HUDDERSFIELD Town boss Lee Clark met the media in his weekly Press conference this morning.

The boss, whose team face MK Dons in a tough promotion test tomorrow, has been linked both by bookmakers and the media with the now vacant manager's role at Leeds United.

Below is a transcript of the section of this morning's media briefing relating to the Leeds United question.

Questions are in bold.

Question: Just on Leeds United has any approach been made?  

Lee Clark (LC): Not to me, no.  

(LC's phone goes off)  

LC: That'll be them now.  

Questions (among laughter): 'Is it an 0113 number?', 'Is it a Monaco number?'  

Question: But what do you make of being put among the favourites?  

LC: I am aware of it, but ultimately it is the same as last time. I am not trying to blow my own trumpet, but it is because people outside our football club think I am doing a good job. I have been linked with a number of jobs over the past 12 months but I that that is because our record backs that up.  

We have only two defeats in 53 league games, the value of the squad is hugely higher than when I came to the club, and the corporate side of the club is going through the roof which is only down to the way the team plays. I don't think I'm too bad a manager really and that's why people are interested I think.  

Question: Is the interest a distraction?  

LC: No, it is something I have had to deal with since I was a boy. I captained England schoolboys at 14 and Newcastle United turned down quarter of a million pound bids from from, etc., so I have grown up with it.  

It's good for my kids, because they think their dad's important now.  

Question: Would you rule yourself out of the running for the (Leeds) job?  

LC: It's just speculation. Until I am told otherwise I am the manager of Huddersfield Town.