Bates pledges backing for Blackwell

New Leeds chairman Ken Bates has vowed to give manager Kevin Blackwell the chance he craves to finish a job he only started in the summer.

Fri, 21 Jan, 2005 - 16:35

New Leeds chairman Ken Bates has vowed to give manager Kevin Blackwell the chance he craves to finish a job he only started in the summer.

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 believed to be £10m (€14.4m).

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