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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:53 pm 
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...Bastards

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Why the Guardian was not at Elland Road for Leeds United v Arsenal
Tweet this The Guardian, Thursday 20 January 2011 Article history
The Leeds chairman Ken Bates has banned the Guardian from attending matches at Elland Road. Photograph: /Reuters
The match report of last night's Leeds versus Arsenal FA Cup tie which appears above is written by the Guardian's football correspondent, Kevin McCarra. It's accurate, balanced and elegantly done – in the usual tradition of our football reporting. Except in one respect: McCarra wasn't at the match. We are banned from Elland Road.

According to a club spokesman: "The chairman will not accredit you. He won't let you in. You are banned. Indefinitely." These are the words of Ken Bates and inside Leeds United his word is law.

Leeds United can clearly live without live coverage from inside the ground from the Guardian and the Guardian can get by, although not by choice, by reporting the game in different ways – see McCarra and our guardian.co.uk variations involving the minute-by-minute, blogs, instant reaction and today's Football Weekly Extra podcast.

This has come about because David Conn, the UK sports news reporter of the year, asked in a series of articles the simple question: Who owns Leeds United? Conn was joined by the then sports minister, Gerry Sutcliffe, his Tory shadow, Hugh Robertson, who now holds the post, MPs, the Leeds United Supporters Club, the national Football Supporters Federation and Supporters Direct. Even the Kaiser Chiefs weighed in.

Leeds have told the Football League that no individual has more than 10% of the club and so they don't have to identify any of the stakeholders. The league have accepted that. So, the public still doesn't know who owns Leeds United. We would like to report Leeds's games in the normal way. But we, and others, won't stop asking that question.

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Ken Bates is a gummy old twat.

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Don't be pinning that on Yorkshire. Bates is a Londoner. From the South.

The f*ckin' South.

Southern b*stard.


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all southerners are scum.

discuss.

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Do you mean scum as in the frothy stuff? The frothy stuff on top of the dirty northern poo?

Only joking. I've got far to much hatred of the jocks, micks and taffs to be fighting with decent White European English people.


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DarloBlue wrote:
Don't be pinning that on Yorkshire. Bates is a Londoner. From the South.

The f*ckin' South.

Southern b*stard.


And lives, (and dodges taxes), in Monaco.

Southern c*nt.

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gibbonicus_andronicus wrote:
all southerners are scum.

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no need to discuss, surely?

this is established fact

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Timpblue wrote:
no need to discuss, surely?

this is established fact


Let's not be too hasty. I'd contend that people from Devon/Cornwall etc. aren't scum - just a bit (a lot) backwards. I think that when you say about Southerners being scum, you have to specify in particular the ones from the South East.


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I hate all English people equally.:approve:

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DarloBlue wrote:
Let's not be too hasty. I'd contend that people from Devon/Cornwall etc. aren't scum - just a bit (a lot) backwards. I think that when you say about Southerners being scum, you have to specify in particular the ones from the South East.


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I don't know where you get this idea that citizens from the South East are scum?? :confused:


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I hate all English people equally.:approve:


So do I as it happens.

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I judge people not by their nationality, colour of skin or religion they adhere to. I judge all people by the content of their heart. People are wonderful. The world loves you, give something back.

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I judge people not by their nationality, colour of skin or religion they adhere to. I judge all people by the content of their heart. People are wonderful. The world loves you, give something back.


Like AIDS?

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Like AIDS?


No. Keep that one too yourself there ESM.

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Danny's Studs wrote:
I judge people not by their nationality, colour of skin or religion they adhere to. I judge all people by the content of their heart. People are wonderful. The world loves you, give something back.


I notice you left gender off your list.


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Danny's Studs wrote:
I judge people not by their nationality, colour of skin or religion they adhere to. I judge all people by the content of their heart. People are wonderful. The world loves you, give something back.


i do, the world would be dangerously low on cynicism if it weren't for me

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I notice you left gender off your list.


Well, you're quite right Darling, while I was busy lying I may as well be in for a penny, in for pound.

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