Bleep-test winner Piroe looks refreshed after summer break

Joel Piroe had a "wonderful" summer. He needed it.

- [e-mail] @GrahamSmyth

After 46 games, the customary ups and downs of any Leeds United season in any division and mind-scrambling series of title celebrations, Piroe wanted to go away and think of anything but football.

Once the yellow and blue smoke of the bus parade had cleared, he cleared off.

Piroe went to Japan and spent time with teammate Ao Tanaka but it was food and not football on the agenda.

You can see he has come back refreshed because he looks it. He's wearing it.

But if further evidence was needed, the Dutchman went and won the annual bleep test at the outset of preseason training.