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I think you are correct that Allam wants the club to be supported "by hundreds of thousands of fans from elsewhere in the world", but as the only option he sees open to him in order to make the club financially viable. That of course doesn't mean that he "doesn't care if most of the fans don't...

I don't think that's a really fair assessment of Assem Allam. He hasn't decided to change the name of Hull City on a whim and reading about all the work he has put into the Hull area I don't think it's fair to suggest he couldn't care if the "majority of their supporters had no idea where Hull...

Rule 3-l of the FA "A Club competing in any one of The Premier League, The Football League, The Football Conference, the Southern Football League, the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League shall not be permitted to change its playing name (i.e. the name under which the Club competes...

Personally I think Allam's intentions for Hull have the best interests of the club at their heart - in regards to the renaming he just appears to have misjudged the views of the majority of fans. To put it into perspective the full quote on which this thread's title is based was, [they] "can...

It's what can happen when one man has control of a club!