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The Official Leeds Utd Podcast

Dave Hancock (Part 2)

The Official Leeds Utd Podcast

Leeds United

Soccer, Sports

4.9623 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s part two of Bridgey and Matthew’s chat with former Leeds United Head Physio Dave Hancock, who discusses Eddie Gray, Wesley Boyle, going Stateside, working with U2, meeting Obama and more high jinks at Thorp Arch.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the official lead united

0:05.0

Welcome back to the official lead united podcast and part two of our Dave Hancock interview. Some great stories coming up. Enjoy.

0:24.6

That wasn't exactly an easy move to Chelsea was it because of a certain man.

0:30.6

We know Mr Bates very, very well so I'm sure Leeds fans will be...

0:35.6

Matt, you love him, don't you?

0:36.6

Matt, he's one of your favourite chairmen's ever, isn't he?

0:39.4

Absolutely. Absolutely.

0:41.1

So I treated Ken when I was at the club.

0:44.7

And then Dennis and Gus came in.

0:46.6

I knew Chelsea were sniffing.

0:49.0

And my contract was due to expire, I think, in June or July.

0:53.0

And I think it was January. And I think

0:56.5

it was just 2006 or 2007. Basically, they had the situation where two of the young lads had got

1:03.6

poached from the academy and they had to go to a compensation tribunal. Chelsea ended up paying

1:08.4

a couple of million, I think, for the kids because they'd been

1:10.8

illegally approached, right? So there was a lot of, and obviously from the years past, a lot of

1:16.2

animosity between Leeds and Chelsea, okay? So I was like, you know, I want to do right by Leeds

1:24.1

because Leeds have been done right by me and I had such an incredible time there and was

1:28.4

able to do lots of different things I was like I want to be out of walk back into leads at any point

1:32.6

in time in the future I don't want to just say screw you I'm out the door and I'm jumping ship

1:37.2

to Chelsea because they're you know paying me more money so I sort of said to Chelsea and the

1:43.9

Peter Kenyon was the chairman, it was the general manager

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