But it was successful in diverting the attention and blame from the real culprits which was exactly the intention. I also think it was Gwilym Lloyd who parrotted the call on Radio Humberside without questioning it. I called in during that programme to complain about the accusassion being made in the first place and was cut off mid sentance. The HDM followed it up the following day with an exclusive about someone finding an A4 size of paper blowing about in a pub car park before the game, some miles away from Huddersfield, with written of it something about 'you have just met Hull City psychos' or similar. No-one else saw this one piece of A4 paper, or anymore like it, but it was enough to shift the blame away from rugby league and onto football.
Talking of voting scams, here in Thorngumbald two years ago, a voting scam was found out in the annual scarecrow trail, previously you bought a map and used the voting slip to declare your winner,
That year the voting was changed to online via Facebook, the winner a professional florist, who had just moved into the village and was in the process of opening a shop, won.
It wasn’t even a scarecrow it was a huge flower covered bunny.
Her son, at university, seconded hundreds of votes for his mother to win it, cue outrage and the return of the paper voting slip, online votes are completely meaningless and corrupted easily.
Oh and a funnier story, we had the joy of Ricky, a well known Hull tramp living on the main road, he became a local attraction, people fed him, bought him beer, he was the living example of a pig in ****, which he did, a lot, all over the village, anyway he became quite anti social, shouting at people, harassing women, to the point he got a banning order and ****ed off.
Cue the next scarecrow trail, and the lady of the house where outside he was living did a Ricky scarecrow, so lifelike, I stopped the car to look, anyway, outrage from the wokies claiming it would hurt his feelings, so the organisers made her take it down.
The power of the offended eh?
There is another story about Hedon Pride, but probably for another page.