Finally, after 5 years, we managed a real Elland Road trip for the LUSS (Leeds United Supporters Sweden) group. The focal point of the trip was the game Leeds vs Crystal Palace. As usual, it was a very pleasant trip with lots of new faces joining us. It was typical English April weather, that is, we experienced everything besides hail!

It started with the LUDO dinner on Friday evening in the pavilion at Elland Road where we met many nice people, enjoyed good food and Leeds songs by Paul Wilson. We met a couple of legends, Mel Sterland and Tony Dorigo, who entertained us with funny anecdotes from their times at Leeds. Two of our board members had time to have an eye-to-eye meeting with Clive (Vice-chair of LUSN) and his charming wife - yes, Clive was charming too.

On Saturday some went to watch the football and others went shopping. On the itinerary we had a “running together session”, but only two people showed up, one of which was injured. We must discuss if we shall keep that part next year.

Later that day we had our traditional Bowling tournament. The participation was 22 Leeds fans. We played two rounds. The winner of the first round was the person with a scorecard closest to the sum of the shirt numbers of the Leeds players in the game Leeds vs Brighton. Just to make things clear, most of us didn’t know the total sum we needed to get to before the tournament. But our organizer said it was the lowest number he could find! What great confidence he had in us! The second round the winner was just the person with the highest scorecard. We ended up with three winners in total. It was tied in the first round with Jens Davisson and Jacob Wikström. In the second round we had a winner in Iwy Ungh. The evening was rounded off with a shared dinner and a night cap at the “Taps”.

On Sunday morning, we, 40 LUSS members, and a single Tottenham supporter, who sneaked into the herd at Clayton, had a few ‘swift pints’ and we all walked together to "ER". As there were some new ones on the trip, we passed by Peter Lorimer disused pub on the way. At Elland Road some of us hade time for a pint at “the Peacock”. There wasn't as much atmosphere as usual because it's was an early match. But when the match started, the arena really vibrated for the first 45 minutes. If someone can explain to us what then happened, we will surely listen. Things went from bad to worse and more than worse. I think we will stop the comments of the match here. It was not a jolly bunch who gathered at the The Holbeck after the game. The group become even more reduced when we went to Ciao Bella. The owner, a replica of Basil in Fawlty Towers, did a grouchy impersonation of Basil without even having that ambition! Despite it getting late our chairman and wife had a night club meeting planned. He is something our chairman!

Monday was for many the returning day. Since we cannot live on football alone, four of us did visit both Leeds Museum and the art museum. We were surprised that the Leeds Museum did not have any story of Leeds United but presented the rugby team. We are planning to send a petition to the board of the museum to ask them to alter that.

We are grateful to the network, LUSN, and Leeds United for enabling us to get these 30 tickets for the game. It means so much for our organization that we can offer some of the members this opportunity. We kindly ask Leeds United to maintain this and make it a tradition.

Minutes made by an eye witness