Leeds United a Lincoln fans view

[YorkshireSquare]

Saw this article on When Saturday Comes by a Lincoln fan about his experiences from the cu tie...

19 August ~ Only the most innocent away fan would anticipate a warm welcome upon heading for Elland Road. At most clubs, it's a tradition for the chairman to say a few words about the quality of the visiting team in his programme notes. But not if your chairman is the delightful Kenneth Bates. Before your club is even mentioned, you have to dodge numerous bricks lobbed indiscriminately at a variety of targets. My cousin, one of several Leeds fans in my family, described his regular programme note tirades as "all a bit embarrassing" as we stood at last week's League Cup first round tie against Lincoln perusing We Are Leeds, the official matchday magazine.

Bates declared that he was disappointed at losing to Derby on the season's opening day, but never mind the reasons why – better to use the defeat as a platform to slag off visiting manager Nigel Clough for making "much out of his failure to take his little boy on the pitch, apparently confusing the football ground with a playground". Clough then reportedly committed the dreadful error of ignoring "the club dress code, wanting to sit in the directors' box in a tracksuit, making not one but two requests to do so". Shocking.

Bates was happy that Leeds player Neil Kilkenny "just missed out on a call-up for Australia", as that meant he would have missed the game against Lincoln "to play in a meaningless friendly in some godforsaken part of the world" (that's Slovenia told good and proper). FIFA "really are the pits" for having "this stupid fixture in an already overcrowded list of dates". And finally, Fabio Capello's just back from holiday, allowing Bates to remind us that at the World Cup England "were crap" and that they should no longer pick "Cashley" (!!!) Cole because he's publicly stated "that he hates England (and the English)". And that must include the charming chairman of Leeds United FC.

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[CardiffWhite]

Probably feels worse when you come to Elland Road and get beaten 4-0.

[1964white]

The guy is correct

Our chairman is an embarrassment when it comes to his interviews & programme notes

Does he ever learn he ended up in court not so long ago due to his erratic ramblings of slander & lies.

And who pays for the his big mouth's libel damage costs - Us fans

KB needs to zip it & take a step backwards from being the high profile chairman he is, unfortunately he loves himself so much & thrives on controversial issues it's never going to happen

[wakey^white]

yes ken bates programme notes suck (sometimes funny though ) but i sense a hint of bitterness in the article......oh well who cares

[Mikey]

I think as a Leeds fan having to put up with dear old uncle Kenneth's moaning and jibes at every man and his dog, you get used to it and take it as some sort of joke. At the end of the day he isn't going to make himself more unpopular now, is he?

[Drs.Dad]

Bloody Hell.......lighten up Guys and Gals! I actually love Papa's programme notes, the man is an unreconstituted dinosaur, and gives me a belly laugh every home match. It's far, far better that some po-faced old money-man who writes a load of cobblers every week. Love him or loathe him, he lightens the mood for me.
:mrgreen:

[Twiggster]

I love Ken! He's so CHEEKY! :mrgreen: