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Burnley would have to be stuffed 21-0 to go below Leeds before our kick-off, so please feel free to sing it anyway.

Well, there's all the motivation he needs this afternoon. Who wouldn't want to stay at Elland Road rather than be exiled to the hell-hole that is the Nou Camp?

Exactly, and he never does. Of course every player has his price, but any tabloid nonsense about Brighton 'putting a £**m price tag' on any player is just that - nonsense.

I'm reluctant to break the habit of a lifetime and try to be reasonable, but here goes. The burn-out is an untested theory rather than a myth. We will never know whether the break came at the right time for Leeds last season. Having won five in a row without conceding doesn't mean that Leeds...

It is completely made-up rubbish. There is no 'price tag'. There will never be a 'price tag'. That is not the way the club does business. But making these things up is very much the way certain tabloids do business.

Very sad for the Leeds fans that they aren't allowed to provide a noisy Elland Road backdrop for this team. By the time they're allowed back in you sort of suspect that they'll have faded a bit. Then again, maybe if they get to January and are in with a shout of a Europa League place...

Yes, come on - let's have some perspective here. Whatever happened in the past 16 years, Leeds are three-time league champions, and have won two domestic cups and the Fairs Cup twice as well as playing in a European Cup final (which, yes, they would have won if the referee hadn't been crooked)...

Ha, the price was £18m but his value is apparently much less!

There's a serious logic failure among some of these Leeds fans. We should sell White to Leeds so that he can play well and get into the England team as they finish in the top ten. Otherwise we are ruining his career by making him play for our relegation-bound side. But surely if he is as...

Bless me moderators, for I have sinned: I gave in and looked at the Leeds message boards. What a load of ill-informed nonsense, especially the rubbish about us holding them to ransom. And the ones about us putting a £50m price on BW. None of their contributors can seem to accept that we don't...

With all due respect, giving ten players under 20 their debuts in the Premier League would be foolhardy rather than brave. Although I believe Potter did give nine under-20s their debuts in the 3-1 defeat by Aston Villa in the League Cup.

Olympic gold medal with Argentina and two Argentinian league titles?

There's a rather good book about Leeds, the city and the club, called The Promised Land by Anthony Clavane (from Leeds but a former University of Sussex student). In it, he writes: "We are not really The Damned United. Thinking we are, however, is part of the problem." From the 1975 European...

Celtic make a fair amount of money through being in the Champions League year after year, which gives them a huge advantage over other Scottish clubs. But they wouldn't have that extra revenue in the Premier League, so would be starting level with everyone else. .

While one should respect an autodidact, I feel you may have missed the full import and nuance of suus as a reflexive possessive. But what else should we expect of someone who knows better than both George Orwell and the Oxford English Dictionary (which defines sui generis as ‘of its own kind...

Almost an exact equivalent. Phil Hay was the Post's Leeds United man until he went to The Athletic. The difference is that his readership probably dropped by about 90 percent while Andy's only halved.

Latin is one of his 12 A- and A*-grade GCSEs. Being the son of a reasonably well-off footballer, he went to a fee-paying school (Brentwood) but he obviously worked hard. Of course, that didn't stop him behaving like an arse on Sept 11 2001, but that's also often part of being a footballer...

Wonder child, actually. But then of course you knew that. Pretending you didn't is all part of your rhetorical box of tricks, like Chaucer's Franklin who "sleep nevere on the Mount of Parnaso." Confounding us knuckle-draggers who get annoyed with anyone using dirty foreign words and phrases on...

You make interesting points but I take issue with one of the key ones, and I speak as someone from a Leeds family on my mother's side. Not necessarily a Leeds United family as, like many others, they were more fans of the RL club. But she grew up in Gelderd Road and the first league game I...

Ben White has barely met Graham Potter as far as we know, let alone played for him. Who knows what his feelings may be after a pre-season with us? If he then decides he needs more of that Bielsa magic and agitates for a transfer, then the landscape may change. But until and unless that...