Mick Bates, Leeds United player who scored a crucial goal against Juventus in 1971 – obituary

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Mick Bates, who has died aged 73, was a footballer who won the League, FA Cup and two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups with Leeds United; with the likes of Billy Bremner and Johnny Giles ruling in midfield he was never more than a squad player, but he would have been first-choice at most other clubs, and was a back-up whose dependability made him a vital cog in Don Revie’s machine. His most fondly remembered contribution came in the first leg of the 1971 Fairs Cup final (forerunner of the Uefa Cup and th

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