Sixteen years after his relegation, Leeds United will return to the Premier League next season, after being promoted without playing in favor of the defeat of his dolphin West Bromwich Albion at Huddersfield (2-1) Friday during the 45th day of Championship (English League 2).

Trained for two years by the famous Argentinian technician Marcelo Bielsa, Leeds, who has 87 points at the top of the ranking, can no longer be joined by his dolphin (82 pts), who has only one game left. Only Brentford (3rd, 81 pts) could deprive them of the title, but not of the climb, the first two clubs being promoted to the next level.

The club in the north of England, which has won three titles of champion of England in its history in 1969, 1974 and 1992, had already come close to promotion last season. Third at the end of the season, he had failed in the semifinals of the play-offs against Derby County. It was finally Aston Villa who had achieved the rise in the Premier League.

Leeds has come a long way after accumulating, since its relegation in 2004, disappointments on the ground and financial troubles, which even earned it in 2007 its first descent in the third division.

A past gone by since the arrival of Marcelo Bielsa and his uncompromising methods. The passion for attacking and licked football of the ex-OM coach, affectionately nicknamed "El Loco" in Argentina, electrified the club, nicknamed at one time "Dirty Leeds" ("Dirty Leeds") for his game snarling.

With AFP

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