Ken Davy
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Ken Davy is the owner and chairman of Huddersfield Town and the Super League side Huddersfield Giants.
[edit] Huddersfield Town
Davy lead the successful consortium, out of three interested, that took over Huddersfield Town in 2003, when they were in administration following the collapse of ITV Digital and Town's recent relegation to the English Football League's bottom tier.
In September 2006, he was criticised for failing to offer Town a significant transfer budget for the 2006-07 season to enable the club to build on their play-off position of the previous season. The budget, which was unspecified, was (according to former manager Peter Jackson) already been used up on signing just 2 players, goalkeeper Matt Glennon and striker Luke Beckett despite the release of Tony Carss, David Graham, Junior Mendes, Phil Senior, and Anthony Lloyd. However, Davy openly stated that Jackson was given the opportunity to stengthen his squad in order to mount a drive for promotion. This was not utilised and Jackson's "inability to attract key players"[1]was one of the reasons given by Davy for the manager's dismissal.
After Huddersfield's 2-3 loss to Yeovil Town on September 16, 2006, he addressed a peaceful demonstration of around 100 Town fans who had called for him to up the transfer budget or go, because of Town's poor start to the season in Football League One in which they only picked up 9 points from the first 9 games.
[edit] Huddersfield Giants
Davy's first love has always been rugby league and he was at Twickenham Stadium on August 26, 2006, when Huddersfield Giants played St Helens in the Rugby League Challenge Cup Final. It was the first time that the Giants had reached the final in nearly 50 years.
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