The Fiver | Dirty Leeds on the brink of a return to the Premier League

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When Don Revie’s team were promoted from the old Second Division back in 1964, the FA took it upon itself to publish a table of the worst disciplinary records in the country. Who topped the list? You know damn fine well who topped the list. The Fiver didn’t make up Dirty Leeds, you know, don’t blame us. To be completely fair, they hadn’t had anyone at all sent off that season, the FA had massaged the figures by lumping in the record of their ill-disciplined junior team, and the only senior player at any point punished for acting up was Billy Bremner, which let’s face it should be taken as a given. But mud sticks and here we all are.

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