Leeds United chairman Ken Bates holds no grudge against former club Chelsea.
Bates can't wait for the day when Leeds return to the top table and he can welcome Roman Abramovich into the boardroom . . . "as long as he wears a tie".
He told The Sun: "If we get in the Premier League and when we play Chelsea, all my lifelong friends I haven't heard from for seven years will be ringing up for tickets, and that will be my greatest enjoyment.
"We'll relish being in the Premier League. And Mr Abramovich will be very welcome in the chairman's suites - providing he's wearing a tie.
"Chelsea is a different club to the one I left. I was very careful not to criticise the Abramovich regime, I simply said their values are not my values, their methods aren't my methods, their attitudes aren't my attitudes.
"And when Mourinho was there he was a cheat. Can you remember him getting in the laundry basket to overcome a European ban?
"Leeds is a very different culture to Chelsea.
"My wife Susannah says she would rather live in Leeds than London. I would agree with her. London is not the London I knew, whereas Leeds and Yorkshire has different values, a proper place, with local pride.
"Whereas London is now so cosmopolitan. Leeds gives me a feeling of belonging."
