2002-03 Leeds United A.F.C. Season (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. During the 2002-03 English football season, Leeds United A.F.C. competed in the FA Premier League (known as the Barclaycard Premiership for sponsorship reasons). As Leeds United's debts began racking up, the club began selling many first-team players to raise money, most notably defender and captain Rio Ferdinand, sold to arch-rivals Manchester United for around 25 million pounds - a world record for a defender at the time. Despite this mass exodus of players (which forced many youth players like James Milner and Matthew Kilgallon into the first team) Leeds managed to remain in the Premiership after finishing a safe 15th place, with no small thanks to striker Mark Viduka. Viduka struck 20 goals in the Premiership alone, making him the fourth highest scorer in the league that season. Harry Kewell was also influential, scoring 14 on his own and setting up several of Viduka's strikes, before departing to Liverpool in the summer.