<p>Former owner and chairman of Chelsea FC who bought the club for a pound and helped restore it to the top rank of English football</p><p>For more than 20 years, Ken Bates, who has died aged 94, was synonymous with Chelsea Football Club, which he bought in 1982 from the Mears family, who had lost control after rebuilding the west stand.</p><p>Haemorrhaging money, hugely in debt and about to sink
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