Yorkshire Radio

It'd be interesting to do a count, but let's say, for argument's sake, 100, 125, 150 commentators who, you know, count it as their job or at least do it on a Saturday, week to week in this country, it's really not in your interest to rub up anyone the wrong way because it's going to come to bite you on the backside at some point so I think there's a a few a few exceptions I'm sure uh across the country but uh generally I think everyone gets on for the right reasons don't they

there was that time when uh Adam Ken Bates launched that um radio York or Yorkshire radio I forget which way around it was but that was meant to be competition for you for the BBC for for commentaries and I don't know how that dynamic played out for you.

That was the most difficult time.

So what happened was, Ken Bates took over the club in January 2005, which was six months before I started broadcasting on Leeds.

So we'd locked in a three-year deal at that point, which is the beginning of my career doing leads full-time, as I said.

But by the end of that three-year deal, it was up for renewal.

And we knew about a year before, which is when Ken set up his club radio, Yorkshire Radio, as it was, as you say, down to quite rightly, in-house radio station.

we knew that we weren't going to get a new deal or we had a good feeling, even though we put a really good offer in.