Leeds are a club in turmoil. Or do I mean were? James Bark's arrival could swing the club either way, down to the very bottom or back to the dazzling lights where they once were, in the Champions League and even winning the league back in '92. Frugal Scotsman Bark purchased the club from Ken Bates for £12,500,000, and proceeded to eradicate most of the club's debt with a carefully thought out business plan, and gave Dennis Wise and Gustavo Poyet the boot in favour of a more experienced, more tactically astute manager.
Bobby Gould was acting as assistant manager to his son Jonathan, a former Celtic goalkeeper, at Hawke's Bay United in New Zealand. He had inspired Wimbledon and Coventry to Premiership safety in the early days of his career, but seemed to gradually slide down a slippery pole, going from winning the FA Cup with the Dons to getting relegated with Cheltenham Town and resigning at half time in a match with Peterborough. He was eager for another try in management, and Bark gave him it, with the instruction to get Leeds into the play-offs at least.
Could Leeds be on the up?
