Leeds United have joined forces with bitter-rivals Manchester United in a bid to get vile chants about Jimmy Savile classed as hate crimes. The Yorkshire club has targeted its own supporters, who have spent years singing about paedophile Savile. Savile, whose crimes only emerged after he died in 2011, was born in Leeds but had no connection with the club. But Leeds' owners have had enough of the sick chants and asked the footballing authorities and police to classify them as a public order