“Doing a Leeds”是专指英格兰一些足球会因财政管理不善而可能造成严重后果的一个代名词。这词源于2000年代,当时仍在英超的列斯联(Leeds United A.F.C.,即此术语所指的“Leeds”)投入巨大的资金而打进欧联四强,不过在过程中却欠下大量债务。当列斯联未能再次取得欧联资格后,球会遇上严重的“财务危机”,随后降班至英甲,这是球会历史上首次第三级别联赛。
“Doing a Leeds”或“(to)do a Leeds”这个词的意思已等同于足球会因财务管理不善而带来严重后果的一个词汇。它可以具体提及任何未能取得欧联资格而又没有充分计划好财务问题所带来的影响的足球会,或是指于英超降班后,未能作出充分调整来避免再次降班的足球会,更笼统来说是指任何迅速消亡的足球会[1][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]。
领队和主席,虽然有时不得不“追逐梦想”[10][11](这通常是“Doing a Leeds”的前奏),但在经过一些分析人士指出他们大型的投资可能会超出预算后,他们往往会否认他们是"doing a Leeds" [12][13]。同样,足球会高价买入球员和无法保留欧联的参赛资格时,球迷可能会担心球会是否会成为 "do a Leeds"[14],或者是从英超降班,从而未能“实践梦想”[15]。
相反,避免“Doing a Leeds”已经成为领队出售最好球员来筹措资金的理由,从而避免因足球会受到接管而导致以降班作为处罚的危机[16]。未能在预期的“正常”投资中,维持足球会的联赛地位,也都被称为“Doing a Leeds”[17]。
2009年,当纽卡素成为自列斯联后另一支大球会从英超降班后,这词组的使用情况很显著。纽卡素的新班主米克·艾殊利(英语:Mike Ashley (businessman))说他的投资实际上是将球会从“Doing a Leeds”中拯救出来[18]。无论如何,在纽卡素降班前后,人们都担心球会“(to)do a Leeds”及在缺乏调整下进一步降班到英甲[19][20]。
在曼联于2010年的公布中显示,球会自债券问题缠身的马尔科姆·格拉沙成为班主后,需要筹集资金来偿还巨债,这引起媒体怀疑是否连作为最成功的英超时代的足球会,亦有可能陷入“Doing a Leeds”的危机中[21]。
(英文)Road to ruin. The Herald (Newsquest). 17 February 2007 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). The first thing which comes to mind about Leeds United today is...their freefall, the collapse into the state they are in now because of Ridsdale's ruinous decision-making. They have become the biggest victim of all the money which has washed around English football in the Premiership era. Every other board of directors in the land is frightened of "doing a Leeds".
(英文)Everton 0 Manchester 2: Irresistible United march on. The Times. 20 February 2005 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). those erstwhile fans turning on him now should ponder the fact that his £28m transfer probably saved their club from “doing a Leeds”, as financial meltdown has come to be known
(英文)Damned to football. The Times. 25 March 2009 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). This is the fate to which Peter Ridsdale, the chairman from 1997 until 2003, consigned the club with his profligacy and risk-taking; the phrase “doing a Leeds” is now a recognized one to describe a major club that fades away
(英文)Catchy Toon could be a classic. The Guardian. 23 March 2003 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). ...'doing a Leeds' has entered the language of English football. There is now an understandable worry that any club trying to haul themselves up on the Champions League ladder will crash spectacularly to earth in a couple of seasons.
(英文)North East’s elite outfits fear a fate as ‘next Leeds’. The Journal (njcMedia). 24 March 2009 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). the "L" word sends them into a cold sweat. What they most fear is "doing a Leeds". Leeds United famously chased the dream and fell flat on their face, a monument to mismanagement lurking in League One as a warning
(英文)Birmingham City in danger of 'doing a Leeds'. Daily Mirror. 28 May 2008 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). David Gold fears relegated Birmingham could end up dropping another division to League One - like Leeds - unless the club's mutinous mood changes
(英文)City Diary. The Telegraph. 29 April 2004 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). He's trying to raise £450,000 by selling a quarter of the company and as his spokesman put it: "We're doing a Leeds." What, selling all the players and going down? "No, I mean a Wimbledon."
(英文)Bates still focused on grand vision. The Times. 16 January 2007 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). But were Chelsea not hugely in debt and on the brink of “doing a Leeds” when Roman Abramovich made Bates an offer he could not refuse?
(英文)Sullivan: Bitter manager wouldn't have been good for Birmingham City. Birmingham Mail (Trinity Mirror). 24 November 2007 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2012-03-13). As for a lack of funds, Sullivan said: "We've spent all the money we can afford as a club, without doing a Leeds United.
(英文)Dean is no Messiah. The Sun. 12 January 2005 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). Worthington denied Norwich were mortgaging their future by signing England Under-21 star Ashton. The club plan to use part of their parachute payments if they are relegated to help fund the deal. Worthy added: “We are not doing a Leeds because the board would not put the club in that position.
(英文)Parry Vows To Keep Top Players. Daily Post (Trinity Mirror). 6 February 2003 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). RICK PARRY has promised Liverpool will not be forced into `doing a Leeds' by selling off their best players - even if they fail to qualify for next season's Champions League.
(英文)More Big Footie News. The Sun. 6 February 2004 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). Chelsea saved West Ham from doing a Leeds this season according to Hammers boss Alan Pardew...Pardew says the club could have gone into administration, or worse, if Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich had not bankrolled a £12.6m raid for Cole and Johnson.
(英文)No compensation for Robbie amid a rising tally of missed sitters. Irish Independent. 7 December 2008 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). Liverpool fans may think that if they had not lost Fernando Torres for much of the season they would now be 12 points clear. This would, however, increase the possibility of them "doing a Newcastle" something that cannot be countenanced while their American owners appear intent on "doing a Leeds".
(英文)Mike Ashley pledges to do 'what’s best for Newcastle’. The Telegraph. 15 September 2008 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). Ashley insisted that he had saved Newcastle from “doing a Leeds”. “Unless I had come into the club then it might not have survived,”
(英文)Geordies need another messiah to justify immaculate deception. Irish Independent. 2 August 2009 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). People warn that Newcastle United are in danger of "doing a Leeds" but it can be argued that when it comes to hubris, Newcastle United make Leeds look as modest as Dario Gradi's Crewe Alexandra
(英文)Are Manchester United doing a Leeds?. The Guardian. 12 January 2010 [23 January 2010]. (原始内容存档于2010-01-23). Scrutiny of the Premier League champions' financial results makes for eerily familiar reading. Will the weight of their debts drag them out of the Premier League in the next five seasons?
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