{"id":45547,"date":"2026-07-12T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/ken-bates-former-chelsea-and-leeds-chairman-dies-aged-94\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T14:57:16","slug":"ken-bates-former-chelsea-and-leeds-chairman-dies-aged-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/ken-bates-former-chelsea-and-leeds-chairman-dies-aged-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Bates: Former Chelsea and Leeds chairman dies aged 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Bates: Former Chelsea and Leeds chairman dies aged 94 Ken Bates bought Chelsea for a single pound in 1982, holding the position of chair for 22 years before selling the club to Roman Abramovich in 2003 Saturday 11 July 2026 14:49, UK Former Chelsea and Leeds chairman and owner Ken Bates has died aged<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13562553\/ken-bates-former-chelsea-and-leeds-chairman-dies-aged-94\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Bates: Former Chelsea and Leeds chairman dies aged 94 Ken Bates bought Chelsea for a single pound in 1982, holding the position of chair for 22 years before selling the club to Roman Abramovich in 2003 Saturday 11 July 2026 14:49, UK Former Chelsea and Leeds chairman and owner Ken Bates has died agedRead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}