Two years after dawn raids on Red Bull GmbH, the European Commission opens formal investigation into alleged illegal restriction of the sale of rival energy drinks brands. #lufc

Second-bottom Sturm Graz’s farm team is in Maxglan today with another vital three home points on the line for die Austria 💜 #svas

We've been nominated for 2025 FSA Fan Media of the Year! There's a public vote. Just saying. Public. Vote. sqbl.co/vote

Why would Red Bull’s Austrian TV channel get so vexed by an American mayoral election? Because their side lost. "And 24 years after the Islamist terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, a Muslim could become mayor of the US metropolis of New York for the first time." #lufc

Why would Red Bull’s Austrian TV channel get so vexed by an American mayoral election? Because their side lost. "And 24 years after the Islamist terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, a Muslim could become mayor of the US metropolis of New York for the first time." #lufc

SV Stripfing declares withdrawal from 2. Liga with immediate effect after just 12 games. An embarrassment for the Bundesliga's licensing process, it's expected all results relating to the 13th-placed club will now be annulled. #svas

Relegated and near-bankrupt, @austriasalzburg.bsky.social's final 2. Liga game in 2016 was at Kapfenberger. "Today is not the end of the world. We’ll be back, no question." Tonight they're in Kapfenberg stronger than ever 💜 #svas

You were spared @austriasalzburg.bsky.social’s 4-0 defeat at Admira Wacker last weekend cos I was at @warringtonruncorn.com. Very good it was too. The gig that is. #svas

On Friday, this @grahamsmyth.bsky.social piece pictured Lucas Radebe visiting a primary school in front of the message “No Room For Racism” to speak about community and diversity while wearing a Leeds United training top bearing the Red Bull logo. #lufc

On Friday, this @grahamsmyth.bsky.social piece pictured Lucas Radebe visiting a primary school in front of the message “No Room For Racism” to speak about community and diversity while wearing a Leeds United training top bearing the Red Bull logo. #lufc

I wrote about why this Labour government needs to urgently U-turn on its immigration strategy and choose humanity over hate for @labouroutlook.bsky.social.

20 years ago today, @austriasalzburg.bsky.social was refounded. Two fans secretly registered the club's traditional title SV Austria Salzburg with the FA. "We wanted to protect the name from Red Bull." #svas www.krone.at/3920352

Heimspiel! @austriasalzburg.bsky.social hope to put some points between them and the bottom three today as Hertha Wels visit Maxglan, kick off 13:30 UK #svas

@mjslater.bsky.social Maybe fills a little gap on the “acquire more clubs” slide in the pitch doc you reported on the other week? #lufc

After brutally-blown leads against Liefering and St Pölten, @austriasalzburg.bsky.social go to bottom-of-the table Bregenz. But for their -3pts start, the Vorarlbergers' four draws would be enough to place them above the 2. Liga relegation zone. Kick off 5pm UK #svas

Went in here 99/00ish, bought a pint (probably Fosters), turned around and the owner pulled the plug on the DJ and yelled RIGHT, YOU’VE ALL HAD YOUR FUN NOW FUCK OFF

In the late 19th century, millions of migrants left Germany as a result of religious persecution, economic hardship, and political uncertainty. Among them was Nikolaus Schrod, a cabinet maker from Frankfurt who - along with his wife Bina - moved to London to start a new life in the 1850s. 1/3

"The can is the focus, not the football": ex-Red Bull Salzburg coach Lothar Matthäus on how Red Bull's game has lost its way since the death of Dietrich Mateschitz #lufc

SPÜTOG! Top-of-the-table St Pölten are in Maxglan to face @austriasalzburg.bsky.social, bringing back memories of Lukas Katnik’s two goals for die Austria at St Pölten in their first game back in pro football ten years ago 💜🤍 #svas

Wrote recently how Leeds are both in/not in two MCOs and along comes another with Colombia’s Deportivo Cali, announced on LinkedIn last week by a private equity firm headquartered in Guatemala. #lufc

This is brilliant, very much looking forward to part two. "Normally, cultures don't fight. That’s why they are cultures: they don’t wage wars.” - Ivica Osim

Astonishing to see Leeds continuing to push Socios fan tokens, even now. They were launched in September 2021 at £2 a pop, in a welter of inexcusably misleading marketing. Four years later, they now change hand for *less than 3p.*

If you like this podcast, here’s some photos of when @austriasalzburg.bsky.social rebooted for real after the Red Bull takeover. Nonntal, October 2006, at the last 2. Klasse Nord (tier 7) game before the winter break. #svas

In the latest @thesquareball.net I write about the changes happening which will alter what Leeds United is, while 49ers Enterprises try to reassure fans that everything's the same as it was. But it isn't. And the cost to Leeds is not yet its identity, but its authenticity. #lufc

The much-anticipated first 2. Liga Salzburg derby of the season is getting closer. Debate over ticket allocation for the visit of @austriasalzburg.bsky.social, the fan-owned phoenix club formed after Red Bull GmbH's 2005 takeover, to Red Bull Salzburg’s farm team FC Liefering, is hotting up. #svas

Whodathunk MCO/Red Bull would be so divisive? The man responsible takes questions on 13 September. There must be plenty. #lufc

Try getting answers from an American investment fund, though. They may occasionally speak on their terms but don’t do conventional accountability (as Leeds fans know only too well)

Heimspiel! Amstetten are today’s visitors as @austriasalzburg.bsky.social go for a third straight win. Kick off 1.30pm GMT. Forza viola! 💜🤍

As I wrote in my first of three articles in @thesquareball.net a year ago, with Red Bull GmbH it’s all about regulations. Per my second, their ≈10% ownership of Leeds is a punt on anticipated UEFA Article 5 changing to allow them to own a third club in European competition. #lufc

20-year-old Georgian Luka Parkadze signs for @austriasalzburg.bsky.social from Bayern Munich #svas

It's Thursday and that can mean only one thing, a new blog is up. This week we go WAY back to the 70's to look at Foul, the remarkable first general football fanzine and also the first of many fanzines to run into legal issues. footballfanzineculture.blog/2025/08/28/f...

It’s back to Vienna for die Austria, to renew acquaintances with Floridsdorfer AC who beat them in a playoff for promotion to 2. Liga in 2014. #svas

With a bit from me on why having a Premier League club was beyond Dietrich Mateschitz’s imagination and how the Red Bullification of Leeds is already happening. #lufc

Two defeats not ideal, but around this time when @austriasalzburg.bsky.social were in 2. Liga ten years ago I was already tweeting about them being unable to play games at home, or even with any fans present. #svas

With a bit from me on why having a Premier League club was beyond Dietrich Mateschitz’s imagination and how the Red Bullification of Leeds is already happening. #lufc

Tonight @austriasalzburg.bsky.social go to First Vienna, Austria’s oldest football club. Their Hohe Warte ground was once the largest football stadium in continental Europe and the 85,000-capacity home of Austria's Wunderteam of the 1930s. #svas

Yet more misappropriated fan culture all watched over by Red Bull; Leeds' 49ers-era identity crisis continues #lufc

Komplett ausverkauft, tolle Stimmung — nach 10 Minuten steht es noch 0:0.

Die Austria ist zurück! 💜🤍 @austriasalzburg.bsky.social are back in 2. Liga after a 10-year wait. Austria Klagenfurt the visitors, kick off 5pm GMT 🍻 #svas #LigaZwa

"When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning." - Baudrillard #lufc

With multi-club ownership now more of a thing, here’s a little story about Red Bull GmbH. #lufc

Reports last month stated Red Bull GmbH had agreed to buy Premiership rugby union club Newcastle Falcons. There has been no communication from the Austrian drinks marketing company on the matter.

Entertaining chat as ever with @thesquareball.net and @cowburned.bsky.social on kit design #lufc

Absolute banger this shirt @btngnrtn.bsky.social . Nur die Austria. Scheiss r*d Bull

Of course they’re all over Leeds’ training gear now, because Red Bull GmbH gotta Red Bull. Also, you see that stuck on lamp posts in Salzburg 👍 #lufc #svas #scheissredbull #neinzuRB

If you can't see why categorising an organisation that spray paints planes to be the same as Islamic State is a problem then I don't know what to tell you. Utterly grotesque and a genuinely worrying precedent.

This is such a strange design element for Leeds United to deploy. Not only because it’s a niche-as-fuck hyperlocal reference for a club returning to the global exposure of the Premier League, but also because it’s not theirs. #lufc

Take a look at him now.

This. The lowfields tunnel is such a niche thing, almost purely unique to the square ball. I’ve been going to Elland Road since 1991,I grew up in beeston so I never walked that way,it means little to me.Just proper lazy from the club. Not that it matters,don’t buy stuff with that fizzy pop logo on