Despite suffering as turbulent a time as any manager at the club, Dave Hockaday says he is now a massive fan of Leeds United, report the Guardian

The 61-year-old was the first appointment of the club's Massimo Cellino era but only lasted 70 days in the job and taking charge of just six matches.

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"I’m such a massive Leeds fan now; I love them to bits," he said of his time at Eland Road.

"It was only three months but it is a massive part of my life.”

Hockaday took over from Brian McDermott at the club and was the first appointment of the Cellino era but failed to deliver, winning just two of his games in charge before being sacked.

He went on to coach at Coventry City, where he became caretaker manager for a short period, before moving on to Kidderminster Harriers.

He can now be found as the head of male football at South Gloucestershire and Stroud College, just outside of Bristol.

The verdict 

Hopefully, this will put to bed a lot of the unnecessary stick that Hockaday gets from the Leeds fans.

Yes, it was a startlingly poor appointment. But it is the board at the time who should be targeted, not the manager.

At the end of the day, he was never going to turn down the opportunity to manage a club the size of Leeds was he? And for him to not hold any hard feelings against a club that treated him so roughly says a lot about his character.