Madness in the UK

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so, one or two of you in here might actually know what the "mot" and "bates out" mean in my signature. some have even asked.

mot stands for "marching on together". something many Leeds United fans include at the end of posts and whatnot. Bates is Ken bates, an evil bitter old crook who owns leeds.

Leeds united was once one of the biggest football (soccer) teams in the world. then they over invested thinking the success from the next season would pay for all the investments they were making. they sucked that next year. the team was crippled with debt and had to sell off all their solid players for dirt cheap. because of the sell offs the team plummeted all the way from one of the top teams in europe all the was down to the third tier of english football.

it was at this point that ken bates started buying up the club. bates is a shady figure who lives tax free in morocco and has all of his money tied up in offshore banks. in fact it took years for him to finally admit (under oath) that he was behind the many shadow companies that owned leeds. over the years bates has managed to "right the ship" , pulling them out of a free fall. however over the years he has continued to sell off millions of dollars worth of star players, and pocketing all the money while investing little or nothing back into the team.

many fans started to wonder why all their best players were still being sold, ticket prices were still going way up, yet the team was not being improved. many people started demanding that bates sell the club to someone who would invest back into the club.

earlier this year, it was announced that Leeds was being sold. then it came out that it was being sold to a middle easterner with deep pockets, and people started to shit themselves dreaming of becoming the next Manchester city. then the takeover didn't happen, and we waited. then they announced the deal was still on and moving along. there was a lot of he said she said bull shit and back and forth between the two sides leading to fan boycotts of Leeds home games. through it all ken bates was a total dick hole calling leeds fans morons and idiots.

so today after 7 months of the takeover drama, it was announced that the takeover is finally a done deal and that as of december 21st, the new owners will take over 100% of the club. and Leeds fans world wide rejoiced

HOWEVER

it was also announced that the Evil crook Ken bates would stay on until the end of the year as the chairman of the club. after that time he would take over as the president of the club

WTF????????????????????

the whole driving force behind the fans demanding and supporting a takeover was to get ken bates the fuck out of Leeds. but now he's staying around

to put this in perspective for non UK soccer fans. this is like, the UN deciding that hitler should be the president of the jews

absolute bullocks

[George Cumby]

Bollocks.

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Yeah, that word

[Freak Out]

Isn't Leeds traded on the London Stock Exchange? The fans should organize and buy as much as possible and boot the fucking scumbag. You should Red.

[mraynrand]

God save the Queen. We mean it, man.

Tourists are money....

[wootah]

Haha, the Hitler analogy :)

Soccer is a beautiful game, but there is a very very dark side to it as well; the invasion of money laundry, the human trafficking with young players or players from poor countries and of course let's not forget the possibility of nil-nil games with no shots on target and all midfield play.

[mmmdk]

Robber Barons! How the world has de-evolved. Thank you .......

[George Cumby]

Yeah, that word

good stuff, Red. I learned something.

[digitaldean]

Sounds this guy is as beloved as the Glazer family (owners of the TB Bucs and Manchester United) are to the Man U fans.

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fuck me

just over a year ago i made this thread talking about what a mess the soccer team i followed was

it has somehow gotten worse

the news that has been coming out of leeds today, and over the last week, make the problems with the packers seem kind of minor

so just over a year ago, the team got new owners, and every leeds supporter rejoiced because the evil previous owner was now gone

the new owners, a bunch of arabs known as GFH, spent a year blowing smoke up everyones asses, telling all the fans how much they respected the club and its fans and how they wanted to help return leeds to greatness

everyone knew GFH was going to only be a short term owner, as they were looking for massive investments from day one. there has been talks about them reselling the team almost from the day they took over. they kept saying that they would do what was best for the club and the fans.

they hired a new manager before this season started to help rebuild the club, as he has done at other clubs. this would involve bringing in new players that the coach liked and selling the ones he didnt. the owners said they would support him 100%

near the end of november it was announced that the team would be sold and that the new owner was a lifelong leeds fan. everyone was thrilled. the deal was suppose to be done in a month, in time for the transfer window to open. the new owners promised all kinds of money to the coach to get all the players he wanted. the transfer window opened, and the deal hadn't been closed yet

fans started to worry.

the would be new owners gave the club 6 million bucks to bring in new signing while they waited for the takeover to go through. the coach found the guy he wanted, and the current owners blocked the purchase. fans were confused. the play on the field took a nose dive as it started to look like the team was not going to be supported by the current owners, and things were currently in limbo

meanwhile offers have been coming in all month for the teams best player, and the fan favorite, ross mccormick. the team had been known in the past for selling off its best players for a profit, then not signing anyone to replace them. this practice pissed off fans quite a bit. so far the team kept rejecting the offers because the player wanted to stay with the club.

a little over a week ago, italian press came out saying the club was about to be sold to an italian criminal who owns a club in sicilly, and has a few counts of fraud against him, including a current ongoing case. the guy (massimo cellino) is also very well know in italy for having 36 different coaches in the last 20 year with his current club.

fans became worried

yesterday it come out in the press that the initial offer from the english leeds fan had completely fallen through. word also came out that the italians choice to be new head coach after he took over, had walked into practice earlier this week and tried to sit on the bench during last weeks game, even though the takeover hadn't happened, and even though the fans were firmly behind their current coach

that brings us to today. a few hours ago a new offer came in for our top player. he turned it down saying he wanted to stay at leeds with his current coach. a couple hours later, news broke that the team had fired the coach, a highly respected manager named brian mcdermott.

this pissed fans off to no end. not just because the fans respected the manager, but because it probably means the italian is the new owner

ross mccormick who had just said hours ago that he didn't want to leave the club, goes back on TV and says he only wanted to stay at the club because of the manager, and that he might now be open to leave.

while he is on TV, a report comes out that the teams main sponsor has just withdrawn all support for the team do to the disgraceful handling of the fired coach

leeds fans are now rallying on team forums and starting to make plans for the game being played in leeds tomorrow against one of their biggest rivals. many fans are planning to boycott the game, other are planning riots

there is a chance that leeds burns tomorrow

nothing i have ever seen the packers do could come anywhere close to being as big of a mess as leeds united have become

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i think the quote that best sums it up comes from gary neville. the longtime captain of the team leeds fans consider their biggest rival (man u). and a guy most leeds supporters hate


Gary Neville

I don't like Leeds United / they don't like me! ( that's life) However they are being tossed about by impostors! None of us like that!!
2:23 PM - 31 Jan 2014

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and another big sponsor has pulled out

and all this could be for nothing

the new italian owner still has to pass a screening test by the football league before he is allowed to actually own the club. he failed it in 2010

if the deal falls through, then the current owners don't have a pot to piss in already, and they owe large amounts of money to the group that they just broke of negotiations with yesterday. if the deal with the italian falls though, the club could end up back in administration and be relegation down to a lower division again

[mraynrand]

Sounds like the Browns

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Sounds like the Browns

LOL it really does doesn't it?

fan favorite coach fired.
criminal owner
best players wanting to leave
there have been no riots in Cleveland though to my knowledge

this would be about like the ford family buying the packers and then installing matt millen as the new GM and swartz as the HC

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and in the last hour a half dozen clubs have called about buying our star player

he's as good as gone

theres only a couple of hours left in the transfer window, but i bet he still leaves

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LOL

fans protested outside elland road late tonight and some of them actually blockaded the parking lot to the team offices, where the italian crook was meeting with club officials trying to finish the deal

twice the fans forced taxis away that had been called to pick up the italian criminal

finally cops had to be called to escort the new owner off the team grounds

i've mentioned doing something like this to get rid of slocum, except i thought we could use more violence and weapons

[woodbuck27]

Bollocks.

Bollocks:

UK Vulger:

" That's a load of bollocks, mate! "

Ireland Vulger:

" Don't mind him; he's only an oul' bollocks! "


** Many commercials are annoyingly dry ... a load of unwatchable bollocks.

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OK that was really bad!! ...allow me a chance to recover... This will kill you... make you laugh. If it doesn't your gums are likely itchy or your NOT taking Vitamin "D".


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Are you a movie buff !? This post has something for all tastes:

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** Singles from their album ... "Never Mind the Bollocks" ... Here's the Sex Pistols

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Johnny “Rotten” Lyndon .. says " Green Day ! .... Whaa ... Bollocks !! "

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and it gets sillier

today, the board of directors calls up the fired coach and tell him that he was illegally fired by a guy who was not yet the owner. the came after news broke that the fired coach was seeking legal action and that the english coaching association had condemed the firing as illegal

it was also after new broke that the sponsors that pulled out last night were planning lawsuits against the former owners because they had given the former owners large chunks of money to pay the salary of the fired coach. they now want their money back. money the selling owners do not have

and it was also after the supposed new owner took to the newspapers to state that the coach left him no choice but to fire him after listing a whole line of BS

meanwhile a 3rd group of englishmen has stepped in and said they are now in negotiations with the club to buy the club

rumors are swirling that the football league might have informed the current owners that they would not green light the sale to a known criminal. or that the current owners saw just how much the fans did not want the team sold to that slime and that if they did sell to him, they (current owners) would receive multiple lawsuits totaling 10's of millions of dollars, which they don't have, and pulled out of the deal to negotiate with the group the fans want (who have offered the same amount of money btw)

today, they team showed up, playing for their old coach, led by the team captain that almost left the club late last night after the coach was fired, and completely destroy their rivals 5-1, to continuous thunderous charts from the crowd in support of the former coach

now reports are coming out that the old coach is still the current coach, and that the board of directors asked him not to attend todays game, but he will be back with the team on monday

so, no one knows whats going on, who the coach is, or who the owner is. but the team won

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oh, and one of the team directors that was fired by the new owners last night, was rehired this morning, because all the safety permits for the stadium were in his name, and without him being employed by the team, the game would not have been allowed to be played today

you really couldn't make this shit up if you tried

[mraynrand]

It's a Clive Cluster-*uck.

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so, where was i

its been almost 2 months so things must have gotten better, right?

no

fuck no

so, when i left off, the new italian "owner" had just taken over and fired everyone, only to find out he hasn't really taken over anything yet, and all parties were hired back

prospective new owners have to pass a "fit and proper" test by the football league (the FL)

the head of the FL, just so happens to be the former right hand man of the crooked POS that use to own the club (a guy who once said he would make it his life goal to destroy leeds united, before he purchased the team and destroyed the club). so he's the main guy, the rest of the board that decided his fate was made up of the owners of all the other teams, their rivals who wouldn't want to see the club succeed.

ok, so once the current owners (the arabs) decided they were going to sell the club back in november, they decided that they no longer had to pay any of the bills (players wages, utility bills, vendor bills, the company that was in the middle of installing new fields in the teams practice facility, everything) they haven't spent on dollar on the team in 5 months. they took out loans in the teams name to cover some costs in november and december. then they got prospective owner #1 (the non italian) to pay the bills for january, before that bid collapsed. since early feb. the italian has been pay all the bills, and paid off all the vendors and anyone else that was owed money, even though he wasn't officially the owner yet.

The FL, delayed and delayed and then delayed some more, their decision on whether the italian was "fit and proper", even though they had cleared well known mobs types and rapists within a matter of days in the past 2 years.

finally, the italian wised up after over a month of paying the bills and still not passing the test.

then it came out in the italian media that he was about to go to court on tax evasion charges stemming from a boat he bought in the US, through a US company (the italian lives in the US BTW). the italian courts said that since he was italian, that he owed an import tax to the italians, on the boat

he lost the court case, was fined a half million bucks, and the boat was impounded

two days later, the FL finally stepped up and failed him. blocking the sale

in the last 2 months, the italian has spent somewhere between 6 ans 12 million pounds keeping the club afloat. also due back is the 25 million that he had already given the club for the purchase of the team. so the guy is due 30-40 million pounds, from an arab banking company that doesn't have a pot to piss in, and now the players are on the verge of not getting paid for this month

meanwhile, on the pitch, the team went from being on the verge of the playoffs and promotion, to fighting to even stay up in the league they're in

so, its still mass chaos, and the team is now in danger of going into bankruptcy (called administration over there), where the FL takes over the clubs and sells off all assets (the player) in order to pay the bills. they also hit the club with a large point deduction that could send the club down to a lower league and cripple the club further for years to come

so yeah