All articles from: February, 2010

How to motivate the opposition…

say stuff like this in your programme notes. Whose programme notes? Well who do you think? That’s right the man still yet to tell us the club has paid his legal fees from his Levi libel case (another consequence of his programme notes).
See the Times and Star article
Sometimes he makes it so easy for us! [...]

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LLHB supports The Visit Beeston Campaign.

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Love Leeds Hate Bates is happy to report a separate field of activity, by others, in the fight to restrain Mr K W Bates from his mission to squeeze the life out of Leeds United. The “Visit Beeston” campaign, details of which you can find here: Biting back at Bates’ blueprint and in the copy of [...]

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Ken Bates and the weather 30 miles from Leeds.

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So your the Chairman of Leeds United (still), the team is in a slump, the fans want to know why you spent very little money in January, still no word on who paid the legal bills for the Levi case, the taxman is changing the rules on people like you and Thorp Arch is still [...]

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A new battle for Ken and the tax man?

Interesting stuff in this article on sportspromedia.com (click here)… it seems that our illustrious chairman’s avoidance of tax in the UK under the 90 day rule could come under threat from the revenue after a millionaire’s appeal against an HMRC bill was thrown out.
Robert Gaines-Cooper was made to pay UK tax after it was deemed [...]

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Ken Bates, FSF and the “Fit and Proper Rule”, no further comment required.

The Yorkshire Evening Post (YEP) have reported the following:
“The Football League has confirmed that United’s secretive owners have passed its fit and proper persons test.
The Football League investigated the individuals who control the League One club in October amid reports questioning the ownership structure at Elland Road.
Leeds are controlled by Forward Sports Fund, an offshore [...]

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