Leeds United captain Liam Cooper has suggested the release of the new documentary series, ‘Take Us Home: Leeds United’, will “galvanise the city as a whole” after last season’s promotion disappointment.
The six-part series, which premiered in Leeds last night and will be released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, follows the club in the 2018/19 Championship season–Marcelo Bielsa’s first campaign at the helm.
Leeds came painfully close to ending their 15-year absence from the Premier League last season.
The Whites spent a large part of the season in the top-two, before a late-season slump in form saw them surrender second place, and automatic promotion, to Sheffield United.
The Yorkshire club then suffered a nightmarish play-off semi-final defeat at the hands of Derby County.
Speaking to the Independent at the series premiere, Cooper said he felt the series would help the club and the supporters to get past that painful loss and would motivate them to go again this season.
He said: “One hundred percent it will, yes.
“I think the fans are like us, they feel our pain and we feel their pain.
"I think it will galvanise the city as a whole, us, the supporters, the technical staff, everyone. Hopefully, it does have that effect because it will have that effect with me, I know it will.”
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The Verdict
The series will undoubtedly include some painful viewing for Leeds fans as they have to experience their club’s disastrous end to the season again but it will certainly make exciting viewing for the neutral.
With Bielsa having extended his stay at Elland Road and made some shrewd moves in the transfer window, such as the addition of Wolverhampton Wanderers winger Helder Costa, the Whites look well set to mount another promotion push in the 2019/20 campaign.
They have made a positive start to the season, sitting third in the Championship after a win and a draw.
The performances of summer loan signing Ben White at centre-back, who has replaced the departed Pontus Jansson, will likely be particularly pleasing.