Not clutching on anything or being an apologist for anything/anyone.... For the locals, the team we played and the local area this was a big thing to them and something they obviously loved and I think it was a great thing from both the club and sportpeasa. I don't let my blind hate for the allams cloud my judgement or feelings......you obviously do! Any other owner did this and they would have been praised.
Are Everton going out there given they're also sponsored by SportsPesa? You'd think they'd do something like a 3-way tournament over a few days.
I think you are right, I tipped him to be a success, I just think his confidence is shot at the moment.
To be fair, one of the few successes of late, credit to the club for this for once. Something like this will always get more interest in the club overseas rather than a bloody name change.
In other news the Club had it written in as technically a home game So far we are averaging 65k per home game. Not introducing concessions has been a great success...
http://www.igamingbusiness.com/news/sportpesa-nets-hull-city-sponsorship-deal the friendly was part of the original deal with Sportpesa - something Sportpesa wanted in return for splashing the cash - I suspect Sportpesa have been chasing the Allams to play the friendly before the club gets relegated again, after all the original deal was for the expectation of a Premier League club to play the match - anyway it wouldn't have been the first time they promised to play a match in another country and didn't do it - we're still waiting to play Al Ahly - so lets not give too much praise to the Allams for this, the success sits firmly with Sportpesa
Ha That saved me searching for it I was just about to find the same thing! This was firmly down to Sportpesa, although that’s not saying it was a bad thing. It wasn’t. Playing in front of that size crowd will have been good for the young uns and any trip away with a team can be positive if well managed. So nothing to moan about, but not something to particularly praise the owners for either, although to be fair they signed off on the idea. The club can be congratulated on actually playing a game they agreed to play though (I wonder if Sportspesa’s lawyers are better than Al Ahly’s ?)
Its strange just how many press articles about Allam saying stuff gets removed from the internet - the HDM article about Allam saying he wanted to buy the car registration HU11 CTY registration for the club and the city has gone, the HDM article about Al Ahly has gone, although the Kingfut one is still there https://www.kingfut.com/2012/09/21/al-ahly-sign-deal-with-egyptian-owned-hull-city/ there's also a load of stuff from the British Egyptian Society which he said about his past, which didn't tie up with what he now claims - that's gone it's as if he's getting his lawyers to give everything a spring clean
All old HDM articles got wiped when they launched the new website, it's nothing to do with the Allams.
okey doke - that answers that but doesn't answer the other stuff from elsewhere- wondered where all the old HDM stuff had gone though - cheers
