Three years after reaching the Champions League semi-final, Leeds were relegated from the Premier LeagueHad football not been suspended across Europe because of coronavirus, one of football's major talking points this week would have been which sides would progress from the Champions League semi-finals. Ultimately, their Champions League run in 2000-01 was the apex of the Yorkshire club's era of speculative spending. "We were all devastated and gutted, but we'd had a taste of the Champions League and every player involved in that run absolutely loved it." And that failure to clinch Champions League football for the 2001-02 season would have long-lasting consequences. "The small differences in football - if we'd have got into the Champions League, maybe we would have survived longer."

Source: BBC May 02, 2020 07:18 UTC