Soccer: O’Leary can take away bitter taste of Leeds’ past

If David O’Leary had picked up a newspaper to wile away the journey as he crossed the Irish Sea to join Arsenal as a callow and coltish teenager exactly 28 years ago tomorrow it’s a fair bet the back page headlines would have been all about Leeds United.

About a team so ruthless and clinical that the bookies were no longer taking bets against them beating Second Division Sunderland in the forthcoming fateful FA Cup final.