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Article: Bateson returns to restore stability to troubled gulls

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March 8, 2007
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Mike Bateson made a dramatic return to power at Torquay United last night, vowing to do "whatever it takes" to restore the club's fortunes.

Bateson has resumed control at the request of the directors five months after selling the club to former chairman Chris Roberts.

His return, as originally revealed in the Western Morning News in February, will also result in extra funds for the Gulls. He said: "I received a call this morning from the board of directors, and they asked me if I'd be prepared to come back in as chairman and inject some money in, and I said I would do.

"They decided that the situation required a chairman with some experience, I certainly have experience of being a chairman ...

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