Ridsdale's snubbed in League elite bid <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"><tbody></tbody></table><table class="headerTable" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><p class="headtypea">Jun 25 2006 </p></td></tr><tr><td><p class="headtypea"><b /></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><p class="headtypeb">Peter Shuttleworth, Wales on Sunday</p></td></tr></td /></tr /></tbody></table><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="400" border="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p class="headtypea">PETER Ridsdale's rehabilitation as one of English football's top power-brokers suffered a blow yesterday.</p><p class="headtypea">Cardiff City's deputy chairman has failed in his bid to be elected to the Football League Board.</p><p class="headtypea">Ridsdale - once a member of the all-powerful FA main executive board during his controversial reign as Leeds United chairman - was one of six candidates seeking selection as one of the three men to represent the Championship on the Football League board.</p><p class="headtypea">But Ridsdale, like Colchester United chairman Peter Heard and Southend United chairman Ron Martin, was snubbed by Championship clubs in a postal ballot in favour of Ipswich Town chairman David Sheepshanks, Norwich City chief executive Neil Doncaster and Hull City chairman Adam Pearson.</p><p class="headtypea">It would have been the first time the Bluebirds had a member on the influential Football League board for a generation and would have given the Welsh club much kudos and huge bargaining power among its peers.</p> <p class="mpuadcontinue2">Wales on Sunday contacted Ridsdale about his bid to become one of the Football League's board of directors but he did not want to comment.</p> <p class="headtypea">It's almost four years since Ridsdale quit his post on the FA's main executive board to deal with crisis at Leeds as the Elland Road giants struggled with debts of approximately £80m. </p></td></tr></tbody></table>
