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If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...

Yorkshire Evening Post

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May 05, 2025

In the seconds after Manor Solomon's title-winning goal hit the net, Joe Rodon's hands went to his head, as if to try and keep his brain together as it exploded.

- by Graham Smyth

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ...

Is it even Leeds United if someone's cognitive functions aren't scrambled? This is a club that does that to people. To fans. To players. Managers. Directors of football. Owners.

Leeds United history is littered with catastrophic head loss, often at moments when clarity of thought was most needed. Often when the pressure was on and the expectation ramped right up.

But Solomon's goal at Plymouth came in the 91st minute. So Rodon had to put the pieces of his mind back together for an additional five minutes of football and he was far from alone.

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