Allam Meeting Notes - November 1, 2013

I wasn't referring to the name change/Mooney when I said I had issues with the Allams at that point.

 

If you don't mind me asking, what was the issue? I'm aware of a lot of stuff they've done over the years, but not anything from that specific period. My turning point was a few months later.

 

Seems they changed the company name then thought that changing the club name was going to be a formality.

 

A few bits and pieces really. I knew someone who'd had dealings with them pre-City and it hadn't gone well, but that didn't worry me too much at first. I was blinded by the fact that they'd saved the club to be worried by such matters (I also knew - and still know - a friend of Ehab's who swears by him as a good bloke so you take that sort of stuff as you find it). However, I was friendly with a handful of long-serving staff at City who I knew were being treated in a way that wasn't particularly worthy of what they'd done for the club. By a weird coincidence, I also worked with an acquaintance of Nigel Pearson at that time. I didn't get too much in-depth stuff from him, but there was enough to know that he was totally disillusioned with the Allams that summer and was itching to leave at the first opportunity. I really liked Nigel Pearson as a manager - I know I may be in a minority on that one - so that worried me. None of this was exactly 'Allam out' stuff but it had meant that I wasn't quite as enamoured as most. It did mean, however, that their messing about with the club moving to Melton (or wherever) and the treatment of Nick Barmby (regardless of what anyone thought of him as a manager, he deserved better than what he got. Much better) got very short shrift with me and I was more open to criticising them at that time. I didn't quite envisage what would happen, but I got plenty of stick at the time on Amber Nectar and elsewhere for questioning the Allams. There were a few others who did as well, and it was just dumb luck that I happened to have a few links at that time to people directly involved with the club (I'll just add that I know precisely no one at the club these days and very little about how its run, but the Allams are much more popular with the staff at City than you'd perhaps imagine).

 

Ok , sorry if I got the wrong end of the stick .

 

I so desperately wanted to disagree with you for the sake of it!
However you're bang on

 

Haha. It won't change anything of course Den, but it's FACT and even those that know their guilty of it... We know they know who they are.

 

Ye they liked your post

 

No I ain’t.

 

I made a new year resolution to treat Happy Tiger with more respect. I made it public. I think I have done so. (It's been hard ...)

Me and Dutch saw the light a few years ago. It was 'time for something different', without any fuss, we fell into it - it strange how easy it was.

But it's a forum. When Chazz decides to be a ****, take him on. When Chazz talks football or books, listen and join in.

Everything is the fault of Assem Allam. Indisputable.

You might not agree with this...

... But Obi, now he's strange.

 

He may be a literary critic par excellence, but I'm not sure he knows anything about football?!

 

Get in the spirit, Den. I'm trying to be nice...

 

You don't like me do you Chazz. What did I do?

 

Too ****ing cryptic for my liking, Fez.

 

Reconciliation is not in his mindset I'm affraid Kempton.!!!
I might not agree with him but Happy will fall out then talk to you.
Probably a decent bloke if you had a few ales down the pub

 

I ain't got a clue why, but I must 100% disagree with you.

 

Flaskgate?