Same with my old fella, as me mams parents lived in York. Oh, not the racist thing I was just thinking about those shirts yesterday, cos me and the missus had a couple of days in York, and I bet if anyone did that now, it would be derided as too american or something.
Just to make it clear, my Old man was just the same as everyone else in that era. He spent the war years in the RAF in Rhodesia and even he said the way the blacks were treated was appalling. It takes time to change cultural and racial attitudes and whilst he wasn't what I would call a racist, the remnants of the society he grew up in would make most people's toes curl up nowadays.
Calm down Enoch! I'm teasing Strov, neither of my parents are racist, quite the opposite in fact, although on occasion they say stuff that makes me cringe, but it is never ever meant in an offensive or hurtful way.
http://m.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11705...unity_stadium_to_go_ahead_without_rugby_club/ CITY of York Council have launched a scathing attack onYork City Knights chairman John Guildford - making it clear the homeless rugby league club will not be involved in the community stadium if he remains at the helm. Sarah Tanburn, the council's interim director for city and environmental services, says the local authority "no longer has confidence in the working relationship with Mr Guildford so is unable to enter back into negotiations with him on the community stadium development". She claims Guildford’s actions have "taken up valuable time and additional resource, at great unnecessary cost to the council and therefore the taxpayers of York, besides risking the development of the stadium itself". Guildford - the Knights' majority shareholder since professional rugby league was relaunched in the city just months after the demise of York Wasps in 2002 - quickly hit back, saying the council's statement confirmed his suspicions that there was a conspiracy to force him to sell his club to York City. The football club have also said they will not deal with the rugby club supremo. This major development in the community stadium saga effectively confirms the Knights as homeless after their lease of Huntington Stadium was ended in order for that ground to be redeveloped to house both themselves and City. The plan had been for the Knights to temporarily share City's Bootham Crescent ground and train at York St John University's Haxby Road facility, but Guildford recently said he could not sign up to that agreement after the council, having previously assured the club of a home until the new stadium was built, then offered only a two-year guaranteed stay. He said he feared the rugby club could become homeless if the project, already beset by problems and yet to get planning permission, was not completed by then. The council withdrew from negotiations, citing a legal dispute, and has said the rugby club can not now play at City's ground or train at St John University as part of the project. The Knights have already had to switch their first friendly of pre-season, against Hull this Sunday, to Doncaster's Keepmoat Stadium. In her statement, Tanburn said: "The council remains strongly committed to the success of professional rugby league in York and the use of the stadium for both rugby league and football. It is with deep regret that the council finds it no longer has confidence in the working relationship with Mr Guildford so is unable to enter back into negotiations with him on the community stadium development. "We share fans’, players’ and staff’s disappointment and frustration that an agreement could not be reached with Mr Guildford during the last two years." She claimed Guildford had: used numerous threats of litigation and formal legal process in an attempt to better his terms lodged objections to planning submissions impeding the project’s progress made a number of serious – and unfounded – allegations towards both the authority and individual staff members made a series of misleading statements via the media.
Err...no They've said they want it to be used for both sports, however they have found that dealing with the person in charge of one of the clubs is impossible due to his ridiculous and self serving behaviour so they have decided they won't deal with him Sound like they could very well deal with the club again though if he left and they were to deal with someone else....in fact it sounds like they would be keen for that to happen
Doesn't sound like he's going anywhere though. You have to admit that it somewhat parallels the airco situation, albeit for differing reasons.
If he doesn't go anywhere there is a chance the club will cease to exist as they have no training facilities & no ground to play their games at. They cannot financially keep using the Keepmoat at Donny as their attendances are quite low (even in York) & they may well have fixture clashes with Rovers & Doncaster RLFC
I'm sure AA would welcome this Mr. Guildford with open arms and allow York to play at the KC. They could swap note and stories in Allam's Chairman's Suite about how they've both been screwed over by their local councils...
