Ken Bates's career traced change in football from game to big business
 

28-07-13 01:24 AM

Abrupt departure as Leeds United president brings to an end an often controversial five decades in the sport Ken Bates was famously portrayed in the 1960s classic The Football Man , by the Observer 's Arthur Hopcraft, as the epitome of a new, dynamic, commercial club chairman*– raising prices at Oldham Athletic, urging football to see itself as a business. If his abrupt departure one month into ...

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