Championship club’s two-match tour has not been well received,but a few fans have made the 5600-mile trip“We’re just here for the football,” the Leeds United manager said after the first game of their short but controversial close-season tour of Myanmar. In front of a celebratory crowd of 15000, and overwhelmingly local but including a few dozen Leeds fans,Paul Heckingbottom refused to be drawn on the political row the tour has caused.We got what we wanted out of it. We wanted a favorable game that was more approximately the occasion. We wanted to represent the club in the correct way, and to make certain that the people here represented the club well, or ” the Leeds manager said. Related: Leeds United,their Myanmar muddle and football’s most boggling tours | Marina Hyde Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com