Councillors 'furious' at Allam over Hull City FA Cup final snub to Lord Mayor COUNCILLORS say they are furious after it emerged Hull City owner Assem Allam refused to invite the Lord Mayor to the FA Cup final. The snub follows a breakdown in relations between Mr Allam and the council over the future ownership of the KC Stadium. Last year, he turned down an offer by the authority to host a City Hall celebration to mark the club's promotion to the Premier League. Instead, the club arranged its own event at the stadium. Now, it has emerged the city's Lord Mayor Councillor Nadine Fudge was left off a VIP invitation list drawn up by the club ahead of the Wembley clash with Arsenal. In an email sent to the council three weeks before the match, Hull City club secretary Matt Wild says: "It would, ordinarily, be standard protocol to invite the Lord Mayor to the FA Cup for what will be our first time at this stage in the competition in the club's history. "However, as you will be aware, this is not as clear cut as that and therefore, with our chairman having severed his links with Hull City Council back in September 2011, I feel it would not be appropriate to invite the Lord Mayor and her Lady Mayoress to this match. "I trust you will appreciate my position." One senior Labour councillor, who did not wish to be named, said: "Many of us are absolutely furious about this. "It's an insult to the office of the Lord Mayor." http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Coun...ory-21164921-detail/story.html?#ixzz33BRYJi93 This article had a bit at the bottom about Councillors being livid about this, but it seems to have been deleted in the last five minutes.
Hull City Council are kicking off because the Lord Mayor didn't get an invite to the FA Cup Final. Dinosaurs, every one of them. Has anyone ever seen her at the KC supporting City and actually paying for her seat? Did anyone hear the good wishes sent from the council to the club before the Final ? Even Ed Milliband took time to contact the club and congratulate them. This probably accounts for the council's complete lack of any banners or flags around the city to celebrate the occasion which beamed Hull in a positive light to over half a billion people in over 100 countries. We need someone of a senior and respected position to grab this mob of envious, grabbing, spiteful and narrow minded individuals by the scruff of neck and remind them that they are elected to serve the city and people of Kingston Upon Hull, not themselves.
I posted a new thread about this spat before seeing yours. Why doesn't the HDM get to the bottom of the origins of this obviously huge parting of the ways instead of skating around it?
Rumours of secret talks. Lord Mayor shunned. Just what is going on? Its about time both sides stopped this bitterness and started to have a proper dialogue. Life is to short and the stances taken by councillors and the Allam are to no ones benefit. As someone who lives 250 miles from Hull, I find the whole thing reflects badly on not only the club, but the city.
And all because they won't give him the KC. However much we think this would benefit City, it's an asset worth many millions owned by the citizens of Hull. If I was still a resident, (I was born within a half-mile of the KC) but not a football supporter, I think I would be livid if such a thing happened. As you say, extremely petty, but no more than we have come to expect from AA's childish behaviour.
Why would the Council celebrate when they were told three weeks beforehand that they weren't welcome?
You know that do you? He probably also knows you don't bite the hand that feeds you and sometimes it is good manners to show a bit of respect. The Allams have done a tremendous amount of good in this area in various charitable ways, not to mention the massive boost the city of Hull has received from the success of the football club. The council should be bending over backwards 24/7 to foster good relations with the local football club and its owners.
Can anyone explain to me why the Lord Mayor of Hull should expect get a freebie to the Cup Final when many true fans had to queue for hours to get, and pay, for a ticket? Or is it that these Councillors are too full of their own self-importance and have just come to expect that they are due special treatment?
http://www.labour.org.uk/list-of-meetings-with-donors-and-general-secretaries I don't doubt what good AA has done, this we purely a remark why Milliband congratulated City, nothing against the Allams
Can you link us to the 'all because he wanted the KC for nothing' article ? I also find it strange that someone who is not a football supporter is bothering to post on a football site at this time in the morning. Are you Nadine Fudge perhaps?
It's a celebration for the city, not just for the club, that's why it's standard practice for the participants to invite their local mayor. If people don't have petty squabbles, it's normal for the local council to also promote the event and get the whole city behind it, but the council daren't in case it pisses off AA even more.
"one senior councillor, who did not wish to be named" this smell's to me at least have the bottle to stand up and be counted, granted AA not help himself with his dealing with the council, but this just has sh*t stirring wrote all over it, by someone who's not got the bottle to be named.
There's quite a lot of City fans that don't think a community asset should be given away/flogged on the cheap. I understand their reasoning, though I don't really see it as an asset at all as it generates no income, so I'd use it to generate any development we could get out of it.
Because inviting the Lord Mayor to a Cup Final is the ''done thing'', it portrays a Town/City and the club's owners coming together to celebrate an occasion of huge civic pride - except in Hull of course, a place where our barking mad owner and the luddite Council continue to behave like spoilt brats who can't have their own way ................. I ****ing despair of the whole sorry situation.
Heads banging together and they need their springs to mind. Acting like children, all of them. Why does no-one ever stright talk to these people. They must be scared for their jobs. I speak my mind to my bosses if I think things need improving/changing. They don't seem to mind. A strong boss should able to take criticism and advice in equal measure.
The old ****pig made it clear that he didn't include the city in any celebrations which might have ensued.....and, unfortunately, that excluded the people of the city,
