I had information including a list of clubs who didn’t vote against Leeds, we were amongst them, as were many of your fellow Yorkshire clubs – I don’t know whether it is factual or not, just like you don’t know that it isn’t – yet it seems okay for you to state as fact that our chairman along with EVERY other one hates Leeds, fact is, some voted in your favour – I believe ours was one, but as I said before, I can’t prove it.

Your original quote is dredged from months ago, and is selective at best – I still believe that as an organisation it was right to punish Leeds – I have always, including in the original article, acknowledged that from a fans perspective this whole situation is very harsh.

But anyway, it seems mighty churlish to be squabbling over words that are months old – did you dredge out the match report from your visit to the City Ground? Maybe you could find one or two words in there you’d find less displeasing?

Surely not the comments from a person who is now wishing us the best of luck!!!

And you know that your chairman didn’t vote against us, how exactly?

Point taken about my actions to avoid further patronising comments!!!

As I said before, I believe our chairman didn’t actually vote against your appeal – so you can’t even level that at us.

And if you don’t want to listen to what you perceive as patronising comments, then I suppose there’s one obvious way of achieving that!…

I have personally wrote letters to Mr Bates thanking him for saving my football club, coz although he is a bit of a dodgy geezer, he did step into the breach when no one else wanted to come within a country mile of us. Of course I was upset when we were relegated AGAIN, but it is Ridsdale and O’Leary who are the villains in this sad story, not Venables, not Reid, Not Blackwell and not Wise. I do realise that Mr Bates has not taken on Leeds for love of the club, but he was the one who took the chance.

NFFC, I have indeed read your subsequent back tracking comments, but your original remarks were of a gloating and ill informed nature, and it is these comments that I was ridiculing.

I don’t want to listen to fans of other clubs patronising us and telling us how well we are doing, the rest of the league showed their colours when they voted against us at our appeal, this is Leeds UNITED against the world, just the way we like it.

Also, not every chairman voted against Leeds – and whilst it’s impossible to prove, information I have seen suggests ours wasn’t one of those who sanctioned the deduction.

I don’t suppose you’re choking on your words either – personally I can only applaud the form Leeds have shown to overcome the deficit.

This punishment was a travesty, how can a punishment dealt out by the people who have most to benefit, be seen to be fair???

Thanks to your chairman and the other league chairmen, you have now set a precedence, and I pity any other team that finds itself in the same predicament.

The record books will show that Leeds won the League One title in 2008 despite Mr Mawhinney’s best efforts.

I actually enjoy being hated by the other league clubs coz it unites us and we seem to succeed when it happens. Look at the late 60′s and early 70′s when everyone hated Leeds, we were winning trophies left, right and centre. But when we were doing well in the Champions League and reached the semi’s, everyone was backing us and we became a lot of peoples “next favourite” team, and then look what happened!!!!!

Let’s shut up shop at fortress Elland Road and fuck ‘em all.

As for Bates………he’ll do for me!!! The most hated chairman in charge of the most hated team in the league.