Ken’s Bidding Or Not? The Daily Mail’s Hatchet Job On The Leeds United Supporters Trust
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The 200% Pre-Season Previews: The Championship
With less than 48 hours to go, Rob Freeman interrupts the Premier League Previews to bring the first of three previews of the football league. In a break from tradition,...
100 Owners: Number 96 – (George Cripps &) Joseph Connor (Leeds City)
As those of you that have been keeping up to date with this series will already be aware, there was probably no golden age for football in England when the...
Ken Bates’ Grand Game Of Divide And Rule
Sometimes, the oldest ones are the best – or, in this case, the worst. There are plenty of rogues operating in and around football clubs these days, but the old...
Is The Tide Beginning To Turn At Leeds United?
We have noted before on this site that football supporters can be considerably more patient than we are ever given credit for. Indeed, some might even say that we are too...
Match Of The Week 2: Arsenal 1-0 Leeds United
There remains a sense of great expectations surrounding Leeds United. To get a feel for the root cause for this, we only need to spin back four decades, when Don...
Is The Worm Starting To Turn? Cardiff Fans Walk Out Of Elland Road
In some respects it was inevitable that a group of fans would collectively reach a breaking point, and take a stand at the way supporters are treated by many professional...
Who Owns Leeds United? How Football Documentaries Should Be Made
Many years ago, I listened to prize-winning author and ultra-famous Arsenal fan Nick Hornby reading extracts from the book which made his name, Fever Pitch. And the reading was a...
The People’s Republic Of Elland Road
What on earth is happening at Leeds? I was at Elland Road last Saturday among 600 Pompey fans and the change in atmosphere since last season was palpable. Last year,...
Supporters’ Trusts: Some Hard Questions
This weekend the saga of Trust ownership at Wrexham extends. Plymouth Argyle struggle to find an ownership solution to coming out of administration. In the tales of duplicity and ineptness...
Football’s Values: Unethical, Dishonourable or Ill-Advised?
Currently appearing in the high court are an ex-Pompey director, past owner and recent manager on various charges of tax-evasion. Charged with fraud and unfair trading practices at court...
Bates’ Caterwauling Doesn’t Disguise Questions That Should Be Answered
At least Ken Bates now knows who owns the club he’s chaired for the last half-decade, as he’ll have written their name on the cheque for the “undisclosed sum” which...
Match of the Week: Leeds United 4-1 Nottingham Forest
It feels a bit blasphemous reporting on a match in which a club associated with Ken Bates performed well, but since he’s one of football’s greatest chairmen, a good scrub...
Celebrating Football’s Greatest Chairman
With the recent protests against the government so far peaking with half a million protestors marching with the TUC to Hyde Park last Saturday, we have decided here at twohundredpercent...
91 Years Of Football Through 7 Players: From Leeds United, 1920 to West Ham, 2011
An article on the front page of the When Saturday Comes website bemoaned the airbrushing from history of anything from before the beginning of the Premier League, but the time-line...