Watching a Leeds United game with Massimo Cellino has always been like buckling up next to the most phobic of flyers. This time, though, he was even more anxious than usual. “He was grabbing my leg, twitching, yelling out in Italian,” Neil Redfearn remembers. “Five minutes from the end, he couldn’t take it any more and walked off, leaving me sat there on my own.”
It was October 25, 2014, and Leeds had been beaten 2-1 by Wolves, leaving them 18th in the Championship. Darko Milanic was about to become the latest victim of Cellino’s managerial massacre.
Redfearn stayed to the game’s conclusion, trudging away from Elland Road with the rest of Leeds’ disgruntled supporters on that cold autumnal afternoon. As the former Oldham and Barnsley midfielder opened his car…
