Quote ="Obadiah"I understand he thought Geraghty was rude to him. Phil Webbo may have the exact details, but I wouldn't have gone off in a huff over it.'"
I was present at the very first meeting between Assam Allam and the council, It was an informal meeting in the chairman's lounge at HKR, it was the same meeting where AA offered the £1m loan to Rovers, Myself and Steve Brady sat down with him to discuss "his vision" the meeting was quite bizarre, after about 30 mins he kept saying "I keep offering you a gift why do you keep saying no" we tried to explain that 1, the district auditors would not allow the site to be gifted and also there were problems with state aid issues, 2, A sports village would have had an impact on the viabillity of the councils facilities, the meeting broke up we thought that the possition had been made clear until the stories of the coucil refusing his gift to the city emerged, we then though we had better have further discussions with him, so arranged a meeting with Terry Geraghty (sport and leisure) and Steve Bayes (regeneration) Steve works as a qualified nurse at HRI and had just completed his night shift and rushed from HRI to the KC, the Allams took exception to Steve not having a suit on, that set the tone for the meeting, and because of Terry's insistance on not selling the stadium HCC became enemy NO1, that in a nutshell is the turn of events.
