Ken Bates was so happy yesterday!

Everyone associated with Leeds United enjoyed our late rally against Burnley yesterday, but I suspect no one enjoyed it more the our chairman, Ken Bates.

Because of the win he didn't need to sack Simon Grayson, and with and FA Cup tie against Arsenal coming up, I think SG will be at Leeds at least until after our next league game. That game takes place in London against Crystal Palace on January 14th - after that game there will only be an open transfer window for two weeks. SO... if we loose to palace and Ken Bates sackes Grayson, then he can spend a week or two finding a new manager and boom, window closed and money saved - good work Ken!

Ken would argue that he bought us Danny Pugh yesterday which is also true, but if we look at our sales over the last two-three years and our buys one must think that SG should get £4-6 mill to get us going in the spring.

I don't know whether Simon Grayson is the right manager to get Leeds into the Premier League, but I do know that Ken Bates is not the right chairman - It seems that he knows he can sell Leeds United for a fine fee as long as we are a Championsship club, so sadly I dont think we'll get up before Ken leaves (either club or this world).

But sooner or later we will get there, Patience is the word I guess! Marching on together