Bates Gets Mirror Apology

Last updated : 17 December 2005 By Kevin Markey

The apology goes thus;

On 22 November, we wrongly claimed that Ken Bates had "walked out" of Leeds United's match against Southampton because Leeds were losing 3-0.

In fact, Mr Bates' departure before the end of the game was pre-arranged to enable him to catch the plane he had chartered to take him home to Monaco.

We were also wrong to say that Mr Bates missed "most" Leeds games, when he had already attended eight games this season. We apologise to Mr Bates.