Beware Paul Duffen

Quote: The Dentist Wilf "Genuine answer.

Despite what you may read on here I can tell you that they were never asked to be on the original board by the Council!

Adam pearson was put in charge simply because in the embyonic stages it was thought that he was the only person who could head it up. he was joined by threee other local lumanaries but he was an honest broker, who had done the job before and who had an affinity for our game and the city (and infact with another City player became within a whisker of buying our club). However he was always very fair and often told me when I worked with him in the early days how important it was for him to be seen to be completely impartial as far as the SMC was concerned! Which I have got to say I think he was. It was down to him that we played the play off game during Hull Fair week, because he argued our corner with Plummer against the police.

He was of course in it for the money but As far as I know he never consciously let his feelings for the club he owned cloud his judgement about the Stadium. How things appear to have changed.'"

Interesting.

If Adam Pearson was made chair of the SMC because of who he was and not because he was Hull City's chairman, how was that written into the SMC contract?

Does it mean that successive Hull City chairmen have no automatic right to the leadership of the SMC, or does the contract state that whoever is Chair of Hull City automatically heads up the SMC for the next 50 odd years?

If the former, then perhaps we have a hope of ousting Duffen, if the latter then we'd better watch out as future Hull City chairmen may be worse self-serving megalomaniacs than even Duffen.

I can't believe that Hull City council would leave such an important role as the leadership of the SMC open to any Tom Dick or Harry that Hull City happen to inherit as their chair. Than again...