FA still waiting on Hull City name-change application please log in to view this image THE Football Association continue to wait on Hull City's next move as the deadline for any proposed name change in time for the 2015-16 season looms tomorrow. The annual cut-off point for any club wishing to change its name is April 1 and, as yet, the governing body are still to receive notification that City owner Assem Allam will formally revive a bid to become Hull Tigers. A letter of intent, rather than a full application, is required to land at the FA's Wembley headquarters by the close of business tomorrow, or the club's playing name will remain as Hull City next season. No official comment on the long-running saga has come from the KC Stadium since March 16, when an arbitration tribunal set aside last April's decision to reject the club's original name change application. A legal team acting on behalf of City has since been in contact with their counterparts working for the FA, but the Mail understands neither a letter of intent nor a fresh application has yet been tabled. That will almost certainly change in the next 24 hours, though. Having fought the FA Council's rejection strenuously over the past six months, resulting in an arbitration ruling that the decision could no longer stand, there is an expectation that City will act before the deadline passes. Vice chairman Ehab Allam reiterated his belief last week that a name change was the "best thing for the club" and made it clear he wanted the original application to be reconsidered. The FA, in contrast, believe last year's application has been annulled by the arbitration verdict. Any application to be considered in time for the 2015-16 season would still need approval from the FA Council, with a vote likely to come at their monthly meeting in May. City lost the original hearing by 47 to 27 votes on April 9 last year. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/FA-w...tory-26255197-detail/story.html#ixzz3Vx4POHxn
Anything goes on April Fools Day. Speaking of which, it's also of course the birthday of a City legend who has backed the name change...
He hasn't backed the name change for any other reason than they're his bosses and he has to tow the party line, who can blame him? He's in a tough position, but he's a city legend, enough said!
By the sounds of that article,HDM seem pretty sure the club will stick another application in. I think Assem Allam will let the deadline pass by and argue that his legal team are trying to force the FA into revisiting his original masterpiece of an application. Which could be his way of "dropping" the idea to save the remainder of his face he hasn't yet bitten off through spite. Either way,tomorrow should be fun.
I would have thought at the very least by now their lawyers would have sussed out whether the original application can legal stand. If not he either breaks his word again and does reapply, or as you say he uses the fact that they felt the original application stands, and they use it as a face saving exercise, and the whole thing dies a death.
What you say is right, but this time it is the last throw of the dice. If his lawyers can't make the original application stick, then he has to reapply which he said he will not do. So does he save face or lose face by reapplying?
A fudge is the most likely outcome, he'll change the dates on the original application and re-submit it, claiming it's not a new application.
