at the halfway point. Can they keep it up for a run of games that will make or break their season?

Here’s how the table’s looking. The important thing is the 6-point gap to 3rd place because I couldn’t give a sh*t whether we finish 1st or 2nd really, I just want to get out of this god-forsaken division once and for all! Let’s go…

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 7: New Horizons – @Matt_C_Wills

Hello, we’re now into Season 3 of my African Leeds challenge where I hope to win some sliverware and lead the Elland Road faithful into glorious european nights.

At the moment I’m more Dennis Wise than David O’Leary int he management stakes, no cup wins, no european football and two 9th place finishes to show for my troubles. We can score goals, but we can’t seem to defend them.

Gavin Nebbeling has had enough and retires from duty in the close season

Here’s how we’re lining up for the new season. Quinzinho,or The Quicker, knows where the goal is. I’ve brought in Adel Sellimi to play in the AM/FR role and Peter Oforiquaye has joined on line from South America of all places.

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Portuguese Men o’ Wolves – Part 10: Four is the magic number | @NTR9798

Bom Dia! and welcome to another Friday in the midlands with Nick and his band of merry Portuguese men. They’ve started season three well, but are without a win in their last three games, so can they get back to winning ways this week? Over to Nick…

We’re currently third behind City and Forest. The goals conceded column is looking about par for the course, but we’ve not scored as many as usual, which is a slight concern. Let’s get cracking to see if we can sort it out…

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Nowhere I’d Radebe – Part 6: Through Elland High Water | @Matt_C_Wills

Hello and welcome back after a week off where I took in the delights of Edinburgh and a cheeky game of FIFA 94 at the Edinburgh Museum Game On exhibition, but lets fast forward to 1999 and we’re into the final stretch of my second season with our all African Leeds squad.

As you’ll recall, we can score a lot, but also concede many too. We’re here in the league, but 2nd place is almost possible, isn’t it?

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