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Former Leeds and Chelsea owner, Ken Bates, has died
The Business Desk 13 Jul 2026
Ken Bates, a businessman and former owner of Leeds United and Chelsea football clubs, has died ... Bates, a self-made millionaire who was born in West London ...
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Ken Bates, Chelsea, and the bad old days of football
The Spectator 13 Jul 2026
The timing of the death this weekend of Ken Bates, the former owner of Chelsea and Leeds United, will have struck many older football fans as significant, incongruous or – as football commentators are apt to say – ironic.
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Former Chelsea owner Ken Bates, who bought the club for one pound, dies at 94
The News-Gazette 12 Jul 2026
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Ken Bates obituary
The Guardian 12 Jul 2026
For more than 20 years, Ken Bates, who has died aged 94, was synonymous with Chelsea Football Club, which he bought in 1982 ...
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Ken Bates, colourful and controversial former Chelsea chair, dies aged 94
The Observer 12 Jul 2026
Ken Bates, one of the most colourful and controversial figures in the history of English football, has died aged 94, Chelsea have announced ... Ken Bates alongside the 12ft-high 12-volt electric fence he had installed at Stamford Bridge in 1985.
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Ken Bates, combative businessman who bought Chelsea FC for £1 and restore its fortunes – obituary
The Daily Telegraph 12 Jul 2026
Ken Bates, who has died aged 94, was a piratical and outspoken football club owner who made a distinctive mark not only on the fortunes of Chelsea and Leeds United but on the tenor of the whole national game.
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Ken Bates: Former Chelsea and Leeds owner dies at age of 94, Chelsea announce
BBC News 11 Jul 2026
Former Chelsea and Leeds United owner Ken Bates has died aged 94, Chelsea announced on Saturday. .
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Ken Bates dies aged 94 as tributes paid to ex-Chelsea and Leeds owner
The Mirror 11 Jul 2026
Ken Bates is credited as the man who saved Chelsea from extinction back in 1982 and owned the Premier League club for 21 years before going on to purchase Leeds United ... .
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Former Chelsea owner and chairman Ken Bates dies aged 94
Yahoo Daily News 11 Jul 2026
Former Chelsea owner and chairman Ken Bates has died at the age of 94 ... “It is with great sadness that we share the news of the loss of Ken Bates, former owner and chairman of Chelsea Football Club ...
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Ken Bates dead at 94: Tributes pour in for ex-Chelsea owner who famously bought London ...
The Daily Mail 11 Jul 2026
Bates, who famously bought the west London football club for just �1 in 1982, passed away peacefully in Monaco on Saturday morning surrounded by his wife and family ....
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Ken Bates dead aged 94 as Chelsea pay tribute to former chairman
Daily Record 11 Jul 2026
The ex-Stamford Bridge supremo bought Leeds united after leaving the Blues and once had a controlling stake in Partick Thistle ... .
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Ken Bates dead aged 94: Tributes pour in for ex-Chelsea owner who bought Blues for ...
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