The Athletic’s Adam Crafton appeared on a recent edition of the Football Today podcast where he discussed Hull City’s reaction to a story that was recently published about the club and their ‘decline’ by The Athletic.
This report on Hull City from The Athletic discussed the club’s ‘decline’ under their current ownership and how the relationship between the club’s fans and ownership has ‘severely frayed’ over time.
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It also stated that the Tigers responded to The Athletic’s email informing them about this article by describing it as being “ill-informed, substantially inaccurate, tittle-tattle, and misleading gossip.”
Furthermore, on the same day that The Athletic’s report was published, Hull Live published a separate report revealing that Hull Live and the Hull Daily Mail had been ‘denied access to the KCOM Stadium to cover Hull City’s home game with Charlton Athletic’ on 20th June. This report also stated that Hull Live were ‘told [they] are not welcome at Hull City home games and will have no access to head coach Grant McCann or his squad.”
The Athletic’s Adam Crafton appeared on the latest edition of the Football Today podcast, which was titled ‘Why Are Hull City at War With the Media?’. He discussed Hull’s reaction to The Athletic’s report on them and their decline.
Crafton said: “Hull responded to the story by sending an email to us at, I think, 9.58 on Monday morning, which was a statement basically defending the owner’s position in terms of trying to make the club as financially sustainable as possible and also a bit of an attack on our content, but it didn’t deal with any of the individual points.
“Then, about three minutes later, they tweeted a statement on their own club website which was the same as what they’d said in the email, but in addition to that, they also took the decision to publish my full email of allegations as well as their response.”
Crafton went on to say that: “It was actually quite funny because their initial statement came in via the email and my instant reaction to that was actually quite pleased because they didn’t deal with any of the individual allegations, they didn’t directly deny anything, they just sort of called the whole email ‘tittle-tattle’ and ‘misleading’.”
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After the club banned the Hull Daily Mail and Hull Live from their home games following ‘what was perceived to be negative coverage,’ as per Hull Live, Crafton’s revelation that the club ‘didn’t directly deny anything’ in their response to The Athletic’s report and instead just claimed that the whole email was ‘misleading’ may not go a long way to proving that The Athletic’s article discussing the role of the club’s owners in their decline actually contained false information.