LEEDS UNITED chairman John McKenzie has blamed “irresponsibility and indulgent spending” as the reasons behind the Premiership club’s shocking financial state.

Leeds chairman John McKenzie today blamed “irresponsibility and indulgent spending” for the club’s financial state.

LEEDS have severed all connections with the old Peter Ridsdale regime as new chairman Professor John McKenzie brought in a team of city accountants to help save the club.

IF the footballing equivalent of Hans Blix was assigned to search the Premiership he would only have to stop off at Elland Road to find weapons of sporting destruction.

Leeds chairman Peter Ridsdale and his fellow directors will convene tomorrow and decide on the manager they want to replace David O’Leary.

Nasa’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft headed for its first brush with the martian atmosphere early today, a surf along the upper fringe of the atmosphere less than 100 miles above the planet’s surface.