From another less worldly & naive fan (who has a personal history of cancer), I'm with you Canada & CG. Thank you Mr Allam.
========== Such a shame about your dad Carmine.......hugs. Just remember every time you smile , your dad smiles with you..
If you've had to spend any time around the Queens Centre at Castle Hill, visiting friends or relatives, you'll know it's a fabulous place, but not somewhere you would ever want to be through choice. In an ideal world it would be a place that is not required at all, but sadly it's not an ideal world so the place is a hugely necessary facility. They need every penny to crack cancer, so where it comes from matters not one jot. Furthermore they need as much publicity as possible to aid fundraising efforts, so when a big donor comes forward, they maximise the exposure - for good reasons. As a gesture it is a fantastic, as is what Huddlestone is doing. Shame the identity of the **** who reneged on the hair auction money hasn't been made public. It's not football related because to be honest anyone with serious illness shouldn't be prioritising football over their health. I always though the life/death and football being more important line attributed to Shankley was a crock of ****, and recent experience has confirmed this. Well done Mr Allam.
I am staggered that posters look at this in any critical manner at all. Two things. First his background. He is from a culture that expects contributions into the local community. He want to be seen as a benevolent leader, by his family and by the wider Arab community. It isn't new, look at how Al-Fayed craved for a knighthood, allied himself with the royals by any means and tried to become popular, yet he only got critism. The second part is that giving to charity does not save you money, it just lets you put it where you feel it can be of benefit. If Assem Allam can say to his middle eastern clients, look my business does not give a penny more to yhe UK government than it has too, we support local hospitals and education instead, it works to his advantage. More orders from his biggest market, more jobs in Melton.
Maybe you would like to add an evidential link to that accusation to avoid a possible charge of Defamation of character?
I thought it was common knowledge that the club charged for the use of the stadium for Dawson's testimonial.
I've never heard that people from Egypt are any more or any less likely to give to charity than anyone else. El Fayed craved British citizenship, tried to buy it, got rebuffed. I don't know enough about the charcteristics of Middle Eastern marine diesel genny market to comment on customers' wish lists. Price and reliability trump all in most CAPEX products. I'd be interested in your data if you'd like to share it with us.
I started this thread with the best of intentions, now looking at it. I can see it is a brilliant propaganda machine for Mr Allam. Not by his donation but by the sad ramblings of Stewey and a few others. In Steweys desperation to always be right, have the last word, belittle insult any thread, opinion or poster he doesnt like he has done a cracking job of making Mr Allam look wonderful. Well done Stewey well done.
He won't reply to you, you're on his ignore list along with a select few who he doesn't like. Safe to say I'm on it as well. The thing is I'm glad the mods left his posts exactly where they are for all to see. Out of all the threads he's polluted with his nonsense this one probably, no definitely, highlights what a desperately sad and sorry individual he is. He simply cannot separate what happens to real people in the real world to the one he's created in his own head. I know you've expressed concern and pity for him before and I always took it with a pinch of salt but this thread as shown that you were right to do so. I honestly feel sorry for the bloke. Now awaits mod to preach about judging the post and not the poster.
He's entitled to charge for the use of his premises, should he chose to do so, it's hardly 'ripping off a charity'.
What part of But that is his money, so good on him, doesn't have to do it. do you refuse to understand? He has been accorded the credit for the donation to an emotive cause; but that does not rob me of my judgment on what drives him. I don't need to muddy his name, he does that with his lies, deceit, manipulation and blackmail as we have seen; he doesn't do it for the sake of it, he most certainly has an end game and it doesn't end with the name-change. But like I said, he was given credit so your comment was not correct. Yours is exactly the reaction his strategy feeds off.
PLT stated that Allam ripped off Dawson's charity (post #53) not me. I'm suggesting PLT shows some evidence to prove his accusation in order to protect himself from a possible charge of libel.
I struggle to understand how my reaction feeds his strategy. From what I understand in this thread, people are worried that they will see that he has donated a lot of money to various sources and they will look to him and say "oh what a nice fellow he is, I will let him change the name of the football club." This may in fact work on a few, who knows? But I have stated in various other threads that I am against the name change and nothing will alter my opinion, I simply do not want to call ourselves Hull Tigers. My "people will muddy his name for the sake of it" comment comes from the fact that people automatically assume he has an ulterior motive. Imagine if he did other good deeds, what the reaction would be and how ridiculous it would sound? "Dr. Allam saves boy from drowning" What a bastard, he only did that to look good in the press.
No doubt, but I suspect his PR people are rarely off it and this site could well be regularly monitored.
There was a lot of talk about him employing a PR company when he took over the club. Isn't this the case?
