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Lest we forget its less then 3 weeks ago Ken Bates told the Leeds United fans that Thorp Arch was a done deal….. we all know what happened next. His pathetic excuses not withstanding the whole episode, on top of his libel defeat at the hands of Levi, gave a suggestion of a man off [...]

I don’t normally bring normal life or politics into a Clarkeonenil post but this little pearl provoked me:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8331312.stm
Now lets examine what this story is telling us, it says that given a choice between just telling a bunch of racists to frig off the West Yorkshire Police would rather spend days in meetings with Leeds City [...]

Clarkeonenil is rightly critical (to the point of open hatred) of Bates, his glorified fund manager act, the cohorts and the dodgy ownership structures (legal requirement in Switzerland to be secret my arse), but lets us not forget we have had more than our fair share of interesting personalities in our board room over the [...]

One of the constant themes of football since the 2003 Ridsdale meltdown as been the refrain “the next Leeds United”, which an array of clubs (Newcastle United, Liverpool, Southampton etc) have been suggested. Well if the link below is to be believed its a club a lot closer than we imagined, its Hull City, which [...]

Interesting on both a general and Leeds United level. Given this is a club that a few weeks ago was talking about building a new stadium it rather suggests somebody has been living the deluded fantasy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/southend_utd/8328096.stm