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Coca-Cola Football League Championship
Game 30: Saturday 22 January 2005
Stoke City 0 - 1 Leeds United
(Half-time: 0 - 0)
Crowd: 18372
Referee: I Williamson (Berkshire)
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The four photographers who trained their long lenses on the
directors' box for 10 minutes before the teams came out eventually
realised they were wasting their time and set their sights on Kevin
Blackwell instead as he approached the dug-out.
Ken Bates had spent four days and nights completing his
Geneva-based Forward Sports Fund's #10m takeover of Leeds and opted
to put his feet up; but the new chairman had spoken to Blackwell on
the morning of the match, introducing himself to the manager,
sending his regards and arranging to meet for dinner on Wednesday
or Thursday.
"I sat the lads down before the game and said, 'Look, we haven't
talked about this before, but this is the day we move forward,'"
Blackwell said. "This is a brand-new era, we can start to look
upwards as a club and I want to take all of you with me."
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