Davies and Elmo were the previous season and we don't know if there was any fee for Graham, there probably wasn't, they wanted rid.
The FA did not give a time scale between the decision and publication. It has simply promised to publish. It cannot be forced or chided into doing anything.
In football you're only as good as your last game, or in the case of a manager your last post match interview, and on that basis Nigel Pearson is clearly a **** as far as I'm concerned.
Yes they did. They said on their own website that a decision would be published as soon as its reached, and it's still there. Edit. Here's the link: http://www.thefa.com/news/governance/2014/sep/hull-city-name-change-application-300914
Nice of you to assume we don't all know that already. Rather than, say, coming to the more logical conclusion that I was expressing contempt for the nonsense of honorary doctorates and people who choose to use the title after buying one.
Fact is he's got one so he can use it if he likes. There's plenty else to slag him off about without picking on something that's got bugger all to do with football. It's a bit like knighthoods, the Honours list, etc, how many people turn them down? Anyway, does he use the title? I don't even know?
http://www.debretts.com/forms-address/professions/academics/doctor He's perfectly entitled to use it, although many don't. I didn't know Jeremy Clarkson, Orlando Bloom and Bill Gates had one too.
When did that become a criteria for being given a lordship? And at Hull alone there is also Peirluigi Collina and Nick Barmby but when did you last see either of them refer to themselves in media announcements as Dr? And isnt it strange that when the Allams sacked Nick Barmby they never referred to him as Dr in any of the related media announcements? I mean, it couldnt be that they're using the title when it suits them to add more gravitas and perceived respect to Allam Snr but they chose to not do this when it came to justifying sacking someone in their employ.
He does use the title and I don't know of anyone else with one who does in the same circumstances. The Queens honours are a different thing completely, they're 'titles' and are generally used as such, though even with those some don't.
What people think or choose to do is irrelevant, etiquette permits him to use the title if he wishes.
You're missing the point - Allam chooses to refer to himself as a doctor in all media announcements. He also chooses to not use the exact same title acquired in exactly the same way in media announcements regarding a person who he wished to discredit when ending their employ. If he calls himself a Dr, then he should refer to Nick Barmby as a Dr. Yet he doesnt.
