Leeds saviour Bates ready for ‘one more challenge’

NEW Leeds chairman Ken Bates has revealed the motivation behind his surprise return to football is due to his desire for “one more challenge.”

Bates, under the guise of a Geneva-based company known as The Forward Sports Fund, has bought a 50% stake in Leeds for a figure understood to be £10million just 10 months after his long-standing love affair with Chelsea came to an end.

The deal took four days to complete after Bates approached the outgoing board on Monday, with the takeover finalised at 2.27am yesterday.