Sadly nothing seems to. I agree with you there. I just think that to say they are thick skinned affords them far too much respect. They are anything but.
Maybe thick-skinned is the wrong expression. Determined,single-minded, not prone to changing course because it's unpopular is more in line with what I meant.
Traits which are commendable when the people have the same views and objectives as your own, but which make them objectionable twats when they don't. Though stubborn and pig-headed are more accurate descriptions of them.
Does anyone know what the prize money is in the Championship? I don’t expect us to get any more points this season & I expect us to finish 15th, which is 9 places higher than I expected us to finish at the start of the season.
All I can find is an article about the new Sky deal running 2019/24 worth 590 million. The "basic award and solidarity payments" is worth 6.3 million. No mention of how much per televised game. Not enough for City, or any other club, to be self sufficient. Selling players keeps the club going, or holds off the call to the bank of papa.
The Hull City AFC ‘cryptocurrency’ buyout has quietly fallen through Contrary to what reports from last year suggested, English Championship football club Hull City AFC won’t be getting acquired by cryptocurrency crowd funding platform SportyCo. According to sources familiar with the matter, SportyCo’s managing director, Marko Filej, met with the club’s owners and agreed on a price. However, after that price was disclosed to investors supporting SportyCo’s bid, the deal fizzled out to nothing. Sources claim the price was “higher than the real market valuation.” Here’s what happened Last year, reports claimed the Hull City Supporters Trust (HCST) – an organization set up to represent Hull City supporters – and SportyCo had teamed up to launch a £45 million ($58 million) bid to buy the club. “[Our involvement] in the bid to buy Hull City AFC, led by SportyCo, has been misunderstood by some journalists,” Geoff Bielby, HCST Chairman, told Hard Fork last year. “We are not leading the bid, [we’re] simply a partner representing supporters.” Original reports also suggested that fans would be purchasing a stake in Hull City FC using cryptocurrency, which again, isn’t true. “The concept wasn’t to involve [cryptocurrency] but SportyCo did lead the bid with the intention of following up the traditional investor led bid with crowdfunding using [the blockchain-based] SportyCo platform,” Bielby told Hard Fork in an email. When SportyCo first put together its bid, cryptocurrencies were dismissed as creating a ‘Hull City AFC coin’ would have been too complex, Bielby explained. It would’ve also taken too long to complete. Hard Fork has contacted Hull City AFC for comment, but is yet to hear back. While SportyCo led the bid, most of the funds were in fact brought in by Alexander Jarvis and his investment firm Blackridge. Who on earth is Jarvis though? Jarvis has come under scrutiny for his lack of experience a number of times before. An investigation by the NY Times from March last year, found that Jarvis has a history of exaggerating and overstating his investor connections, most of which he claims are based in China. The same article also quoted Hull City AFC’s former Chairman, Paul Duffen, who claimed Jarvis had clearly not “done a football transaction before, or more likely, any transaction.” Duffen also told the NY Times that Jarvis claimed to have a number of Chinese investors for a deal to buy Hull City football club back in 2016, all of which never materialized. Indeed, it seems not even the allure of cryptocurrency and blockchain was enough to reignite Jarvis’ investors on this occasion. Cryptocurrency and football seems to making to be making headlines quite frequently at the moment, and not always for the right reasons. Tron’s Justin Sun recently Tweeted that it had a new partnership with English premiership football club, Liverpool. Days later though, Liverpool denied it. Update, Friday, May 3, 13:57UTC: Jarvis has since reached out to Hard Fork, claiming that the “asking price for Hull City FC in the Premier league was just to high and talks broke down due to that fact.” (For the record, Hull City AFC currently competes in the Championship, not the Premier League. https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/05/01/hull-city-cryptocurrency-buyout-fallen-through/
The CryptoJarvisCoin stuff is irrelevant The club wasn't worth as much as they were asking for it, the rest is just noise
Only since they were rebadged as Sunderland Cat All Blacks {SCAB} for the all important Austraisian supporter base ...
During the play off game the commentator said the owner isn't selling completely just selling an interest in the club to bring in more finance.
