The Makita Tournament was supposed to be perfect preparation for Leeds United’s return to Europe, thirteen years after Universita Craiova dumped them out of the UEFA Cup. A couple of pre-season games over a summer weekend at Elland Road, against an exciting new level of continental opposition, plus Nottingham Forest. In 1992, different leagues meant more different styles than the convergent soccer we see in 2021, so taking on Stuttgart from the Bundesliga and Sampdoria from Serie A meant seeing new players, in new formations, employing different tactics, swearing in different languages. Just as powerful as corded - this Makita cordless microwave can heat food and drinks at 500 W just as well as a corded domestic microwave can On Gary McAllister’s condition after playing at the Euros with Scotland; according to Helm, “He looks leaner, fitter, hungrier, everything is Gary McAllister at the moment.” Great battery runtimes - this Makita 40V microwave can heat 5x chilled food containers or 8x 200 ml drink mugs with 2x 4Ah batteries

He says The Germans are organised so well,” says Helm, “They’re like the Peggy Spencer dance formation team.” The Wembley International Tournament, known as the Makita International Tournament for sponsorship reasons from 1989, was an association football pre-season friendly tournament held annually in England between 1988 and 1994. Originally organised by IEP Tournaments, it was first staged in August 1988, with Arsenal beating A.C. Milan in the final. All the matches were held at Wembley Stadium. Typically, it hosted a combination of English and Continental teams, and was held at Wembley until 1991. Thereafter it was held at different venues around the country until the final competition in 1994. It was televised in all years by ITV. I honestly think Lee Chapman is now playing better football than any time in his career, and he’s also a better athlete now. He’s worked so hard at training in the last three years. He’s been unbelievable.” That’s not like our wall, John. The ball went right through the wall, and it’s something we pride ourselves on, that we’ve got a very brave wall.”You might see a different shape tomorrow as well [in the second Makita game]. The manager is going to try out different things for the season. He knows it’s a very important season and he’s got to try a lot of things before the season starts.”

If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em,” Howard Wilkinson tells ITV’s touchline reporter after the game, as he tries to get a post-match assessment about why on earth Gary Speed had just played against Stuttgart as a sweeper. If Wilko was trying to put one over on the visitors from Germany, his enigmatic grin was giving his hand away.It didn’t really help anybody when Leeds were then drawn with Stuttgart in the European Cup. The expansive learning exercise turned paranoid as both teams were caught between discovering new things from another league and giving too much away to a direct opponent six weeks before playing for real. Great 8 litre capacity with proper microwave cavity dimensions that can fit popular-sized food containers Funny you say leaner, about Gary McAllister. He actually put on about seven pounds in weight in the summer. And he’s quite delighted about that because the boys have been ribbing him about his physique, and I’m sure that’s going to help him out as well, this season.” Strachan is keen on the German style, too, but in particular their captain Guido Buchwald, nominally a defender.