So you criticise Allam for doing what others have do? And as my wife benefitted from one of his acts of generosity you and others criticising his motives can **** right off. And that didn’t have his name on.
I said out and others…And, as I said, not everything had his name on. My wife was told she would be waiting 6 months to a year for examination of a painful lump in her breast, let alone treatment at Scarborough hospital which is where we have to go. She got a a call from the doctor saying if she could get to Castle Hill she could be seen. They examined her, took a scan, found a cyst and drained it, which was very unpleasant and painful but was OK in a couple of days but saved her months of pain and worry. Anyway, when I was in the waiting room a nurse came by and noticed the Hull City screensaver on my phone and asked what I thought on Assem Allam. Not a lot I replied. She told me my wife was there because his wife had problems and he and donated a couple of million so that others could get diagnosed more quickly. Funnily enough in a couple of weeks I will be benefitting in one of the places he paid for, BTW Filey Seadog was another who benefited from prompter treatment earlier in his battle against cancer due to a unit Allam had paid for. He credited that with extending his life.
Timing is everything And if you want to call fuxk out of an old bloke just because he’s died crack on
Never met him personally so like most on here I can't truly know what made the man tick. Closest to a personal interaction I can claim is once working with a woman that dated Ehab a few times. She said he was always pleasant company. Ehab on the other hand she didn't have much time for.
I met Assem at a charity fund raiser for a children's charity in Hull. I know this to be true because one of my daughters was the organiser. AA called her across, on the quiet, and asked how much it cost to run the charity for a year. Then he wrote a cheque out for that amount, on the condition that it was kept between the two of them, and out of the media. It was a substantial amount too.
I have plenty more of those too, from the horse's mouth, about the name change, (of which I was 100% against and told them) the council and city, generosity shown to fans by Ehab, Steve Bruce etc etc etc. Believe it or not, and many won't, there are two sides to every story.
'For the hospitals and university he was superb, for City GTF, I'm of the opinion that fits with the narrative. Also this type of thread was always going to happen when Allam died, and happen immediately, as many of the media reports have said he was a man that divided opinion.
Listen. He was what he was He did what he did. He saved life's. He gave us our greatest days. He has passed. Another age in the proud era of our clubs history. We are all transient.
Won't argue ... except I don't think he gave us our greatest days. The greatest days to my mind were in May 2008 and in that first season. We saw and achieved things that were until then unimaginable even in our wildest dreams. Some great times & achievements followed in later years under his (divisive) ownership for sure but it was what happened in 2008, promotion and those first months in the PL, that were our greatest days and that finally broke the glass ceiling for us. Others are of course entitled to their differing view, but personally I just don't get it if they say differently.
The Germans have a saying, we don’t do charity, we pay our taxes, that’s why they have one of the best health services in the World, wealthy people in the UK hate paying tax and find ways to avoid it, thats why the country and the NHS is in a **** state, Assem, as generous has he was, should not have had to donate millions to build such places, Why do we have Macmillan nurses paid for by donations? it’s a ****ing disgrace, the 6th richest country in World and we rely on benefactors such as Allam.
We have been lucky in Hull with philanthropists, James Reckitt, Zac Pearson, Joseph Rank, Chris Pickering, Thomas Ferens, and yes I will include Assem Allam in that, all left, and will leave a legacy that will live on for 100’s of years, how many of today million/billionaires will do the same?
The resonant the Germans ave a good health service, though it has faults, is that it is a mixture of a basic one and a private top up. Same as France. People there also contribute more. Nothing to with the amount of tax better off people pay. It is the way they are run.
