But it was successful in diverting the attention and blame from the real culprits which was exactly the intention. I also think it was Gwilym Lloyd who parrotted the call on Radio Humberside without questioning it. I called in during that programme to complain about the accusassion being made in the first place and was cut off mid sentance. The HDM followed it up the following day with an exclusive about someone finding an A4 size of paper blowing about in a pub car park before the game, some miles away from Huddersfield, with written of it something about 'you have just met Hull City psychos' or similar. No-one else saw this one piece of A4 paper, or anymore like it, but it was enough to shift the blame away from rugby league and onto football.
It reminds me of days gone by when I used to post on the HDM Hull City comments section(it was fairly similar to a forum such as this).You'll remember well that you could 'like' posts on there too? I remember towards the tail end of it that some people were getting,for talking sake,157 likes for a post? My cousin is quite handy with I.T and sat one night adding hundred upon hundred of 'likes' on certain people's posts..Of course it's achievable!! As for a shop that's been open for a few months getting more votes than established businesses who've been slogging it out for years...Utterly Bizarre and almost certainly rigged.
I once sat with my ringing finger permanently dialling a phone for almost an entire day in order to prevent a particularly unworthy comedy acct from collecting an award.
Talking of voting scams, here in Thorngumbald two years ago, a voting scam was found out in the annual scarecrow trail, previously you bought a map and used the voting slip to declare your winner, That year the voting was changed to online via Facebook, the winner a professional florist, who had just moved into the village and was in the process of opening a shop, won. It wasn’t even a scarecrow it was a huge flower covered bunny. Her son, at university, seconded hundreds of votes for his mother to win it, cue outrage and the return of the paper voting slip, online votes are completely meaningless and corrupted easily. Oh and a funnier story, we had the joy of Ricky, a well known Hull tramp living on the main road, he became a local attraction, people fed him, bought him beer, he was the living example of a pig in ****, which he did, a lot, all over the village, anyway he became quite anti social, shouting at people, harassing women, to the point he got a banning order and ****ed off. Cue the next scarecrow trail, and the lady of the house where outside he was living did a Ricky scarecrow, so lifelike, I stopped the car to look, anyway, outrage from the wokies claiming it would hurt his feelings, so the organisers made her take it down. The power of the offended eh? There is another story about Hedon Pride, but probably for another page.
I don't think it was rigged, I think it was won by the company with the best social media reach, as this is how online votes are normally won nowadays. Personally, I've no idea how good a shop it is, I've never been in it.
You may be right which means it isn't actually the best independent shop in Hull at all, it's the one with the best social media reach, or the one who could be arsed to sit on a pc/mobile all day voting for themselves? A local newspaper/reporter should know the area they are supposedly reporting and in this case, and with this particualr publlcation this 'poll' or article was just another in a long line of click bait stories. Which, from memory, was basically the topic of the thread in the first place, that Hull Live is ****e.
I can have add to this re the flyer. Mate of ours back in the day used to print flyers out and hand em out for a while. Orient away in the play offs he was giving them to anyone he saw. Loved him trying to explain it to a polish guy. He also took a Jamaican flap with him. He was rat arsed by the way. It was just one sheet with Hull City/ Tigers on it. Anyway he went to that match with some FC mates and left some harmless prints on car window screens. Def nothing to do with Psychos. For what it’s worth he was at the time a solicitor in Cheshire.
Are his initials ** by any chance? I cannot remember excatly what was written on this so called bit of paper but what ever it was it was enough to convince the HDM that the blame for the pitch invasion and subsequent trouble at a rugby league game was Hull City's fault.
The latest anti-City/football campaign https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-city-fan-banned-five-8598682
Careful. Some say we're not allowed to speak out against what's happening in this fair City and land, and that everything's just fine. Yep, here we go again ..... Q offended.
