Peter Wilkinson, the multi-millionaire businessman who bankrolled Hull City under Adam Pearson, has dashed speculation that he might return to the game. it was clearly a disllusioning experience for him. He told the Yorkshire Post, ‘I have finished in football forever. Why would you want to spend some of your hard-earned money to be abused and ridiculed by the supporters, hated by some of them, because you cannot achieve something that is totally unrealistic?’
Peter Wilkinson, the multi-millionaire businessman who bankrolled Hull City under Adam Pearson, has dashed speculation that he might return to the game. it was clearly a disllusioning experience for him. He told the Yorkshire Post, ‘I have finished in football forever. Why would you want to spend some of your hard-earned money to be abused and ridiculed by the supporters, hated by some of them, because you cannot achieve something that is totally unrealistic?’
Wilkinson was also critical of player purchase policy at Hull: ‘Hull have all that debt and that enormous wage bill and I cannot think of a decent player that is worth some decent dosh. What the hell did they spend it on? It’s not as if they bought a James Milner or an Ashley Young.’