Does Dennis Wise Regret Leaving Leeds?

Last updated : 27 February 2008 By Footy Mad - Editor

Ladbrokes are currently holding a book suggesting Wise, Keegan and owner Mike Ashley are fighting it out as to who walks out first!

Speculation has been unsettling, with the media claiming that Keegan will walk sooner rather than later and than Mike Ashley will sell up.

As for Wise ... he must be missing the day-to-day life of management, and watching Leeds slide down the table since he left Elland Road must make it even more frustrating.

He could be doing a job at Leeds ... and obviously he is treading water and doing bugger all at St James' Park!

LABROKES LATEST BETTING - Who will leave Newcastle first?

Kevin Keegan 4/6
Dennis Wise 9/4
Mike Ashley 7/2

Meanwhile ... Leeds chairman Ken Bates has revealed the club have been invited to arbitration by the Football League as they look to overturn their 15-point deficit.

The 15-point penalty was imposed on the Yorkshire club in August by the League who claimed they had not properly followed insolvency policy.

It followed the deduction of 10 points after the club went into administration following relegation to League One in May last year.

The club - now five points off the play-offs - served a High Court writ on the League earlier this month challenging the 15-point deduction and Bates revealed the League made their offer of arbitration on the day their deadline to respond was due to expire.

Bates: "The letter arrived from the League's solicitors suggesting that this should go to arbitration with a Court of Appeal judge.

"To quote their words 'impartiality and independence will be guaranteed and the competence of the tribunal will be par excellence'.

"Impartiality and independence is what we have been asking for all along.

"What makes me laugh is that it has taken six months to get to this position, six months in which the League have refused to discuss the matter with us.

"Only now, with the writ having been issued, do they instruct their lawyers to come back to us.

"It is a long overdue development and the pleasing thing from our point of view is that a Court of Appeal judge will hear it.

"After a law lord they are the highest in the land.

"The decision to deduct us 15 points was purely one borne of self-interest on behalf of the other clubs."