https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi8aU1u6gEs
Russell Crowe has made a persuasive, compelling pitch asserting that he is the best man to take over the club on BBC Radio Five Live today (listen below).
In the interview, Crowe spoke of his 'love' for the club but said he was getting a little impatient watching Leeds current travails.
Crowe has followed the club since he was a little kid watching Match of the Day in Australia. He is roughly the same age as 97% of non-English Leeds United fans - i.e, someone who began watching football in the early 1970s.
In making the case, he justifiably leaned on the success he has made of things at his rugby league club South Sydney Rabbitohs. Like Leeds, they were kingpins in the early 1970s but endured hard times in the intervening decades. By the end of the 1990s and the early 2000s, the club were mired in financial trouble and perpetually propping up the NRL table.
Crowe got involved in 2006 and the club improved their position steadily in subsequent years, acquiring a number of high profile players. In 2014, they won their first NRL Premiership in 33 years.
However, Crowe refused point blank to countenance his side taking on the Ireland (rugby union*) team in an interview early last year. The prick.
