From respected on line news source To Ella nd Back, the last sentence
tells us all we need to know.
http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/leedsunited/fb_news.php?storyid=18901
Mail smear LUST chairman whilst toadying to Bates
Wed 19th Dec 2012 07:02
Neil Ashton of the Daily Mail take a bow! Granted a rare, exclusive
interview with Leeds Chairman Ken Bates on the eve of the titanic Leeds
v Chelsea League Cup quarter-final he keeps his ink fluid to conduct an
astonishing and personal attack on LUST chairman Gary Cooper hours later.
It is a well-known fact that Bates and LUST are anything but friends. I
also thought that despite being very much aligned with their right-wing
politics, Ken didn't have much time for the Daily Mail.
However in an "exclusive" Ken throws open the doors to his Leeds City
Centre penthouse flat, which is opposite the Malmaison should you ever
be passing on your way to the stadium (I'm sure Ken would more than
welcome you in for a cuppa should his tax domicile status permit him to
be in), to the Daily Mail's Neil Ashton and gets out his Chelsea
scrapbook and even says Roman Abramovich, who he once dubbed "a shyster
from Siberia" would be welcome in the ER boardroom as long as he wore a tie.
The usual claptrap of how he saved Leeds United and ploughed £20 into
the stadium follows and ends with Bates may be tempted to crack open the
bubbly if Leeds beat his former club tonight.
However Mr Ashton then pens another article about another Chairman, the
LUST Chairman Gary Cooper. Entitled "Business failures of potential
Leeds buyer who 'loves the club but hates Chelsea' stand out"
The article alleges that Mr Cooper has three county court judgements
against him and there is a freezing order on his home in Hull. His last
company was wound up in 2011 and his business partner, his brother Simon
is currently serving seven years for growing cannabis.
A story of public interest? Maybe if Gary Cooper was actually buying the
club. As far as I am aware he has merely spoken to interested parties
and never actually prepared a takeover bid? I'm not a LUST member and
have often been suspicious of their "sources close to the deal"
hyperbole however I do feel this is nothing more than an attack on the
credentials of Gary Cooper who represents 8500 members no matter what
Ken Bates thinks of him.
A coincidence maybe, that the story smearing Gary Cooper by the same
journalist appears just hours after his visit to the Bates's holiday
home in Leeds?
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