Leeds should have been demoted...

[Brian Fantana]

...for going into administration, says Sir Alan Sugar.

Sorry if fixtures but can't see it anywhere...

So as well as being part of the BEST programme on tv, Alan Sugar also hates Leeds.

The esteem in which I hold him has just got a lot higher.

BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Leeds | Sugar wanted to see Leeds demoted

Hero.

 

[Djmiles]

It's Leeds United, of course they wouldn't get demoted.

 

[clippedgull]

he obviously hates ken!

 

[Starry]

he obviously hates ken!

bingo. he wants to see anything bates is involved in fail.

but sugar is right. the rule book in the fl is farcical. but that won't change. the turkeys voted for christmas.

 

[John Dorian]

He was on Radio 1, and he wasnt very complimentary about Ridsdale either !!

 

[sully]

It's all in the report that was published back in May.
As Leeds became a new company unrelated to the one that went into administration, the league's rules stated that they had to start a division lower. Bates wanted to avoid this, so asked the league to "use it's discretion". The league agreed to do this in return for Leeds accepting a 15 point deduction. And there the merry tale should have ended.
I guess the same "discretion" was allowed for Rotherham, Bournemouth and Luton, as they wouldn't have been accepted into the Conference at all - which is why Boston went down so far the year before.