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[rock music] This is a preview episode, and it's a preview of the game that everyone looks for first when the fixtures come out.

Manchester United coming to Elland Road this weekend in a game you can hear live, of course, on BBC Radio Leeds.

We'll look ahead to it with myself, Jonny Buchan, our Leeds United correspondent, Adam Pope, and from the Kaiser Chiefs, this is Simon Rix.

Don't Go to Bed Just Yet, a Leeds United Podcast from the BBC.

But before the pre-drinks, um, you've been to the press conference today, Poppy.

Yes.

Daniel Farke speaking ahead of the game against Manchester United, which of course you can hear in full throughout the UK on BBC Sounds from one o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and also you can hear it on all BBC Radio Leeds frequencies if you're in West Yorkshire and slightly further afield.

Someone told me the other day they got Lead- BBC Radio Leeds in Anglesey on ninety-two point four FM.

I am thrilled.

As has been said a few times in the press already, I know James Dayton did a really nice piece with BBC Radio Leeds yesterday.

He said it was the obvious pick, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the wrong pick either.

And I totally agree.

So I think Daniel Farke, I felt afterwards, heartbroken.

He said when he spoke to us at, at Radio Leeds after the game, didn't he? So I, I think that overall the performance as a whole was certainly one that everyone went away with, with pride and an improvement on a five-nil defeat-

Yeah

... which is what you always look for, improvement, Simon.

Yeah

... and great.

I, I think from the bits I was seeing and, and the highlights I saw, 'cause a- as I missed the game, Johnny, was that John House, who, the author who was on, on BBC Radio Leeds the other week with, with g- before the game with Katherine, said that, um, "Competitive defeat is what I'm expecting."

Yeah.

That is on the channel feed.

He is a BBC sports broadcaster, does work on BBC Radio Leeds, uh, has followed Leeds by living in West Yorkshire for a number of years, and he gave some really good insight as to life under Le- uh, Daniel Farke and what they've been doing.

Uh, the BBC also sharing this story, Wayne, just sticking with you for a second.

They've had a really impressive start to this season.

Yeah.

And then did a bit of Halifax Town, Huddersfield and Bradford are two teams that we also cover with- with BBC Radio Leeds, who I work for now.

And, um, did some stuff with a company called TeamTalk that you might know about-

Yeah

Let's see how that all plays out then.

Do join us down at the Emirates this coming Saturday, 11:30 on BBC Radio Leeds.

Daniel Farke will be speaking later this week.

You'll be able to find that press conference on BBC Sounds.

What about you?

Yeah, we said on the radio, we were on BBC Radio Leeds earlier today and we got asked a similar question from Gail Loftouse.

And I said, I don't think I'm well-read enough or literate enough to really think of a word or a phrase or a sentence to explain how I'm feeling.

You just end up going down the indescribable route or it's unbelievable or it's unreal.

I, I used to like...

We had a journalist who was on Radio Sheffield, but he was always a Leeds fan, and he ended up going to Radio Leeds.

He were really good, actually.

He was called Jonathan Bookan.

And I'm thinking, is this a good idea to leave good paid work, nice car, salary, all this sort of stuff, good prospects, and throw it all in to go essentially freelance? So...

Via a few meetings and what have you, I met a sports editor by accident at Radio Leeds, an old sports editor at BBC Radio Leeds, and he said, look, you need to meet the present sports editor, a guy called Derm Tanner.

And he told me to put my voice down on tape.

So I got the old 90-minute cassettes, 45 each, and I did.

The way clubs have tried to limit content, I think there's been a lot more of a convergence between the written press, locally certainly, and the broadcast press.

I think before, I would definitely say where I work in Leeds, that there used to be a bit of a divide between...

the Yorkshire Evening Post and maybe BBC Radio Leeds and about who had what and, you know, who was breaking which story.

Now I think it's been much more friendly and everybody gets on a lot more.

Special powers, haven't we? Maybe the club should make sure we do it.

Jokes aside, how inevitable was that result? Actually, I joined you a few hours after you'd been on BBC Radio Leeds, so for anyone who didn't catch you on there, what have you got to say about Saturday?

I

don't think it is...