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Russell Bartlett
Russell Bartlett is a businessman and property investor and the former chairman and majority shareholder of Hull City football club. He purchased Hull City from Adam Pearson in June 2007 as part of a consortium with Paul Duffen and (reportedly at the time) Martin Walker. They had made unsuccessful attempts to take over West Ham United and Cardiff City. Bartlett and Walker jointly own the Fortis Fortis may refer to: Business * Fortis (Swiss watchmaker), a Swiss watch company * Fortis Films, an American film and television production company founded by actress and producer Sandra Bullock * Fortis Healthcare, a chain of hospitals in ... property company. Duffen later stated, however, that Walker is not a shareholder in Hull City. On 29 October 2009, with the club reportedly in financial difficulty, Duffen left his position at Hull City following disagreements with Bartlett over the direction of the club. Bartlett re-appointed Adam Pearson as chairman on 2 November, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hull City A
Hull may refer to: Structures * The hull of an armored fighting vehicle, housing the chassis * Fuselage, of an aircraft * Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds * Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a sea-going craft * Submarine hull Mathematics * Affine hull, in affine geometry * Conical hull, in convex geometry * Convex hull, in convex geometry ** Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull) * Holomorphically convex hull, in complex analysis * Injective hull, of a module * Linear hull, another name for the linear span * Skolem hull, of mathematical logic Places United Kingdom England * Hull, the common name of Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire ** Hull City A.F.C., a football team ** Hull F.C., Hull FC, rugby league club formed in 1865, based in the west of the city ** Hull Kingston Rovers (Hull KR), rugby league club formed in 1882, based in the east of the city ** Port of Hull ** University of Hull * River Hull, river in the East Riding of Yorkshire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Pearson (sports Executive)
Adam Pearson (born 19 November 1964) is the owner of Hull F.C. rugby league club, and former Executive Director of Leeds United. He is the former chairman of English association football club Derby County, Chairman (2001–07 & 2009–10) and Head of Football Operations (2010–12) at Hull City and a former member of the Sheffield Wednesday footballing committee. Career Born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, Pearson left his position as Leeds United's commercial director in 2001 to purchase Hull City and take over as chairman. At the time, Leeds were one of the country's most ambitious, big-spending Premier League clubs, while Hull were in administration and languishing at the bottom end of the Third Division of the Football League. But by the time Pearson left Hull in 2007, he had seen Hull promoted twice, moving up to the Championship. Pearson was also Head of the Stadium Management Company, which operates the KCOM Stadium, the home of Hull City and rugby league side Hull F.C. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Duffen
Paul Jeremy Duffen (born 31 July 1958) is a British businessman who is best known for being the chairman of association football club Hull City from 2007 to 2010. Duffen also became the chairman of publishing firm Newsdesk Media in June 2011. Additionally, Duffen sits on the boards of several companies, including Pro-Cure Therapeutics Ltd, a life sciences business based in York and RISC Management Ltd, a London-based security consultancy. Early life Duffen grew up in Surrey, the middle of three brothers. He was educated at Lancing College in Sussex and played cricket for Surrey County Cricket Club (SCCC) at Under 19 level. Duffen started his career with Procter & Gamble in a sales and marketing role. In 1981, Duffen joined distribution company P J Holloway (Sales) Ltd, based in North London, where he was appointed Marketing Director and played a key role in the sale of the business in 1985 to Browne and Tawse plc. He subsequently held the position of managing director at tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Walker (football Director)
Martin Walker may refer to: * Martin Walker (actor) Martin Walker (27 July 1901 – 18 September 1955) was a British stage and screen actor. He appeared in films for over thirty years from 1922 onwards, mainly in supporting roles and occasionally as a lead, such as in '' Help Yourself'' (1932).Sut ... (1901–1955), British film actor * Martin Walker (football director), former director of Hull City football club * Martin Walker (reporter), British reporter and mystery writer * Captain Martin Walker, main character of 2012 video game ''Spec Ops: The Line'' See also * Martin Walkyier (born 1967), English singer {{hndis, Walker, Martin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Ham United F
West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sunset, Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic languages, Germanic word passed into some Romance languages (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''vest'' in Romanian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος Hesperus, hesperos 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'. Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin Occident, occidens 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב (maarav) 'west' from עֶרֶב (erev) 'evening'. West is sometimes abbreviated as W. Naviga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardiff City F
Cardiff (; ) is the capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of Wales. Cardiff had a population of in and forms a Principal areas of Wales, principal area officially known as the City and County of Cardiff (). The city is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, eleventh largest in the United Kingdom. Located in the South East Wales, southeast of Wales and in the Cardiff Capital Region, Cardiff is the county town of the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Glamorgan and in 1974–1996 of South Glamorgan. It belongs to the Eurocities network of the largest European cities. A small town until the early 19th century, its prominence as a port for coal when mining began in the region helped its expansion. In 1905, it was ranked as a city and in 1955 proclaimed capital of Wales. The Cardiff urban area covers a larger area outside the county boundary, including the towns of Dinas Powys and Penarth. Cardiff is the main commercial ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortis (finance)
Fortis N.V./S.A., was a Benelux-centered global financial services group active in insurance, banking and investment management, initially formed in 1990 by a three-way Belgian-Dutch merger and headquartered in Brussels. It grew rapidly through multiple acquisitions, and in 2007 was the 20th largest financial services business in the world by revenue. It was listed on the Euronext, Euronext Brussels, Euronext, Euronext Amsterdam, and Luxembourg Stock Exchange, Luxembourg stock exchanges. Fortis encountered severe problems in the 2008 financial crisis, not least as a consequence of participating in 2007 in the joint acquisition of ABN AMRO together with Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Banco Santander. It received an emergency bailout from the governments of Belgium and the Netherlands and was broken up soon thereafter. As a consequence: * Fortis Bank Nederland was nationalisation, nationalised by the Dutch government and merged in July 2010 with ABN AMRO's former Dutch operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assem Allam
Assem Allam (; 1 August 1939 – 2 December 2022) was an Egyptian-British businessman, based in the East Riding of Yorkshire from 1968. He was the owner of Allam Marine, an industrial generator manufacturer, and of EFL Championship club Hull City. Early life Born in Egypt in 1939, Allam moved to the UK from Gamal Abdel Nasser's regime in Egypt in 1968. He studied economics at the University of Hull. Career After qualifying as an accountant, he started work at Tempest Diesel Limited. In 1981, he used a loan to begin a buy-out of the company. In 1992 the company was put into administrative receivership at the behest of Barclays Bank, along with Ruscador Shipyard Limited, resulting in the redundancy of the company's entire workforce of more than 50. In the same year, he incorporated a purchase of the companies assets through a new company, Allam Marine Limited, subsequently leading the company to international success. Allam and his son were included in the Sunday Times Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ehab Allam
Ehab Allam (born July 1971) is a British-Egyptian business executive who was the vice-chairman of association football club Hull City from 2010 to 2022. He is the son of Assem Allam. Biography Family Allam was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, in July 1971. His father, Assem, was a businessman, who had moved to the city to escape the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser in his home country of Egypt just three years earlier. He died of cancer on 2 December 2022. His mother's name is Fatima. Allam also has two sisters, Eman and Enais. Career On 16 December 2010, Allam's father became chairman of Hull City, having completed a takeover of the Championship side amidst a financial crisis. Allam was immediately appointed vice-chairman to help run the club on a day-to-day basis. Having saved Hull from debts of over £30m, and returned them to the Premier League in 2013, the Allams were well-liked amongst supporters. That was until 9 August 2013, when Assem announced that the club would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
