I would be genuinely interested to hear his views on this. Conspicuous by his absence, and by that, confirming his Egg Chasing hatred.

Just heard the 5 live podcast. Genius!

Well, him and Phil Buckingham I think were on, both were a bit surprised, but I got a lot of airtime.

The main points I made werre:
The story doesn't stack up, "gifting" a massive sporting arena to the city if you have to borrow to fund it.
It has to be a commercial venture, otherwise who finds the interest payments on the reported £113m cost? You're not going to do it off low-returning and land-hungry assets like Swimming pools and ice rinks. And who pays the running costs?
If the commercial ventures don't return (and returns from retail land are diminishing as customers move online) and repayments can't be met, the stadium could end up in the hands of the banks, with zero public/council control
How is there town planning capacity for another retail development anyway? The patchwork of shopping centres in the city centre mean loads of vacant units already, so why would the planning authorities sign off yet another one less than a mile away when there's no demand? Planning policy generally s moving away from "out of centre" approvals.
There are a lot of additional covenants on West Park and a Royal Charter too, there are good and long-standing reasons for that

There was a lot of nodding along, but I don't think they really got it, bit like "Very interesting love, now make me a brew while I ring Assem to try and get a view of the plans for this fantastic sporting village he's building for the people of Hull. They cost three grand you know! We'll be a 2 ice-rink city, that's a first!"



Subsequently of course the boutique comment showed it was a retail idea, and the latest outburst that it was to fund City's coffers.

He also did say, "if we don't get the KC we WILL build at Melton for £161m." Not heard much about that one lately.

Wait until the council changes to lib dems again and it will be back on the agenda

Surely if the Council did decide to offload the stadium if would have to be put up for sale, they simply can't give it away.

I doubt he'd come back on here. He's had his headlamp polished and is seeing Allam for what he is - I'd be surprised if he'd come back on here to eat humble pie.

Looks like Lambrettaman's one of the ringleaders of this CTWD supporters group who Allam is dismissing as the "vocal minority". He's being very prolific and scathing about his one-time Pharaoh over on [url=http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/237028-Assem-Allam-on-meeting-with-supporters-re-name-changethe quite-entertaining 606 City forum[/url.

He still thinks they should be given the stadium, though, poor little Lamb.

These few posts did catch my eye, though:

[url=http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/237028-Assem-Allam-on-meeting-with-supporters-re-name-change/page15Wonder who the mysterious father-in-law is?[/url

I actually thought your call to Humberside was the point at which Burnsy almost visibly checked himself and started looking at things a bit more objectively, Mrs B. He's obviously got a grain more intelligence then the rest of the one-eyed soccer-mad sheep on there. Since then I've thought he's been a lot more appraisive about Allam and his motives tbh. More recently Phil Buckingham has had the scales fall from his eyes judging from Twitter, and Mike White surely won't have appreciated Allam's apparently misogynistic behaviour to his wife(? (I think)) Amanda during the recent, now infamous, interview.

For any of them still in doubt that A-LaLa-m's motives for the name change are for commercial rather than manipulative reasons towards the council only need to take a look at the photo of this headline currently being passed around social networking sites by gleeful City fans:



That article is only a few months old. Has something else happened (as Phil Buckingham alluded to the other day on Twitter) to necessitate another wave of antagonism towards the council? If those were his tactics, they don't appear to be working, the only antagonism from the City fans at present seems to be generated towards himself.

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01lggmbThe 5 Live interview seems to be the major catalyst.[/url Worth a listen if you haven't heard it yet.

Oh my. I'd not heard that interview. He comes across really well doesn't he?

He comes over like a spoilt child. My decision, my money. No-one questions my decisions. Really Mr I am, Thankfully the council have done.

To be fair, he's paid for the rights to call them what he wants.

Can't remember a similar outcry when we rebranded in the late 90's

If lambrettaman's name is Jeremy, then my money is on one of the Healey's

You might have to do me a synopsis as I read a few posts then drifted off.