We noticed this piece of story digging out on the site of our friends at Love Leeds Hate Bates. We are not too sure which is worse, that Ridsdale likes Bates or that he has the nerve to suggest he in entitled to decide who “is a footballing man”. The rest of the article is classic Ridsdale denial.

http://www.loveleedshatebates.com/2010/01/ridsdale-endorses-bates-for-leeds/