Will They Or Won't They 2nd Installment

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Poyet waits on Spurs job approach By Chris Bevan (bbc)

Poyet played for Tottenham between 2001 and 2004Leeds assistant boss Gus Poyet will talk to Tottenham if they approach him about joining their management team.

Former Sevilla coach Juande Ramos is tipped to become Spurs' new boss and is thought to want Poyet as his assistant.

Poyet told BBC Sport: "If Leeds let me talk to Spurs I will definitely listen to any offer but that doesn't mean I am saying 'yes I am leaving'."

Leeds have asked Poyet to stay away from Saturday's game against Millwall to avoid distracting their players.

But the former Uruguay international, who played for Tottenham between 2001 and 2004, insists he has not spoken to Spurs and has not been told if Leeds have been approached.

If they let me talk to Tottenham I will, to see what the job is - what is my position, what they are going to offer me and what their conditions are

Gus Poyet

The 39-year-old, who has worked with Dennis Wise at Leeds since October 2006, added: "Everybody is calling me and sending me texts about it but I don't know anything. I haven't been approached or spoken to anyone.

"I don't know if something has gone on between the clubs. I don't have a clue.

"If they let me talk to Tottenham I will, to see what the job is - what is my position, what they are going to offer me and what their conditions are."

Leeds had earlier claimed they had not received an approach from Spurs for Poyet - and would not welcome one.

A statement on the Leeds website said: "Leeds United can officially confirm we have neither received an approach from Tottenham for Poyet nor a request from him to be released from his contract with Leeds.

"Any approach from Tottenham for our assistant manager would not be welcome." Poyet played for Chelsea from 1997 to 2001 before joining Spurs and his first coaching role in this country was under Wise at Swindon in May 2006 before they both moved to Elland Road.

..................... in other words , its almost a done deal !

[percy2]

..................... in other words , its almost a done deal !

Can't really blame him.

It'll be a move to a premiership club(for now) where he was once a player. More money.

Though it would be shame to break a winning formula.

Cheers

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Can't really blame him.

am i just living in the past , or do the words contractual obligations not mean anything these days ?

[eddie11]

money talks,loyalty walks

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didn't we nick Wise and Poyet from Swindon.

So we can't really complain if he does go

MOT

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HALF TIME

LEEDS 1 MILLWALL O

MOT

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WOW 4 ---- 0

TO LEEDS

MOT

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4----1 IS LEEDS HANGING ON;)

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4-2 now

[Chiangmai Foxy]

the oxfam shop on colliery street in heckmondwike.

ha ha,heckmondwike what a sh*tlole,nearly as bad as dewsbury

mot

[scousemouse]

didn't we nick Wise and Poyet from Swindon.

So we can't really complain if he does go

MOT

Yes you did ,

And no you can't ,

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3 More points.

mot

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Dave 'Harry' Bassett new assistant at Leeds

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/t...ted/7072624.stm

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Leeds United | Bassett named as Leeds assistant

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Yorkshire airlines.

[eddie11]

Air Doris's , love it

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bournemouth 1 leeds u. 3

a good confidence restoring comeback result after the defeat at carlisle at the weekend.

leeds now 5th or 6th in the table and ready for an assault on the top.

leaders by xmas ????

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leaders by xmas ????

Not if we have anything to do with it you wont

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we

and who , may i ask , are "we"?

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we

and who , may i ask , are "we"?

The biggest team in L1 by far

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we

and who , may i ask , are "we"?

The biggest team in L1 by far

Now your asking for it Chavy

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He should know the answer by now mate & no they don't play in white

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He should know the answer by now mate & no they don't play in white

[Mosha]

Not withstanding we will be in 1st place by seasons end. Are we on Star Sports this weekend?

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Not withstanding we will be in 1st place by seasons end. Are we on Star Sports this weekend?

No, the best team that wears yellow, white and blue are on.

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He should know the answer by now mate

do you mean that town where all the ladies frilly underwear is made by big girls blouses ?

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He should know the answer by now mate

do you mean that town where all the ladies frilly underwear is made by big girls blouses ?

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Nottingham, a fine city with a fascinating history.

The legendary people's hero Robin Hood spent his life nearby. He famously, on his deathbed, shot an arrow from his bow asking that wherever in Sherwood Forest that arrow should land, there he should be laid to rest, and the whole area covered with an enormous plastic bubble for visitors to ride bikes in.

It's well documented in official records that the City's original name was 'Snottingham', or 'Home of Snots', but when the Normans came, they couldn't pronounce the letter 'S', so decreed the town be called 'Nottingham' or the 'Home of Notts'. It's easy to understand why this change was resisted so fiercely by the people of Scunthorpe.

The greatest bare-knuckle fighter of the Victorian age was born here - one William Bendigoes Thompson, probably the most famous British boxer until Frank 'Down 'E Goes' Bruno.

Another famous son of the city is Albert Ball, who shot down a total of 43 German aircraft. There would have been more, but Mr. Ball was eventually banned from East Midlands Airport.

Nottingham is associated with many famous names - born in 1850, Jesse Boot founded the chain of chemists that took his name. After a few years, he realised his slogan "Buy your drugs from Jesse's" wasn't that great, and he changed the firm's name to Boots. The business started in Goosegate Street, where Jesse's father had a tiny oak-beamed pill shop, but there was so little demand for tiny oak-beamed pills they decided to diversify.

Nottingham is also famous for its links with football, and Notts County is proud to be the oldest teams in the English league...but they hope soon to buy some younger players.

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Peter Ridsdale's lament for Leeds

By Tim Rich.

daily telegraph uk.

Last Updated: 12:26am GMT 09/11/2007

This is a love story. It begins with a boy walking towards the great, gaunt floodlights of Elland Road to queue for tickets for the 1965 FA Cup final. He was alone; he nearly always watched football by himself. He becomes chairman, he takes them to within one match of a European Cup final, supporters chant his name because he is so obviously 'one of us'.

Like so much love, it corrodes, with arguments about money. The banners spit out messages of betrayal, it ends with literal dollops of spittle on his suit and the messiest imaginable break-up. This evening, at Hereford, Leeds compete in the first round of the FA Cup for the first time in their history.

''And how many love stories do end well?" Peter Ridsdale sighs, fingering a copy of his unsparing account of the affair, United We Fall. "I remember the first game after I'd resigned: Leeds played Charlton away and won 6-1. It was the first Saturday afternoon I had been at home in years and I hated it. It was a horrific feeling. That Christmas was the first time I had ever been at home on Boxing Day for my daughter's birthday."

If you mention Ridsdale's name, two images come to mind. One is his glib statement as he sat alongside a stone-faced Terry Venables to announce the sale of Jonathan Woodgate that Leeds had "lived the dream". He sounded like a man justifying an unrepayable credit-card statement the debt when he left stood at £78.9 million. The other is the goldfish.

It was not that there were goldfish in the boardroom, it was that they were rented. Like everything else, the fish were on tick. Could someone not have popped down to Pets R Us and bought one?

Nothing in Ridsdale's account of the fall of Leeds United carries as much anger as that reserved for Venables – there is a sense of regret about how his time with David O'Leary soured. He seems to have loathed his successor.

''Venables inherited a very good team and, rather than accept it was failing, he hung me out to dry over the sale of Jonathan Woodgate. He was told we had to sell players; it was obvious, it was palpable. And the reason we had to sell them was that he had taken us from fifth to 16th in the Premier League.

''His attitude was that it was nothing to do with him; it was all the chairman's fault. He turned round to me and said: 'Clubs like Leeds United don't go bust, they just change the chairman'.

''In what other business would you put up with that kind of language from an employee? I was not ruthless enough with him and, had I been, it would probably have saved my job and Leeds fans a lot of heartache."

As for the fish, they were rented because it ensured somebody would come and feed them when the boardroom was empty. Peter Ridsdale was a board member at Burton's before he was 40, which supposes he has something up top. But as soon as he came into football, he became in his own words 'breathtakingly naive'.

''I always thought I was a good, hard-nosed businessman until I read my book again and I thought: 'I wasn't actually'."

United We Fall abounds with examples. Early on in his chairmanship he and his counterpart at Aston Villa, Doug Ellis, confide they both know that Bolton will sell Alan Thompson for £3.5 million. Why not both offer £3.5 million, Ridsdale suggests, and let the player decide? They shake hands. Leeds offer £3.5 million, Villa bid £4.25 million. Thompson goes to the Midlands.

When Leeds sign Olivier Dacourt, the agent, Dennis Roach, tags along at David O'Leary's request, saying he will 'translate'. Dacourt's agent speaks perfect English. Roach does little more than nod. He submits a bill for £200,000 for 'translation services'. Ridsdale pays.

Ken Bates, who has overseen the most humiliating moment in Leeds' history relegation to the old Third Division, and a 15-point penalty believes they are still paying Ridsdale's bill.

''When Leeds got to the play-off final in 2006 under Ken Bates, I got no credit and nor should I have done because it was nothing to do with me," said Ridsdale. "But what is startling is that when they get relegated, the year after, it is all my fault. I suggest you examine the creditor list when they went into administration in the summer and tell me how many of those creditors were there when I was and you will find it is very, very few."

Nobody at Leeds United ever seems to have been honest with one another. They spoke in subtitles, telling everybody what they wanted to hear O'Leary, especially, appears to have been masterful at this.

The only man who appeared straight was George Graham. "That is all fair comment," Ridsdale sighed. "Funnily enough, he was the manager I inherited rather than appointed, but I had the utmost respect for him. I found him straightforward, blunt to my face and when he wanted to leave for Tottenham, he told me."

O'Leary has described Ridsdale's recollections as 'deranged'. They have fallen such a long way from the time when they would sit at the front of the team bus, the manager amused by his chairman belting out the Leeds battle hymn Marching on Together.

''Initially, he was a joy to work with," Ridsdale said. "But as he became more successful, we began to grow apart. He became more arrogant. David may have thought he was bigger than the club and it came to a point where he thought he could see me off as well. He thought he was indispensable. There are many examples of where, in the privacy of the club, he would say one thing, and in the public domain he would say another.

''When we transferred Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink he backed me to the hilt and then went to the papers and said: 'If they sell Hasselbaink, I will have to consider my position'. Amazing."

Ridsdale is adamant that O'Leary's greatest error was writing Leeds United on Trial, which was launched in January 2002 when Leeds were top of the league. Within six months, O'Leary was sacked, Leeds had missed out on the Champions League for a second successive season and the road to perdition had been joined.

''The title upset a lot of people because we had made it clear that the Bowyer-Woodgate case was not Leeds United on trial, it was two of our employees. Some of the stuff in it was frankly fiction.

''I do know that a lot of the players who read it thought it took private matters into the public domain. Did the book do damage? I don't know. But what I do know is that after it was published we went eight weeks without winning a match. And when we stopped performing on the field, everything else suddenly became a problem."

United We Fall (Macmillan, £18.99). All royalties to St Gemma's Hospice in Leeds

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Next we'll be able to read something about the Islamic republic of Leeds !

Alas no longer do we make frilly underwear in Nottingham........we do it here in Thailand & get paid a fortune for doing it

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Not withstanding we will be in 1st place by seasons end. Are we on Star Sports this weekend?

Yep......your on early hours of Saturday morning (2:30 I think) against Hereford.