No I just said that Assem Allam gives money to the Labour Party and the Labour controlled Council decides the name change has nothing to do with them.
I doubt if Prescott was watching City in 1950 - how old was he? (10ish at a guess) He must have been a child and therefore at that time had no connection with the City of Hull. At best he may have been watching some other team who happened to be playing Hull City at the time. Is this one of those Tony Blair stories watching Jackie Milburn in non existing seats (or something like that?) Politicians lying? - surely not.
To be fair to Prescott he said he saw City play Rotherham United (who he presumably supported) when he was about 11. Be interesting to see if that ties in with what was said about his growing up in his biography.
I'd say Prescott's reason for supporting AA is far more likely to be the fact that he's a director of Hull KR and AA gave them £1m. He's no City fan and his opinion is as irrelevant as any local rugby fan who doesn't follow City.
Indeed he was living in South Yorkshire at that time. He failed his 11+ in 1949 whilst living there (according to Wiki).
Just think if he'd have passed it he might have gone on to do something worthwhile with his life.... Instead he became a Labour MP
Geraghty's a cock, but the opinion of HCC is not irrelevant, as thy own our stadium and the FA want their opinion.
Obviously nobody's told this bloke he's supposed to be attracted to tigers... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...chinese-billionaire-wang-3036588#.Ut00IfTFJi0
The talk around the table with my family last night was about this guy and comparisons to City. The general consensus was that Southampton are investable and Hull isn't. Lets face it they are spending 30m on their training ground. They own their stadium. We have Tigers as a nickname!
I knew of him and had some dealings with Prescott when he was with TGWU, he was a prat then as he is now.
David Conn ‏@david_conn RT @The_FSF The @NoToHullTigers postcards for fans to tell the FA why they oppose plan to change Hull City's name pic.twitter.com/b3nMe72UyU
Which is the tragedy in all this. When he bought the club he could have done a deal with the council (Geraghty offered him a joint venture) and developed the KC, invested in the team, developed the club's infrastructure and followed the examples of Southampton and Swansea City.
Excellent view point and one I totally share. Hence my opposition to people flaunting online polls as evidence of Hull City fans being against the name change. Glad we agree on that. Southampton and Swansea jointly own their stadiums with their local councils and ground share with local rugby teams too?
I don't know, were they? Obi's made a comparison that seemed strange, hence my questions. How could us owning the stadium jointly with the HCC, and ground sharing be the same as those 2 teams? Simple question really. To expand on that, would HCC invest any money in the plans Dr Allam has? Would you want them to? Would the local populace want them to?
