The Prince?

[Sothall_Blade]

Didn't appear to be in the Director's Box with McCabe and the Hull Chairman.
I read on here that he was in a normal seat behind the goal. That can't be right, can it?
Was he at the game? Did anyone see him? It seems a bit strange he hasn't been mentioned at all

I don't think it's a bad thing that he's keeping a low profile when you consider the antics at Hull, Leeds and Cardiff.
But I would be genuinely interested to hear what he thought of the match? The team? The fans? The whole Wembley experience.
I'm not one of the Twitterati so maybe it's been mentioned more on there?

 

[SwissBlade]

Maybe he just wants to own the club and make it a success, knowing that a low profile and keeping the fans onside will only work in his favour whilst he builds the club up, talks less, acts more and invests in the future of the club with players like Brayford, Harris, Scoogs and of course Clough - His and McCabe's actions since the prince arrived have worked, whether its by coincidence or planned its a bright future that they're providing us.

One priority he has - Keep Clough happy

 

[itsinyerblood]

There's Vincent Tan, aka Bertie Big Bollocks, who thinks it's ok to change a whole history of a club without a thought for the supporters. and then, apparently, there's the Prince. Maybe he's someone who doesn't get off on the need to be in the spotlight? Maybe he's driven by less obvious desires? He's got his people in place, I'm sure they keep him up to date with everything to do with the club, and if that's how he feels comfortable running his business I don't have a problem with that.

As long as we see improvement on the pitch, Clough being backed, and it ends up with us getting promoted, then I'll be one happy Blade UTB

 

[Rollerball]

He was at wembley Sunday, one of the radio sheffield guys interviewed him inside wembley I believe, said he was looking forward to a great game and once again complimented the fans for their support in the semi and in the future.

 

[Trigger Blade]

Didn't appear to be in the Director's Box with McCabe and the Hull Chairman.
I read on here that he was in a normal seat behind the goal. That can't be right, can it?
Was he at the game? Did anyone see him? It seems a bit strange he hasn't been mentioned at all

There was a brief interview with him on RS yesterday, which I think was done at Wembley, but it wasn't very clear and I don't think he said anything very significant.

Two weeks ago, I was in Saudi with a longstanding customer who now has a vague interest in the red and white wizards since Prince Abdullah's involvement. He did a bit of Googling in Arabic while I was with him and found plenty of coverage of him in different areas. He's the grandson of the first King of Saudi Arabia and nephew to the current King, who's about 90. They do tend to produce plenty of offspring, so there are probably several thousand princes (most major Saudi airports have their own royal terminal), but he's not likely to be short of a bob or two of filtered down oil wealth.

One little snippet was that his company, the Saudi Paper Manufacturing Company is listed on the Saudi stock exchange, although he owns the majority of the shares. It has a current market value of about £300 million, and the shares are up about 50% since he bought his part of SUFC (I doubt the two things are connected). I hadn't realised that Jim Phipps is MD of the paper company. He'll be wealthier than most of us, except Bert, but it isn't Mansour Abu Dhabi type wealth.

He seems to spend a lot of time outside Saudi Arabia and there's loads of pictures of him in Western dress mainly in the US, but the general impression is that he's quite grounded and not at all flamboyant. He may hope to make money out of the club eventually, but he isn't a Mandaric type and looks like he is in it for the long haul.

 

[Balham]

Sothall_Blade the Prince was in a box above me in the north west corner of Wembley. Kevin McCabe was at the game too but I didn't see him inside.



Incidentally, three rows in front of me was Kyle Walker, who missed the second goal as he was out on the concourse having a beer.

 

[UnitedBlade]

Yep, saw him posing for a photo with a fan at half time. United seemed to have a block of Club Wembley seats on our end. I was in block 137 and Gary Sinclair was on the front row there in the Club Wembley tier. I presume all our entourage was in there.

 

[CarlingBlade]

Sothall_Blade the Prince was in a box above me in the north west corner of Wembley. Kevin McCabe was at the game too but I didn't see him inside.

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Incidentally, three rows in front of me was Kyle Walker, who missed the second goal as he was out on the concourse having a beer.

Me and Kyle walker have got something in common then, I was relieving myself while bemoaning the fact we weren't going into the break 1-0 up due to Hull scoring with their first shot on target, 20 seconds later the place went up.

 

[Bladesway]

I was relieving myself while bemoaning

Which was nice.