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Details are now available for getting tickets for Leeds United‘s pre-season friendly against Bray Wanderers on Sunday, July 20th.

Ticket prices are: Adult – €15.00, Student – €10.00, Child / OAP – €7.00. That’s approximately £12 for adults at today’s exchange rate.

Interestingly, Bray Wanderers are charging their regular League of Ireland Premier Division ticket prices for the game! Let’s hope the Guinness in the club bar is cheap! Although as Tipperary Natural Mineral Water is one of their corporate sponsors travelling fans may be in for a bit of a disappointment!

Here’s the direct link to tickmaster’s page for the game: Bray Wanderers v Leeds United

If you want to know more about our opponents they have an excellently designed website which is worth a visit. Their shirt sponsors are, worryingly, called “Rehab Bingo“, which brings all kinds of mental images to mind, but the young lady parading in the club jersey adorned with their logo is worth a look.

After 11 games of the season Bray Wanderers are currently in 6th place in the twelve team Premier Division. If you have Setanta Sports you should be able to catch one of their games live before our friendly.

Well, we had a lot of fun with the Sunday Mirror’s “exclusive” about the Canadian company MLSE’s secret negotiations to buy Ken Bates but it appears it was all fiction – how unusual for a red-top to make up the news!

Leeds United have issued a statement that the story is “completely untrue and no talks have ever taken place“.

The MLSE chief executive Richard Peddie was equally emphatic when quoted in the Canadian National Post, “It’s pure fiction. I’ve never met with the Leeds people“.

Oh dear, another nail in the coffin of British journalism at the Mirror Group then…

Back to preparing the “Welcome Freddy Shepherd” banners then?

“We’re planning to give Jonny Howson a new contract,” said Leeds United chairman Ken Bates on the club’s offcial website.

“If it hadn’t been for the play-offs it’s something we would have looked at already.

“Obviously there have been other priorities and we’ve had to delay discussions slightly, but we’ll look to sort it out quickly.”

20 year-old, Morley-born, Howson has played 35 times this season and even captained the side as stand-in for injured Jonathan Douglas. He came closer than anyone to scoring for Leeds in the Play-Off Final defeat to Doncaster Rovers but at least he knows he will be a first-choice starter next season under Gary McAllister.