Had to laugh at this;
Said & Done | David Hills | Football | The Observer
Man of the week: Ken Bates says the £600,000 compensation set by tribunal after Everton signed Leeds teenager Luke Garbutt is "no deterrent". "It's a lot more than the insulting offer Everton made us, but what's £600,000 to them? It's petty cash and certainly no deterrent to them doing it again. We need points deductions."
Ken's previous experience with points deductions and insulting offers: May 2007 – Bates offers Leeds's creditors 1p in the pound after putting the club into administration with debts of £38m, including £165 owed to the St John Ambulance: an offer dismissed as "utterly derisory and insulting". Final outcome: Leeds, already going down, docked 10 points; creditors settle for 10p in the pound; debt-free club sold by administrators to an off-shore consortium fronted by Ken Bates; Leeds finish 2008 £4.5m in profit.
Said & Done | David Hills | Football | The Observer
Man of the week: Ken Bates says the £600,000 compensation set by tribunal after Everton signed Leeds teenager Luke Garbutt is "no deterrent". "It's a lot more than the insulting offer Everton made us, but what's £600,000 to them? It's petty cash and certainly no deterrent to them doing it again. We need points deductions."
Ken's previous experience with points deductions and insulting offers: May 2007 – Bates offers Leeds's creditors 1p in the pound after putting the club into administration with debts of £38m, including £165 owed to the St John Ambulance: an offer dismissed as "utterly derisory and insulting". Final outcome: Leeds, already going down, docked 10 points; creditors settle for 10p in the pound; debt-free club sold by administrators to an off-shore consortium fronted by Ken Bates; Leeds finish 2008 £4.5m in profit.
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