TSB Guide to Mark de Vries and Wayne Andrews - The Square Ball 18/8/22
CENTRE-FORWARD SOS Written by: Rob Conlon Mention the name Mark de Vries at Elland Road and before you have had the chance to take another breath someone else will have brought up Wayne Andrews. De Vries and Andrews come as a pair in the imaginations of Leeds fans, a comedy double act performing League One emergency loan slapstick. Read any list of worst or weirdest Leeds signings, and there will be Mark de Vries, closely followed by Wayne Andrews. I’m wondering if that’s really fair? Leeds signed plenty of strange loanees in the Football League, and most of them were rubbish, or at least equally fleeting. Craig Hignett joined on a one-month loan after relegation from the Premier League essentially to make up the numbers in training, but nobody mentions his name because he had the good grace to never make a competitive appearance. De Vries and Andrews were signed in equally desperate circumstances, but had the misfortune of joining at a time when Leeds was at its historical low —...