{"id":954790,"date":"2026-05-12T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:30:24","slug":"leeds-news-farke-deserves-all-the-praise-he-gets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/954790\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds news: &#8216;Farke deserves all the praise he gets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Leeds fan Gyp Walters says the team has shown they are &#8220;still up for it&#8221; despite already achieving their main objective of Premier League survival.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Ham<\/a>&#8216;s defeat on Sunday confirmed safety for Daniel Farke&#8217;s side, but the Whites still showed fight to come from a goal down in Monday&#8217;s 1-1 draw at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/tottenham-hotspur\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spurs<\/a> and could have easily won the game late on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the start of the season I thought we would survive and the reason is we would be really hard to beat,&#8221; Walters told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That&#8217;s 10 games in a row now away that we haven&#8217;t lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve gone 23 games with only four losses in total. We&#8217;re always going to be tough to beat but we&#8217;ve proven to be resilient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We didn&#8217;t start the game very well at all, Spurs put us under a lot of pressure, but we came into it and when you look at the stats they are quite even.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were quick on the break and if it hadn&#8217;t been for that world class save at the end from Kinsky, which was just amazing, we could have won it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think some people thought we were on the beach and all that stuff, but we&#8217;ve got a togetherness in the team and they don&#8217;t want to lose a match. Simple as that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They are still up for it because they are all together, playing for each other, and you&#8217;ve seen that all the way through &#8211; even when we were struggling at the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They get 100% support from Farke who is potentially up there with manager of the season for keeping a newly-promoted side up like this and performing so well &#8211; especially in a league where we&#8217;re going to have a record points total for staying up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He deserves all the praise he gets and he will definitely be around next season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sounds\/play\/m002w5l0\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the full chat from 06:23 on BBC Sounds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds fan Gyp Walters says the team has shown they are &#8220;still up for it&#8221; despite already achieving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-954790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116561616992081222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}