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Bates Note Hell

Written by: Ruari Skelton
Artwork by: Eamonn Dalton
A black and white image of some horrible Ken Bates programme notes with Ken Bates' horrible face with a horrible smile

Some football chairmen communicate because they want to be loved. Then, as Ruari Skelton discovered in a classic of the genre, there was Ken Bates.

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