They clung on to their first win at Ewood Park since the opening day of the season, buffeted by an Everton side that, once David Moyes had radically overhauled their tactics, recovered to push them very close. Graeme Souness' decision to take his squad to Scotland to recuperate from five straight defeats with golf, glasses of wine and enforced togetherness was rewarded with a win which took them out of a relegation zone now occupied by Everton. After the impact it has had on a Blackburn side freefalling towards the foot of the table, the Gleneagles Hotel may soon be advertising "Footballers' Breaks". The whole thing is a mess."I suppose I feel a bit sorry for Reid, but I don't think there was a lot of choice The players are not motivated and the tactics are wrong.". Ridsdale received £383,000 in severance pay and Stephen Harrison, the former finance director £224,000. Reid is understood to have walked away with £600,000, which the club will pay in instalments.Reid took over from Terry Venables in March with orders to keep Leeds in the top flight. In July, Reid was forced to sell Harry Kewell to Liverpool for £5m in order to service the club's debts.His most recent problem, in addition to poor results, has been a falling-out with the club's Australian striker Mark Viduka, a relationship that the new manager - Leeds' fourth in 18 months - will have to repair.The chairman of the Leeds Independent Fans' Association, Simon Jose, said "I don't know whether any decision this club takes any more is the right one.
He was given the manager's job on a full-time basis in May after escaping relegation on the final day of the campaign, but in the summer had to be content with bringing in seven players on loan deals Jody Morris was the only permanent arrival from Chelsea. The venue was chosen because it was miles away from the waiting press pack at Elland Road and the club's Thorpe Arch training ground. However, it is also the headquarters for the Great Britain rugby league team, who were holding a press conference there before this weekend's second Test with Australia.Leeds' most recent accounts, published last month, showed that the club has already agreed compensation pay-offs totalling £5.7m with former members of staff, including the managers David O'Leary and Terry Venables, and Peter Ridsdale, the former chief executive. Although Hart is the front-runner, Southampton's Gordon Strachan, Leicester City's Micky Adams, Sheffield United's Neil Warnock, and the former Leeds manager George Graham could also be in the frame.The Leeds chief executive, Trevor Birch, met Reid yesterday to tell him of the board's decision to terminate his contract. Bizarrely, the "secret" meeting was held in front of bemused rugby league players and media.The 47-year-old Reid, who became the 19th managerial dismissal this season, was summoned to meet Birch at a hotel in Worsley, just a few miles from his Lancashire home. Leeds United want to talk to Paul Hart about becoming their new manager - and hope to have a meeting with him in the next 24 hours. The board therefore concluded that it has a duty to act now."Notwithstanding financial constraints, Leeds United are determined to return to their place as one of the top clubs in England and are looking to appoint a new manager who will reflect this determination."Hart, now the manager of Nottingham Forest, was a highly successful youth team coach at Leeds, but the job offer could be even less attractive than Leeds' Premiership position and financial problems suggest.The club, now bottom of the Premiership, are in such a panic that Hart will be asked to take the job on a short-term contract until the end of the season.
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