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Paul Scally, “mouthy” Chairman of relegated Gillingham has hit out at Ken Bates following the severe barracking he received at Elland Road yesterday.

Scally whined to the BBC,

“I was one of 63 chairmen who voted to support the action against Leeds for misdemeanours carried out by the people running Leeds at the time. They broke the regulations, got punished by the Football League board of directors and we were asked whether we supported the board.

It was an anonymous vote and I was happy to come out and say I was one of the ones who supported the board. Because of that - and Ken has whipped it up - there were 36,000 out there who think I’m the reason they lost 15 points and that clearly wasn’t the case. Ken Bates has disappointed me enormously. I’m stunned by the way he’s behaved.”

If Scally was stunned by the way Ken Bates behaved then he was the only one in the country! 

Paul Scally’s weekend got worse today when the former manager of Gillingham, Tony Pulis took Stoke City to the Premier League in the second automatic promotion spot. Scally and Pulis had a major fall-out which resulted in Pulis taking Gillingham to the High Court. Scally really does have “people skills” doesn’t he? Instead of being in League Two next season he could have been on the Premier League!
 
 

Ken Bates got his wish when his Leeds United side took all three points against Gillingham and condemned Paul Scally’s Kent side to League Two.

Because of results elsewhere Gillingham were relegated without the Leeds result but Ken got satisfaction of watching the man who vociferously led the support for the Football League deducting 15 points from Leeds United being vocally ridiculed by 38,000 Leeds fans and his team beaten on the pitch.

Gillingham took the lead in the first half to the delight of several hundred Gills fans who had the courage to be there when their team faced almost certain relegation. However, Leeds hit back in the second half with a stunning volley from Bradley Johnson from a cross by the underrated Seb Carole and an 88th minute winner from a one-on-one with the Gills keeper by Tresor Kandol.

Ken’s day was complete and “mouthy”  Scally was left to rue the decision he so publicly endorsed back in August 2007 - perhaps Scally should focus on his own club in future and remember the rhyme about tweaking a tiger by its tail…

Leeds United have announced that the Crosswater Holdings Group will be their official ticket sponsor for the coming 2008/09 season.

Leeds United have agreed a deal worth six-figures that will mean the sponsor’s details will be on season ticket, wallets, team-sheets, fixture cards, and the official club handbook.

David Hance, the managing director of Crosswater Holdings, said on the club’s official website, leedsunited.com,

“It is a fantastic opportunity to be involved with a club that has inspired me so much personally and, now on a professional level too, is something a lifelong fan dreams of.

“The Crosswater Holdings Group is delighted to be partnered with Leeds United and looks forward to the start of another successful season.”

It’s good to see that whatever happens in the play-offs the debt-free Leeds United is pulling the necessary funds to finance the next campaign and a better squad.

It is also good to see real Leeds fans, who are in business, putting their hand in their pocket to assist the club - unlike all those phantom millionaire Leeds fans who were rumoured for months to be going to buy the club before Ken Bates stepped in to save the club. 

Well they all hate Leeds United and its fans but when there’s a chance of getting their hands on Leeds’ money the Football League and the other clubs in the League One play-offs just can’t get enough of them.

Rubbing their grimy paws with glee at the thought of a cut of a 40,000 gate at Elland Road the Football League and the other clubs in the play-offs have rejected the application by Leeds United to have the home leg of the League One play-offs classed as category C game and thus reward fans for their fantastic support by leaving some money in their pocket.

No, the Football League and the other shameless clubs want to squeeze every penny out of their fans. Have they not heard of the increases in energy, food and petrol prices and mortgages repayments? Do they think football fans have bottomless pockets? Still, maybe that’s why most of them play in front of less than 15,000 week in, week out. Of course, Lord Mawhinney is a former politician, so why would we expect him to relate to the needs of the ordinary working man, Gordon Brown clearly lives in a world of his own!

Screw the fans - another great decision from the Football League and Planet Mawhinney.

Still as Ken Bates said this evening on Radio Yorkshire in an avuncular style, but with threatening undertones of the Gestapo, “we have long memories and know those clubs who may want help in the future“.