Post by Webster on Aug 22, 2021 6:31:50 GMT
BBC Sport: Emotional day at Elland Road as capacity crowd roar once more
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If Leeds United's grand future plans come to fruition, Elland Road could soon cater for 60,000 fans on matchdays. Even if that capacity had been in place on Saturday, it wouldn't have been enough to satisfy demand, nor would it have produced as much noise.
Whites fans have waited a long time for this - the first home Premier League game they could attend en masse for 17 years.
Sixteen of those were spent in the relative wilderness of the lower leagues, followed by 18 months that have featured a long-sought promotion and a full season of enjoyable but frustratingly crowdless top-flight football.
On Saturday, they came adorned in white, yellow and blue, ready to pack a year-and-a-half's worth of celebration into two hours, to roar on their side and remember those no longer with them, some of them giants upon whose shoulders the modern Leeds United stands. They didn't get the win they wanted, as Everton came ready to fight fire with fire, but they certainly served notice that Leeds are back in the big time and Elland Road is not a place for faint-hearted visitors.
Whites fans have waited a long time for this - the first home Premier League game they could attend en masse for 17 years.
Sixteen of those were spent in the relative wilderness of the lower leagues, followed by 18 months that have featured a long-sought promotion and a full season of enjoyable but frustratingly crowdless top-flight football.
On Saturday, they came adorned in white, yellow and blue, ready to pack a year-and-a-half's worth of celebration into two hours, to roar on their side and remember those no longer with them, some of them giants upon whose shoulders the modern Leeds United stands. They didn't get the win they wanted, as Everton came ready to fight fire with fire, but they certainly served notice that Leeds are back in the big time and Elland Road is not a place for faint-hearted visitors.