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Everyone seems to be getting worked up over the ownership of Elland Road.

Once again there’s plenty of smoke but no fire.

Leeds United confirmed today that Elland Road is still owned by Teak Commercial Limited.

Ken Bates spoke to the YEP,

“The allegation that we’ve bought back the ground is absolute rubbish. The long and short of this is that we haven’t bought the ground back and we don’t own it. The ownership hasn’t changed at all.”

Elland Road and Thorp Arch were sold off by Gerald Krasner in 2004 to try and avoid administration, before Ken Bates took over. Doubtless Ken and the board of Leeds United 2007 Ltd would love to re-acquire the properties, and currently they have the have a right to do so, but the cost was recently quoted, by Bates himself, at £19,142,806. So the League One club must continue to pay £2m in rent annually.

Shaun Harvey, United’s chief executive, said,

“We do have an option to buy Elland Road and Thorp Arch back, but we have not as yet exercised that option. We still intend to do so at the earliest opportunity but the situation is as it was.”

The interest in the fate of Elland Road seems tied to the fact that the owners, Teak Commercial Limited are registered in the British Virgin islands and, therefore, the details of the owners of the company are confidential and protected by law - it is a criminal offence to reveal the shareholders of such a BVI company. Once you tell someone they can’t know something ,that’s all they seem interested in!

Take a look in shop window of Leeds estate agents’ Manning Stainton and you’ll see a piece of Leeds United history is up for sale. Don Revie’s house, which he had built and named “Offside” is up for sale for the first time in thirty years.

The sale is being handled by the agents’ Fine & Country division, of course, as the substantial brick-built detached house resides in one of North Leeds’ finest locations, Sandmoor Drive, Alwoodley.

It comes with a price tag to match - £850,000 - but still substantially less than the £5 million residence that former Leeds United manager David O’Leary had constructed during his time at Elland Road.

The great Don only lived there between 1973 and 1977 but it would be nice if it went to a, well-heeled, Leeds United fan

While in one part of Leeds a piece of Revie memorabilia is up for sale, in another part, a Revie memento of the great man has been stolen.

Elland Road’s West Stand reception suffered a break-in on Saturday evening and a 1950’s England shirt worn by the great Don Revie was stolen by bottom-feeding scum.

The stolen shirt was one that Revie wore whilst playing for England against the Irish in the 1954-55 season. The shirt is distinctive; today we would consider it looking more like a polo shirt; it is white with short sleeves, pointed collars and three buttons up to the neck. It has the obvious three-lions English FA crest on the left breast, underneath which the year of the match appears in red-thread embroidery.

The club is asking that anyone with information to contact Colin Lockwood on 0113 367 6129.

We’ve added a new page to the blog part of leedsutd365.co.uk - a LUFC calendar of events and fixtures.

We will include important dates in the football diary in the calendar -  there’s a few on there already.

Let us know if you have a Leeds United event in your supporters club, school or pub and we’ll happily include it free of charge.

We’ve already put on the pre-season fixtures, and most of matches have maps attached so you can find the locations easily. We will be including the same details for matches throughout the season.

The calendar is an embedded Google one so that you can subscribe to it using Windows Outlook or iCal for Macs and have access to the information on your desktop at work or at home. Details are accessible by clicking on the “Google” button at the bottom of the calendar.