LEEDS GET REVVED UP

Farke's men can survive in Prem by parking the bus and going back to being Don's Dirty United

- BY ROSS HEPPENSTALL

DANNY MILLS says Leeds United can scrap their way to safety by parking the bus and reclaiming the notorious 'Dirty Leeds' tag they acquired under Don Revie in the Sixties and Seventies.

Daniel Farke's newly-promoted side open their campaign at home to Everton tomorrow night - but are already being written off by some as relegation certainties.

In the past two seasons, all three promoted sides have suffered an immediate Championship return.

Yet former defender Mills, a member of the Leeds side who reached the Champions League semifinals in 2000-01, believes that Farke's men can survive in the top flight, by putting their head in where it hurts.

The Whites have signed a raft of physical players this summer - evoking memories of Revie's uncompromising 'Dirty Leeds' side half-a-century ago.

Mills said: "I look at someone like Sean Longstaff, who Leeds have brought in from Newcastle United.