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Exclusive: Howard Wilkinson knows the weight of history bearing down on Marcelo Bielsa at Leeds

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As the man who last achieved what Marcelo Bielsa is attempting, Howard Wilkinson knows all about the pressure of managing Leeds.

Wilkinson took down every picture at Elland Road of the glorious Don Revie era when he was appointed in 1988 to banish the ghosts which had haunted his predecessors.

His controversial “shock treatment”, as he puts it, worked and he delivered promotion to the top flight 19 months later in 1990 in his first full season in charge.

Wilkinson sealed his legendary status by winning the First Division title in 1992 and told Mirror Sport: “When I arrived at Leeds they were still haunted by the shadows of the glorious Revie era. “I decided that it needed to stop clinging to that, stop looking back and start looking

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