**** off! The Allams created all these problems. It;s solely his fault why the fans are slagging each other off. Well, more than they usually are
No name change application, no campaign, it's not complicated. Unfortunately, a certain stubborn old bloke is likely to start this bollocks all over again next year, but no doubt you'll blame us for it. Along with global warming, the price of petrol and any other bullshit you can come up with.
What was the vote? Was it Name change: Yes/No? Or was it something like: (a) Change the name and go and have lunch, (b) Don't change the name and argue for a few more hours, or (c) Just go and have lunch. Was the vote "adjudicated" by "Allam's Get The Result You Want Are Us"?
If he does carry it on, it is your fault, because you were the biggest obstacle blocking it from going through already.
Philip Buckingham on Hull City name change, CTWD campaign and why Wembley glory can help heal the scars IN THIS season of beauty at the KC Stadium there has been an ugly undercurrent for too long. Now must come a time for harmony. The fight over the very identity of Hull City has threatened to pull the club apart at its seams these last eight months. Most have tried to ignore it, focusing on the achievements of Steve Bruce's groundbreaking side, but look around and the elephant in the room has left an almighty mess. The Football Association finally ushered it out of the back door when rejecting the application to become known as Hull Tigers yesterday, but now comes the big tidy up. Hull City has slowly become a fractured and unhappy club this season. Whether in favour of the name change or opposed, not one individual can claim to have enjoyed the ride as much as they ought to. And therein lies the real shame of it all. On a day Bruce faced the nation's media ahead of the FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield United, his words were lost in the noise coming from Wembley just an hour later. That awkward pattern has run through the season. There is every chance this storm will return once a formal appeal against the FA's verdict is launched but, if only for the final weeks of the season, the club needs to be pieced back together. Too much is at stake to suffer from any more distractions. A week after gliding towards the brink of Premier League survival with five games to spare, City head to Wembley aiming to reach their first major final in 110 years of existence. Only League One opposition stands in their way. After that could come adventures around Europe. The club will continue to march to the capital this weekend under the banner of Hull City and on into the 2014-15 season. Beyond that appears less clear but the omens do not appear promising for owners Assem and Ehab Allam. Flexing of muscles and threatening rhetoric has not worked with the FA. The case for change was carefully considered and ultimately found to lack a compelling argument. All those claims of commercial value were deemed insufficient to throw heritage on a pyre. The Allams may not like it but a higher power says otherwise. The legal teams descended on this matter long ago and will now continue the argument away from the public eye. Overturning the decision will not be simple but the scent of victory has clearly not completely gone. The Allam family, meanwhile, may well have regrets when digesting the formal announcement yesterday. A decision carried by 63.5 per cent of the FA Council was not as emphatic as many had expected and in such a small demographic it may have been as few as a dozen voters that scuppered the plans. A better PR strategy and it could well have been different. Perhaps decisively, those errors were not made in the opposition camp. The diligent and relentless campaign group City Till We Die spun an attractive argument with passion and history at its core. In their 150th year, the FA lapped it up. One landmark day has come at Wembley this week, but there is still time for another. On Sunday afternoon, a fan in favour of Hull Tigers will sit next to one loyal to Hull City. Importantly, though, they must share the common ground in their support of Bruce and his side. The battle is over. For now, at least. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Phil...tory-20941045-detail/story.html#ixzz2yT5ZPdUJ
Good piece but the last paragraph isn't true. If there are any fans who prefer Hull Tigers then they don't go to games. We know this. They've had a whole season now to make themselves heard but nothing. I've never even heard second hand about a name change fan being noticed at a game by anyone else.
Those who prefer Hull Tigers to Hull City do not exist when asked the real question. Those who voted for Hull Tigers are liars. Put that in your article PB
This is precisely the kind of over the top scurrilous reaction that makes me throw up my hands in despair. I applauded CTWDs statement in response to the FAs decision and Phil Buckinghams statement makes a lot of sense. But this sort of vicious name calling should be deplored by every fair minded poster on here. You should be ASHAMED of yourself and have no right to call yourself "Sir". What a joke. You sound more like a silly little boy.
Er, Canada, you may have guessed from the whooshes that something has flown over your head. Sir Ben was borrowing from previous posts...
Ok Tuckin. I wasn't aware he was quoting earlier posts. Then the original posters should be ashamed of themselves. Surely we can move beyond this kind of rhetoric though.
Canada, thanks for putting a smile on my face (not taking the piss,it really did). This nob was abhorrent & vicious towards our owners. He now thinks it's it's cruel to humiliate him. It's commendable that this nob has changed his opinion of our owners & will not now have a word said against them. The problem is he now believes others have no right to be critical of them in any form now we're in the Premier League & he can get a live stream every Saturday in the comfort of his **** pad. Unfortunately my OCD (Outing ****s Disorder) makes it hard for me not to highlight his hypocrisy at every opportunity. I'm glad you found the comments distasteful because that is exactly what they were.
