Hull City have an excellent track record in defending fansâ rights over the years. While thereâs been controversy this season due to the attempted name change - which was opposed by the FSF and*rejected by the FA - we hope the club and its fans can put that behind them and work together again. The Tigers supported the FSFâs Safe Standing Campaign as far back as February 2012. Players had also shown their solidarity with supporters by donning Watching Football Is Not A Crime! t-shirts following fan protests against a âbubbleâ match at Huddersfield Town last season. The latest example to hit the FSFâs inbox came from Newcastle United fan Phil Newton, who was ejected from the KC Stadium during his teamâs game on Saturday 1st March. A Hull City steward said Phil had stood persistently through the opening 10 minutes of the game. Phil, who lives locally, admitted standing at the back of stand but claimed he wasnât blocking anyoneâs view and was ejected before heâd even been asked to sit. Itâs quite a common occurrence and doesnât usually have a satisfactory outcome for the fan. From this point clubs often just disregard the complaint or argue that, since the fan was standing, he (or she) had breached ticketing T&Cs anyway. From there a fan has to complain to the league and Independent Football Ombudsman. Most canât be bothered and put it down to experience. So imagine our surprise when Hull City Safety Officer John Rose contacted Phil to offer âsincere apologies in the way and manner that you were treated on the dayâ. Phil was also offered a free ticket for a future fixture at the KC. Mr Rose said: âI have come to the conclusion that there were insufficient grounds for your ejection. Iâve found that certain questions were not asked, procedures were not followed correctly and the decision made by the supervisor at the time was wrong.â This might seem small beer to many but believe us, getting an apology and some financial compensation (in the form of free tickets) from a football club is pretty damn unusual. Letâs hope more clubs take note, sorry doesnât have to be the hardest word⦠http://fsf.org.uk/latest-news/view/hull-city-apologise-to-fan-ejected-for-standing?
More likely a Geordie that's moved to Hull and lives there, so without any evidence he's a strange plastic Humberside Geordie, you shouldn't really judge him. Massive credit to the club, like the FSF states, most clubs just go "standing, T&Cs, whatever", so for them to do this and to go as far as they have in compensation for the experience the guy had.
I think this is a great gesture and just highlights how well our football club is run. Hull City is a credit to not only Hull or Yorkshire but the premier league on a whole. Proud to be black n amber! #UTT
It does nothing of the sort. It highlights how excessive our stewards are and how the club came to some sort of compensation (pretty much like for like) after an unjust action of one of their employees.
I wonder if City fans ejected all manner of petty reasons, some ending up with banning orders due to Corcoran who likes nothing more than getting a City fan banned whilst failing to apprehend away fans causing mayhem, will be getting apologies? Maybe the club could get the stewards to concentrate on away fans like other clubs instead of stood in the corners glaring at all and sundry. They even stand staring into the crowd at the SE Corner and run around like headless chickens as if a goal being scored is a dangerous act which will result in disorder. Maybe they think families will stage a pitch invasion. At other grounds they just stand up for a couple of minutes before sitting out of view again.
Something not quite right here: away fans don't get chucked for just standing - problems only arise when ''sitters'' are sat behind ''standers''. When they're ALL stood, as away fans usually are, a blind eye is turned and they're left alone.
I suspect the turd may well have been in the home part of the North stand. Well done for ejecting the ****.
This club is a ****ing sham. Give the fat Geordie **** a banning order and be done with it, he was breaking ground regulations.
That'll be it, they wouldn't have singled him out just for standing that day - they were ALL stood ffs. A Geordie fan with Hull address, an easy ticket for him, serves the **** right.
So the club apologise to this ****, but don't give a **** about its own fans? Maleficent set of cockbenders.
